For most hiring managers, Turnaround Time (TAT) in hiring is the single most watched metric in every recruitment mandate — "how many days from job opening to offer?" or "how long from profile submission to candidate joining?" And in almost every review, the instinct is to look at speed as the whole story. But reducing time to hire isn't really about pushing any one step to go faster. It's about which parts of the hiring journey a recruitment partner takes full ownership of, a