For Recruitment Agencies
Helping candidates make better decisions so your placements stick
Your candidates don’t lack talent. They do lack clarity. Most candidates fail because they’re uncertain, emotionally overloaded, or unclear about what they actually want, especially at decision points. As a recruitment agency, you see this play out every day: candidates hesitate late in the process, confidence drops during negotiation, offers are accepted, then declined, and placements don’t stick. This is a decision and readiness problem. Candidates don’t know what they want. Recruiters can’t give them what they don’t know they want.
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Recruitment agencies sit in a difficult position.
You’re expected to:
• move quickly
• manage multiple stakeholders
• support candidates emotionally
• deliver consistent outcomesAt the same time:
• candidates arrive at different levels of self-awareness
• emotional regulation is outside your formal remit
• coaching quality varies by consultant
• time pressure limits deep reflectionThe result is often inconsistent candidate readiness, even when the opportunity is strong.
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When candidates aren’t supported at the decision layer, common issues emerge:
• Late-stage hesitation. Candidates withdraw or stall just before commitment.
• Misaligned expectations. Roles look good on paper but don’t match internal drivers.
• Poor negotiation confidence. Candidates either under-advocate or overcorrect.
• Low placement durability. Early attrition damages trust and reputation.These issues cost time, credibility, and long-term value for both agency and client.
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Candidates are looking for clarity under pressure.
In practice, that means they need:
Structured clarity about fit and direction. The Career Assessment helps candidates articulate what they actually want from a role.
Support making decisions under pressure. Maya, the AI career advisor, helps candidates think clearly, reducing doubt.
Consistency across consultants and placements. The Career Transition Blueprint and 30-Day Job Clarity Sprint provide a shared framework for candidate readiness, ensuring a consistent quality.
Follow-through after conversations and offers. My Loops helps candidates translate interviews, feedback, and offers into concrete next actions, reducing drop-off and indecision late in the process.
Human perspective when confidence wavers. Qualified career coaching and Community provide additional reassurance and sense-checking when candidates feel uncertain.Emotional regulation before high-stakes conversations. WORK-SELF Rituals and Ritual Kits help candidates steady themselves before key conversations.
This level of support requires a system which is what WORK-SELF provides.
MORE CONFIDENT CANDIDATES
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FEWER LATE-STAGE WITHDRAWALS
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IMPROVED NEGOTIATION OUTCOMES
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HIGHER-QUALITY PLACEMENTS
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What your candidates get
■ Deep research methodologyStart with the career assessment
The Career Assessment guides them through 7 structured sections: Personal Information, Current Professional State, Identity & Work Self, Strengths & Skills, Vision & Future, Tools & Preferences, and Career Story.
We combine their answers with insights from our proprietary deep research methodology called WORK-SELF Cohort of Influence (COI), comprised of the entire published body of work of the world’s leading minds in personal and professional development like Kahneman, Sinek, Duckworth, Clear, and more. The outcome is a clear Career Profile that shows how they operate at work, where friction appears, and what deserves their focus right now.
■ COhort of Influence IntelligenceChoose the ideal career path
The candidate’s Career Transition Blueprint brings together their assessment results into a clear picture of how they work, what drains or energises them, and what conditions support their best performance.
From this Blueprint, WORK-SELF helps them explore relevant options such as improving their current role, renegotiating scope, preparing for transition, or evaluating new opportunities.
Maya, our Career Advisor, supports by helping them think through trade offs, prepare conversations, and plan next steps based on their current reality and priorities.
■ Integrated Career Operating SystemSee progress clearly
Maya pulls data from their long-term Loops, mood check-ins, milestones, and journal entries to build simple dashboards that show they’re progressing in their overall career development longer term.
Their Career Alignment Score reveals how closely their daily actions and 30-day Sprint match who they’re becoming. WORK-SELF’s operating system ensures candidates stay on track toward the job they’re after and the career they really want.
■ Career guidance from CAreer Coach and AI ADvisorFind the ideal role in 30 days
Maya, the AI career advisor, brings together signals from their Daily Briefs, tools, milestones, and activity to show how their focus and decisions are adding up over time.
They get tools, prompts, and to-do assignments that ensure daily progress. The system interconnects these job-finding functions so their progress continues seamlessly through their 30-day sprint. Either they get job clarity or your money back.
■ Emotional Intelligence Feedback LoopGrow with the community
Candidates can access Maya anytime for structured decision support, preparation, and clear thinking around their career.
They can also join the Community tab to learn from others navigating career decisions, share insights, and participate in practical challenges that support clarity and momentum. This is their space to share progress, stay accountable, and learn from others facing similar choices.
Getting started is simple
WORK-SELF integrates into your existing recruitment process through a multi-licence partnership (e.g. 200 candidates), giving your candidates structured clarity and decision support at scale.
Step 1: Activate your agency licence
Your agency receives a pool of WORK-SELF licences that can be assigned to candidates as they enter active processes. This enables candidates to receive consistent clarity support, while helping your consultants reduce late-stage uncertainty and drop-off.
Step 2: Candidates complete career assessment
Selected candidates begin with the Career Assessment (about 30 minutes). This helps candidates clarify fit, motivation, and direction early leading to better-aligned shortlists and fewer surprises later in the process.
Step 3: Ongoing decision support throughout the recruitment process
Candidates gain access to Maya, our AI career advisor, Rituals, to regulate nerves before interviews and negotiations, and My Loops, to translate interviews and feedback into clear next steps. This supports confident decision-making and reduces indecision during critical stages.
Step 4: Structured clarity at offer stage
For candidates nearing decision, agencies can enrol them in the 30-Day Job Clarity Sprint. This helps candidates evaluate offers and commit with confidence, improving acceptance quality and early-stage retention.
Accelerate your candidates
Your candidates don’t need to do everything at once. Start them with the Career Assessment to understand their career direction in under 30 minutes.
Explore a partnership
If you’re interested in piloting WORK-SELF with a subset of candidates, offering structured readiness support at scale, or improving placement quality and durability, we’re happy to explore what a partnership could look like.