Where talent and growth actually meet.

  • describe.me matches candidates to roles on skills, aspirations and motivations — not keywords or CV tricks
  • No black box screening people out
  • Only pay when a candidate consents to share their details
Real, verified humans Passive Talent Pool Pay only on contact
Try it for FREE!

No signup to start · Real, verified humans — no bots · 3 free Unlocks on full access

See how it works — free until you’re convinced Simple pay-per-contact pricing
Let’s be clear

We’re not another AI that quietly screens people out.
We’re a career development platform that surfaces the humans worth hiring in.

Other platforms reject candidates with a black box. describe.me does the opposite:

90%Cost Reduction vs Traditional
78%Candidate Response Rate
70%Passive Candidates
5minAverage Candidate Setup
Authenticity, guaranteed

Every profile is a real, verified, consenting human.

Gartner predicts that by 2028, one in four candidate profiles will be fake. Not here. On describe.me every candidate is a verified person who built their own profile and chose to be matched — so every shortlist is real, and every contact is consented. No bots. No AI-generated applicants. No ghosts.

1 in 4 candidate profiles fake by 2028 — Gartner
0 fake or AI-generated profiles on describe.me
100% consent before any contact is shared
Start matching real people — free
For recruiters · Free to try, no signup

See your shortlist before you spend a thing.

Tell us the role and watch describe.me work — see the live market, get a ranked shortlist of real, consenting candidates, and only create an account once you like what you see. Then verify your company and your first 3 Unlocks are on us.

Try it for FREE!

No signup to start · Real, verified humans — no bots · 3 free Unlocks on full access

Step 1 · Free, no signup

See the market

Start at the talent preview — no account needed. Enter your role and instantly see the live landscape: realistic salary, the skills that actually matter, and how much genuine talent is out there. A sharper, fairer brief before you spend a thing.

Step 2 · Still free, no signup

Get your shortlist

We run a real match against our live talent pool and email you an anonymised shortlist of genuine, consenting candidates — ranked on true fit and Staying Power, not keyword bingo. A curated top handful, never a flooded inbox.

Step 3 · Under a minute

Create your free account

Like who you’re seeing? Claim your results with a free, email-verified account. No subscription. No card. Just your shortlist, saved and waiting.

Step 4 · Full access

Verify & claim 3 free Unlocks

One quick company check (usually under an hour) opens everything: Unlock the real candidates we matched, run unlimited searches, generate 60-second Smart Match Profiles, and see every Staying Power score. Your first 3 Unlocks are free — reach your best matches on us.

The describe.me workflow

Benchmark the role. Match the people. Back the ones who’ll stay.

3 steps that turn a job description into a confident hire.

Step 1 · Before you match

Benchmark the role

Tighten the job against the live market before you match — salary, skills, conditions and direction of travel. A stronger, fairer job attracts stronger people from the start.

Role & Salary Benchmarking
Step 2 · When you’ve found someone

Match the people

Multi-layer Smart Matching surfaces and ranks the right people — no keywords, no bias. Then Smart Match Profile turns any match into a 60-second, shareable video that explains exactly why they fit.

Smart Matching Smart Match Profile — the 60-second case
Step 3 · Which to back

Back the ones who’ll stay

Staying Power scores who’ll accept, stay and thrive — built from signals the match score never sees. Spend your Unlocks on the durable bets, not just the dazzling-on-paper ones.

Staying Power score
The problems we actually solve

Recruitment is broken in 5 expensive ways.

Your inbox is a spam flood

Around 1 in 3 recruiters spend up to half their week filtering junk applications.

Our answer

A curated top 10, never a flooded inbox. Multi-layer matching hands you the shortlist — not 400 CVs to wade through.

Finding the right skills is the #1 UK challenge

70% of UK employers say finding the right skills is their hardest hiring problem.

Our answer

Multi-layer Smart Matching, not keyword bingo. We understand skills, depth and aspiration — surfacing people keyword search misses entirely.

Most applicants don’t really want the role

Low-intent applications waste your Unlocks, your time and your shortlist.

Our answer

Candidates declare what they want first. When they match, the interest is real — engagement is built in before you spend a penny.

Candidates distrust faceless automation

84% of UK candidates want a human to make the final decision; only 8% think an AI-only call is fair.

Our answer

So a human always does. We make recruiters sharper, never redundant — matching does the grunt work; the judgment stays yours.

Decoding creative CVs eats your day

Every CV is a different shape, with the substance buried under the formatting.

Our answer

Uniform, scannable profiles. Every candidate in the same rich format — so you review 20 in the time it took to decode 3 creative CVs.

The difference

Traditional recruitment vs describe.me

Traditional

  • £6,000–£10,000/year for LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Hundreds of irrelevant CVs to screen
  • Keyword matching misses great candidates
  • No insight into candidate motivations or retention
  • Pay upfront regardless of results
  • 15–25% response rate on outreach

describe.me

  • £0 base cost, pay only per contact
  • Pre-qualified, aspiration-matched candidates
  • Multi-layer semantic matching across many factors
  • Full visibility of aspirations, fit and Staying Power
  • Pay only when candidate agrees to connect
  • 78% response rate
Verified Recruiter

“The best candidates aren’t on job boards. They’re here. Quietly waiting for the right opportunity.”

Zara Hussein
Tech Recruitment Specialist
Verified Recruiter

“describe.me is my go-to tool now. It removes all the noise of candidate searching. In the future, everyone will have a profile! Get in first!”

Sarah Mitchell
Tech Recruiter
Recruiter offers

Earn credit. Pay less. Recruit smarter.

Referral programme

Earn £10 platform credit for every professional you refer who completes their profile — plus free Unlocks on every referred candidate, forever, across your whole company.

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Pricing

Nothing to pay until you’ve found your candidate.

No upfront cost No subscription No contract No payment until they agree to talk First 3 Unlocks free

Free to sign up, post unlimited roles and review your matches. You only pay to Unlock a candidate’s contact details — a single, upfront-quoted fee, only once they’ve agreed to share them. And new companies get their first 3 Unlocks free. That’s it.

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Ready to recruit smarter?

Seen enough? Create your account and verify your company — or test it free first.

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