How a Virtual Assistant Handles Recruitment Coordination for UK Businesses
It is 4:15 p.m. on a Wednesday and you are looking at a spreadsheet called Ops Manager - shortlist (2).xlsx.
Six names. Four of them you actually want to meet. The panel is you, your operations lead, and a non-executive who is in Zurich until Tuesday. Two of the candidates work full-time and can only do early mornings or after six. One has asked twice whether the role is hybrid or fully office-based, and you have not replied because you were going to reply properly, with detail, when you had a clear twenty minutes. That was Monday.
You have already sent one Doodle poll, which three people filled in and one ignored. The strongest candidate — the one whose CV made you sit up — went quiet four days ago, and you have a low, specific dread about what that silence means.
Nobody in this picture is incompetent. There is no missing skill, no gap in judgement, no absence of intent. What is missing is a person whose actual job is to hold the whole thing together while everyone else does the work they were hired to do.
That is recruitment coordination. It is not recruiting. It is not interviewing, and it is certainly not deciding. It is the connective tissue between all of those things — and in most UK small and mid-sized businesses, it is nobody’s job, which means it is done badly by whoever has the least room to do it.
The gap between firms that have solved this and firms that have not has become genuinely uncomfortable to look at.
The Days That Vanish Between the Decisions
Start with the headline number. NatWest Mentor’s 2026 analysis of UK hiring puts the average time from application to signed offer at 4.9 weeks across all sectors and role types, and their figure comes with a companion statistic that should worry anyone hiring in a competitive market: roughly 62% of candidates lose interest when a process drags. For senior, specialist or high-volume roles the timeline stretches well beyond five weeks. London searches for senior commercial or technical leadership routinely run six to eleven weeks from kickoff to accepted offer.
Now ask where those weeks actually go, because the answer is not what most people assume.
Greenhouse’s March 2026 benchmark put the real interview time at roughly 12.3 hours per hire. Twelve hours. Across a five-week process, that is less than two working days of actual evaluation. Everything else is the space between: waiting for a panel slot, waiting for feedback, waiting for the debrief, waiting for someone to approve a salary band that was already agreed in principle three weeks ago.
Analysis from candidate.fyi on coordination delay describes the pattern with painful precision — a candidate finishes a final interview on Thursday, one panellist submits feedback that afternoon, the rest trickle in over the following week, the debrief slips because two diaries will not align, and the offer goes out the following Wednesday. Thirteen days in which nobody evaluated anybody. Their data also puts a number on the reschedule problem: when an interviewer declines, resolving it manually takes an average of 68 hours, and at a structural 14% reschedule rate, a multi-stage interview loop generates roughly three of those events per role.
Twelve hours of interviewing spread across five weeks. The other four and a half weeks are not assessment — they are administration wearing assessment’s clothes.
The admin load itself has been measured, and the figures are consistent across sources. A Totaljobs survey of 748 HR leaders, reported by People Management, found UK recruiters spend an average of 17.7 hours per vacancy on administrative work — more than two full working days for every single role. Research summarised by SSR in 2026 attributes around 35% of all recruiter time to interview scheduling alone. Cadient’s recruiter time audit puts the per-candidate coordination cost at 15 to 30 minutes, which for a recruiter handling 20 to 30 candidates a week means five to fifteen hours of pure scheduling every week. Separate industry research found that 67% of respondents need between half an hour and two hours to schedule a single interview.
For a UK SME without a dedicated talent function, all of that lands on a founder, an office manager, or an HR generalist who also owns payroll, absence, policy, and the thing that broke on Friday.
Why 2026 Made the Coordination Problem Worse, Not Better
The obvious response is that this is exactly what software is for. Buy a scheduling tool. Buy an ATS. Buy an AI screener. Job done.
Except the data from the past two years points the other way, which is the genuinely surprising part.
The average recruiter now handles 56% more open requisitions and processes 2.7 times more applications than three years ago. AI use in HR tasks climbed to roughly 43% in 2025, up from 26% the year before — close to a doubling in twelve months. And yet, as SHRM’s reporting on the state of the recruitment system documents, both cost-per-hire and time-to-hire have increased over that same three-year window. The exact period in which generative AI took over hiring is the period in which hiring got slower and more expensive.
