Candidate ranking.
Every applicant evaluated, ranked, and presented for your review. Each ranking position carries an evidence trail showing why it earned the position. You decide who advances.
THE DELIVERABLE
Hiring decisions you can defend.
Every Litmus engagement ends with an end-to-end pipeline evaluation, delivered within 24 hours. A ranking of every applicant for your review, with per-candidate audit documentation and a custom interview plan for every candidate that did not completely fail our rigorous CEP evaluation. An evidence-backed elimination matrix for the candidates the platform eliminated. Litmus is a decision support system, not a recommendation engine. We rank, document, and prepare. You make the hiring decision.
THE PROBLEM
Compound failure.
Litmus Verified built its Candidate Evaluation Platform to address the challenge that emerged when:
- generative AI met the application funnel;
- the technology landscape grew granular past the point any individual recruiter can carry;
- hiring managers acquired more tasks than there are hours in the day.
Within just the eight major IT disciplines, there are hundreds of distinct skills, tools, frameworks, and deliverables in active use.
- Cybersecurity
- Software Engineering
- Data Engineering and Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- Cloud and Infrastructure
- DevOps and Platform Engineering
- IT Operations and Support
- Networking and Telecommunications
Each discipline has its own evaluation taxonomy and verification model inside CEP.
The funnel is corrupted, recruiters are overwhelmed, and hiring managers are at capacity: the result is compound failure.
No one is starved for candidates. Everyone is starved for the right candidates, at the time they are needed, at a cost that moves the bottom line.
Our services are built for flexibility. Our cost is structured to move the bottom line.
WHAT YOU RECEIVE
The deliverable, unpacked.
Per-candidate evidence report.
For every ranked candidate, a documented evaluation: resume claims cross-referenced against public footprint, technical evidence gathered, findings written up. Not a checklist. A picture of the candidate.
Custom interview plan.
A structured probe set built around each candidate's specific evidence gaps, generated for every candidate that survived our CEP evaluation. Targeted questions that test the parts of the work that resumes cannot show. Not a generic template.
Elimination matrix.
Every candidate the platform processed, every reason for elimination, every piece of supporting evidence. Compliance-ready. Audit-ready. Defensible to internal review.
BUSINESS OUTCOMES
What that gets you.
Faster time to fill.
End-to-end pipeline evaluation in 24 hours replaces weeks of recruiter screening. Recruiters review rankings instead of starting from zero on every resume. Hiring managers interview against documented evidence. The cycle compresses without skipping a step.
Defensible decisions.
Every ranking position and every elimination sits on top of an evidence trail. The decision to advance, or not, holds up under audit, compliance review, and internal scrutiny. Useful for regulated industries and for any organization with a paper-trail expectation.
Hiring manager hours protected.
Custom interview plans built around each candidate's specific evidence gaps replace generic interview templates. Hiring managers spend interview time on candidates whose evidence already speaks for them, not on candidates whose resumes were well-written. The five-of-six dead-end ratio bends.
AI-fraud filtered upstream.
Resumes engineered by AI to game keyword-matching ATSes are eliminated before recruiter screening time is spent. Your team works with real people who have real evidence behind them, not AI-fabricated narratives.
Opportunity cost recovered.
The cost of hiring is not on your hiring budget. It is on your team's calendar. Litmus reclaims the recruiter hours and hiring manager interview slots that the conventional cycle wastes. Predictable engagement pricing. Recovered team capacity.
TESTIMONIALS
What clients see after the engagement.
3 OF 3
INFORMATION SECURITY HIRES
We were struggling with three similar roles in information security, but needed materially different people. Litmus evaluated our applicants and delivered properly vetted applicants that demonstrated experiences we need. It saved our hiring managers time they really needed.
12 OF 12
HIRES RETAINED PAST 90 DAYS
We had hired people who looked right on paper and were not, more than once. The Litmus rankings removed that pattern. Twelve hires through the platform, twelve still in seat past the 90-day mark.
What impacts your hiring.
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