“Can a referral-native recruiting platform out-convert traditional job boards by turning every employee and friend-of-employee into a paid sourcing channel?”
Hirebuddy is a University of Vienna spin-off building a referral-based recruiting SaaS. It combines an ATS, employee referral tool, active sourcing, gamification and career-page hosting, monetizing via a monthly software subscription plus an 8% success fee on gross annual salary when a hire is made via the Hirebuddy network. Hirebuddy itself handles the payment flow to referrers, but there is no public disclosure of the underlying payments/BaaS provider.
Hirebuddy was founded by Felix Klooss, Markus Dreier, Leon Neubeck and Rafael Lerchster and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
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