The reason is not mysterious. AI made it trivially easy to apply. Candidates now generate tailored CVs and credible cover letters in seconds, so the application volume exploded while the signal quality collapsed. Deloitte’s 2026 analysis warns explicitly that AI-written CVs and deepfaked interviews are degrading the reliability of assessment methods employers have leaned on for decades. Recruiterflow’s analysis suggests roughly 40% of technical candidates now have meaningfully inflated CVs.
So the tools sped up the top of the funnel and flooded the middle. Screening got harder, not easier. Verification became necessary where it used to be optional. And the coordination burden — the scheduling, the chasing, the closing of loops — did not go anywhere, because coordination is not a volume problem. It is a responsibility problem. Software will send a calendar invitation. It will not notice that your best candidate has gone quiet and work out why.
The consequence shows up in the candidate data. Criteria Corp research reported by Fortune in March 2026 found 53% of job seekers were ghosted by an employer in the past year — a three-year high, up from 48% in 2025 and 38% in 2024. iHire’s 2025 survey of 1,024 job seekers found ghosting is the single biggest frustration with hiring, cited by 59.7%. And 34% of candidates assume they have been ghosted after just one week of silence.
Spend ten minutes on Blind or the recruiting subreddits and the tone is unmistakable. One recurring complaint runs almost exactly like this: a recruiter reaches out, a call is scheduled, the recruiter does not show and does not reply. Another is the candidate who completed a final-stage interview, was promised feedback within a week, and heard nothing for a fortnight. The phrasing varies; the grievance is identical, and it is almost never about the rejection. It is about the silence.
That silence is rarely malice. It is almost always a coordination failure — a hiring manager who has not sent feedback, a recruiter juggling nine other roles, an approval sitting in someone’s inbox. But the candidate cannot tell the difference between “we are disorganised” and “we do not respect you,” and prices it the same way.
What Recruitment Coordination Actually Covers
It helps to be specific about the work, because “recruitment coordination” sounds vague until you list it out. Here is the realistic scope of what a trained virtual assistant handles for a UK business hiring two to twenty people a year.
Before the role goes live. Drafting and formatting the job advert from your brief, checking it against the salary band and the internal job description, running it past your equality wording checklist, posting to the boards you use, and setting up the ATS pipeline or — if you do not have one — a clean, structured tracker that everyone can actually read.
Application handling. Acknowledging every application within 24 hours. Applying your agreed sift criteria to produce a longlist, with the crucial caveat that a VA applies your criteria and flags the borderline cases upward rather than making the call. De-duplicating. Spotting the applicant who has applied for three of your roles in six months. Noting the CV that reads like it was generated wholesale.
Scheduling. This is the biggest single time sink, and it is the one a good coordinator changes most dramatically. Holding standing interview slots in the panel’s diaries so availability exists before it is needed. Offering candidates two or three real options rather than an open-ended “when are you free?”. Sending calendar invitations with joining links, panel names, format, duration, and what to prepare. Handling the reschedule that inevitably arrives. Sending reminders the day before.
Panel support. Preparing interview packs — CV, application, the scorecard, the agreed questions — and getting them to interviewers the day before rather than four minutes before. Chasing scorecards afterwards, within hours rather than days, because feedback quality decays fast and the debrief cannot happen without it. Booking the debrief in advance, not after the fact.
Candidate communication. Every candidate hears something at every stage. Progress, rejection, or “we are still deciding and expect to have news by Thursday.” That last message is the one almost nobody sends and it is the one that keeps strong candidates warm.
Verification and pre-boarding. Chasing references. Coordinating right-to-work checks and DBS where relevant. Collecting offer-pack documentation. Setting up first-day logistics so the new starter’s laptop, accounts and induction diary exist before they walk in.
Record-keeping. Maintaining the audit trail: who applied, who was sifted against what criteria, who interviewed, what was scored, what was decided, and when candidate data is due for deletion under your retention policy.
Read that list again and notice how little of it requires hiring expertise, and how much of it requires someone whose day it is.
The UK Compliance Layer You Cannot Hand to a Tool
British employers carry an administrative burden in recruitment that many offshore-hiring guides simply skip, and 2026 has been an unusually busy year for it.
