How Egyptian IT recruitment firms find their business
Egypt has become a serious supply market for engineering talent, and its recruitment agencies serve two very different buyers. One is the local employer: banks, telecoms, software houses and the outsourcing firms with delivery centres in Cairo and Alexandria. The other is the overseas company hiring Egyptian engineers directly, whether for a Gulf office or a fully remote European team.
Those two buyers behave nothing alike. Local clients move at local pace and pay in local currency. Overseas clients run long interview loops across time zones, pay in foreign currency and take longer to collect from. A CRM for it recruitment agencies Egypt has to hold both without applying one cadence to the other.
The interview loop is where deals go quiet
An offshore client loop can involve a screening call, a technical exercise, a panel and a hiring manager conversation, spread across three countries. Every gap between rounds is a chance for the candidate to accept elsewhere. Rounds that are dated tasks with owners get chased. Rounds that live in an email thread do not.