The same quality, far less searching.
Stael Recruitment in Sittard finds technical talent for the process industry, a specialist market where quality comes first. Since early 2025, Elvatix has done the first round of searching and writing. Stael keeps its hands on the controls.
“We work in a niche, and quality comes before everything else for us. We hold on to that quality, and it has helped us enormously with efficiency.”
Translated from Dutch.
The searching goes faster, the judgement stays with Stael
In the process industry, a recruiter always keeps a personal eye on things. Elvatix takes over the first round of work, so there is more time left for quality.
A lot of time lost to searching
- A specialist market: within a single role there are branches that only a trained eye can spot.
- Searching for a single vacancy could take 20 to 40 hours.
- Approaching every candidate personally took time, while the process had to keep its momentum.
A preselection and personal InMails from Elvatix
- The AI search delivers a preselection of good candidates in one go.
- See up front how many candidates were found, and choose for yourself how many you look at.
- Mark each requirement as soft, medium or hard.
- A personal InMail for every candidate, sent from your own LinkedIn Recruiter.
Elvatix first, then his own eye
Niek Claessen joined Stael and started working with Elvatix straight away. This is how he tackles a vacancy.
Vacancy in, weigh the requirements
Niek starts a search in Elvatix and marks each requirement as soft, medium or hard.
Choose how many candidates to see
Elvatix shows up front how many candidates were found. Niek chooses how many he wants to see, and Elvatix assesses each profile against his requirements.
A personal InMail per candidate
He works that first search through to the end. Each candidate gets an InMail of their own, written by Elvatix and sent from his own LinkedIn Recruiter.
Then keep searching himself
Once the first messages are out, Niek carries on searching in the same project himself, on job titles of people who could make the move. That way he keeps his hands on the controls.
About one in three candidates replies
Even in a narrow market people reply, because every InMail is about the candidate themselves.
Stael estimates its own response rate at 30 to 40%. Measured since June 2026.
“You really looked at my profile, hats off. Normally I get messages that go out to a whole group.”
A reply Stael often received from candidates
A copilot, not a black box
In a niche market, a skilled eye sees differences that software still misses. That is why Elvatix does the legwork and Stael decides.
Transparent from the start
You see up front how many candidates were found and choose for yourself how many you want to see.
Adjust it yourself
Include this, not that: for each requirement you choose soft, medium or hard, and for each candidate you see why they fit.
Time for quality
The time freed up at the front end goes, at the back end, to the candidate and the client.
What Niek and Fred say about it
“With sourcing I get a preselection of really good candidates in one go. Because our market is so niche, I still look it over with my own eyes afterwards.”
Niek Claessen
“I work that first search through to the end in Elvatix. After that I search some more myself, on job titles of people who could make the move. That way I keep my hands on the controls.”
Niek Claessen
“You see up front how many candidates were found and you choose how many you want to see. For each requirement you say whether it is soft, medium or hard. I really like that transparency.”
Niek Claessen
“We save time at the front end. That gives us more time for quality at the back end.”
Fred Hut
“I got the most positive reply I have ever had to a single InMail. That candidate was placed too.”
Fred Hut
“What I find important is personal contact. Open and relaxed, always reachable by WhatsApp or phone, and proactive with updates.”
Fred Hut
Niek and Fred spoke Dutch; the quotes were translated.
How we counted this
The figures come from Stael's Elvatix account, counted on 29 October 2026. Since June 2025, Stael has sent 1,395 personal InMails through Elvatix; rejected or failed sends are not counted. Response has been measured since June 2026: about one in three candidates replied, and just over one in four with interest. Stael estimates its own response rate at 30 to 40%. The AI search has been running at Stael since August 2026 and has assessed 973 profiles since then. The 20 to 40 hours of searching per vacancy before Elvatix is Stael's own experience. We do not name any clients or vacancies.
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