ZipTier for Staffing & Recruiting

Two Audiences, One Website. Qualify Both Around the Clock

An HR director who needs five contract engineers by month-end lands on your site at 8pm; so does a candidate wondering if you place people in her field. Both have questions, both leave when nobody answers, and both were revenue. ZipTier greets each visitor, figures out which side of the marketplace they're on, answers from your own roles and services, and books the intake or screening call with the right recruiter.

Live in minutes · Routes both audiences · Free to start
Crestline Staffing Assistant
We need 5 contract data engineers to start within 3 weeks. Do you handle contract-to-hire, and what are your fees?
8:15 PM
Yes. Contract and contract-to-hire are our core business, and data engineering is one of our strongest benches. Fees depend on role and volume; for a 5-seat order our team can turn around a shortlist fast. Want to grab 20 minutes with our tech-staffing lead tomorrow?
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The First Firm to Respond Usually Gets the Job Order

Employers contact three firms at once, and candidates browse after hours. ZipTier tells them apart at the front door, answers from your own roles and service pages, and routes each to the right recruiter with the context already captured.

The Placement Leak

Three Problems Endemic to Staffing

These gaps quietly hand job orders to whichever firm responds first.

01

Employer inquiries are urgent by definition

A company contacting a staffing firm has an open req burning money today. They contact three firms at once, and the first one to respond meaningfully usually gets the job order.

02

Candidates and clients share one front door

Job seekers vastly outnumber hiring employers on your site, and high-value client inquiries drown in candidate volume when everything funnels to one inbox.

03

Recruiters recruit; nobody staffs the website

Your best people are sourcing and closing placements, not watching web chat. After-hours and weekend inquiries, when employed candidates actually browse, go completely unanswered.

The Evidence

The Research Is Clear: Speed Wins the Job Order

Independent research on lead response and recruiting operations shows why an always-on assistant on your site is where job orders are won or lost.

21x

First meaningful response wins the job order. Contacting a lead within 5 minutes instead of 30 makes qualification dramatically more likely.

Source: Oldroyd, MIT Sloan / InsideSales.com
3,000

A recruiting-software company automating lead qualification across email and chat saved its team 3,000 hours and doubled revenue, while handling 250,000 site visits a month.

Source: Exceed.ai / Comeet case study
7-10pm

Is the peak job-search window for people who already have a job, Monday to Wednesday. The passive candidates you most want to place browse when your recruiters are offline.

Source: Indeed Hiring Lab, Timing Matters in the Job Search
39 days

Is the median time to fill a non-executive role, and an open position costs $4,000 to $9,000 a month while it stays open. An employer inquiry cannot wait until Monday.

Source: SHRM benchmarking data

Employers pick the firm that responds first with substance, and candidates browse when your recruiters are offline. ZipTier covers both, around the clock.

Visitor Journey

One Front Door, Two Qualified Paths

ZipTier identifies which side of the marketplace each visitor is on, then qualifies employers and candidates down their own paths.

Two people in conversation across an office desk
1
Identify

“Which visitor is this?”

The assistant opens by sorting the marketplace: hiring, or looking? Everything downstream routes on the answer.

Common Questions Answered
  • Are you looking to hire, or looking for your next role?
  • What roles and industries do you specialize in?
  • Which markets and cities do you cover?
  • Do you do temp, contract, or direct hire?
  • How is your firm different from the big agencies?
Colleagues discussing over laptops at a table
2
Qualify: employer

“Can you fill our req?”

Capture role, volume, and timeline, then flag the order for business development immediately.

Common Questions Answered
  • How fast can you present candidates?
  • What are your fees / markup structure?
  • Do you offer a placement guarantee?
  • Can you handle a volume order (10+ seats)?
  • Can I speak with someone about an urgent req?
A person greeting a visitor with a handshake at an office
3
Qualify: candidate

“Can you place me?”

Answer process and confidentiality questions, and route candidates to the ATS path.

