Consulting

Staff the engagement before kickoff, not three weeks into it.

Pickr gives management and IT consultancies a scored shortlist in minutes, case-style interviews every partner runs the same way, and a warm bench that is ready when the next mandate lands.

The challenge

Hiring in consulting firms is hard for specific reasons

Hiring runs on the project calendar, not yours

A signed engagement means three senior consultants in four weeks. The search starts from zero every time, the strongest profiles are already talking to a competitor, and the project starts understaffed while the recruiter is still reading CVs.

The bench is either too full or too empty

Hire ahead and consultants sit unbilled. Hire late and partners staff the project with whoever is free instead of whoever fits. Most firms have no warm pool between the two, so every ramp-up is a cold start.

Every partner runs a different case interview

One partner runs a market-sizing case, the next runs a profitability case, the third just chats. Feedback comes back as "strong" or "not a fit", nobody writes down why, and two candidates with the same score had very different interviews.

Your interviewers are billable

Partners and engagement managers interview between client meetings. Feedback arrives days late, scheduling eats the recruiter's week, and the candidate hears nothing while the panel catches up. Good people accept elsewhere in the silence.

How Pickr helps

What you get

A scored shortlist the day the engagement is signed

Describe the project and the skills it needs. Pickr finds and scores candidates from your own pool and beyond in minutes, with match reasoning you can put in front of the staffing partner. Related skills count, so a consultant who solved a neighboring problem is not filtered out for missing the exact keyword.

AI Sourcing

Case interviews every partner runs the same way

Each role gets tailored interview questions, live transcription and scorecards that write themselves. Every candidate gets a comparable case, every partner's observations are captured while they are fresh, and the debrief takes minutes instead of a week of chasing.

Interview Intelligence

Bench planning from a warm talent pool

Keep the consultants you almost hired, the alumni who might come back and the freelancers you trust in one pipeline. When the next mandate lands you start from a ranked pool with history, not a blank search. Every placement you close makes the next shortlist for that profile sharper.

Pipeline

Billable interviewers who still reply on time

Interviewer and hiring-manager seats are free, so every partner and project lead is in the loop without a license discussion. Scheduling, follow-ups and candidate updates are drafted for you, and feedback requests reach partners by email or Slack between client calls.

Communication

Roles

Roles teams hire for with Pickr

  • Management Consultant
  • Senior Consultant
  • Engagement Manager
  • Principal
  • IT Consultant
  • SAP Consultant
  • Cloud Architect
  • Data Consultant
  • Business Analyst
  • Project Manager

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Pickr suitable for consulting firm recruiting?

Yes. Pickr is built for teams that hire in waves against project timelines: management consultancies, IT and SAP consultancies, and the recruitment agencies that staff them. You get a scored shortlist in minutes, structured case-style interviews and a warm bench you can draw on when the next engagement lands.

Can Pickr handle project-based hiring where we need several consultants at once?

Yes. Open one role per project profile or one role for the whole team, score every candidate against the real requirements, and run all interviews with the same structure. The staffing partner sees one ranked list per engagement instead of a spread of CVs across email threads.

Does Pickr support case-style interviews?

Yes. Each role gets tailored interview questions, interviewers follow the same structure, transcripts are captured live and scorecards fill themselves in. You compare candidates on the same case with the same criteria, not on whichever partner they happened to meet.

Do our partners and project leads need paid seats to interview?

No. Interviewer and hiring-manager seats are free. Partners, engagement managers and project leads can review shortlists, run interviews and submit scorecards without a paid seat. Pricing for your recruiting team is on request; book a demo and we will walk you through it.

Where is our candidate data hosted?

Candidate data and the application both run in Frankfurt, Germany. Pickr is GDPR / DSGVO compliant, a data processing agreement (AVV) is included, and names and emails are redacted from AI prompts by default. That matters when your own clients audit the tools their consultancies use.

Can we import our existing candidate database and alumni records?

Yes. One-click import from Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever and Bullhorn, automatic recognition of Teamtailor exports, or a CSV from any other system. Past applicants, alumni and freelancer records become a searchable, scored pool from day one, so your first ramp-up on Pickr already starts warm.

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Written by Andreas Amann

Founder of Pickr. Former operator at startups in Berlin and Silicon Valley, where he helped scale companies from 40 to 200+ people. Built Pickr after years of using every major ATS as a recruitment agency owner at ScalingPPL.

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