The ICO’s employment guidance on recruitment and selection sets out what UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 require when you handle candidate information. The practical points matter operationally, not just legally. Consent is generally the wrong lawful basis in a hiring context because of the power imbalance; before an offer is accepted, legitimate interests is usually the more appropriate ground. Special category data — health, ethnicity, criminal convictions — needs an Article 9 condition on top of your Article 6 basis. Vetting into credit history, political beliefs, or convictions should happen only where there is a legal obligation or an identifiable and specific risk. And retention periods for unsuccessful candidates need to be decided in advance, communicated, and actually enforced.
That last one is where most UK SMEs quietly fail. Retention policies exist on paper and die in practice, because deleting candidate records is a task with no deadline and no complainant — right up until the moment there is one. Somebody has to actually work the schedule.
Then there is the Employment Rights Act 2025, and this is the change that reframes the whole conversation.
The qualifying period for unfair dismissal protection drops from two years to six months with effect from 1 January 2027. Because it applies retrospectively, employees hired from around 1 July 2026 are already inside the window. The original day-one proposal was dropped before Royal Assent, along with the statutory probation provisions, but the practical effect is the same in kind: the margin for getting a hire wrong has narrowed considerably. ICAEW’s guidance for smaller firms quotes employment lawyer Florence Brocklesby of Bellevue Law making exactly this point — robust recruitment processes are now needed to get the right people in from the start, because the fallback of parting ways easily during a long qualifying period is disappearing.
Alongside that, from 6 April 2026 employers must keep records demonstrating compliance with holiday entitlement and pay, retained for six years, with failure a criminal offence carrying a potentially unlimited fine. The Fair Work Agency’s enforcement framework came into operation on 7 April 2026. The broader direction is unambiguous: more record-keeping, more documentation, more evidence that a process was followed.
The six-month qualifying period does not make hiring harder. It makes hiring sloppily far more expensive — and sloppiness in hiring is almost always a coordination failure, not a judgement failure.
A hiring process that is documented, consistent, evidenced and auditable is no longer a nice-to-have for UK employers. It is a defensive asset. And documentation is precisely the kind of disciplined, repetitive, high-consequence work that a trained coordinator does well and a busy founder does not do at all.
The Human in the Loop: Why Recruitment Is the Worst Place to Fully Automate
If there is one function where the “just let the AI handle it” instinct is actively dangerous in 2026, it is hiring. The regulators have made this explicit, and the deadline arrived two days ago.
Under the EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689), AI systems used in employment decisions sit in the high-risk category under Annex III. That covers CV screening, candidate ranking, interview analysis, skills assessment scoring and hire recommendations. The main high-risk obligations applied from 2 August 2026 — mandatory risk assessment, technical documentation, bias testing, transparency to candidates, logging, and meaningful human oversight. Article 26 places distinct duties on deployers, meaning the employer using the tool, not only the vendor who built it. Maximum penalties reach €35 million or 7% of global annual turnover, above the GDPR ceiling. UK businesses with EU operations or EU-based candidates are inside this regime.
The UK layer runs in parallel. The ICO opened a consultation on draft automated decision-making guidance, closing 29 May 2026, and has signalled it will update its recruitment and selection guidance during 2026 to reflect changes brought by the Data (Use and Access) Act. Its report on ADM in recruitment highlights good practice — hiring managers seeing only relevant candidate information to reduce unintended bias, and reasonable adjustments such as telephone interviews for disabled candidates unable to access automated methods — and sets the expectation that a DPIA is likely to be required when ADM is used in recruitment.
And the Equality Act 2010 sits underneath all of it, independent of both regimes. UK legal commentary on AI recruitment tools makes the consequence blunt: telling an Employment Tribunal that the algorithm produced the shortlist is not a defence. Liability for indirect discrimination stays with the employer, whatever the vendor’s marketing said.
Now put that next to what has actually happened in practice. Recruiters bought AI to save time and, according to 2026 market research, many now spend three to four hours a day managing its output — checking, correcting, verifying, and cleaning up. That figure comes from vendor research rather than an independent survey, so treat it as a signal rather than gospel. But the direction matches everything else: the tools created a second job.
This is the case for the human in the loop, and it is not a sentimental one. It is operational and legal at the same time.
