Scaling Recruitment Capacity for NextChallenge with a Fast and Predictable Hiring Engine

NextChallenge is an international recruitment company that connects specialists with employers in the gaming and IT sectors. The agency supports companies that operate globally and need access to talent in competitive and fast growing markets. As demand increased, the leadership team needed to strengthen its own recruitment capacity by hiring specialists across engineering, product and commercial tracks. These roles required strong communication skills, industry knowledge and the ability to deliver consistent results across multiple regions. NextChallenge partnered with OnHires to build a structured and repeatable hiring process that would support fast scaling without compromising candidate quality.

NextChallenge was hiring in a market where strong talent has many options and where competition for experienced recruiters and coordinators is consistently high. The company needed a process that could support several openings at once while keeping evaluation signals clear and aligned across teams in different locations.

We developed a hiring engine that matched the pace and expectations of NextChallenge. The engagement began with role calibration sessions that helped define the exact competencies and behaviors required for each position. Our team created sourcing playbooks, mapped relevant markets and launched targeted outreach campaigns across channels used by recruitment professionals. Every candidate progressed through a structured interview process supported by aligned scorecards that created clarity and consistency for the hiring team. Throughout the collaboration we operated weekly hiring sessions, removed blockers quickly and supported compensation decisions and offer management until each role was closed.

The partnership helped NextChallenge scale its internal recruitment capacity rapidly and predictably. The structured hiring workflow improved first round pass rates and created a steady pipeline of qualified candidates. In total, NextChallenge hired 11 specialists and achieved a 68 percent faster time to hire. These hires strengthened operational efficiency, improved delivery timelines and allowed the agency to manage more client requests with confidence.

Throughout the engagement we managed sourcing, interviews, weekly hiring operations and offer management. We created playbooks tailored to recruitment roles, defined scorecards, supported compensation discussions and guided onboarding. These steps helped NextChallenge build the internal structure needed to support its global client base in gaming and IT.

In summary, the engagement with NextChallenge demonstrated how a structured hiring approach can significantly accelerate internal scaling for a recruitment agency. Through targeted sourcing, calibrated interviews and consistent hiring operations, OnHires delivered 11 hires with a 68 percent faster time to hire. The predictable and high quality workflow strengthened internal operations and positioned NextChallenge for continued global expansion.