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One report a year, from Picked's own funnel. How engineering, sales, product, and operations hiring actually behaves in the UK and EU. Sourced from real data we run; no surveys, no estimates dressed up as findings. First edition ships when we have enough funnel volume to produce one without hedging.
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The Picked Hiring Report.
Funnel data from Picked's first year. Engineering, sales, product, and operations roles in the UK and EU. Conversion rates by stage, time-to-shortlist by role family, salary-band drift, the 4/5ths-rule fairness audit per protected group, the override rate.
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Conversion by stage.
Triage to screen, screen to assessment, assessment to interview, interview to finalist, finalist to offer, offer to accept. By role family.
02
Time-to-shortlist by role.
Median days from post to three vetted finalists across the 30 roles in the Picked roles directory.
03
Salary-band drift.
How the bands we observed candidates accept differ from the bands hiring companies posted.
04
Fairness audit, aggregated.
The 4/5ths rule applied per protected group per role family, across all customers, anonymised.
05
Override rate.
How often hiring managers override the rank-1 finalist, and what triggered the override.
06
Channel attribution.
Where the hires actually came from: LinkedIn, Otta, the underground communities, warm referrals.
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How we will produce this report
  • →Picked's own funnel data, aggregated across customers. Anonymised. EU residency throughout.
  • →No surveys; no third-party estimates dressed up as findings.
  • →Fairness audit applied per protected group per role family before publication.
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