Post roles free and your own verified employees refer candidates into them, from a pool of 50,000+ professionals. Free ATS. In-house or agency.
This is the part no other job board can do. When you publish a role, it does not only reach strangers browsing a listings page. It also reaches the verified employees of your own company who are already on RefOpen, and any one of them can refer a candidate straight into that role.
RefOpen verifies employees against a company email address, so the colleague putting a name forward is provably an employee of your company, not an agency or a stranger. When they refer someone, they are staking their own name and their standing at work on that person. Nobody does that casually, which is exactly why a referred candidate arrives at a different quality bar to a cold application.
That referral engine runs on a talent pool of 50,000+ professionals across the globe. Your employees are not limited to people they already know: they can vouch for strong candidates from that pool and route them into your open role. So the moment your posting goes live you have people on the inside working the role with you, instead of an advert sitting in a queue.
The result is fewer, better candidates. Instead of screening hundreds of cold applications, you review a shortlist that arrives pre-vetted, each candidate with their profile, skills and resume attached, and each one already judged worth recommending by someone who has to work alongside them.
Publishing a role costs nothing. There is no charge to post, no fee per applicant, and no cap that gets sold back to you as an upgrade later.
That is a deliberate position, not a trial that expires. You can put a role live, receive applications, and run a full hiring pipeline without ever reaching a paywall.
If you are hiring at volume or want something set up for a larger team, partnerships@refopen.com is the address for it.
RefOpen asks one question when you sign up, because there are two ways people hire and they need different things.
If you are hiring for the company you work at, you are in-house. That covers a founder making their first hire, an HR generalist at a fifty-person company, a talent acquisition specialist at a mid-size firm, and a recruiting team at an enterprise running dozens of open roles. You post under your verified organisation, which is also what lets your own employees appear as verified referrers on your roles.
If you place candidates into roles at client companies, you are an agency. Recruitment agencies, staffing firms, HR consultancies and independent recruiters all post here, under their own agency name, and posting is free for them too. Most job boards charge an agency more than a direct employer or block them outright. RefOpen does not, because a filled role is a filled role.
Size is not a gate either way. There is no minimum spend, no seat licence and no annual contract, so a two-person startup and a company with ten thousand employees use the same free product.
A resume tells you what someone claims. A referral tells you that a person who already has a job to protect looked at this candidate and decided they were worth vouching for. That judgement is a screen you did not have to run.
It is also why nearly every large employer already runs an internal referral scheme and budgets for it: referred hires are cheaper to source than agency candidates, faster to screen, and tend to stay longer. The catch has always been reach. An internal scheme only works when an employee happens to know the right person, which caps it at their own address book.
RefOpen removes that cap. Your employees can refer from a pool of 50,000+ professionals worldwide, so your internal referral channel keeps producing candidates long after everyone's personal network is used up. That is the difference between a referral scheme and a referral platform.
Most recruiters already have a subscription somewhere, so the fair question is not whether RefOpen replaces it but what it adds that the subscription cannot.
A classifieds job board sells reach. You pay per posting or per slot, your advert goes into a listings page, and whoever finds it applies. You get volume, and volume is the problem you were trying to solve.
A resume database sells search. You pay for seats and credits so a recruiter can go looking, then cold-message people who were not asking to be contacted. Response rates reflect that, and the cost scales with every extra seat.
A professional network sells targeting. You pay a substantial annual licence to filter and message an audience. It works, and it is priced accordingly, which is why small teams and agencies often cannot justify it.
RefOpen sells the one channel none of them can sell you, because it does not belong to a vendor. It belongs to your own employees. Your team already knows who is good and already has a reason to be careful about who they put forward. RefOpen verifies them by company email, shows them your open roles, and lets them refer from a pool of 50,000+ professionals rather than only from people they personally know.
So the honest positioning is this: keep whatever you are paying for if it is working, and add the free channel that produces your best hires. Nothing here is priced per seat, per posting or per applicant, so running RefOpen alongside an existing tool costs you nothing but the time to publish the role.
You do not need to buy recruitment software on top. Every applicant to a role lands in that role's pipeline, so tracking is built in rather than sold separately.
