Talent Poacher

Invitation-led hiring

For candidates

Apply once. Stay visible. Hear back only when the right role invites you.

Talent Poacher turns job search into a calmer system: upload your profile once, define what you want, and stop treating unemployment like a full-time admin ritual.

Talent Poacher is an international hiring platform and candidate matching platform built around one simple shift: candidates apply once and get invited, while employers search 10,000+ candidates and pay only when a placement lasts.

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Completely free to useOne profile instead of endless formsOnly get pulled back in when a role is calling you

1

Profile built once instead of repeated application admin.

10,000+

Candidates available for employers to scan across the international market.

3 months

Retention threshold before employer fees apply to sourced hires.

Candidate flowLive profile

Profile state

Visible in the market

Preferences set

LondonHybridStrategy Consulting£90k+
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Upload CV once

02

Set expectations

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Receive interest from employers instead of chasing them

Incoming invite

Senior Strategy Consultant

London / Hybrid with Advisory Partner

Salary alignedLocation alignedReal employer intent

The philosophy

Job search has been backwards for too long.

Most platforms make candidates do the chasing and employers do the filtering. Talent Poacher flips both sides. The result is a calmer system for talent and a sharper system for hiring teams.

Explore the dedicated pages for candidates, employers, or specialist hiring across engineers, consultants, salespeople, and operators.

Old way

Candidates spend hours repeating the same story into forms, portals, and silent applications.

Talent Poacher

Candidates build one profile, set their preferences once, and come back only when a role wants them.

Old way

Employers post into noisy channels, then burn time filtering mountains of irrelevant CVs.

Talent Poacher

Employers define the role clearly, scan aligned talent, and invite the people worth speaking to.

Old way

Traditional recruiters charge heavily before anyone knows whether the fit will last.

Talent Poacher

Fees unlock only after a candidate remains in role for more than 3 months.

Candidates

Your next role should find you.

No more job-board treadmill. No more repetitive applications. No more wasting energy on roles that never reply.

Upload your CV once and let the platform structure the essentials for you.

Set your salary, location, work style, and work authorization preferences up front.

Get notified only when an employer is ready to invite you into a real process.

Read the full candidate page

Employers

Hire from signal, not noise.

Forget the mountain of admin work. We simplify hiring down to the signal that matters: who is aligned, available, and worth inviting now.

Scan 10,000+ candidates across engineering, consulting, sales, and operations.

Cut out job-board noise and recruiter markups before your team loses hours screening.

Hire under a retention-led model with zero upfront fees and a 3-month guarantee.

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Pricing and guarantee

No win, no fee. No recruiter-style risk.

Employers use the platform for free and only pay once a candidate sourced through Talent Poacher has remained working with them for more than 3 months.

If the candidate is not the right fit inside that 3-month window, nothing is charged.

Our rates are designed to be 5-10x lower than traditional recruiters while still aligning us to successful placements.

That means less upfront budget risk, less wasted screening effort, and more confidence that the model rewards lasting fits.

Employer Fee schedule

Fees apply only after more than 3 months in role

Full-time hire

5% annual salary

Contract engagement

5% of the contract value (up to 1 year)

Part-time engagement

Flat fee of £100

Internship

No fee charged

See the full commercial terms in the Terms of Service.

Market focus

An international job-market matchmaker for people who build, sell, advise, and operate.

Talent Poacher is designed for modern hiring across borders, time zones, and work models, with matching shaped around role fit, compensation, location, and work authorization.

EngineersConsultantsSalespeopleOperatorsFor employersFor candidates

International by design

Built for teams and talent moving across markets, remote setups, and global hiring pipelines.

Human effort saved

Candidates skip repetitive admin. Employers skip endless filtering. Both sides get closer to the real conversation faster.

Commercially aligned

The business model rewards lasting placements, not rushed intros, which keeps the proposition clean for both sides.

Ready when you are

Build once, invite better, and let the right matches do the heavy lifting.

For candidates, it is a free profile that keeps working while you live your life. For employers, it is a lower-risk way to reach talent without traditional recruiter economics.