We’re building recruitment software
with care.
Placr started with a simple frustration: recruitment software wasn’t built for recruiters. So we decided to change that.
Not a mission statement. A product.
We didn’t start with a pitch deck. We started with a broken candidate portal and a spreadsheet full of complaints.
We were recruiters, not engineers. We spent our days inside tools that felt like they were built in 2005 and never updated. Multi-click workflows for simple things. Candidates dropping off because the application process was a nightmare.
A candidate abandoned an application because the portal asked them to create an account, verify their email, and fill in 47 fields before they could even upload a CV. We knew there had to be a better way.
We watched promising tools get acquired and left to rot. Features stopped shipping. Bugs lingered. Support tickets went unanswered. So we stopped waiting for someone else to fix it and started building.
We started with the candidate experience, a 2-minute application flow with magic links, no account creation, and AI-powered CV parsing. If the first touchpoint was broken, nothing else mattered.
Then we built the recruiter dashboard: fast, keyboard-driven, with semantic search that actually understands what you're looking for. The command centre we always wanted but never had.
Finally, the client portal, one-click candidate review, no login required. Because asking a hiring manager to create an account just to say yes or no was always absurd.
Today, agencies across four continents trust Placr to run their recruitment. We’re still a small team, still building fast, and still obsessed with the details.
Three principles. No compromise.
Everything we build comes back to these.
Ship quality
Every pixel, every interaction, every API response. We don't ship anything we wouldn't want to use ourselves. That means slower launches and fewer half-baked features, and we're fine with that.
Respect their time
Recruiters are busy. Candidates are anxious. Clients are impatient. Every feature we build has to save someone time. If it doesn't, it doesn't ship.
Make it human
Recruitment is about people, not processes. Our AI exists to give recruiters more time for the human parts of their job, the conversations, the judgement calls, the relationships.