Mandate stages, client development, firm-owned candidate records, notice period tracking, offer-to-joining follow-up and GST fee invoicing in one system. From ₹899/user/month.
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Mandates come from a small circle: talent acquisition heads at global capability centres in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, promoters of family businesses, private equity portfolio boards, and functional leaders who were themselves placed years earlier. Fee terms are argued over percentage of annual compensation and split into milestones. Origination is slow relationship work; delivery is fast and public. One person often does both.
A mandate runs from market mapping through approaches, profiles shared, client shortlist, interview rounds and compensation discussion. Then comes the part Indian firms lose sleep over: the gap between offer and joining, where notice periods, counter-offers and buyouts decide whether the placement survives. That gap deserves its own stage with its own cadence.
Not usually at shortlist. They break when a candidate on a ninety-day notice goes quiet in week six, when a counter-offer arrives and nobody hears about it, or when the client interview panel takes three weeks to give feedback. Each of those is a scheduled touchpoint that either exists in the system or exists in somebody memory.
Does WhatsApp run on the firm number, so a consultant departure does not take the candidate relationships? Can you raise GST invoices against fee milestones and see ageing? Is pricing per user without a seat minimum, so a four-person boutique is not quoted an enterprise plan? And can the whole team work it from a phone between meetings?
| Capability | Spreadsheets | Volume ATS | HelloGrowthCRM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandate stages with owners | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| Offer-to-joining cadence | No | No | Yes |
| Notice period and buyout notes | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| WhatsApp on the firm number | No | Add-on | Native |
| Dialer with recording | No | Add-on | Native |
| Off-limits register | No | No | Yes |
| GST invoicing on fee milestones | No | No | Yes |
| Client-ready progress reports | No | Partial | Yes |
Every team in this space loses revenue to the same recurring gaps. Here is what they cost you and how HelloGrowthCRM closes each one.
A candidate accepts the offer, then stops responding and never joins, and the client blames the firm.
The offer-to-joining stage runs its own scheduled touchpoints with the candidate and the client, so hesitation shows up weeks before the start date rather than on the morning itself.Offer-to-joining cadence
Candidate relationships live in consultants personal phones and leave when they resign.
Calls and WhatsApp threads on the firm business number attach to firm-owned records, so a successor picks up the mandate with the full history rather than a name and a number.Firm-owned history
Placement invoices age quietly because everyone has moved on to the next mandate.
Fee milestones sit on the mandate with GST invoicing and ageing, so the follow-up is a scheduled task with an owner rather than a partner remembering during a cash discussion.Fee milestone tracking
Client updates are rebuilt from memory and email every week before the review call.
The mandate pipeline is the report: approached, in process, declined with reasons and interview status export into a client update because the data was captured as work happened.Progress reporting
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