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The core
Select understands the person.
An adaptive AI conversation that goes beyond the resume: skills, motivation, working style, reflection and fit with the role and the company.
AI-native Hiring Intelligence
Do you know what your hires actually cost you?
Bad hires, early departures and replacements come at a price. RoleWise makes the hidden economics visible - and uses signals and outcomes to build a better basis for your next hiring decision.
Free · No login · Instant result
Estimated Hiring Loss
Example calculationScaling up
$851,904 /year
- Employees
- 120
- New hires per year
- 22
- Departures per year
- 18
- Of which within 12 months
- 7
- Average monthly salary
- $5,800
Of which departures within 12 months$331,296
Turnover rate15.0 %
Illustrative figures, calculated with the same model as the calculator below. Not customer data.
Hiring Loss Calculator
How big is the problem in your organization?
In under 2 minutes you'll get an estimate. No login, no requirement for contact details - the result is shown immediately, and the full calculation can be expanded.
- 1Your company
- 2Roles & pay
- 3Your results
employees
per year
per year
Early departures are a subset of total departures.
per year
Result
Fill in the two steps, and your estimated Hiring Loss will appear here - free and instantly. The calculation can be expanded so you can see exactly what drives the figure.
- No email gate before the result
- Benchmark assumptions can be adjusted
- Early departures are not double-counted
The calculation is an estimate, not a set of accounts. The default factors are based on Gallup's published international estimates for replacement cost and are not US-specific company figures. The result does not say what RoleWise will save you - it shows how large the economic exposure around your hiring might be.
What is Hiring Loss?
Most companies know their recruitment budget. Few know their Hiring Loss.
Hiring Loss is RoleWise's term for the financial exposure that builds up around mis-hires, unwanted departures, refilling roles, onboarding and lost productivity. The recruitment budget tells you what the process costs. Hiring Loss is about what it costs when the outcome doesn't hold up.
Recruitment cost
What does it cost to hire?
- Advertising and channels
- Agency and search fees
- HR and manager hours in the process
- Systems and tests
Usually sits in the budget.
Hiring Loss
What does it cost when a hire doesn't become the success we expected?
- Mis-hires
- Early leavers
- Refilling the same role
- Onboarding and ramp-up all over again
- Lost productivity along the way
Rarely sits anywhere.
The problem isn't just finding candidates. It's making better decisions about them.
A resume, an application and a handful of interviews only give a snapshot. And once the candidate becomes an employee, the connection between what the company saw before hiring and what actually happened afterwards tends to disappear. RoleWise can't eliminate all turnover or your entire Hiring Loss - but the part caused by under-informed decisions can be reduced over time.
The problem
We make some of the most important decisions in the business on surprisingly little information.
resume. Application. One or two interviews. Gut feel.
But the bigger problem comes afterwards. Once the candidate becomes an employee, most companies lose the connection between what they saw before hiring and what actually happened after.
Who succeeded?
Who didn't?
What signals could we have learned from?
RoleWise closes that loop.
resume
What they've done
Application
What they write
1-2 interviews
A snapshot in time
Gut feel
Hard to repeat
After hiring
data and learnings are usually not fed back
What the organization learns about the employee rarely makes it back to the next hiring decision.
Try it yourself
See what RoleWise learns from a single conversation.
Try the adaptive conversation exactly as a candidate would. Louise follows the answers, asks relevant follow-up questions and turns the conversation into structured candidate insight that can be used in the hiring decision.
Try RoleWise as a candidateApprox. 12 minutes · No sales call · Experience the candidate journey yourself
From answers to structured signals
Tell me about a situation where you had to prioritize without clear direction.
We were short-staffed at the weekend, so I changed the rota and took the first shift myself.
How did you make sure the team was on board with the change?
Role fit
92
Company fit
Strong
Motivation
Strong
Working style
Structured
Illustrative product view
The platform
Search. Select. Hire. Learn.
Select creates structured signals before hiring. Learn connects those signals with the employee's actual outcomes afterwards. Together, Select and Learn form RoleWise's hiring intelligence loop - Search and Hire broaden the platform.
The intelligence layer
Learn understands what happened afterwards.
Onboarding, feedback, reviews, development and role changes are linked back to the original candidate profile - giving context to the next decision.
Search
Find relevant people via LinkedIn - and, later, more platforms.
Add-onHire
Onboarding conversation, information, documents and the journey from candidate to employee.
Add-onSelect · The heart of RoleWise
A resume tells you what a candidate has done. RoleWise understands the person behind it.
The conversation adapts as it goes. Louise asks the follow-up questions an experienced colleague would ask - and turns the answers into structured insight you can decide from.
Conversation · Customer Success Manager
Adaptive follow-up
Tell me about a customer you nearly lost - and what you did.
An enterprise customer was about to leave. I dropped the weekly reports and built a dashboard their leadership actually used.
Follow-up question generated
How did you decide the reports were the problem - and what would you do differently if you had to do it again?
I asked them what they actually opened. Next time I'd do it in week one instead of week twelve.
