Scope and sample
We agree the date range, roles, and record types, then review a sample to expose the real patterns.
Pipeline cleanup
Pipeline cleanup for stalled stages, duplicates, and unclear ownership
Audit the queue, resolve the avoidable mess, and leave your team with a documented standard that prevents the same decay.
Where the work gets stuck
A clear handoff changes the working day.
Pipelines accumulate ambiguity. Candidates are duplicated across sources. Old requisitions stay open. Notes contradict stages. Someone leaves and their personal list becomes the only record of a promising conversation.
If the team simply deletes old records, it can lose candidate consent, application history, or a legally relevant record. If it keeps everything, the queue stays unusable. Cleanup needs rules, not a bulk delete.
Your working scope
What moves off your team's desk.
We audit the current pipeline, group the problems, and work through them with your owner. The output is a smaller, clearer queue and a standard the team can maintain after the cleanup ends.
Inventory active, stalled, duplicate, and orphaned records.
Define what should be closed, merged, retained, or escalated for review.
Reconcile stages with the latest verified candidate interaction.
Assign owners and next actions to records that remain active.
Document retention and consent questions for your compliance owner.
Leave a repeatable hygiene checklist and review cadence.
Useful when
- Teams inheriting a pipeline after turnover or a process change
- Recruiters facing duplicate candidates and stale stages
- Leaders who need a trustworthy baseline before reporting
From brief to daily rhythm
How this service works.
Rules before edits
Your owner approves merge, closure, and retention rules before any record changes.
Work the inventory
We process the queue in batches with an audit trail and a running exception list.
Hand back the standard
The team gets a hygiene checklist and recurring review so the pipeline does not drift back.
The handoff
Know what goes in. See what comes back.
A cleanup is not cosmetic. It is a reset of the operating record so the team can see what is real. That means deciding what counts as an active candidate, what evidence supports a stage, and who owns the next action.
Your team provides
- Read access to the pipeline and its history.
- Your retention, consent, and records rules.
- A decision owner for merges, closures, and sensitive records.
- A definition of the roles or date range in scope.
Your team receives
- A cleanup inventory with categories and counts.
- Approved merges, closures, and retained records.
- A current active queue with owners.
- A written hygiene standard and checklist.
- A list of unresolved policy questions for your team.
Reviewable work
Keep the standard visible.
- No bulk deletion without approved rules.
- Every merge or closure has a traceable reason.
- Uncertain records are escalated, not guessed.
- The final queue has an owner and next action for each active candidate.
Accountable decisions
Your people keep the judgment.
- We do not make retention or legal determinations.
- We do not delete records without written approval.
- We do not promise that cleanup will fix a broken hiring process by itself.
- Your team owns candidate communication after the cleanup.
Where to begin
A practical starting point.
A new recruiting leader inherits a pipeline with years of stale stages.
A team is moving to a new ATS and needs a defensible migration scope.
A weekly meeting keeps discussing the same stalled candidates with no owner.
From StopHighTurnover clients
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How long does a cleanup take?
It depends on record volume, access, and how many decisions need your owner. We scope a sample first and give you a bounded plan rather than an open-ended project.
Will you delete candidates?
Only with your written rules and approval. We separate closure from deletion and document every category.
Can you clean up a spreadsheet?
Yes, if it is an approved working record. We still reconcile it with your system of record and flag the risks of duplicate tracking.
What happens after cleanup?
We can maintain the hygiene cadence or hand your team the checklist and review routine. The choice is yours.
Connected support
Keep the next handoff moving.
Pipeline administration
Keep stages, notes, reminders, disposition data, and hiring-manager handoffs current in the system your team uses.
Reporting and weekly readouts
Define the questions, clean the inputs, and produce a recurring view of queue age, follow-up, feedback delays, and source quality.
Onboarding coordination
Organize the handoffs, reminders, paperwork steps, and first-week logistics that turn a signed offer into a prepared start.
Scope the work
Bring the role, the queue, or the handoff that keeps failing.
We will define the standard before we add volume.