Recruited Exchange
Complete more placements without opening your database.
Work a role with a verified Australian agency through masked signals, accepted terms, candidate consent and a purpose-limited room. There is no pooled database anywhere in it.
Why it exists
Expertise, demand and the right person are rarely in one firm at the same moment.
Every agency has roles it cannot fill and candidates it cannot place. Exchange replaces the split agreed on a phone call, with no terms, no timer and no record, with one that has all three.
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The role you can’t fill
A good client, a hard brief, and nobody in your database who fits. Invite a specialist under terms you set.
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The candidate you can’t place
Someone excellent you know well, and no live role for them. Publish a masked signal, with their consent.
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The split that stays agreed
Terms accepted on the record, a timer both sides can see, and an audit history if it is ever disputed.
What it is, and what it is not
The distinction the whole thing rests on.
A collaboration layer and a shared candidate database look similar in a diagram and are opposites in practice.
A publication boundary you control.
Not: A shared CV pool anybody can browse.
One collaboration at a time, with terms you accepted.
Not: A standing licence over your records.
Consent before a person is identified.
Not: A data network effect built out of candidates.
A commercial agreement between two agencies.
Not: A claim by anyone to own a person.
The boundary
What crosses, and what never does.
Agency A workspace
- Candidate records
- Client relationships
- Communications
- Notes and documents
Stays inside
What crosses
- Masked signalShape of the role or the experience. No name, no CV, no employer identity.
- Accepted termsA verified participant accepts the collaboration, the confidentiality step and the timer.
- Candidate approvalThe candidate approves this disclosure, to this party, for this purpose.
- Secure Candidate RoomPurpose-limited, audited, and closable. Withdrawal is available throughout.
Agency B workspace
- Their candidates
- Their clients
- Their communications
- Their documents
Stays inside
There is no pooled database in the middle. Nothing is published that you did not publish, and nothing identifying a person crosses without that person’s agreement.
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Two entry paths
Share an opportunity you cannot fill, or publish a masked signal about someone you represent. Both are things you do deliberately, one at a time.
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Two-stage consent
A masked signal needs no identifying information. Before an identifiable introduction, the candidate approves that disclosure, to that party, for that purpose, and can withdraw it.
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Confidential conflict check
A receiving agency is warned they may already hold this person, without learning which other agency does or seeing any of their record.
Collaboration modes
Reach you can turn up, one notch at a time.
Most roles never need more than the first two. Widening is always your decision and never a default.
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Private invitation
You invite one agency you already work with. Nothing is published anywhere else.
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Timed exclusive
One trusted specialist gets first refusal within a window. If they pass or the window expires, it cascades to your next choice.
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Capped multi-agency
A limited group under one timer, so a role gets reach without your client seeing it everywhere.
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Trusted circles
A standing group you have chosen, by sector, region or relationship, that your invitations default to.
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Open verified
Visible to every verified Australian participant. The widest setting, and never the default.
Timers
A window everyone can see, that closes on its own.
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Invitation sent
The invited participant sees the masked signal and the commercial terms. The clock is visible to both sides.
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Accept or decline
Accepting means accepting the confidentiality step and the terms, on the record. Declining is a single action and ends it.
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Exclusivity window
While it runs, nobody else is invited. The publishing agency can see progress without chasing.
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Expiry
The window closes on its own. Nothing continues by default.
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Cascade
Where you set one, the next invitation goes out automatically. Where you did not, it comes back to you.
Commercial structures
Four shapes an agreement can take.
All of them are agreements about a placement between two businesses. None of them is a sale of a person.
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Percentage split
The placement fee divided between the client-owning and the introducing agency, in a proportion the two of them agree.
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Fixed success referral
A flat amount on a successful placement, agreed before the introduction.
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Success bounty
A defined amount for a candidate introduction that results in a placement.
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Sourcing partnership
A standing arrangement for a defined body of work rather than a single role.
Who owns what
Five parties, and the obligation each one holds.
Most disputes in split placements come from this being assumed rather than stated. So it is stated.
| Party | What they decide and owe |
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| The employer | Decides who is engaged and on what terms. Pays the agency it contracted with. Owes nothing to any other participant. |
| The client-owning agency | Owns the client relationship and the contract with the employer. Owns the guarantee and refund obligation under its own terms. Decides who is invited. |
| The candidate-introducing agency | Owns its relationship with the candidate. Warrants that it has the candidate’s consent for the disclosure it makes. Is paid under the agreed split or fee. |
| The candidate | Decides whether to be introduced, to whom, and for what. Can decline or withdraw. Is never a party to the commercial arrangement and never pays for any of it. |
| Recruited | Provides the platform, the verification, the terms framework, the timers and the audit history. Charges its success fee. Is not the recruiter of record and does not hold the placement fee. |
The fee
One percent, once, after the money arrives.
Recruited’s success fee is 1% of the total employer placement fee actually collected, excluding GST, charged once across the transaction. It is charged after the employer has paid. If there is no collected fee, there is nothing to take a percentage of.
Worked example
- Placement salaryA$120,000
- Agency fee at 18%A$21,600
- Client-owning agencyA$10,800
- Introducing agencyA$10,800
- Recruited success feeA$216
Assumptions: an 18% fee and an even split, both agreed between the two agencies rather than set by Recruited. Excludes GST.
Trust
Who is allowed in, and what happens when it goes wrong.
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Verified Australian members
ABN and business verification, and an authorised contact, before anyone can publish or receive anything.
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An audit history per collaboration
What was published, who accepted which terms, when the timer ran, and what was disclosed.
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A complaint route
A defined path for raising a problem with a participant, and a review process with an outcome.
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Quality controls
An agency that misrepresents a role, a candidate or a consent does not stay in the network.
The commercial relationship stays between the parties who agreed it. Recruited reviews conduct on its platform; it does not adjudicate another firm’s contract with its client.
Questions
What can a partner see before they commit?
Enough to decide whether they can help, and no more: the shape of the role or of the candidate’s experience, the location and the commercial terms on offer. No name, no contact details, no CV, and no employer identity where the role is confidential.
How does candidate consent work?
In two stages. Nothing identifying a candidate is visible at the discovery stage; a partner sees a masked signal. Before an identifiable introduction, the candidate approves that specific disclosure, to that specific party, for that specific purpose, and can decline or withdraw.
What if two agencies already have the same candidate?
The Identity Conflict Service warns a receiving agency that they may already hold this person, without naming the other agency or exposing either record. It answers one question and nothing else.
Whose relationship with the candidate is it?
The candidate decides who represents them. Recruited does not use ownership language about people, and no agreement inside Exchange transfers a person. What is agreed between agencies is the commercial arrangement for a placement: a split, a referral fee, a bounty or a sourcing partnership.
When is the success fee charged?
Once, at 1% of the employer placement fee actually collected, excluding GST. If the employer never pays, there is nothing to charge. Recruited does not hold or settle the placement fee; the employer pays the agency it contracted with, and Recruited bills its fee separately afterwards.
What about refunds and guarantees?
Guarantee and refund obligations to the employer sit with the agency that contracted with the employer, under that agency’s own terms. Recruited is the platform and contract layer, not the recruiter of record.
Can I use Exchange without publishing anything?
Yes. Receiving invitations, or accepting a role from an agency that already knows you, needs nothing published from your side.
Exchange
Work the roles you cannot fill alone.
Exchange comes with your Recruited workspace. Verification is by ABN, and you decide what you publish and to whom.
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