Why Professional Services Firms Are Hiring With Workable
Six organizations, one hiring platform, and the numbers behind the switch.
Professional services firms hire differently than most industries. Teams are lean, often a single person managing recruiting for the entire business, and every hire carries outsized weight for client delivery, compliance, or firm reputation. Below are six organizations — a landscape management company, a legal software provider, a federal contractor, a political consultancy, a boutique talent agency, and a law firm — running their hiring on Workable. Here is what changed for each of them, in their own numbers.
23% faster time to hire across 76 locations and 4,000 seasonal workers
LandCare, a national commercial landscape management company operating 76 locations across 23 states, needed hiring managers who are almost never at a desk to actually use the system. Full company adoption came within eight weeks of rollout, annual hires climbed from 122 to 138 over two years, and time to hire dropped 23% year over year — all managed by a six-person recruiting team supporting a workforce that peaks near 4,000.
20 hours saved a week, 100% of hires through referrals
LEAP Legal Software, a cloud-based legal practice management platform with about 900 employees across Australia, the UK, and the US, has run its hiring through Workable for eight years. Automated candidate communication freed up roughly 20 hours a week during peak hiring, and over the past 12 months, 100% of the company’s US hires have come through internal referrals, eliminating external recruiter spend for operational roles entirely.
150 hires in 6 months, time to hire cut nearly in half
Navarro, an environmental research and national security contractor serving federal clients including the Department of Energy and NASA, runs recruiting for 21 offices and more than 90 project sites through a three-person team. After centralizing requisition planning and engaging hiring managers directly, the team made 150 hires in six months and cut time to hire from 50 days to 26.
From a shared inbox to a real hiring pipeline
FP1 Strategies, a Washington D.C. political and marketing agency, had no HR department and no recruiting system — applications landed in a shared “careers@” inbox with no way to track who had been contacted or when. Workable replaced that with automated job board distribution, customizable screening forms, and one system every hiring stakeholder could see into, letting a lean team hire at the speed a fast-growing client roster demanded.
15 client companies switched to Workable in under 2 years
OneinaMil, a boutique, culture-driven talent-matching agency, runs its own hiring and its clients’ hiring on Workable. The platform is intuitive enough that founder Lee-Anne Edwards needs virtually no onboarding time to bring a new client on board — a big reason 15 of OneinaMil’s clients have switched their own hiring over to Workable in under two years.
5 hours saved a week, and no great candidate ever lost
Gould and Ratner, a Chicago law firm hiring roughly 20 attorneys a year across two cities, runs its entire recruiting function through one person. Workable keeps every candidate interaction documented, including one attorney hired more than a year after the first conversation, and it absorbed the firm’s new Denver office — growing from one employee to seven — without adding recruiting infrastructure.
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