Placement is a confidence business. But candidate quality is judged differently by every recruiter, on every desk, on every submission.
A candidate looks great on paper, interviews poorly, and the placement falls through — after you already spent the hours.
Two recruiters on your desk evaluate the same candidate and reach different conclusions. There’s no shared standard.
Your client’s trust takes the hit when a submitted candidate can’t explain their own thinking in the technical interview.
TRACE sits on top of your existing process as a coaching and readiness layer. It develops candidates — it never screens them out.
Each candidate takes a focused, scored readiness assessment in their target domain. You get an objective starting point — not a gut feel.
TRACE walks candidates through how to translate a problem, find root cause, take action, confirm the fix, and enhance — the reasoning interviewers actually test. They practice until it’s muscle memory.
When a candidate reaches their target readiness, that score becomes your confidence signal. “Every candidate we submit has passed the TRACE Readiness Assessment.”
These are management and tracking tools built for a desk running many candidates — capabilities an individual candidate account simply doesn’t have.
Invite candidates, watch each move from baseline toward target, and manage the entire pipeline from a single view.
When a candidate is placed or graduates, swap in the next one at no extra charge. You pay for active seats, not names — something an individual account can never do.
See each candidate progress from their baseline toward target across every TRACE dimension — proof of growth, not just a one-time snapshot.
Roll progress up across your whole roster, segment by role or cohort, and export the numbers you need to report outcomes to clients or stakeholders.
A clean, shareable snapshot of where a candidate stands across the five IT troubleshooting domains — and how far they’ve come.
Every recruiter on your desk evaluates against the same framework. No more “it depends who screened them.”
Whatever seat you’re placing for, TRACE coaches the reasoning that domain’s interviews test.
IT Support
Supporting end users
Network
Moving data reliably
Systems
OS, identity & apps
Data Center
Compute, virtualization & storage
Cybersecurity
Protecting everything
We’re onboarding a small group of founding staffing partners. You help shape the product, and you carry no risk while you decide if it earns a place on your desk.
Run a small group of candidates through TRACE. If your recruiters don’t find the readiness reports useful, you walk away owing nothing.
Founding partners lock in preferred per-seat pricing that holds as you grow — a thank-you for backing us early.
Your desk’s workflow shapes what we build next. You’re a design partner, not a ticket number.
Run a small group of your candidates through TRACE and see the readiness scores for yourself. Tell us about your desk and we’ll set up a short conversation.