You have a team
- Own recruiters who screen and interview
- Experience with visas and residence titles
- Several hires planned
- You want to see the whole pool
Route 2 · Recruit yourself
CandidateForce: the whole pool, one flat fee
Direct access to candidates from six Western Balkan countries. €490 a month – no matter how many people you hire.
Start from €0 · no per-head commission
Why the platform is cheaper if you have a team
The difference isn't "expensive versus cheap". It's per placement versus flat fee – and that flips the maths the moment you hire more than one person.
| Billing | Agency (Balkan Recruiters) | Platform (CandidateForce) |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Success fee per placement (from €5,000) | Flat monthly fee, regardless of the number of hires |
| 1 hire | 1 × fee | €490 / month |
| 5 hires | 5 × fee | €490 / month – unchanged |
| 15 hires | 15 × fee | €490 / month – unchanged |
| Candidate access | Pre-selection by the agency | The entire pool – you filter yourself |
| Number of contacts | As many profiles as are presented | Unlimited |
| Who does the work | The agency | Your team |
In short
If you have your own recruiters and know the visa process, the platform gets you more candidates for less money – and your cost per head falls with every additional hire. Full service earns its keep where that capacity is missing, not where hiring volume is high.
What the platform does
One workspace for the whole process – from search to contract.
Candidate search
Filter by occupation, experience, language level, availability and willingness to relocate – before you invest interview time.
Job ads
Post once, distribute across regional job boards in the Western Balkans – and collect applications in one place.
Hiring pipeline
Applications, messages, interviews and status at a glance – as a team, without spreadsheets and email chains.
Automatic translation
You write English or German, the candidate reads their mother tongue. Language stops being a filter at the pre-selection stage.
Plans
All prices exclude VAT. Annual billing includes two free months. The introductory price stays in place as long as the subscription remains active.
€0
Free – one active job ad, browse profiles, basic messaging
€490
Professional per month (introductory price, regular €690) – unlimited ads, full database access, pipeline
+€390
Per additional user on the Professional plan (regular €590)
€2,000
Agency per month (coming soon) – multi-client workspaces, bulk handling, priority support
When the agency is still the better choice
The platform is not a substitute for capacity you don't have.
You don't
- No recruiting team in-house
- Visas and authorities are new territory
- The role needs filling fast
- You want to hand off the workload
Recruit workers from the Western Balkans yourself
If you have recruiters in-house, you don't need an agency to do the pre-selection – you need access to the candidate market. That is exactly what CandidateForce is: a recruiting platform for workers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania. You search the pool yourself, filter by occupation, experience, language level and availability, post ads to regional job boards and communicate directly – automatically translated into the candidate's mother tongue.
The economic difference to full-service placement lies in the pricing model: the agency charges per successful placement (from €5,000 on the German market), the platform charges a flat monthly fee. For a single hire the two aren't far apart; at five or fifteen hires the platform's cost per head falls with every additional person, while the agency's stays constant. The pricing page and the calculator show it for your case.
What the platform does not take off your hands: the visa process and the authorities. Anyone using the Western Balkans Regulation for the first time regularly underestimates the workload of deadlines, advance approvals and quota logic. That – not hiring volume – is where full service earns its money.