Louise is assessing reflection and ownership…
Structured insight
Generated from the conversation
92
Role fit
Role Fit92%
MotivationStrong
ExperienceHigh
Company FitStrong
PotentialHigh
Observation
Strong ownership and concrete reflection. Thrives in roles with direct customer contact and the freedom to change the process.
Insights are decision support - not a prediction of future performance.
Learn · The intelligence layer
Hiring isn't the end. It's the start of the learning.
Once the candidate becomes an employee, the profile continues in RoleWise. Onboarding, feedback, reviews, development, role changes and retention are linked to what the conversation already showed. The aim isn't to prove cause and effect, but to give you ever richer context for the next decisions.
Emma
Team Lead, Customer Success · 24 months
- CandidateRole fit 92
Conversation with Louise
- HiredWeek 1-4
Onboarding completed
- 6 monthsFeedback recorded
First review conversation
- Top performerQ3 · Q4
Above target two quarters running
- Promoted18 months
Team Lead, Customer Success
- 24 monthsActive
Still with the company
RoleWise learned
The signals Emma showed before she was hired can now be seen alongside her actual development as an employee.
- Concrete reflection on their own mistakes
- Motivated by customer ownership
- Thrives with the freedom to change the process
Outcome after 24 months: promoted and retained
The next Emma becomes easier to recognize.
Not as a guarantee - but as a significantly better basis for deciding next time you need to choose.
Intelligence loop
Every employee makes the next decision better.
Candidate signals, employee outcomes and company context all come together in one place. It doesn't give guarantees - it gives more relevant signals and company-specific learning for the next decision.
Search
Select
Hire
Learn
Select again
Candidate signals
What the conversation showed before hiring.
Employee outcomes
What actually happened afterwards.
Company context
Teams, roles and conditions at your company.
Better hiring intelligence
More context for every new decision - at your company, not in general.
The more you use RoleWise, the more context the system has when you need to choose next time.
Evidence
Where pre-hire assessments meet reality.
RoleWise compares the signals from before hiring with what's actually observed afterwards. That's how a company's own experience becomes context for the next decision.
Outcome data
Outcome data is being collected on an ongoing basis.
We only publish outcome data once the figure can be shown together with its definition, period and underlying dataset.
Who RoleWise is built for
Built for companies that hire again and again.
The more hiring decisions you make, the greater the value of learning from them.
Typical situations
- Retail & chains
- Hospitality & restaurants
- Service
- Manufacturing & logistics
- Private care and social care organizations
- Professional organizations with ongoing recruitment
Common traits
- Recurring recruitment throughout the year
- Multiple hiring managers who assess differently
- Recurring job families with the same requirements
- Retention has a significant financial impact
- Enough hires to build company-specific learning
The added bonus
And yes - it's also significantly more efficient.
Intelligence is the product. Efficiency is the added bonus: less manual work, faster responses to candidates and a better experience along the way.
Candidates get answers fast
The conversation starts when the candidate has time - not when the calendar has space. Nobody waits days for a first reply.
Less manual work
The initial review of applications and resumes happens automatically. You read insights, not piles of paperwork.
Automated booking
Qualified candidates are booked straight into your calendar for interview - no coordination needed.
Structured candidate data
Every candidate is assessed on the same basis, so you can compare them properly.
White-label and multilingual
Your domain, your logo, your tone - in English, the Nordic languages, Arabic and many more.
Consistent and documented
The same structure behind every assessment, so the decision can be explained - and personal data is handled in line with US privacy laws such as the CCPA/CPRA.
A typical candidate conversation takes around 12 minutes. That's efficient - but it's the depth of the conversation that makes the difference.
Candidates see your brand
A white-label career site on your domain, in your colors and in multiple languages.
Runs alongside your ATS
RoleWise is the intelligence layer around the decision - not a new system of record.
Integrations agreed individually
We confirm what can be connected at your organization before signing. We don't promise integrations we can't document.
Knowledge & Research
Get to grips with Hiring Intelligence.
Research, guides and perspectives on better hiring decisions - from candidate signals before hiring to employee outcomes afterwards.
★ A-player
Cornerstone
What is Hiring Intelligence?
The definition, the model and how it differs from an ATS and AI screening: how candidate signals before hiring connect with the employee's actual development afterwards.
Knowledge Center →
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Measurement
Quality of Hire - and how to measure it
What the quality of a hire actually covers, which outcomes can be tracked, and how to avoid measuring the wrong thing.
Knowledge Center →
Before
12 days
→
Now
12 min
Comparison
ATS vs Hiring Intelligence
The ATS runs the process and is the system of record. Hiring Intelligence is the layer around the decision. What belongs where - and when do both make sense?
Knowledge Center →
Pricing
RoleWise starts from $495/month.
Four tiers based on your hiring volume - from 3 to 50 active roles. The full intelligence loop is included on every plan.
Start by finding out how big the problem really is.
Calculate your Hiring Loss for free - or experience for yourself how RoleWise talks with a candidate.