The economics of trust in hiring.
Most hiring teams know a warm introduction often leads to their best hires. Few have treated it as a channel they can open on demand. Linillo turns that instinct into a repeatable, pay-on-hire way to hire.
Every familiar channel has a ceiling.
Each traditional route trades off quality, cost or reach. Introductions keep the quality of an introduction without the limits of your own team's network.
Job boards and inbound
High volume, low signal. One-click applications mean your team spends its time screening out people who were never a fit.
Recruitment agencies
High cost and mixed incentives. Percentage fees reward placing someone, not necessarily the person who stays and thrives.
Employee introduction schemes
High quality, but finite. Your team only knows so many people, and most schemes slow down once the obvious names are used up.
The Linillo model: the introduction dynamic, opened to the wider professional world — with no upfront cost.
Four reasons a trusted introduction lands differently.
Candidate-confirmed interest
Introducers can ask the candidate to confirm interest in the specific role, so you speak to people who want the conversation.
Reputation on the line
Introducers explain how they know the person. Their standing on Linillo reflects whether their introductions hold up.
A warmer start
The candidate hears about the role from someone they know and respect, so the first conversation starts with trust already in place.
Better-informed fit
Someone who has worked alongside a person knows how they actually work — context a CV or profile rarely shows.
Built on working relationships, not scraped profiles.
Profiles show where someone has worked. Applicant systems store what they sent. Neither captures whether the people who worked alongside them would put their name to them.
First-hand working context
How they worked together, for how long and in what capacity — told by the person making the introduction.
Recorded candidate interest
When a candidate confirms they want to hear more, that confirmation is recorded against the introduction.
Standing that builds over time
Introducers build their standing through introductions that lead to interviews and hires.
Every introduction strengthens the Linillo network.
Pay for the hire, not the search.
An illustrative example for a £60,000 salary. You set your own reward on Linillo.
Typical agency fee (20%)
£12,000
Often with retainers or exclusivity terms.
Linillo recommended reward (5%)
£3,000
Paid only on a confirmed hire. Free to post, no subscription.
Difference in this example: £9,000 per hire.
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