Recruitment agencies, staffing firms and HR consultancies post client roles free on RefOpen. No agency surcharge, no seat licence, free ATS included.
Most job boards treat an agency as a different customer. You get a separate rate card, a higher per-posting price, a cap on how many client roles you can run, or a policy that blocks third-party postings altogether.
RefOpen does not do that. If you place candidates into roles at client companies, you sign up by choosing "We hire for other companies", name your agency, and post under it. Publishing is free, there is no per-applicant charge, and there is no agency surcharge or separate tier.
The reasoning is simple. A filled role is a filled role, and the candidate does not care which side of the desk the recruiter sits on.
Each role you post gets its own pipeline, so a mandate for one client stays separate from a mandate for another. You move candidates through 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. When a client asks why a candidate was dropped, or two of your consultants are working the same shortlist, the history answers it.
For an agency running hiring out of a spreadsheet, a shared inbox and a WhatsApp group, this is a free applicant tracking system that replaces all three. There is no seat licence, so putting your whole desk on it costs the same as putting one person on it: nothing.
RefOpen carries a pool of 50,000+ professionals across major markets. What makes it different from a database you buy access to is how candidates surface.
Alongside people who find your posting and apply, verified employees at real companies refer candidates into open roles. Those employees are verified against a company email address and stake their own name on the recommendation, so a referred candidate arrives already filtered by someone with a reputation on the line.
You are not paying for credits to cold-message strangers who never asked to hear from you. You are receiving people who were put forward on purpose.
RefOpen supports hiring across major markets worldwide, including India, USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Singapore, Australia, Spain and more across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.
Each market has its own hiring page showing the roles and cities with real demand right now, drawn from live activity on the board. If you are deciding which mandates to chase, that is a free read on where the volume actually is.
Create an account, choose "We hire for other companies", and name your agency. Publish your first client role with its title, description, requirements, salary range, location and job type.
There is no contract, no minimum spend, no demo to sit through and no card to enter. If you are placing at volume and want bulk posting, partnerships@refopen.com will set that up.
Yes. Agencies, staffing firms, HR consultancies and independent recruiters are explicitly supported. Choose "We hire for other companies" when you sign up, name your agency, and post client roles under it.
No. There is no agency rate card and no third-party surcharge. Posting is free for an agency on exactly the same terms as for a company hiring in-house.
There is no posting cap sold back to you as an upgrade. If you are placing at high volume and want bulk posting set up, email partnerships@refopen.com.
Yes, free. Each role has its own pipeline with stages, bulk moves, ratings, notes and an audit trail of who moved whom and when, so separate client mandates stay separate and a shared shortlist has a history.
No. There is no seat licence, so putting your whole desk on RefOpen costs the same as putting one consultant on it.
No. RefOpen has no searchable database for cold outreach. Candidates reach you by applying to a role you posted or by being referred by a verified employee, which is the point: the people who arrive were put forward deliberately.
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.