You'd recruit them yourself if you had the time.
At least then you'd know it was done right.
The people you need aren't looking for you.
“You built this business by knowing what's happening inside it. Hiring shouldn't be the exception.”
Alex McFarland · Founder & President, Persevus
Here's why recruiting keeps failing — and what we built instead.
Most recruiters react. A candidate applies, they screen them, they send them to you. Nobody asked whether the candidate actually has a reason to leave their current job. Nobody mapped the full market. And nobody showed you any of the work. That's not a talent shortage. That's a process problem.
The Career Gap Method™
Every candidate we present has a specific gap between where they are and where they want to go — and your role bridges it. That's why they take the job and why they stay.
97%
Offer acceptance rate
Six-Point Job Launch
Before we source a single candidate, we run a structured search process that defines what good looks like, maps the full market, and filters against your actual requirements. You see who exists before you decide who to pursue.
FUSE
Our recruiting platform gives you real-time visibility into every step of the search — who we contacted, who responded, and why each candidate made the cut. You don't have to trust us. You can see the work.
Working with us is the easiest part of your day.
Three steps. No commitment until you've seen the data.
Book a call with Alex
Not a sales rep. Not a coordinator. You get 30 minutes with the founder to talk through what you're dealing with.
We diagnose the problem
Alex will listen, ask the right questions, and give you an honest read on what the best path forward looks like.
You choose the right path
We lay out your options and make a clear recommendation. Sometimes that's a full search. Sometimes it's something smaller. The decision is yours.
Free. 30 minutes. No obligation.
Results
“23 Days From Kickoff To Offer Accepted. I Didn’t Have To Babysit Any Of It”
Lueder needed a Director of Preconstruction — a leadership hire that would sit on their executive team. After months of DIY recruiting and endless emails from recruiters promising candidates if they’d just sign an agreement, they engaged Persevus. 23 days later, the role was filled.
3
Qualified Candidates
23
Days To Offer Accepted
5h
Client Time Spent
Two futures. One decision.
Where does your business end up if hiring stays the same?
Your competitors are figuring this out. They're systematizing their hiring, scaling their teams, and taking on work you're passing on. Every quarter you're running the same reactive process is a quarter they're pulling further ahead. The open role isn't the problem. Falling behind is.
You stop reacting to open roles and start running hiring like the rest of your business — with a system, with visibility, and with results you can predict. The team grows. The opportunities get bigger. And the gap between you and your competitors starts closing in the other direction.
Ready to see what's actually possible?
Questions we hear
Straight answers to what you're actually thinking.
Most recruiting fails before it starts. The search is too narrow, the screening is too shallow, nobody asks whether the candidate actually has a reason to make the move, and nobody shows you any of the work. You find out it isn't working three months later when you're back at square one. We built Persevus specifically around those failure points. The Career Gap Methodology, the six-point search process, and Fuse aren't features. They're direct responses to why the process keeps breaking down.
We specialize in construction, manufacturing, and engineering. In engineering, we know to ask whether your environment runs Revit or AutoCAD because a generalist recruiter won't, and getting it wrong costs you three months. In manufacturing, we know that a production supervisor at one company has 25 direct reports and owns shift KPIs, and at another they're just the most experienced person on the line. We don't screen to titles. We screen to what the role actually requires.
About 30 minutes for the initial call, then 5–6 hours total across the entire search. You review pre-vetted candidates, conduct final interviews, and make the hiring decision. We handle everything else.
When our clients follow our recommendations on candidate experience, including scheduling automations and a structured offer process, searches that close go from first candidate touch to accepted offer in under 30 days. The 97% is what happens when the process runs the way it's designed to run.
You don't have to take our word for it. Fuse gives you real-time visibility into everything we're doing — who we contacted, who responded, and why each candidate made the cut. If we're not doing the work, you'll see it. That's the point.
Stop screening resumes at 9pm.
Let us take hiring off your plate. One conversation to start.
Free. No obligation.
Alex McFarland
Founder & President, Persevus