A trained coordinator is what makes an AI-assisted hiring process defensible. The tool parses, sorts, drafts and schedules. The human decides what the sift criteria are, reviews the borderline cases the model wants to discard, notices that the “weak” CV belongs to someone who took two years out as a carer, spots the candidate whose application reads as machine-generated, records why each decision was made, and writes the rejection that sounds like it came from a person. The oversight the AI Act requires is not a checkbox — it is a named human who reviewed the output and can explain the reasoning.
There is also the part regulation does not cover. Candidate experience research published in Springer’s Future Business Journal in 2025, drawing on 344 professionals in the IT and ITES sector, found that time-to-fill, time-to-hire, application completion rate and offer acceptance rate all significantly influence candidate experience — and that candidate experience mediates the relationship between recruitment efficiency and employer brand reputation. Put plainly: how your process feels to the people going through it becomes how your business is described to everyone they know.
Automation makes a hiring process faster. Only a person makes it feel like there is somebody on the other end.
The evidence on assessment quality points the same way. Sackett and colleagues’ 2023 re-analysis of selection method validity ranks structured interviews at the top of the predictor list, well ahead of unstructured conversations. But a structured interview only stays structured if someone actually prepares the scorecards, distributes the agreed questions, ensures every candidate gets the same run, and collects the ratings afterwards. Structure is a coordination output. Left unattended, every interview process reverts to a chat.
The South African Advantage
This is the point where the question becomes practical: who does this work, and where do you find them without adding £35,000 plus National Insurance and pension to your payroll for a role that is only genuinely full-time during hiring waves?
South Africa has become the answer for a growing number of UK businesses, and the reasons are specific rather than general.
The Timezone Is the Whole Argument for Coordination Work
South Africa runs at GMT+2 — one hour ahead of the UK during British Summer Time, two hours ahead in winter. There is no daylight-saving drift on the South African side, so the gap is predictable all year.
For most offshore functions, timezone is a convenience. For recruitment coordination it is the entire proposition, because coordination is inherently live work. A candidate emails at 9:40 a.m. asking to move Thursday’s interview. A panellist cancels at 11 a.m. The offer needs verbal confirmation before the candidate’s other deadline at 4 p.m. None of that survives a twelve-hour handoff.
A South African coordinator is at their desk before the UK working day starts and works alongside it in full. Nine in London is eleven in Cape Town. The comparison that matters is the Philippines at GMT+8 — seven to eight hours ahead, which means near-zero live overlap with UK afternoons and turns every reschedule into a next-day event. In a process where a stalled reschedule already costs 68 hours on average, adding a working day per exchange is not a small penalty.
VAConnect’s own client research on this is unusually direct. A 2024 internal satisfaction audit of 312 Birmingham businesses found 87% cited timezone practicality as important or critical to their decision to source South African rather than Asian talent.
English That Sounds Like Your Business
South African professional English sits close to British English by history and by education. Spelling, punctuation conventions, date formats and business register carry over without correction. For candidate-facing communication this matters more than it sounds — a rejection email with American spelling, or a phrase that lands slightly wrong, is a small signal that your business is not quite what it claims to be.
VAConnect states that all its VAs have native-level English fluency, and that for UK client-facing roles it specifically matches candidates with British English proficiency and an understanding of UK business communication norms. One verified UK client review on the company’s site describes the placement in three words that are hard to improve on: British English, correct timezone, professional.
There is a cultural register point too. British business communication runs on understatement. “That could be a challenge” often means no. Candidate correspondence has to be warm without being effusive, direct without being blunt, and firm without sounding cold. South African professional culture reads that register natively in a way that requires coaching elsewhere.
Trained on the Tools, and on the Judgement
Recruitment coordination is not generic admin. It sits across an ATS, a calendar system, a document store, an e-signature tool and usually a spreadsheet nobody will let go of.
VAConnect’s model addresses this before placement rather than after. Its VAJobs platform sources and pre-screens candidates with skills testing, background checks and cultural-fit assessment built into the pipeline, so unfiltered applicants never reach the client. VAVarsity, its internal training portal, gives every VA role-specific development on the tools and workflows they will actually meet — the company lists Xero, HubSpot, Monday.com and Microsoft 365 among the standard stack for UK clients. Training happens before anyone touches a client system.
The selectivity is worth noting because the company publishes it, which is rare. Of 11,240 applications processed between January and September 2024, VAConnect extended offers to 418 candidates. That is under 4%.
