Hiring People

What Hiring People does

Hiring People is a UK-based online recruitment services company providing flat-fee job advertising and managed recruitment services to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and enterprise clients across the United Kingdom. Founded circa 2013 and headquartered in Sevenoaks, Kent, the company positions itself as an alternative to commission-based recruitment agencies, monetising recruitment as a discrete transactional service rather than through percentage-of-salary placement fees. Its customer base spans retail, hospitality, automotive, charity, and logistics sectors, with named logos including Find Me A Gift, Marriott International, Volvo Cars, and the Royal Society for Blind Children.

The company's core product surface consists of two complementary offerings. Job Advertising distributes a single posting across 100+ UK job boards (Indeed, Totaljobs, Reed, CV-Library, LinkedIn, Google Jobs, Glassdoor, Guardian Jobs, and others) on flat-fee tiers ranging from £99 (Starter) to £999 (Targeted), with 28-day campaigns. Flat Fee Recruitment is a fully managed service (£999–£1,749 per hire) combining advertising with CV filtering, video interviewing, and interview scheduling, backed by a money-back guarantee. Underpinning these is a proprietary Applicant Tracking System (ATS) provided at no incremental cost, a video interview screening workflow, and an AI-powered screening layer applied specifically to driver recruitment. Sub-brands include DriverJobs for the logistics vertical and an AI Job Description Generator at hiringpeople.io; an in-house library of 1,000+ job description templates across 39+ categories functions as a content marketing and SEO asset.

Hiring People operates on a predominantly self-serve e-commerce GTM, with customers selecting packages and completing checkout on its website, supplemented by inside phone sales for enterprise or contract pricing (the driver service offers multi-year contract and tiered per-candidate pricing). Revenue is overwhelmingly transactional/one-time; the AI Job Description tool is the only subscription-adjacent stream. Distribution is reinforced by a content marketing engine (blog, recruitment guides, job description library), social channels (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter), and direct referral relationships with major UK job boards. Scale signals include a claimed 11 million job seeker reach, an 89% hire ratio, an 87% client retention rate, and access to 12 million CVs and 20 million LinkedIn profiles through its Resourcer tier.

Name

Hiring People

Legal name

Hiring People

Website

https://hiringpeople.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Hiring People is a UK-based online recruitment company providing flat-fee job advertising across 100+ job boards and managed flat-fee recruitment services for SMEs and enterprises, with specialized driver recruitment and an AI job description tool.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recruitment Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

General Permanent Placement (Multi-Industry) (BPACAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Recruiting Administration Outsourcing (Recruitment Support, Scheduling, Onboarding Ops) (BPACAKAG)

Keywords

• Flat fee recruitment
• Job board advertising
• Applicant tracking software
• Driver recruitment services
• Online recruitment platform

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Job Advertising Services: Flat-fee job advertising packages that allow customers to post job listings across 100+ job boards for a single fixed price. Packages range from £99 (Starter) to £999 (Targeted), with 28-day campaign duration.
2. Flat Fee Recruitment (Fully Managed): End-to-end recruitment service including job advertising, candidate filtering, video interviewing, and interview scheduling for a fixed fee. Packages range from £999 to £1,749 depending on tier and include a money-back guarantee if no hire is made.
3. Driver Recruitment Services: Specialized recruitment services for drivers including job advertising (£249), pre-screening (£5 per additional candidate), and full recruitment with interview booking (£10 per additional interview). Contract discounts available for committed clients.
4. AI Job Description Tool: AI-powered job description generation tool available at hiringpeople.io, generating job descriptions to help attract candidates.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Hiring People is a UK-based online recruitment company that sells flat-fee job advertising packages distributing vacancies across 100+ UK job boards for a single fixed price, and offers fully managed flat-fee recruitment services covering advert writing, CV filtering, video interviewing, and interview scheduling. It also operates specialized driver recruitment services with AI-powered pre-screening and onboarding via a Wise partnership, plus a free proprietary ATS bundled with every package.

