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Software Developer for recruitment agencies: shorter shortlists, cleaner candidate data, and consultants spending time on conversations instead of admin.

15+
Years Experience
100+
Projects Delivered
6
Countries Served
$25M+
Revenue Enabled
Recruitment Agencies — Development & Engineering

A senior software developer for recruitment agencies

A recruitment agency's real asset is the state of every live role: which candidates are where, what the client actually said, and what was promised to whom. That state usually lives across consultant inboxes, spreadsheets, and a shared drive, which means a candidate can be submitted twice, a client's feedback can sit unread, and a placement fee dispute turns on an email nobody can find. The agency does not lack effort; it lacks one record per placement.

This build is one agency's internal system: roles, candidates, submissions, interviews, placements, and fee records for that agency alone, not a job board and not a product sold to other agencies. It gives every consultant the same view of a role, records client feedback against the submission it belongs to, and keeps placement and fee terms attached to the placement they govern. Candidate sourcing tools and job boards feed it; they do not replace it.

The natural first slice is the live-role view, because that is where double submissions and lost feedback happen. Book a free discovery call and the fit is tested on a handful of real live roles, with the consultants who will actually use the system in the room.

Inside the agency

What an agency's own system has to keep straight

  • One record per role, shared by the desk — Each role holds its brief, client contacts, salary band, and terms in one place, so a consultant covering for a colleague starts from the same facts.
  • Candidate journeys that cannot be lost — Every candidate's stage, submissions, interviews, and feedback sit on one timeline per role, so nobody needs to ask in which inbox the latest update lives.
  • Submission control that prevents doubles — A candidate already submitted to a client is flagged before a second submission goes out, which protects the agency's credibility with both sides.
  • Interview scheduling without the email chain — Interview requests, confirmations, and outcomes are recorded against the submission, so reschedules and no-shows have a history instead of a thread.
  • Placement and fee terms attached to the deal — Fee percentages, payment stages, rebate periods, and start dates live on the placement record, so fee queries are answered from the deal itself.
  • Contractor and timesheet handling where needed — For contract placements, timesheets, approvals, and billing periods are tracked against the placement, keeping contractor billing out of ad-hoc spreadsheets.
How it fits agency work

Built for consultants, clients, and candidates at once

Consultants will only use a system that is faster than their inbox, so candidate and role screens are built around the next action: who needs chasing, which feedback is overdue, and which submission is waiting on the client. Search is treated as a first-class feature, because a candidate database that cannot be searched by skill, location, and availability in seconds will simply not be searched. Data protection is handled as structure, not policy alone: candidate consent, document expiry, and access by desk are built into the record.

The pilot runs on live roles with one desk, while other desks keep their current method, and the comparison is honest: if consultants do not prefer the new view within the pilot, the design is wrong, not the consultants. The agency owns the code, the data, and the hosting, and candidate and placement records export in readable form.

The order of work

From scattered inboxes to one placement record

  1. Map a placement from brief to fee

    One recent placement is traced from client brief through submissions, interviews, offer, and fee payment, noting every place information was retyped or lost.

  2. Define role, candidate, and placement records

    What belongs on each record, how submissions link candidates to roles, and how fee terms attach to placements are agreed before screens are built.

  3. Put the live-role view in front of one desk

    The shared role and candidate view goes live for a pilot desk on real roles, and double submissions and lost feedback are the measures that matter.

  4. Add fees and timesheets, then hand over

    Placement, fee, and contractor records follow once the desk trusts the view, and handover leaves documented code, data, and a guide to the record rules.

Why Omer

Why hire Omer

  • A desk that survives absence: A consultant's roles, candidates, and promises are visible to colleagues, so holidays and departures do not strand live roles.
  • Feedback attached to its submission: Client feedback lives on the submission it answers, which ends the search through inboxes for what a client actually said.
  • Double submissions designed out: The system flags a candidate already in play with a client before a second submission can embarrass the agency.
  • Fees that trace to placements: Terms, stages, and rebates sit on the placement, so a fee dispute is settled from the deal record.
  • Agency-owned candidate data: Code, data, and hosting belong to the agency, and the candidate database exports without the builder's involvement.
FAQ

Questions, answered

Will this replace our job board postings?
No. Job boards and sourcing tools remain where candidates are found; this system is where their journey is managed afterwards. Postings feed roles, and applications land on the right role record instead of in a general inbox.
How is candidate consent handled?
Consent and its date are fields on the candidate record, with document expiry tracked alongside, so the agency can show when consent was given and when it lapses. The system supports the agency's obligations; it does not give legal advice about them.
Can consultants keep their own shortlists?
Yes. Personal shortlists and desk-level views sit on top of the shared record, so individual working styles survive without creating private copies of the truth that diverge.
What about GDPR or data protection requests?
Because candidate data lives in one structured record with a clear history, finding, correcting, or removing a candidate's data is a defined operation rather than a hunt through inboxes and drives. Specific legal handling remains the agency's responsibility.
Our consultants live in email. Will they use this?
Only if it is faster than email for the next action, which is why the pilot is judged on live roles and real chasing, not on training attendance. If the pilot desk does not prefer it, the design changes before any wider rollout.
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