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MANAGED HIRING FOR BUSINESSES THAT KEEP HIRING

Nexstema makes hiring a system.

We run sourcing, screening and first interviews for you. Your managers receive qualified shortlists with recorded interviews. Behind every shortlist is a research-informed role playbook, refined through performance data and hiring feedback.

Confirmed Hires: 2

“We’ve had some fantastic hires through Nexstema, including 2 experienced aestheticians. We even had another hire who was so good she moved from front desk into our aesthetics team. It’s not just about filling vacancies – it’s about finding great people.”

Sarah Daniel
Sweetgrass Plastic Surgery & Med Spa

Time to Hire: 4 Weeks

“The interviews were brilliant. Being able to watch the recordings and review the transcripts saved me a lot of time.”

Bilal Attique
Tax Effective

Fees Saved: $20.9K

“Nexstema managed the search from start to finish. We ultimately found a highly qualified provider who was a great fit. I’m glad you guys are part of the team. I needed you.”

Amber Bolick
Urban Medspa

Recruitment Cost: 4x Less

“Laurence was exactly what we were looking for. The process was straightforward, the shortlist was strong, and the result has made a real difference to the business.”

Stephen Crisp
Glow

Candidates Managed: 84

“The screening process alone saved us a huge amount of time. Nexstema understood exactly what we were looking for and made hiring incredibly easy.”

Olivia Burgess
Still Waters

Interview Progression Rate: 3.1%

“Working with Nexstema changed the way I think about solving capacity challenges as the business grows.”

Lisa
Mounts Bay Accountants

Applications: 961

“Your whole team is amazing. The interview process saved me so much time and made hiring far easier to manage”

Jo Ramirez
Still Waters

Cost as Percentage of Salary: 1.7%

“Nexstema took a huge amount of recruitment work off our plate, helped us find a great hire, and gave us back valuable time to focus on growing the business.”

Hayley Reibbitt
RDA

Hours Saved: 84

“Super slick, super clear and incredibly easy on our end. We saved a huge amount of time and ended up with several strong candidates to choose from.”

Kelly Egan
Des-Vu

Interviews Conducted: 14

“Having the recordings of your interviews is a completely game-changing piece that I haven’t seen any other recruitment setup provide us.”

Chris McKee
Solskin
TEAMS WE'VE HELPED HIRE
10x
MORE COST EFFECTIVE
2x
QUALIFIED APPLICANTS
14 days
AVERAGE SHORTLIST DELIVERY
98%
RETENTION RATE

Stop starting from scratch
every time you hire.

Every vacancy creates work. Managers review CVs. Teams coordinate interviews. Different people use different standards. And when the next vacancy opens, much of the process starts again. This creates an inconsistent system with very little visibility into what's actually working.

60+ HOURS

WASTED PER WRONG-FIT HIRE

3–6 MONTHS

TO RECOVER MOMENTUM

Time gets wasted.

Hiring managers burn hours on weak CVs, repeat interviews, and broken processes

Standards change.

Different managers assess candidates in different ways.

Revenue takes the hit.

Open roles, slow ramp times and poor-fit hires create hidden leakage across the P&L.

Knowledge gets lost.

What worked (and what didn't) rarely gets documented for the next hire.

Hiring costs climb.

When the internal process struggles, expensive agencies become the fallback.

Hiring becomes reactive.

The process gets rebuilt around every urgent vacancy.

Hiring quality is a funnel problem.

Better hiring outcomes come from stronger candidate flow, sharper filtering and more informed decisions. The more relevant people you bring into a structured process, the stronger your final choice becomes.

We fix the hiring funnel and create a managed hiring system.

Nexstema manages the work between opening a role and selecting the people worth meeting.

We research the market, build the candidate funnel, screen applications and conduct structured first interviews.

Your managers receive a qualified shortlist with interview recordings, candidate evidence and clear recommendations.

But the work doesn't disappear when the vacancy closes.

We document the approach, review the pipeline and use what we've learned to make the next hiring cycle stronger.

3 candidates to choose from

Urban Med Spa

Front Desk / Guest Services

ROI METRIC

Filled in 31 days

Filled in 47 days

GVO Sweetgrass

Registered Nurse (RN)

ROI METRIC

2.74% recruitment cost

Filled 3 roles

GVO Sweetgrass

Certified Surgical Technologist

ROI METRIC

2.11% recruitment cost

Filled in 52 days

Urban Med Spa

Aesthetic Nurse Injector

ROI METRIC

2.0% recruitment cost

86.3 hours saved

Des Vu

Stylist & Content Creator

ROI METRIC

Filled in 43 days

Filled in 29 days

Urban Med Spa

Certified Medical Assistant

ROI METRIC

54.1 hours saved

Filled in 15 days

GVO Partners

Marketing Operations Assistant

ROI METRIC

64.8 hours saved

Filled in 33 days

GVO Sweetgrass

Surgical Clinical Director

ROI METRIC

38.9 hours saved

Proof the system works.

Real hiring campaigns. Real roles.
See how companies used Nexstema to build stronger shortlists faster by turning their hiring into a system.

