Hiring With A Conscience. Applicants first. Employers empowered..The world of hiring has shifted, and applicants now want a direct hiring platform where they can represent themselves instead of having job boards sell their CVs or recruiters extract their data for profit. Kaplunk was built for applicants and employers who want transparent, ethical, and cost‑efficient hiring without intermediaries.
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Eliminating Recruitment Fees Mainstream job boards generate revenue by enabling recruiters to harvest applicant data, access CV databases, and monetise profiles as part of their business model. Kaplunk removes recruitment fees that often reach £6,000–£30,000 per hire, allowing employers to reinvest savings into salaries, benefits, professional development, wellbeing, retention, and culture improvements instead of paying middlemen
How Employers and Applicants ConnectKaplunk was created by our founder Martin Bennett who spent years seeing how traditional hiring systems block communication, inflate costs, and distort how people are represented. This experience showed that both employers and applicants needed a fair, modern hiring solution built on direct connection and genuine transparency.
Challenging Unregulated Job BoardsMany job boards operate without strong oversight, allowing applicant data to be sold, shared, or accessed by recruitment companies without meaningful transparency. If these platforms truly exist for employers and job seekers, then why is so much of their business model driven by selling access to recruiters rather than supporting the people they claim to serve?
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Hiring System Built for Applicants and EmployersKaplunk empowers applicants to showcase their real skills through an honest, secure job seeker platform, while giving employers a direct‑to‑talent hiring solution free from agency interference or inflated commission structures. With direct messaging, transparent profiles, secure data handling, and no hidden fees, Kaplunk helps organisations invest in their workforce instead of the recruitment industry built on monetising them.
The Kaplunk-rewriting the future of hiring. Built by people who are tired of watching job boards sell CVs, agencies profit from applicants, and employers pay £6,000–£30,000 just to hire someone they could find themselves, Kaplunk stands as a bold refusal to accept a broken system. In an economy where professionals are already struggling, we reject the idea that agencies should profit from people simply trying to find work — and we reject the recruitment fees draining employers who could be investing in their teams, not in middlemen.
Join The Kaplunk CommunityKaplunk is uniting applicants and employers who believe hiring should be direct, transparent, secure, and human, not a commodity traded behind closed doors. Together, we’re building the UK’s first ethical hiring movement, where applicants finally represent themselves, employers hire without barriers, and no one pays a fee for the simple right to connect. This is hiring without exploitation. This is employment without gatekeepers.
Kaplunk Ethical Hiring Elevated.
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