How reverse recruiting works

Intake happens once

You hand over a resume and say what you want: titles, industries, locations, a salary floor, and the things you will not compromise on. It takes about five minutes and you do it once. Everything after this is done for you, which is the entire proposition.

A good intake asks awkward questions — the gap on your resume, the title that undersells you, the job you would rather not be judged by. A service that asks only for your resume and a job title is going to produce a search that could have been a saved search.

Sourcing, then a decision

Someone searches company career pages, job boards and ATS platforms against what you asked for, reads the postings, and cuts to the handful worth applying to.

The cut is the actual product. Anyone can return two hundred listings. Deciding that a few of them deserve your name, and being able to say why, is the work. Here that number is 5 a week — and the roles that were read and passed on are shown to you too, with the reason each one did not make it.

You are told before it goes out, not after

Each role is emailed to you before it is filed, with the reason it was picked and an honest note about what the posting asks for that you do not have. You have 24 hours to stop it with one click.

Silence means it ships. That sounds aggressive until you have tried the alternative: a service that waits for your approval stalls every time you have a busy week, which is every week when you are working full time and job hunting at night. Opt-out is what makes the thing run while you are at your day job.

The stop window should be enforced rather than promised. In this product the submission code refuses to file an application while its window is still open — a server-side rule, not a habit somebody is trusted to keep.

Tailoring, submission, receipts

Your resume is rewritten for that exact posting — keywords, ordering, emphasis — and the application is filled out and filed with that version attached.

Then it is logged: which portal, the confirmation number, who filed it, and which version of your resume went. Receipts matter more than a dashboard. A status board tells you a number. A confirmation number tells you the application exists.