Most hiring options solve
only part of the problem.

Internal teams get overwhelmed. Recruiters are expensive. Hiring software still needs someone to manage the process. Nexstema combines sourcing, screening, filtering, and funnel management into one structured hiring system.

SYSTEM METRIC

Candidate Volume
Screening Load
Screening Standard
Shortlist Quality
Process Ownership
Decision Confidence

Internal Hiring

Limited bandwidth
Manual & time-heavy
Unclear or inconsistent
Mixed
Internal burden
Limited data

Recruitment Agencies

Depends on recruiters
Outsourced inconsistently
Recruiters interpretation
Consultant dependent
External dependency
Recruiter-led assessment

Hiring Software

High volume, low filtering
Left to your team 
Configured manually
Highly Variable
Self-managed 
Minimal validation
Nexstema
Structured candidate funnel
Screening built in
Bespoke requirements
High-signal candidates
Built around your team
Structured evidence for better decisions

How the hiring
system works.

Your managers make the decision. We do the work that gets them there.

We define what good looks like, create the right candidate flow, structure the process, filter out the noise and qualify the strongest people before they reach your team.

The immediate goal is a better hire. The bigger win is a hiring system that works better the next time too.

  • STEP 01

    Define

    Start with what good actually looks like.

    We research the role and market, benchmark salary and availability, agree the must-haves and create the role playbook.

    • ROLE & SUCCESS PROFILE
    • MARKET RESEARCH
    • SALARY BENCHMARKING
    • SCREENING REQUIREMENTS
    • ROLE PLAYBOOK
  • STEP 02

    ATTRACT

    Build the right candidate funnel.

    We optimise the role and use the right mix of channels and targeting methods to create relevant candidate flow.

    • JOB ADVERT OPTIMISATION
    • MULTI-CHANNEL DISTRIBUTION
    • CANDIDATE TARGETING METHODS
    • PAID FUNNEL EXPANSION
  • STEP 03

    STRUCTURE

    Give the campaign a proper system.

    Applications, communications, interviews, feedback and reporting all need somewhere to go.

    We build the workflow behind the campaign so candidates move through clear stages, your team has visibility throughout, and nothing important disappears into an inbox or spreadsheet.

    • ATS configuration
    • Pipeline management
    • Candidate tracking
    • Workflow visibility
  • STEP 04

    FILTER

    Remove the noise early.

    AI-assisted screening and human review assess applications against the agreed criteria before they reach your managers.

    • AI-ASSISTED SCREENING
    • RECRUITER REVIEW
    • REQUIREMENT MATCHING
    • CANDIDATE RANKING
  • STEP 05

    QUALIFY

    Find out what the CV can’t tell you.

    We run structured first-stage interviews to validate candidate experience and uncover the details a CV cannot show.

    Building on the initial screening, we explore role-specific requirements and client-defined questions to assess knowledge, suitability, and overall fit before candidates reach your team.

    • First-stage interviews
    • Interview recordings
    • Transcripts & notes
    • Hiring recommendations
  • STEP 06

    SHORTLIST

    Choose from qualified candidates, not a pile of CVs.

    Your team receives a focused shortlist backed by screening data, interview evidence and clear recommendations.

    Nexstema delivers the shortlist. Your team selects the hire.

    • Pre-screened candidates
    • Final shortlist delivery
    • Decision support
    • Weekly campaign reviews
    • Hiring Playbook Improvement

Every hire makes your next hire smarter

Nexstema builds an Ai-driven playbook for every role, in every market: the exact criteria that predict a great hire.

Recruitment fees were built for a different hiring model.

Traditional recruitment fees rise with the salary of the person you hire. Nexstema doesn’t work that way. Our pricing is fixed around the campaign and what’s needed to run it properly.

LEGACY APPROACH
Traditional Recruitment
COST STRUCTURE: VARIABLE

15-25%

OF ANNUAL SALARY PER HIRE
NEXSTEMA PILOT
Nexstema Hiring Model
FIXED CAMPAIGN FEE

Fixed

MOST ROLES FILLED UNDER 2%
Run a pilot campaign. Fill the role. Build a hiring system your business can keep improving.
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Built for businesses & teams
with recurring hiring needs.

HIRING MANAGERS
  • LESS SCREENING.
  • BETTER INTERVIEWS.
  • CLEARER INSIGHT.
  • FASTER HIRING.
HR TEAMS
  • STRUCTURED SYSTEM.
  • BETTER VISIBILITY.
  • LESS ADMIN.
  • CONSISTENT APPROACH.
Founders & Leadership
  • LESS TIME LOST
  • VISIBILITY & CONTROL
  • SCALES WITH THE BUSINESS
  • LESS RECRUITERS

Start with a recurring role.

We'll review the market, look at your current hiring process and identify where candidate flow, screening or assessment is breaking down. Then we'll show you what the role playbook and managed hiring approach could look like for your business mainly covering:

- A review of one live or recurring role.
- A candidate-market and salary benchmark.
- The main gaps in sourcing, screening or interview workflow.

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