Holdtime gives every hiring stage a day budget and names the people who have blown past it — today, while you can still pick up the phone.
40
candidates on the board
7
past their budget right now
68%
within budget, against a 75% target
34 days
longest single wait
Waiting now
Names the person who is stuck, not the average that already happened.
Every live candidate across 6 open roles, sorted worst-overdue first, so the 7 people in trouble are at the top before you touch a filter. Each wait is shown against the budget its stage was given, never as a number on its own.
Standby pool
Keeps the strong people you did not hire, instead of losing them.
Five reach a final round and one gets hired. The other four vanish, and six months later the same role reopens and the search starts from scratch. Standby holds 18 of them with their strengths tagged, and flags the 5 who match something open right now.
01
Give every stage a budget
A recruiter screen gets 3 days. A hiring manager interview gets 7. The numbers are yours to set.
02
Watch the clock per person
Each candidate is measured against their own stage budget, not against a team average.
03
Act before it breaks
At 80% of budget they are holding. Past it they are breached, and the board says so loudly.