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https://recruiterflow.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/time-to-fill-benchmarks-featured.png24001260This post covers time-to-fill benchmarks by search type: what good looks like for retained, contingent and executive search, why the same metric behaves so differently across the three, how to calculate it without flattering yourself, and where the days actually disappear.