Post the requirement once and it is free for as long as it is open. Several independent recruiters work it at the same time, competing on quality rather than pushing volume, and you pay a small fixed fee only for the candidates you choose to shortlist.
Unlimited talent requests, live for as long as the role is open, charged only on shortlist.
Banded by role: entry and support, mid-level technical, then senior and niche.
No placement fee, no percentage of salary, no advance retainer, no long-term contract.
Skills, experience band, pay range, mode, screening questions and the shortlist fee you set.
The employer side of Onjob.io inverts the agency model. A talent request is posted free and stays visible to active recruiters while the role is open. Multiple recruiters and vendors source against it simultaneously, each submission arriving with the candidate's full profile, an AI fit score against your requirement, and the submitting recruiter's own track record. You compare them in one view instead of across five email threads.
The commercial model is the point. You pay a small fixed fee per candidate you shortlist — roughly ₹200 to ₹300 for entry and support roles, ₹400 to ₹600 for mid-level technical roles, and ₹600 to ₹2,000 for senior and niche ones. There is no placement fee, no percentage of CTC, no advance retainer and no long-term contract, and anything you skip or reject costs nothing. For comparison, the page notes that traditional agencies typically charge between eight and twenty-five per cent of salary.
One thing to know before you plan around it: an employer account is not self-serve today. Client signup is closed on the platform and existing accounts are onboarded and verified by the team, so the route in is a conversation rather than a form. That is worth saying plainly rather than discovering after you have written the job description.
What the model gives an employer, and what each submission arrives carrying.
Describe the role once — mandatory and bonus skills, experience band, pay range, work mode, open positions, screening questions — and it stays visible to active recruiters at no cost for as long as it is open.
Independent sourcers, staffing agencies and HR professionals work the same request in parallel, competing on quality. You can also invite recruiters and vendors you already trust alongside the open pool.
Each candidate arrives with the full profile, an AI fit score against your requirement, and the submitting recruiter's track record — so you are judging the candidate and the source at the same time.
One action advances a candidate and one skips them, and skipping is free. The shortlist is the only billable event, which is why the fee stays small and predictable.
The shortlist fee is a field on the talent request rather than a fixed rate card, and recruiters see it before deciding to work your role. A harder requirement can carry a higher fee and attract more effort.
You are the only party who evaluates recruiters, and you can rate them. Their history and quality are visible before you trust a submission, which is what keeps the open pool honest.
The five steps of the model, plus the step zero the marketing pages leave out.
Talk to the team. An employer account needs a work email, company email, industry, website, phone and postal address, and it is verified rather than self-served — client signup on the platform is currently closed.
Describe the role once, set the experience band, pay range and screening questions, and set the shortlist fee. Posting is free and unlimited, and the request stays live while the role is open.
Several recruiters source against your request at the same time. Candidates are submitted with their own consent, so nobody is put forward without knowing.
Compare submissions side by side with the AI fit score, the candidate profile and the recruiter's track record on each one. Reviewing costs nothing.
Advancing a candidate charges the fixed fee and pays the recruiter who found them. Everything you skip stays free, and nothing further is owed if you hire — no placement fee, no percentage.
The model suits employers who care about cost per shortlist rather than about a retained relationship.
Teams for whom an eight-to-twenty-five per cent placement fee is the reason they do not use agencies at all. Paying per shortlist makes the cost knowable before the process starts.
Programmes where the constraint is throughput of qualified candidates rather than the search for one person, and where several recruiters working in parallel beats one agency working sequentially.
Requirements where a higher shortlist fee is a rational way to attract more sourcing effort, without committing to a retainer before anyone has been seen.
HR teams that already have an applicant tracking system and want supply into it, priced per shortlist, rather than a second hiring process to run.
What the employer side is not — including a limit that is true today and that this page will not paper over.
Per shortlist. You are never billed a placement fee or a percentage of salary when someone is hired — the fixed fee on the candidates you choose to advance is the only cost.
Yes — unlimited talent requests at no cost, live for as long as the role is open, and no charge for any submission you skip or reject. The first money that changes hands is the shortlist.
Freelance sourcers, staffing agencies and HR professionals from the open recruiter pool, plus any recruiters or vendors you invite yourself. Several work the same request at once.
The candidate's full profile, an AI fit score against your specific requirement, and the submitting recruiter's track record — so the source is evaluated alongside the person.
Roughly ₹200 to ₹300 for entry and support roles, ₹400 to ₹600 for mid-level technical roles, and ₹600 to ₹2,000 for senior and niche roles. You set the fee on each request, and recruiters see it before working it.
Through us. Self-serve client signup is closed on the platform at the moment, so tell us the roles you are hiring for and we will get the account opened and verified with the details required — work email, company email, industry, website, phone and address.
Talk to the group and a senior lead scopes it in writing, or go straight to the product's own site and look at it yourself. Neither route commits you to the other.
Name the number you need to hit. A senior lead replies within one business day and a costed plan follows within three working days.
The employer proposition in full, including the per-shortlist bands and the comparison against a percentage-of-salary agency fee.
Everything the group sells around Onjob.io for employers — the company that delivers it, the nearest siblings, and the full list.