Recruiter FAQ

Find an open role, enter your candidate's details, and upload their CV. That's it — you're recorded as the referrer for that candidate on that role, with no further steps and nothing to chase.

You earn the referral commission when your referred candidate is selected and placed by the hiring client. The commission for each role is published on the listing itself, so you know what a placement is worth before you spend any time on it.

It varies by role, seniority and discipline. Every listing publishes its referral commission up front, so there are never any surprises and you can pick the roles worth your time before you refer anyone. Senior and licensed engineering roles generally carry the larger commissions, because they are the harder searches.

No. It's free to join and free to refer. There are no membership fees, no retainers, no desk fees and no upfront costs of any kind. There is no mechanism by which you pay JobFolder anything — you only ever earn.

Our principal recruiter screens every referred candidate and coordinates the entire process with the client. You focus on finding the right person from your network; we handle the screening, the client relationship, scheduling and the close.

Every submission is recorded against the recruiter who made it and timestamped when it is created, so who referred whom and when is a matter of record rather than of argument. Where the same candidate reaches us twice for the same role, we resolve it on that record and will always tell both recruiters what we have decided and why.

No. Independent and freelance recruiters, agency recruiters with their own desk, and industry people with strong professional networks all refer through JobFolder. What matters is that you can reach qualified people in a discipline, not what your business card says.

The board leans heavily toward infrastructure and the built environment: civil, transportation and DOT, structural, MEP, water resources and hydrology, CEI and construction inspection, and project management across the AEC sector. There is also a steady stream of software, DevOps, data and cleared government roles.

You remain the referrer of record throughout, and you can follow the status of every candidate you have submitted from your dashboard. Client-facing coordination — interviews, feedback, offer — runs through our recruiter, so the client keeps a single point of contact and you are not chasing scheduling.

Every role is a live brief from an actual hiring client. Nothing on the board is scraped or aggregated from elsewhere, so you will not refer into a position that was quietly filled three months ago.

Nothing is lost. Screening happens before anything reaches the client, so a mismatch costs you the few minutes it took to submit rather than damaging a client relationship. Where a candidate is strong but wrong for that particular brief, they may well fit another role on the board.

Two things. The split is published on the role before you submit anyone, rather than negotiated after a placement. And you do not manage the client at all — no scheduling, no chasing feedback, no closing. You source; we run the process.

Email us any time at hello@jobfolder.com or use the contact page. If you'd rather just get started, you can join the network or browse open roles and their commissions first.