Cost Against Quality, Honestly Stated
Here is the arithmetic a UK business is actually weighing.
CIPD data puts the average UK cost per hire at around £6,125, rising to roughly £19,000 for a management role. Recruitment agency fees run 15–30% of first-year salary for permanent placements, reaching 35% for niche or executive roles — £8,000 to £10,000 on a typical £40,000 mid-level appointment. An in-house recruitment coordinator or HR administrator in the UK is a £28,000–£38,000 salary before National Insurance, pension and desk costs, and is under-occupied between hiring waves.
Published VAConnect analysis puts experienced UK administrators at £18–£25 per hour and executive-assistant-level support at £35–£45, against £8–£12 per hour for the South African equivalent. The company itself frames the roughly 60% differential as arbitrage rather than a quality trade-off — a reflection of currency and cost of living, not of capability.
The quality half of that equation is where the “cheap is expensive” instinct usually kicks in, and rightly. But the South African case rests on positive selection rather than low wages: a large, well-educated, English-first professional pool with limited domestic absorption capacity, which means strong candidates are available for remote work in a way they simply are not in a tight UK market.
Roughly 4% of applicants make it through. The saving is not the story — the selection ratio is.
Managed, Not Matched: Why the Model Matters Here Specifically
Recruitment coordination is a poor fit for the freelance marketplace model, and it is worth being clear about why.
The work is confidential by nature. A coordinator sees salary bands, internal restructures before they are announced, candidate personal data including special category information, and reference conversations. Under UK GDPR that requires a documented processing arrangement, not a platform contract and good intentions.
It is also continuous. A freelancer juggling nine clients cannot reliably hold your interview slots, cannot chase a panellist at 3 p.m. on a Friday, and disappears at exactly the moment you have four candidates in flight and a competing offer on the table.
And the institutional knowledge compounds. By the third hire, a coordinator who knows your panel’s real availability patterns, your sift criteria, your ATS quirks and the tone your MD wants in a rejection letter is producing work nobody can replicate from a brief.
VAConnect’s model is built around that continuity. The company has operated since 2008 — originally as Lime Tree Consulting — and rebuilt itself around the managed VA model in 2014, with 100,000+ hours delivered and a team of over 25 under founder Karen van Zyl. VAs are employees of the agency rather than contractors on a platform, supported by the Atomic Energy wellbeing programme and VAPIness, a two-way happiness programme that tracks satisfaction in both directions between client and VA. Retention sits at 98%, and the replacement guarantee is unusually plainly worded: if a placement is not performing to the agreed standard, they rematch and manage the full transition at no additional cost. The company’s UK page notes that most matches are filled within about two weeks.
That last detail is quietly relevant. If your hiring problem is urgent, a coordinator who arrives in three weeks and reaches full productivity in another two is a fundamentally different proposition from a recruitment process that takes 4.9 weeks and might fail.
The First 90 Days
Week one — mapping. Your VA documents the current process exactly as it runs, not as the policy describes it. Where do adverts get posted. Who sifts. Who interviews. Where do candidate records live. What is the retention policy, and is it enforced. Most UK SMEs discover in this week that they have three different rejection templates and no consistent scorecard.
Weeks two and three — the scaffolding. Standing interview slots go into panel diaries. Templates get written and approved: acknowledgement, invitation, holding message, rejection at each stage, offer pack. The tracker or ATS pipeline gets rebuilt so status is visible at a glance. Interview scorecards get drafted against the actual role requirements.
Weeks four to six — live running with supervision. The VA runs a real vacancy end to end while you review candidate-facing output before it sends. This is the calibration period, and it is where you find out that your “two-stage process” has quietly become a four-stage process.
Weeks seven to twelve — autonomy and measurement. The VA runs coordination independently, escalating decisions rather than admin. You start seeing numbers you have never had: time from application to acknowledgement, time from interview to feedback, reschedule rate, stage-by-stage drop-off, offer acceptance. Those are the levers, and you could not pull them before because nobody was measuring them.
Expect meaningful output in week one and full ramp at two to four weeks. The compounding benefits — the warm pipeline, the reputation among candidates, the hires you did not lose — show up over two or three hiring cycles.
The Competitive Gap Nobody Is Putting on a Dashboard
Here is what is genuinely startling about all of this.