On a desktop it is a column per stage; on a phone it is a filtered list, because a Kanban board squeezed onto a small screen is just a worse list. You move candidates between stages one at a time or in bulk, rate them, and leave notes that stay attached to the person. Every move is recorded with who made it and when, so when a panel is sharing a shortlist, the history settles what was already decided.
The dashboard leads with the work that is waiting rather than totals: candidates nobody has opened yet, applicants going stale, roles about to close, and postings that have been live a week with nothing in them.
For a small team or an agency that has been running hiring out of a spreadsheet and an inbox, this alone is the reason to sign up, and it costs nothing.
RefOpen's 50,000+ professionals span major markets worldwide, including India, USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Spain and more across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
Verified employees sit in every one of those markets, which is what makes the referral channel work for a role anywhere rather than only in one country. Each market also has its own hiring page showing what is genuinely in demand there right now, the roles and the cities, drawn from live activity on the board.
Create an account and pick whether you are hiring for your own company or placing candidates at client companies. Name the organisation, in-house or agency. Then publish the role with its title, description, requirements, salary range, location and job type.
Verifying the organisation matters more than it looks. It is what marks a posting as genuine, and for an in-house employer it is what lets your own employees be matched to your roles as verified referrers.
There is no demo to sit through and no card to enter. Once the role is live, applications and referrals arrive in its pipeline, and you work from there. For bulk posting or an enterprise arrangement, partnerships@refopen.com is the address for it.
Yes. Publishing a role costs nothing, there is no per-applicant charge, and there is no posting limit sold back as an upgrade. You can run a full hiring pipeline without hitting a paywall.
A job board shows your advert to strangers. RefOpen also shows your role to the verified employees of your own company, and any of them can refer a candidate straight into it from a pool of 50,000+ professionals. You get an internal referral channel on every posting, which no job board offers.
That is the core of it. Employees verified against your company email address see the roles you post and can refer candidates into them, staking their own name and standing at work on the recommendation. Verifying your organisation when you sign up is what switches this on.
Yes. When you sign up you choose "We hire for other companies", name your agency, and post under it. Recruitment agencies, staffing firms, HR consultancies and independent recruiters are all welcome, and posting is free for them on the same terms as a direct employer.
It is designed to sit alongside one rather than replace it, and since posting is free there is no reason to choose. A paid board sells you reach, a resume database sells you search, and a professional network sells you targeting. RefOpen adds the channel none of them can: your own verified employees referring candidates into your roles. Run it in parallel and it costs you nothing.
Yes, free. Every applicant lands in the pipeline for that role, with stages you move people through individually or in bulk, plus ratings, notes and an audit trail of who moved whom and when. If you are running hiring out of a spreadsheet today, this replaces it at no cost.
No. There is no annual contract, no seat licence, no minimum spend and no sales call to sit through. You create an account, verify your organisation and publish. Email partnerships@refopen.com only if you want bulk posting or an enterprise arrangement.
Yes, and it is a particularly good fit. Posting is free, so a startup making its first hires can get in front of candidates without an agency retainer or a job board subscription, and referrals reach people who would never see a standard advert.
All four. You set the job type on the posting. Note that you post under an organisation, either the company you work for or your agency, so name that when you sign up.
By the person referring them. RefOpen verifies employees against a company email address, and a verified employee vouches for a candidate before that candidate reaches your pipeline. The vetting is done by someone with their own reputation on the line.
Every applicant to a role lands in that role's pipeline. You move candidates through stages individually or in bulk, rate them, and leave notes that stay with the candidate. Every move records who made it and when, so a hiring panel shares one audited shortlist.
Because it is free and it produces a different kind of candidate. A paid board gives you more applications; RefOpen gives you applications plus referrals from verified employees who have staked their own name on the person. Referred hires are cheaper to source, faster to screen and tend to stay longer, which is why almost every large employer already budgets for an internal referral scheme.
RefOpen supports hiring across major markets worldwide, including India, USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Singapore and more across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Posting works the same way in each.
Yes. Email partnerships@refopen.com for bulk posting and enterprise arrangements.
RefOpen has a talent pool of 50,000+ professionals across markets worldwide, and any of them can be referred into your open roles by a verified employee at their own company.