Built for
specialized recruiting firms.
Build trusted recruiting partnerships around real hiring opportunities, while your client relationships and candidate representation remain protected.
- Roles opened by employers: each search has one lead recruiting partner, with one optional partner seat
- Your difficult client searches gain specialist reach: bring in a specialist partner while the client relationship stays with you
- You represent your candidates: every introduction attributed to you, for 12 months
Free to join · 200 founding places · No subscriptions or listing fees
Why specialized firms join
Most specialized recruiting firms encounter both sides of the same problem: difficult client searches that need complementary expertise, and room to work another search when the right opportunity appears.
Roles opened by employers
Work technology roles opened specifically for specialist recruiting help, each with one lead recruiting partner and one optional partner seat.
Help for difficult client searches
Bring a specialist partner into your own authorized client search when added expertise or reach could help. You can also invite a client to place roles with you directly.
Protected relationships
The client relationship stays under your control, and each candidate introduction is attributed to the recruiter who made it.
Payment administered by JobMedium
JobMedium invoices the paying party and distributes each share under published terms.
Better placements begin with trusted recruiting relationships.
We never ask you to expose your pipeline or hand over a client, and nothing is assigned to you without your say. These protections are built into how every search runs today.
Nothing is exposed by default
Your profile starts private, and you never upload a candidate database to join.
Introductions are intentional and attributed
You introduce a candidate for one specific search, after confirming that the candidate wants to be considered. Every introduction is timestamped to you for 12 months.
Contact details stay protected
On recruiter introductions, a candidate’s email and phone stay hidden from the employer, and from any partner on the search, until the candidate is hired.
Your client stays on your side
Post a client role to the network and the posting carries the role, never the client record behind it. The relationship stays with you.
Two ways a search begins
An employer opens a role for specialist help, or a recruiting firm brings its own authorized client search for complementary expertise. Either way, the search runs by the same rules.
- An employer or firm opens a search
- One lead recruiting partner takes it on
- One optional partner seat may open
- Candidates are introduced and considered
- On a hire, JobMedium invoices and pays each share
One lead recruiting partner
Taking on a search makes you its lead recruiting partner, and nobody else submits unless you open a partner seat. The search is held for you for a set number of working hours to put candidates forward, and stays yours while one of them is in play. In the product, the button for taking on an available search is labeled Claim.
One optional partner seat
On a hard search, the lead may open one partner seat, so no search ever has more than two recruiters on it. You set the share before anyone joins, the partner sees exactly what it pays before taking the seat, and both of you are paid your share whoever’s candidate is hired. On a search an employer placed with you directly, they approve the seat first.
Representation and attribution
Every candidate you introduce is timestamped to you. If that client hires your candidate within 12 months, for any role and through any channel, the fee is owed to you. It is not a global lock: another recruiter can still put the candidate forward elsewhere.
Payment and fall-offs
Every search on the network is opened by an employer or firm with a verified payment method on file, and you see the success fee and your cut before you take it on. We invoice the paying party, collect the full fee, and release each share on a published schedule once payment clears. If a placement does not hold, both sides work from the terms they accepted up front.
A successful placement can become the next search.
An employer you have placed for can bring their next role straight to you, even while your profile stays private.
How this differs from the usual way
Six desks, built out one at a time
We are building depth one specialism at a time, rather than signing every firm that applies.
- Specialized recruiting firms
- Boutique agencies and search partners
- Firm owners who still work searches
- Independent recruiters with a desk in one specialism
Software engineering
Backend, frontend, full-stack, mobile, staff-plus and engineering leadership.
25 founding places
Cloud
Platform and cloud architects, infrastructure engineers, and migration work.
20 founding places
DevOps and SRE
Platform, reliability and build engineering, where the titles never match the work.
15 founding places
Cybersecurity
Application, cloud and product security, detection engineering, security leadership.
15 founding places
Data and AI
Data engineering and platforms, ML engineering, and applied AI.
15 founding places
Enterprise technology
ERP, integration, enterprise architecture, and the IT leadership over them.
10 founding places
Working a market that isn’t listed? Say so when you apply. Places are allocated by specialism, so an empty desk is the easiest one to get in on.
Why join during the founding phase
We’re early and not pretending otherwise. The founding group is intentionally small, and founding terms are how we make it worth your time.
- the first 25
Founding Partners
The people the network is built around. The designation on your profile and a seat on the standing call where what ships next gets decided.
- to 100
Preferred founding recruiters
The depth behind the partners, built out specialism by specialism. Onboarded one-on-one, founding recognition across the network, and your input in the same room.
- to 200
Founding recruiters
The last of the founding terms, on the same economics as everyone above you. When the 200th place goes, founding closes for good.
Only 200 founding places
Founding terms stop at the first 200 recruiters. Anyone later joins on the standard terms of the day.
Half the standard cut, locked for life
Your rate never goes up, even if standard pricing changes. The numbers are directly below.
Your first placement free
We take nothing on your account’s first deal, so you reach a payout before you trust the economics.
