A Marseille recruitment agency specialising in technical and executive profiles spent the last six months replacing its tool stack — a LinkedIn Recruiter licence, a generic ATS and a CV database that had become unreadable — with Fabskill. A good opportunity to document, without embellishment, what actually changed in their consultants' daily work.
The problem was not sourcing itself
Before Fabskill, every assignment started the same way: a consultant opened LinkedIn Recruiter, built a boolean query, tweaked it for most of the day, then exported a list of profiles to contact one by one. The real cost was not the licence — it was consultant time, the agency's most expensive resource, tied up in a repetitive task.
The second problem was quieter: the agency had been collecting CVs for years without ever reusing them. Every assignment started from scratch, as if the CV database did not exist.
What changed
With Don Vito, the same plain-language search queries both the 480 million external profiles and the agency's internal talent pool. A consultant describes the role as they would to a colleague; the agent scores and enriches the results, with no boolean query to write.
- Sourcing a typical assignment went from several days to a few hours.
- The pool built up since 2019 became a genuine candidate source again, not a CV graveyard.
- LinkedIn outreach happens from the consultant's own account, with no Recruiter licence to renew each year.
What did not change
The final decision stays entirely human: Don Vito suggests and ranks, consultants choose who to contact and how to present each profile to their client. Nothing in the process took judgement away from the craft — the time saved was simply reinvested in the part of the job that cannot be automated: understanding the client's need and convincing the candidate.