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  <title>Two panels. Applications per role rose from 115 in 2022 to 244 in 2025. Over the same period the average recruiting team fell from 10.43 recruiters to 4.62.</title>

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  <text x="40" y="38" font-size="19" font-weight="600" fill="#221f1d">More applications, fewer people reading them</text>
  <text x="40" y="62" font-size="16" fill="#6b6560">Greenhouse Benchmark Report, March 2026. Each panel has its own scale.</text>

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  <text x="40" y="284" font-size="16" fill="#6b6560">Applications per role rose 111% while the average recruiting team shrank 55%.</text>
  <text x="40" y="308" font-size="16" fill="#8c8481">Greenhouse reports recruiters now handle 411% more applications a year than in 2022.</text>
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