How we vet
How we vet every engineer before you see a CV
Commit Offshore vets every engineer in three steps before you see a CV: CVCO, our internal tool, ranks 16,000+ candidate profiles against your role, a senior recruiter reads each top match and runs a screening call, and each remaining candidate takes a recorded technical exam built for the role. The first vetted CV usually arrives within 48 hours of a confirmed brief, with the exam score, the exam recording, the recruiter's notes and an AI-ready level attached.
The process, step by step
Every role goes through the same seven steps.
- Confirmed brief. You send the role, stack, seniority, budget and location. Lee confirms scope, seniority and budget the same business day.
- CVCO ranking. CVCO is our internal tool. It ranks 16,000+ candidate profiles against your role by stack fit, seniority, relevance and recency. It is not sold or licensed.
- Senior recruiter screen. A senior recruiter reads each top match and runs a short screening call.
- Recorded technical exam. Each remaining candidate takes an exam built for the role, recorded and scored against a rubric. Only candidates above the agreed bar go forward.
- AI-ready level. Every profile is labeled with one of five levels, from AI-assisted developer to ML or MLOps engineer. See what each level means.
- What you receive. The CV, the exam score, the exam recording, the recruiter's notes and the AI-ready level.
- You interview and decide. On Staff Augmentation you meet 2 to 3 finalists per role. On Tech Recruitment & Placement you receive a shortlist of 5 to 8.
What role-specific exams look like: examples from real engagements
The exam is built for the role, so it differs from one engagement to the next. These are four examples, each with its full case study.
- Bridgewise. A recorded exam built on real Bridgewise data, plus a live discussion of a recent LLM-evaluation paper.
- ILYON. Unity backend integrations, real-time event streaming and ad-SDK work.
- TytoCare. Traceability, audit-trail awareness and clean code under regulatory scrutiny.
- ezbob. Credit-decisioning logic on a synthetic dataset, plus a regulatory documentation task.
Timelines and what they mean
These are typical targets, not guarantees.
| Milestone | Usual timing |
|---|---|
| First vetted CV | Usually within 48 hours of a confirmed brief. A candidate profile, not a start date. Applies to every service that includes candidate sourcing; on EOR-only you bring the candidate. |
| Shortlist of 5 to 8 | Usually in 72 hours. Tech Recruitment & Placement. |
| Start | Typically about 2 weeks after you choose. Staff Augmentation, subject to the engineer's notice period. |
| Bench start | Some specialists within 48 hours of sign-off. Case by case, subject to access and NDA. See available now. |
| EOR offer terms | Within 24 hours. Drafted after you have chosen a candidate. |
If a hire doesn't work out
- Staff Augmentation and On-Demand IT Talent: we replace the engineer at no cost within the first 60 days.
- Tech Recruitment & Placement: if a hire leaves within 90 days, we source a replacement at no charge.
What we don't do
- We don't send CVs of candidates who have not passed the recorded technical exam.
- We don't sell or license CVCO. It is an internal tool for our recruiters.
- We don't promise that every engineer can start in 48 hours. A bench start is confirmed case by case.
FAQ
Questions about how we vet.
In three steps. CVCO ranks candidate profiles against your role, a senior recruiter reads each top match and runs a screening call, and each remaining candidate takes a recorded technical exam built for the role. Only candidates above the agreed bar go forward.
Usually within 48 hours of a confirmed brief. This is a typical target, not a guarantee, and it is a candidate profile, not a start date. Engineers typically start about two weeks after you choose them, and some bench specialists can start within 48 hours of sign-off, case by case.
The CV, the exam score, the exam recording, the recruiter's notes and an AI-ready level. The exam is scored against a rubric you can review, so you can see how the candidate solved the task, not only the final mark, and decide who to interview before spending time on calls. The first vetted CV usually arrives within 48 hours of a confirmed brief.
No. CVCO is the internal tool Commit Offshore built for its own recruiters, and we do not sell or license it. It ranks 16,000+ candidate profiles against your role so a senior recruiter can start from the strongest matches. Every candidate we then send you has also passed a recorded technical exam, so the tool speeds up the search but never replaces the human screen.
On Staff Augmentation and On-Demand IT Talent, we replace the engineer at no cost within the first 60 days and keep the original timeline. On Tech Recruitment & Placement, if a hire leaves within 90 days, we source a replacement at no charge. Every replacement goes through the same senior recruiter screen and recorded exam.
Want to see the process on a real role?
Send Lee the role and the stack. He replies the same business day, and the first vetted CV usually follows within 48 hours of a confirmed brief.