Thoughts, stories and ideas about AI driven recruiting
Three senior engineers, sixty days, eight people and no recruiter. Here is what each of the four options costs before and after the hire, in dollars and in your hours, and the one I would pick.
TL;DR Sourcing-only services cost less than full recruiting support, but early startups must screen, interview, and track candidates themselves. Agencies provide hands-on sourcing and vetting for specialized or urgent hires, but fees can make repeated hiring expensive. RPO providers run much of the…
TL;DR A standalone ATS plus separate recruiter relationships creates duplicate candidate records, scattered communication, and repeated fee negotiations during a hiring surge. Chosen HQ combines a free ATS with a vetted recruiter marketplace. You set the recruiting fee and pay only when a hired…
TL;DR Chosen HQ and Paraform offer pay-per-hire or contingency recruiting. Chosen HQ lets you set the fee, and Paraform uses a salary percentage or preset bounty. Dover uses hourly recruiting with recruiter-set fees, typically $75 to $125 per hour, and charges no placement fee. Pay-per-hire is a…
TL;DR Startups that use external recruiters often track applicants in an ATS while managing recruiter submissions through separate email threads and spreadsheets. Greenhouse, Workable, and JazzHR do not include built-in recruiter marketplaces, so you must find and manage outside recruiters…
When you recruit for Open AI or Anthropic or other well known companies, the job is mostly evaluation. The applications come in. Thousands of them. The brand did the selling before you ever opened the inbox. When you recruit for a 5-person startup nobody has heard of, none of that is true. You don't…
Most applicant tracking systems are spreadsheets that learned to send email. The good ones add a calendar. The expensive ones add a logo and a sales rep. We're building Chosen HQ because we think recruiters deserve more than that. What it is Chosen HQ is a recruiting marketplace with the ATS built…