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Andrew Banks on recruiting

The candidate who looks wrong, and is right.

Andrew Banks has called this the Holy Grail of recruitment for years: the person whose resume does not fit the job and whose personality is a dead match for the client's culture. A culture match puts a number on that fit before the shortlist goes out.

Andrew Banks to camera on the candidate who looks wrong but is right

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Andrew Banks ran Morgan & Banks and Talent2 for thirty years and is an investor in Compono.

What Andrew is describing

  • The Holy Grail in recruitment is the candidate who looks wrong but is right
  • The resume says no. Their brain chemistry says perfect fit
  • Every candidate is compared to your client's best people before the process starts, so it doesn't delay anything
  • The resume isn't a great match, but look at the fit. Ninety-three per cent match to your best people

How a culture match works

1

Send the client a link

One link, sent by the recruiter on the desk. Nothing to install. The client passes it to their best people.

2

Their best people complete a profile

The top performers in that business answer it online in under ten minutes. Back comes a profile the client agrees reads like them.

3

Every candidate is compared to it

The comparison runs at the top end of the funnel, before a CV is screened, so the shortlist reaches the client with the fit already on it.

Talk to us about the candidates your filters are binning.

Tell us the roles where the resume keeps making the decision for you. We will walk you through how Compono Hire ranks a shortlist on fit, and what a first month with it looks like.

  • Fill in the form and pick a time that suits you.
  • A short video call with someone who knows agency recruitment.
  • We show you a culture match on a shortlist, and answer whatever you bring.
  • No deck. If we are not the right fit, we will say so.
Andrew Banks, investor in Compono

Andrew BanksInvestor in Compono. Founded Morgan & Banks, co-founded Talent2.

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Common questions

A candidate whose resume does not fit the job description, but whose personality and way of working are a strong match for the client's best people. Keyword filters bin them. A culture match finds them, and they are often the placement that sticks.

Send the fit first. Compono Hire gives you a per-candidate report against the client's top performers, so you can say the resume is not a perfect match and show the ninety-three per cent fit beside it. That is a conversation, not a guess.

What Andrew says

Andrew Banks

Andrew BanksFounder of Morgan & Banks, co-founder of Talent2, investor in Compono

For years, I've talked about the Holy Grail in recruitment, the candidate who looks wrong but is right. By that I mean the resume doesn't fit the job, but if you could read their mind, their brain chemistry, their personality, they'd be a perfect fit for the culture, and they'd perform really well. Compono finds them.

A culture match compares every candidate to your client's best people before the process even starts, so it doesn't delay anything. And then you ring the client and say, "The resume isn't a great match, but look at the fit. 93% match to your best people." They get the interview.

You get the extra placement. That's Compono.

Ready to run a culture match on your next role?

Tell us the brief. We will show you how it works inside Compono Hire.