VerityHunt: our 2024 overview

Who said it would be easy? Starting a recruitment agency when much of the market is busy with layoffs… A walk in the park, right?

Well, let’s recap how 2024 actually went for our team.

The fluctuations (read: turbulence!) in the talent market definitely kept us on our toes throughout the year. From decreased candidate pass-through rates as a lingering effect of layoffs to the tricky mismatch between top talent’s expectations and the budget constraints of many teams — the challenges were real.

With all its ups and downs, 2024 has been nothing short of breathtaking for our small but mighty team of 5 💪 But instead of a lengthy report, we’d like to share 3 key achievements that make us especially proud:

Improved Metrics 📊

As a data-driven team, we love a good stat — and this year didn’t disappoint:

3.5 weeks avg. time-to-hire:  Helping our teams secure top talent 2-3x faster than the market average.
93% offer acceptance rate: Proof that delivering a top-quality candidate experience goes a long way!
90% of hires made from client-tailored sourcing campaigns: a testament to our targeted sourcing strategies.

All of this — while tackling some of the most challenging Tech, Product & Leadership roles!

Teams of All Sizes 🕵️🧑‍🏫👩‍🎤

No 2 teams are the same — a fact that’s no surprise to anyone here.

However, recruitment projects leave little-to-no room for “building the plane as we fly it.”  One of our top targets in 2024 was to deeply understand & map out the unique business needs of our partners — whether it was a brand-new startup with zero hiring tools, a dynamic scale-up, or a large international team seeking to validate their internal data.

The result? From scaling engineering of a 10-person startup to securing critical hires for 30,000-strong global organizations, we’ve designed tailored solutions for the unique challenges of teams both big and small. Read more about how we approach hiring for different types of organizations on our homepage.

Expanding Our Hiring Portfolio 🌎

While tech hiring in EMEA has always been our bread & butter, 2024 was the year we explored new hiring streams and mapped out new geos.

Here are our top-5 closed projects of the year (editor’s choice 🙂) :

📌 Lead Product Owner for a major iGaming operator (and a swift promotion to the COO 👏)
📌 Head of Internal Infra for a leading HFT company in Dubai
📌 Core Backend & Frontend teams for an iGaming startup that launched its first product in just one(!) quarter
📌 Business-critical Golang roles in the Baltics, closed within just 3 weeks.
📌 Lead DevOps Engineer to launch a brand-new FinTech trading product.

As we look ahead to this year, we’re sure it will not disappoint to bring new surprises & new exciting challenges!

Let’s kick off 2025 by launching new hiring directions (did somebody say Legal and Marketing?) and redefining how a successful collaboration with a talent agency can look like — as usual, one hire at a time 😎

Stay tuned! 👋