In staffing, the recruiter who reaches a qualified candidate first wins the placement. This is not a principle - it is the operational reality every agency director knows. A nurse who submits an application on Monday morning is typically committed to the first agency that calls and qualifies them within the hour. By Tuesday, they have already accepted a contract.
The problem is that first-touch is the most time-consuming work in the workflow. A coordinator making 60 calls in a morning connects with 10 and qualifies 2. The rest of the day - the placement conversations, the relationship building, the contract closures - gets compressed into whatever time is left. The math does not improve no matter how experienced the coordinator is.