A verified recruitment marketplace with no job posts and no applications
A hiring platform that inverts the job board: employers browse admin-verified candidate profiles, spend credits to unlock contact details, and hire directly. No vacancies posted, no applications to sift.
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What we built.
Restart Talent is a UK recruitment platform built on a deliberate inversion of how job boards work. Its own line for it is verified recruitment without the noise.
On a conventional board, an employer posts a vacancy and then works through whoever applies. Restart Talent removes both steps. Employers browse candidates who have already been verified by an admin, unlock the contact details of the ones they want, and get in touch directly.
Key challenges
A marketplace that removes job posts and applications has to solve the problems those two mechanisms were doing quietly in the background.
- 1Trust without an application - if nobody applies, nothing signals that a candidate is real and interested. Verification has to carry that weight instead, which makes admin approval part of the product rather than moderation around it.
- 2A commercial model without job slots - no postings means no posting fees, so value has to be metered somewhere else in the flow.
- 3Discovery in both directions - employers need to find the right profiles without a vacancy to match against, and candidates need to be findable without applying.
Our solutions
The platform is built around verification, credits, and direct contact.
- Admin-verified candidate profiles - every candidate is approved before appearing, so verification is the platform's guarantee in place of an application.
- Profile browsing for employers - employers search and review candidates directly rather than waiting on a response to a posting.
- Credit-based contact unlocking - employers spend credits to reveal contact details, which prices the moment of genuine intent instead of charging to advertise.
- Direct hiring - once contact is unlocked, the employer and candidate deal with each other with no recruiter in between.
- Free trial on approval - new accounts receive a credit on approval so employers can test the model before committing.
Value delivered
- Verification replaces the application as the trust signal
- Employers pay at the point of intent, not to advertise
- No recruiter margin between employer and candidate
- Candidates are discoverable without applying anywhere
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