The agency that submits an interviewed shortlist in 24 hours wins the brief.
FirstPanel runs a structured, eight-interviewer panel with every candidate on your desk — new applicants and your dormant database — overnight, under your brand. Your consultants stop screening and start placing.
How agencies run it
Load the brief
Paste the JD from your client. FirstPanel drafts the rubric and question set; your consultant approves it in minutes. Sync candidates from JobAdder, Bullhorn-style ATSs or CSV.
The panel interviews overnight
New applicants and matching candidates from your existing database get an invite. They interview 24/7 in the browser — no consultant calendar involved.
Submit under your brand
By morning: a ranked shortlist with evidence-linked reports carrying your agency's logo. Your consultant reviews, picks, and submits — with proof no competitor can match.
The consultant math
A consultant’s day dies in screening calls: ~45 minutes each, half of them no-shows, all of them at the mercy of candidates’ lunch breaks.
Screening one brief properly: ~20 hours of calls and notes.
FirstPanel on the same brief: ~A$580 (20 interviews) and zero consultant hours — the 20 hours move to client calls and closing.
Same headcount, 2–3× the briefs worked. At an average A$18K fee, one extra placement per consultant per month pays for FirstPanel roughly forty times over.
Your database becomes an asset again
Every agency sits on thousands of candidates nobody has spoken to since the role they missed. They’re not stale — they’re unscreened.
- ✓Re-interview 5,000 dormant candidates in a weekend, with consent
- ✓New brief lands → your own database answers it first, before you spend on ads
- ✓Every interview enriches the record: current skills, availability, salary expectations, evidence
- ✓Candidates get feedback every time — your NPS and redeployment rates climb
Win briefs with proof
Every submittal ships with what clients have never seen from an agency:
- ✓Role-Fit Index per candidate with confidence interval
- ✓Eight competency scores, each tied to verbatim interview evidence
- ✓Integrity checks: identity verified, proxy-interview screening
- ✓A compliance-grade audit trail your client's legal team will love
“Here are six candidates we interviewed on your criteria, with the transcript evidence” beats “here are six CVs” in every pitch, every time.
White-label, properly
- ✓Your logo and colors on interview rooms, invites and reports
- ✓Interviews on your domain — candidates experience your agency, not ours
- ✓Agency-tone interviewer briefs per client account
- ✓Multi-client workspaces: separate rubrics, policies and reporting per client
- ✓Your consultants stay the humans in the loop — every shortlist is theirs
The pitch to your clients writes itself
“We interview every applicant, not just the ones we have time to call. You get a shortlist in a day, with evidence for every score, and every candidate gets treated properly under your employer brand. And we charge you the same fee.” — That’s a differentiated agency in one paragraph.
Pick the brief that’s been open longest · Interviewed shortlist in 24–48 hours · Keep the reports