How HireScope works
HireScope works as an extension of your team, continuously monitoring recruitment advertising performance, identifying where attention is needed, managing appropriate interventions and measuring what happens next.
Your team gets a dedicated performance-management function without adding another system for recruiters to manage.
Your recruiters recruit. We manage the performance behind their advertising.
From onboarding to active management.
- 01Agreement
- 02Onboarding
- 03Platform & Data Access
- 04Portfolio Setup
- 05Performance Baseline
- 06Kickoff
- 07Active Management
- 08Ongoing Reporting
We establish the portfolio, access, management authority and communication structure upfront. Once your baseline is complete, HireScope begins actively managing recruitment advertising performance across the agreed portfolio.
Getting started is simple.
We handle the setup required to understand your advertising portfolio, establish performance context and define exactly how HireScope will work with your team.
- Step 01Connect your advertising portfolio
We establish the jobs, markets, platforms and advertising activity included in your HireScope engagement.
Where available, historical performance data is incorporated to understand how the portfolio has been performing before active management begins.
- Step 02Establish your performance baseline
We review current and historical advertising performance across spend, impressions, clicks, applications, CPA, CPC, CTR, conversion and source performance.
This becomes the baseline against which future changes and interventions can be evaluated.
Where appropriate, performance is evaluated against historical results, comparable jobs and available market context rather than relying on one-size-fits-all benchmarks.
- Step 03Set management authority
You decide exactly what HireScope can manage directly and what requires approval from your team.
Budget changes, advertising adjustments and other interventions follow clearly defined authority from day one.
- Step 04Begin active management
Your portfolio enters ongoing performance management.
HireScope continuously monitors portfolio performance, identifies jobs requiring attention and investigates what appears to be driving the issue.
- Step 05Manage interventions
When action is appropriate, HireScope recommends, coordinates or implements the intervention according to your agreed authority.
Every intervention is documented so we know exactly what changed and when.
- Step 06Measure what happened
We continue monitoring performance after implementation.
Interventions are evaluated as improved, no meaningful change, worsened or inconclusive.
This closes the loop between making a change and understanding whether it actually worked.
- Step 07Report and repeat
Your team receives structured visibility into portfolio performance, emerging issues, actions taken and measured outcomes.
Then the process continues as jobs, markets, budgets and advertising conditions change.
What happens every week?
HireScope operates daily and reports weekly.
Performance management happens continuously in the background. Your team does not need to constantly monitor dashboards or determine which jobs require attention. HireScope owns that process and brings your team in when context, approval or a decision is required.
Portfolio performance is reviewed across active advertised jobs.
Meaningful changes in delivery, cost, application volume or conversion are surfaced for attention.
Your Performance Manager investigates what appears to be driving the change using advertising data, market context and available recruiter feedback.
Where action is appropriate, HireScope recommends, coordinates or implements the intervention according to your agreed authority.
Performance is monitored after implementation to determine what actually happened.
Your team receives a structured weekly view of performance, actions, measured outcomes and what requires attention next.
Monitoring is continuous. Action is taken when it is warranted, not on every job every week.
What performance management looks like in practice.
- Monday
Portfolio monitoring identifies rising cost per application across several advertised jobs.
- Tuesday
The Performance Manager investigates delivery, click behaviour, application conversion and relevant market context to determine where the constraint may be.
- Wednesday
An appropriate intervention is recommended. Where client approval is required, the designated contact reviews the recommendation before implementation.
- Thursday
The approved intervention is implemented and the measurement period begins.
- Friday / weekly review
The client receives visibility into what changed, why action was taken, what is currently being measured and which jobs require attention next.
Illustrative workflow only. Actual investigations, interventions and measurement periods vary by job, platform, market and performance issue.
A managed service, not another tool for your recruiters to manage.
HireScope is designed to take ownership of recruitment advertising performance management while keeping your team involved only where their context, approval or decision-making is needed.
What we need from your team
During onboarding
- Platform and data access
- Confirmation of the managed advertising portfolio
- Key contacts and approval owners
- Advertising priorities and known concerns
- Defined management authority
Ongoing
- Recruiter context when relevant
- Approval for changes outside HireScope's authority
- Material updates affecting jobs, budgets or advertising strategy
What HireScope handles
- Daily portfolio monitoring
- Performance issue identification
- Performance investigation
- Spend and allocation oversight
- Platform and source analysis
- Intervention recommendations
- Approved intervention coordination and implementation
- Post-intervention measurement
- Weekly performance reporting
- Ongoing performance management
The engagement is designed to minimize the additional workload placed on your recruiting team.
Clear authority from day one.
During onboarding, we establish exactly what HireScope is authorized to manage directly and what requires approval from your team.
Routine monitoring and investigation happen continuously. Material changes to areas such as total advertising spend, job requirements, compensation, job titles or other client-controlled decisions remain subject to the authority your organization grants us.
No response is not treated as approval. HireScope operates only within the authority explicitly established with your team.
Impressions to clicks to applications.
HireScope’s quantitative performance management runs from advertising delivery through the application.
- Spend
- Impressions
- Clicks
- Applications
- CTR
- CPC
- CPA
- Click-to-apply conversion
- Budget allocation
- Campaign delivery
- Source performance
Screening, submissions, interviews, offers, placements and downstream recruiting performance remain owned by your recruitment team.
Recruiter feedback about applicant relevance can provide important qualitative context during investigations, but HireScope does not treat qualified applicants, interviews, hires or placements as advertising performance metrics we quantitatively own.
Purpose-built infrastructure behind every engagement.
Every HireScope Performance Manager works through our proprietary Performance Center.
It gives our team a consistent system for monitoring portfolio performance, surfacing signals, documenting investigations, managing interventions and measuring outcomes.
The technology supports the service. Your recruiting team does not have another platform they need to constantly manage.
- Portfolio visibility
- Performance signals
- Investigations
- Interventions
- Measurement
- Reporting
Audit, market intelligence and posting optimization capabilities sit inside the same infrastructure and support a Performance Manager during an investigation.
The technology helps surface what changed. The Performance Manager determines why it changed and what should happen next.
Common questions
Give recruitment advertising performance a defined owner.
HireScope gives your agency a dedicated performance-management function across your advertised job portfolio, without adding another responsibility to your recruiters.
Your recruiters recruit. We manage the performance behind their advertising.