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Their Internal Team Ran Recruiting. D2D HIRE Outperformed It in a Pilot, Then Earned Every Campaign.

This roofing company already had an internal team recruiting across its markets. D2D HIRE was brought in to prove itself on four of those campaigns, side by side with the internal team's own numbers. The results weren't close. Within months, the client handed over every remaining market, and D2D HIRE now runs all 12 campaigns nationwide as the company's sole recruiting partner.

The short version: D2D HIRE ran a 4-market pilot alongside a nationwide roofing company's internal recruiting team, outperformed it, and earned all 12 campaigns nationwide: 100+ hires at a 50%+ hire rate across 200+ interviews.

An Internal Team, and No Real Way to Know If a Partner Would Do Better

This company already had recruiting running in-house. It wasn't broken enough to panic over, but it wasn't built to scale either. Handing an unproven outside partner every market overnight was too big a risk to take on faith.

  • The Proof Problem
    Leadership had heard recruiting-partner pitches before. None of them came with a real way to verify the claims against what the internal team was already producing.
  • The Consistency Problem
    Quality varied by market and by manager under the internal system. The best markets had strong reps; others were carrying teams that couldn't close.
  • The All-In-Bet Problem
    Replacing an internal function company-wide on day one, with no proof it would outperform, was a risk no leadership team should take. They needed evidence first, not a pitch.

A Pilot That Became a Full Takeover

D2D HIRE proposed a direct, apples-to-apples pilot: run four of the company's markets side by side with the internal team's remaining coverage, measured on the same reporting the client already trusted. If the results didn't win the argument on their own, nothing would.

  • The Pilot
    D2D HIRE took over recruiting for 4 markets as a controlled, side-by-side proof point, run in parallel with the internal team's existing campaigns.
  • The Outperformance
    Hire volume, hire rate, and speed to fill on D2D HIRE's 4 pilot campaigns outpaced what the internal team had been producing, using the same reporting standards, so there was no ambiguity about which system was working.
  • The Full Handoff
    Convinced by the pilot, the client moved every remaining market over to D2D HIRE, scaling from 4 to all 12 campaigns and retiring the internal recruiting function entirely.

The Numbers

200+
Interviews conducted
100+
New hires
50%+
Hire rate
4→12
Pilot to every campaign
Business Impact

What Earning Full Ownership of Recruiting Actually Looks Like

The shift from a 4-market pilot to running all 12 campaigns isn't just more of the same. It's the difference between being a vendor and being the recruiting function. Once the pilot proved which system won, the decision to consolidate was easy.

The internal recruiting function fully retired in favor of a single, proven partner
100+ hires across geographies: national scale without national chaos
Leadership visibility across all 12 markets, enabling proactive decisions instead of constant firefighting
A recruiting partner trusted with every market, not just a subset: full ownership, not a vendor relationship

Still Splitting Recruiting Between an Internal Team and a Partner?

Split ownership means split accountability. When one system decisively outperforms the other, the smartest move is consolidation, not comparison. We built the pilot that made that decision easy for this client, and we can do the same for you.

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