Hands-on onboarding
Every founding account is set up one-on-one with the founder. While the group is small, the founder also gives you a direct heads-up on new orders in your specialism rather than leaving you to discover them. It does not reserve an order or give any founding tier priority access.
A hand in how it works
Joining early gives you more say in how your specialism, the working rules and partner collaboration develop: what a good candidate introduction looks like, how a gray area gets called, what we require from an employer.
You don’t wait for launch
Founding members start working first, while the public waits for launch.
Keep more of what you place
No vague “reduced cut,” just the real numbers.
The platform cut
Standard rate 15%. Founding members pay 7.5%, locked for life even if the standard rate changes, and nothing at all on their account’s first placement. No subscriptions or listing fees.
Paid for effort, not just closings
When your candidate reaches interview you earn a milestone payment, funded by the paying party’s engagement deposit and netted against your final payout.
Your cut keeps improving
Published volume tiers drop the standard cut to 10% after 10 placements and 8% after 25. Founding members pay the lower of 7.5% or any tier they earn.
See a complete placement example
A $20,000 placement fee (the fee you agree per role, say 20% of a $100k salary):
We publish our cut plainly, because you deserve the economics before you invest a minute.
Take 15 minutes with the founder
See how the model would work for a firm like yours, ask what is live today, and get a direct answer about whether the founding group is relevant to your desk.
Book my 15 minutes →No pitch deck. No commitment. Founding places stay open while we talk.
Specialized recruiting firms know how to recruit. What costs them placements is often everything around the search: a difficult client search where their network has run thin, room for another search with nothing new to work, or a fee earned months ago and still unpaid.
JobMedium handles that friction. Work roles opened directly by employers, bring a specialist partner into your own difficult client searches, keep every candidate introduction attributed to you, and get paid on published terms.
The goal is not another resume marketplace. It is recruiting partnerships that outlast a single placement, between firms and with the employers they serve.
If that is how your firm wants to work, I would value having you involved early.
Personally onboarding every founding recruiter.
A quick look inside
Preview screens from the product you’ll run your desk in.
Describe your desk, and publish your profile when you are ready to take on network searches.
Work roles opened by employers, or authorized client searches brought by other recruiting firms.
Bring a specialist into a difficult client search while the client record stays with your firm.
Your roles, applications, messages and quick actions, at a glance.
Preview screens, shared privately
Request a demo and we'll email you a private link to the preview screens. If you want to learn more, we'll walk you through it personally.
Request a demoThe questions firms and recruiters ask us first
The objections you should have, answered head-on.
Both, and firms are who we built it around. Each recruiter on your team gets their own seat under your firm’s account, and your firm’s clients and candidate introductions stay with the firm. On your setup call we’ll walk through exactly how founding terms apply to your team.
Small is the design, not the deficiency. You’re not joining a public board hoping it fills up; you’re queued for a hand-picked cohort where employers and recruiters show up together. Where we are today: the platform is built and tested end-to-end, and we’re lining up the first hand-picked cohorts now, so the first roles and the first recruiters arrive together.
No. You never upload a candidate database to join, and your profile stays private until you publish it. A candidate’s contact details stay hidden from the employer, and from any partner on the search, until the candidate is hired. Your client relationships remain under your control, and every candidate introduction is attributed to you under the published Terms. That record exists to protect you, not to build an asset we resell. We earn exactly one way, a cut when you place.
The opposite, by design. On open boards whoever floods resumes fastest wins. Here each search has one lead recruiting partner for a working window, and a second recruiter joins only if you, as the lead, open your one partner seat. The searches themselves are opportunities you didn’t have yesterday: employers who choose specialist recruiting help, either from the start or after working the role themselves.
Only if there are roles worth filling, so that’s our first focus, not signups. We’d rather show you real roles than oversell it. Realistically: a small cohort with hands-on setup, a focused first set of live roles rather than a wall of stale listings, and a platform still getting polish while you use it. You get a straight answer about what is live before we ask for a minute of your time.
None on the terms themselves, which are published above and locked for life. The trade, plainly, is that you’re betting on us before the network is proven.
More questions
Your candidate is timestamped to you the moment you introduce them. If the client hires them within 12 months through any channel, the fee is owed to you. The record decides it, not an argument.
No platform can promise every hire holds. What we promise is process: we work with both sides to refill the seat first, every engagement runs on published terms both parties accepted up front, and we mediate gray areas fairly.
The money is identical: all 200 places carry the same cut, the same lock for life and the same free first placement on your account. What differs is how early and how visible. The first 25 are Founding Partners, carry the designation on their profile, and sit on the standing call where product decisions get made. Nobody sees a role before you do, because orders are not queued by rank.
No. Your placements and clients are never listed on your profile. It shows only what you write about your desk, and it stays private until you publish it, which is what opens network searches to you.
Not yet. JobMedium is US only at launch, so founding places are open to US-based recruiters and agencies only.
Bring your firm, or your own desk, into the first 200 founding places.
A small founding group. Your account’s first placement free. Your founding rate locked for good.