The Kaplunk CommunityCareers Without RecruitersKaplunk is a professional community built for students, graduates, and professionals who want direct access to employers without recruitment agencies standing in the middle.
Create one profile. Stay visible throughout your career. Connect directly with employers.
Why the Kaplunk Community ExistsTraditional recruitment often places intermediaries between employers and candidates. Kaplunk was created to provide a direct hiring alternative where people can build long-term visibility while employers connect directly with talent.
We believe careers should be built on skills, experience, and genuine connections, not commission structures.
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After years of study, hard work, examinations, and dedication, they graduate and begin searching for their first professional role. Like many graduates, they may have accumulated significant student debt and invested years preparing for their career.
They secure a £40,000 graduate position.
If a recruitment agency charges a 25% placement fee, the employer could pay an additional £10,000 to a third party for introducing the candidate.
This raises an important question:
Could some of that investment be used to support the graduate who earned the opportunity?
Money saved on recruitment fees could potentially be invested in salaries, training, professional qualifications, wellbeing programmes, career development, or support with student loan repayments.
Talent Should Not Be Treated as a Commission OpportunityA graduate may spend years earning their qualifications, yet a recruitment company can earn thousands of pounds from a single placement. We believe employers should have the option to invest more of that value in the people creating it.
At Kaplunk, we believe talent should not be treated as a commission opportunity. Students and graduates invest years of dedication, study, determination, and often significant debt in building their future careers.
Yet, when they secure employment, substantial recruitment fees may be paid to third parties while the individual creating the value receives no direct benefit from that transaction.
That principle sits at the heart of the Kaplunk Community.
The Graduate Recruitment Challenge
Today's graduate may become tomorrow's specialist, manager, leader, or director. Because of this, graduates are highly attractive to recruitment companies.
Many websites present themselves as graduate career resources, but graduates frequently discover that a large proportion of advertised opportunities are managed by recruitment companies rather than employers directly.
The reason is simple.
Recruiters often seek to engage with talent early because successful graduate placements can create long-term commercial opportunities throughout an individual's career.
Your data is never sold or traded. There are no recruitment agencies harvesting CVs. No hidden databases or third‑party access. Profile information is surfaced only through purposeful employer engagement
You control your professional identity, who sees it, and how employers engage with you.
We believe students and graduates should build direct visibility with employers from the beginning of their careers and maintain that visibility as their experience grows.
Not a Job Board. A Living Talent Network.Job boards optimise for applications. Recruitment agencies optimise for fees. Kaplunk optimises for long‑term candidate visibility and ethical employer engagement. This is a talent community where employers discover people, not just applicants — and where careers continue to compound rather than reset.
How Kaplunk WorksBuild a professional profile once.
Your profile remains discoverable by employers as your career develops.
Employers can identify talent and connect without recruitment agencies acting as intermediaries.
Remain visible beyond your first role and continue developing your professional profile.
Maintain a single profile throughout your career and connect directly with employers.
Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat is a recruiter-free hiring platform?
A recruiter-free hiring platform enables employers and candidates to connect directly without recruitment agencies acting as intermediaries.
Is Kaplunk a job board?
No. Kaplunk is a professional community and talent network designed for long-term career visibility.
Can students join Kaplunk?
Yes. Students can create profiles before graduation and begin building professional visibility early.
How do employers find candidates?
Employers can search profiles based on skills, experience, qualifications, and career interests.
Why use Kaplunk instead of recruitment agencies?
Kaplunk promotes direct communication, increased transparency, and greater control for both employers and candidates.
Join the Kaplunk CommunityBe Visible. Stay in Control. Let Employers Find You
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