Common Questions Answered
  • What roles are open in my field right now?
  • How do I submit my resume?
  • Do you place remote candidates?
  • What does your screening process look like?
  • Will my search stay confidential from my employer?
Built for Staffing Firms

Everything You Need to Win More Job Orders

Separate client orders from candidate volume, and put pre-scoped intake calls on the right recruiter's calendar.

Client Orders First

Employer inquiries auto-flagged and routed to business-development recruiters; candidates flow to the ATS path. Dual-audience routing is the signature idea.

Intake & Screening Calls

Booked on the right recruiter's calendar by specialty, pre-scoped with role, volume, and timeline.

Answers From Your Own Pages

Fees, guarantees, and process answered from your service pages. Recruiters stop re-answering the same ten questions.

CRM and ATS-Friendly Handoff

HubSpot-native, with ATS-friendly export paths for the candidate side.

Live on Your Site in Minutes

Point it at your open roles, service pages and fee structure. No ATS project, no developer.

Covers Every Shift and Time Zone

Employed candidates browse at 9pm and employers post reqs at 7am. Both get a real answer.

See Which Desks Have Demand

Which roles, industries and markets visitors ask about most, so you staff the desks that are actually being asked for.

Confidential by Default

A candidate's search is never surfaced to an employer, and the assistant says so when asked.

Capture at Career Fairs

A QR code on the stand turns footfall into scored candidates without a clipboard or a spreadsheet.

Inside the Lead Record

The Job Order Arrives Already Scoped

Your recruiter opens one record and already knows the roles, the volume, the start date, and, before anything else, that this is an employer and not a candidate.

Lead Details
Contact Information
Name
Alicia Moreau
Email
moreau@vertexlabs.com
Job Title
VP of People
Company
Vertex Labs
Visitor Type
Employer
Country
United States
Lead Score
High
Intent Signals
Job orderContract-to-hire
Chat Summary
Five contract data engineering roles to fill within three weeks. Asked whether we handle contract-to-hire, what the markup structure looks like, and how fast we can present a shortlist.
Meeting Status
Booked intake call
Lead Details
Sessions
2
First Visit
Oct 1
Last Visit
Oct 2
Activity Time
8 min
First-touch attribution
Referrer
https://www.linkedin.com
Device
desktop · Windows
UTM Campaign
contract_data_engineers
UTM Source / Medium
linkedin / social
Country
US
Region
MA
from first contact · Oct 1
User session timeline↓ newest first · forward-only
Session 2Oct 2, 8:15 PM · 4m 10s · desktop / Windows
Arrived via https://www.google.com · 3 pages this session
/contract-staffing1m 50s/fees1m 20s/request-talent1m 00s
Session 1Oct 1, 4:36 PM · 3m 50s · desktop / Windows
Arrived via https://www.linkedin.com · 3 pages this session
/industries/technology1m 40s/case-studies1m 15s/about55s
Example lead record in ZipTier. Details are illustrative.
Employer, flagged at the front door

The assistant sorts the marketplace before anything else, so a five-seat order never queues behind forty CVs in the same inbox.

The req, already scoped

Five contract data engineers, three-week start, contract-to-hire. Your recruiter opens the call with names, not with questions.

Which channel produced the order

First touch traces to a LinkedIn post rather than to "direct", so you can tell what your employer-side marketing is actually worth.

They read the fees page

Contract staffing, then fees, then request talent. The markup conversation is coming, and you can open with it instead of flinching.

What You Get with ZipTier
24/7
Employer inquiries answered in seconds
2 paths
Client orders separated from candidates
100%
Intake calls pre-scoped
10 min
To launch
Directional outcomes based on ZipTier deployments. Results vary by firm and traffic.

Win the Job Order Before Your Competitor Wakes Up

Give employers a meaningful response in seconds and candidates a clear path in, and give your recruiters pre-scoped calls. Get started free, or talk to us about your desks.