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# Beyond the Numbers: Engineering Recruiting Excellence Through Quality, Data, and Team Empowerment


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 11, 2025
- **Time:** 14:20–14:50 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 13
- **Event:** World Congress 2025

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1491-beyond-the-numbers-engineering-recruiting-excellence-through-quality-data-and-team-empowerment)

## Description

Do you still think that you need a high number of interviews for successful hiring? Spoiler: You don’t.

In recruiting, more does not equal better!

It’s quite the opposite: A massive amount of candidates in the funnel is not needed to fill a single role and actually can hinder successful recruiting. When you tie up capacity of the interviewing team (recruiters, interviewers & hiring managers), they can’t focus on the actual task: quickly identifying and hiring the right person.

In the session, Christian will highlight the three major elements that sustainably improve recruiting success:

- A well-structured recruiting process
- A focus on the right key figures - thought from end to start
- A well-trained recruiting team

Quality instead of quantity, data-driven recruiting and a strong recruiting team are the basis for successful recruiting. It does not depend on the number of applications, but on a well thought-out approach.

## Speaker

### [Christian Wastlhuber](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@christian-wastlhuber)

Fractional Talent Attraction Leader & Data-Driven-Recruiting Evangelist at The UnleashPeople


## Related talks at this congress

- [Recruiting with Soul & Smarts](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/726-recruiting-with-soul) — Jens Echterling
- [Putting Developer Experience at the Heart of Tech Recruiting](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/728-putting-developer) — Jannis Eickenroth, Linda Stauffenberg, Markus Stauffenberg
- [360 degree AI - who actually drives AI in Recruiting & Employer Branding](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/558-360-degree-ai-who) — Robindro
- [Code meets Culture: Engineering the Future of Hiring](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/806-code-meets-culture) — Sophie Okonkwo