Product overview

Hiring People is a UK-based online flat fee recruitment company operating as a platform offering two core services: Job Advertising (with six package tiers from Starter at £99 to Targeted at £999) and Flat Fee Recruitment (fully managed service from £999). The platform also includes specialized Driver Recruitment Services, an AI-powered Job Description App (hiringpeople.io), and a comprehensive Job Description Library. All services include free access to their Applicant Tracking System for managing candidates.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AI Job Description App: AI-powered job description generation tool available at hiringpeople.io
• DriverJobs

Products and services

• Job Advertising Packages Tiered self-serve job board advertising service for UK employers, with packages ranging from £99 Starter to £999 Targeted. Each advert runs for 28 days and is distributed across multiple UK job boards (Reed, Indeed, Totaljobs, Jobsite, Glassdoor, Google Jobs, LinkedIn, CV-Library, Guardian Jobs and more) depending on tier, with optional CV targeting, branded advert copy, and 2-year CV database access.

Quantifiable outcome

• 89% hire ratio
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and secondary.

• Wise (withwise.com)coreTechnology or IntegrationStrategic partnership with Wise, the UK's market leader in driver onboarding compliance and payments technology. Through this partnership, Hiring People can provide self-employed drivers for businesses recruiting drivers, with payroll onboarding included at no extra cost. The partnership helps streamline driver setup, document collection, compliance checks and payment admin for self-employed drivers.
• IndeedcoreTechnology or IntegrationJob board partner for job advertising distribution. Indeed is one of the primary job boards included in all advertising packages, providing sponsored job visibility to job seekers.
• TotaljobscoreTechnology or IntegrationOne of the highest-performing job boards in terms of candidate volume. Included in Premium, Corporate, Branded, and Targeted packages.
• ReedcoreTechnology or IntegrationMajor UK job board included in Corporate, Branded, National, and Targeted advertising packages.
• CV-LibrarycoreTechnology or IntegrationLeading UK job board included in Corporate, Branded, and Targeted packages.
• LinkedIncoreTechnology or IntegrationProfessional networking site included in Corporate, Branded, and Targeted packages. Particularly effective for mid to senior level roles.
• Guardian JobssecondaryTechnology or IntegrationIncluded in Corporate and Targeted packages. Shows exceptional performance in sourcing candidates for Education, Media, Charity, Public Sector, and academia roles.
• GlassdoorsecondaryTechnology or IntegrationJob board partner providing employer branding visibility and candidate reviews integration.
• Google JobscoreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle's job search integration included across all packages for enhanced discoverability of job postings.
• JobsitesecondaryTechnology or IntegrationUK job board included in Premium and above packages.
• MonstersecondaryTechnology or IntegrationGlobal job board included in Branded and Targeted recruitment packages.
• CW JobssecondaryTechnology or IntegrationTechnology sector job board partner.
• Charity JobsecondaryTechnology or IntegrationSpecialist job board for charity and non-profit sector roles.
• DriverjobscoreTechnology or IntegrationSpecialist driver recruitment job board used for driver-specific advertising campaigns.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Broadbean: Broadbean is a UK-founded job posting distribution technology that posts single adverts to multiple job boards, directly comparable to Hiring People's aggregator model and a key alternative for employers seeking multi-board reach.
• Logic Melon: Logic Melon is a UK-based multi-channel job posting and applicant tracking platform with broad job board distribution, directly competing with Hiring People's core job advertising and ATS bundle.
• Idibu (Voyager Software): Idibu is a multi-job-board posting API and distribution service used by recruiters and employers, closely overlapping Hiring People's aggregator value proposition.

Broad incumbents

• Reed: Reed is one of the UK's largest recruitment companies and job boards, with both permanent placement services and job posting — competing with Hiring People on the same UK SME customer base while also being one of its distribution partners.
• CV-Library: CV-Library is a major UK job board and CV database that sells direct job postings to employers, a partial substitute and also a distribution partner of Hiring People.
• Totaljobs: Totaljobs is one of the highest-volume UK job boards, offering direct employer posting packages that compete with Hiring People's aggregated offering.
• Indeed: Indeed is the world's largest job search engine with free and sponsored posting, serving as the dominant alternative channel for SME employers and a key distribution partner for Hiring People.
• LinkedIn Talent Solutions: LinkedIn's recruitment products offer job posting, candidate search, and employer branding directly to employers — a high-end alternative for the same SME and enterprise buyer Hiring People targets.
• ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter is a US-headquartered AI-driven job marketplace and recruitment platform, offering a comparable SMB-focused multi-channel posting and matching experience to Hiring People, though primarily in the US market.

Emerging players

• Workable: Workable provides an ATS with built-in job board distribution and AI screening for SMBs, intersecting directly with Hiring People's ATS-plus-posting bundle on the same SME segment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/hiringpeople01
• Facebookfacebook.com/HiringPeopleUK
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hiring-people

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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