What we are learning about specialized recruiting firms, plus product updates and hiring guides
Over the last few weeks, I've been researching specialized recruiting firms across AI, Data, Engineering, Cybersecurity, and other technical hiring markets. What stood out wasn't firm size. It was specialization.
A look at the core features shipping at launch, for job seekers, employers, and recruiters.
What founding members get, by audience: Premium free for a year for job seekers, a free first year and then half price for life for employers, and founding terms locked for life for recruiters.
SSBfy opens early access to JobMedium, its modern hiring platform, ahead of general availability.
Founding terms by audience: Premium free for a year for job seekers, the top plan free for a year and then half price for life for employers, and founding terms locked for life across 200 founding recruiter places.
Early sign-ups get first access at launch and a permanent place in the founding cohort.
Where your clients, job orders, candidates and placements sit on JobMedium, and how the same firm can share client searches and also work orders from the network.
A step-by-step walkthrough of the employer journey at launch, from posting a role to signing an offer.
How to size, sequence, and budget your hiring before you post a single role.
The usual suspects behind low applicant volume, and the fixes that actually move the number.
A repeatable method for agreeing compensation internally, before a candidate forces the conversation.
Employers and independent recruiters will collaborate on job orders and placements in one connected marketplace, opening first to founding members.
Before we open the network, we've been studying specialized recruiting firms and talking with the founders who run them. Here's what we're seeing, and what it's changing.
Employers pay 20–25% of a salary with little to compare, while the specialist firms who could fill the role often never hear about it. Nobody is at fault, and the gap between the two is what we're building for.
Founding recruiters help shape how the first network runs, from specialism coverage to attribution, and get founding terms locked for life, starting with a free first placement.
The fee is agreed before anyone starts work. JobMedium invoices the employer, collects the fee and pays every share once the payment is secured, so the only thing you chase is the next placement.
A marketplace that starts everywhere starts nowhere. We’re starting with tech roles, the domain we know best.
Most recruiting firms don't have a sourcing problem. They have a demand problem some months and a capacity problem in others. That's what JobMedium is being built for.
Hiring only works when job seekers, employers and recruiters all show up. We're building for all three, and building recruiter density first, inside technology specialisms.
Location-based, national, or global: choosing a remote compensation approach and applying it consistently.