Inconsistent onboarding
Different managers develop new starters differently.
Recruitment performance consulting
Make recruiter performance more predictable.
Esteme helps recruitment agencies build structured paths from new hire to productive consultant — with clearer performance expectations, earlier visibility of risk and consistent management frameworks.
Powered by the Recruitment Performance Operating System.
The problem isn’t always hiring. It’s knowing what happens after.
Recruitment agencies invest heavily in finding the right people. But once someone joins, performance often depends on the manager, the team they’re placed into and the experience of the individual delivering the training. That can make time-to-productivity inconsistent, performance difficult to measure and underperformance visible only once significant time and money have already been spent.
Unclear progression
Expectations often change as people move through their careers, without those changes being made explicit.
Late visibility
Performance issues become obvious only after they've become expensive.
The methodology
Introducing the Recruitment Performance Operating System
RPOS brings onboarding, performance measurement and progression into one structured framework built around your agency’s existing KPIs, targets and expectations.
- 01
Onboarding
30/60/90-day progression framework
- 02
Performance
Weekly and monthly KPI visibility
- 03
Scorecards
Clear expectations by career stage
- 04
Governance
Consistent management visibility
- 05
Implementation
A practical rollout framework
Built around your business, not ours.
Esteme doesn’t prescribe how your agency should operate. Your team provides the KPIs, targets, expectations and commercial objectives. We provide the structure. We turn what your best managers already know into a system that can be understood, measured and applied consistently across the organisation.
The idea
From individual judgement to organisational intelligence.
Your most experienced people often know what good looks like. The challenge is making that knowledge visible, measurable and repeatable across the organisation.
- Founder judgement
- Defined indicators
- Structured assessment
- Performance visibility
- Consistent management
Performance intelligence across the employee lifecycle
New Starter
Are they progressing?
- Knowledge
- Skills
- Activity
- Early performance
Developing Consultant
Are they moving toward independent productivity?
- Consistency
- Performance
- Behaviour
- Development
Established Team
Is the wider team performing consistently?
- KPIs
- Performance trends
- Manager visibility
- Progression
The ongoing governance layer extends this visibility across the full team.
From assessment to implementation
- 01
Discover
Understand your current onboarding, KPIs and management processes.
- 02
Assess
Identify gaps between leadership expectations, management practice and employee experience.
- 03
Design
Build your tailored RPOS framework.
- 04
Implement
Workshop the system with your leadership team and establish the rollout.
- 05
Govern
Maintain visibility and review performance through the ongoing governance layer.
Ready to build more predictable performance?
Scope is tailored to the size, structure and existing performance framework of each agency.