The businesses that have fixed recruitment coordination are not hiring better people because they pay more or because their employer brand is stronger. They are hiring better people because they get to the good candidates first, keep them informed, and close before anyone else has organised a second interview. Their advantage is entirely procedural, which means it is entirely available to anyone willing to resource it.
And almost nobody resources it. Recruitment coordination has no owner in most UK SMEs. It has no budget line. It has no metric. It appears in no board pack. The cost of doing it badly shows up somewhere else entirely — as a role that stayed open for eleven weeks, as a second-choice hire who left in eight months, as a candidate who told four peers that your process was shambolic.
Meanwhile the compliance stakes have risen on three fronts in a single year: high-risk AI obligations from 2 August 2026, a six-month unfair dismissal qualifying period from 1 January 2027 that reaches back to hires made from July 2026, and new record-keeping duties enforced by a new agency. The margin for improvisation has closed.
Twelve hours of interviewing. Five weeks of elapsed time. Seventeen-plus hours of admin per vacancy. Half of all candidates ghosted. This is not a talent shortage. It is a coordination deficit, and it is one of the few remaining business problems with a straightforward, affordable, immediately available solution.
The firms that worked this out are not smarter than you. They just gave the job to someone.
DIY Coordination vs Generic Freelancer or AI Tool vs VAConnect Managed VA
| DIY / In-House Improvised | Generic Freelancer or AI Tool | VAConnect Managed VA | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who owns coordination | Nobody formally; falls to founder, office manager or HR generalist | Owned only for booked hours; gaps between engagements | Named individual, contracted hours, single point of accountability |
| Interview scheduling | 15–30 min per candidate, 5–15 hrs/week at volume | Tool books slots but cannot resolve conflicts or judge urgency | Standing panel slots held in advance; reschedules resolved same day |
| Live UK-hours cover | Yes, but competing with fee-earning work | Freelancer: variable. Philippines-based: near-zero afternoon overlap | GMT+2 — full working-day overlap, no DST drift |
| Response to candidate queries | Delayed by days when the week is busy | Automated acknowledgement only | Same-day, in British English, in your tone of voice |
| Feedback and scorecard chasing | Rarely happens; debrief slips by 5–10 days | Not in scope | Chased within hours; debrief pre-booked before interviews run |
| Candidate silence / ghosting risk | High — 53% of candidates ghosted market-wide | High; automation sends status, not reassurance | Every candidate hears something at every stage |
| Sift criteria application | Inconsistent between rounds and reviewers | AI applies opaque criteria; borderline cases silently dropped | Your criteria applied consistently; borderline cases escalated to you |
| AI oversight (EU AI Act Art. 26) | Not documented | No named reviewer; deployer duties unmet | Named human reviewer with recorded reasoning per decision |
| UK GDPR / ICO compliance | Retention policy exists on paper, unenforced in practice | Platform contract, no documented processing arrangement | Documented processing, NDA framework, retention schedule actively worked |
| ERA 2025 audit trail | Fragmented across inboxes and spreadsheets | Partial; ends when the engagement ends | Consistent, evidenced, retained record of process and decisions |
| Right-to-work, references, pre-boarding | Chased late, often after the start date is agreed | Usually out of scope | Coordinated as standard from offer onwards |
| Institutional knowledge | Held in one person’s head; lost when they leave | Resets with every new freelancer | Compounds from hire to hire; retained by design |
| Cover for absence | None — the process stops | None | Managed cover by the agency |
| Continuity / replacement | Recruit again at £6,125+ average cost per hire | Repost, re-brief, restart from zero | Free replacement with fully managed transition |
| Screening rigour behind the placement | Whoever applied | Platform rating and self-reported skills | Skills-tested, background-checked, cultural-fit assessed pre-shortlist |
| Indicative UK cost | £28k–£38k salary + NI, pension, desk — under-occupied between waves | £150–£400 per ad-hoc task; agency fees 15–30% of first-year salary | ~£8–£12/hr equivalent against £18–£25 for UK admin support |
| Ramp to full productivity | 6–8 weeks to recruit, then 4–6 weeks to train | Immediate but shallow; no business context | Meaningful output week one; full ramp at 2–4 weeks |
| Retention | UK admin turnover; rehire cycle repeats | Freelancer churn between clients | 98% client retention |
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