Kaplunk Blog

Can we hire successfully without recruitment agencies?

Discover how recruitment fees really work.

 A fair, human‑centred recruitment platform.

In 2026, the people landing roles the fastest are the ones embracing a new approach: skills‑based recruitment.

Direct hiring is exploding, and in 2026, it’s rapidly becoming the fastest, cleanest, and most human way to build great teams.

The way companies find and hire talent is changing — and so is the perception of how that process should work. For decades, recruitment agencies positioned themselves as indispensable middlemen, charging hefty fees for connecting job seekers with employers.

Artificial intelligence has become a powerful force in modern talent acquisition, reshaping how organisations screen candidates, match skills, and analyse hiring outcomes.

For years, salary transparency was dismissed as an idealistic HR experiment — something progressive companies advocated but few dared to implement.

Kaplunk was created to remove that uncertainty. And from day one, we made a deliberate choice: if we were going to challenge the norms of an industry worth tens of billions of pounds annually, we needed to build something fundamentally different—and fundamentally safer.