Services

Roles filled for you. The pipeline, the data and every shortlist stay yours.

Recruiting as a Service pairs Pickr with experienced recruiters from ScalingPPL, the agency run by Pickr's founder. You get scored shortlists, structured interviews and filled roles without building a recruiting function first.

Some teams want recruiting software. Some want someone to fill the role. Recruiting as a Service is for the teams that want both: Pickr as the system your hiring runs on, and experienced recruiters who run the search inside it. You brief the role once, we take it from there, and every step is visible in your own account while it happens.

The recruiters come from ScalingPPL, the recruitment agency run by Pickr's founder Andreas Amann. They work their own mandates on Pickr every day, which is why the software works the way it does. You are not getting a tool plus a support desk. You are getting the people the tool was built for, working on your roles.

When the engagement ends, nothing leaves with us. Candidates, notes, interview scorecards and match reasoning stay in your Pickr account, hosted in Frankfurt, Germany. Your next search starts from a talent pool that already knows what a good hire looks like for you, whether you run it yourself or with us again.

How it works

How the engagement runs

  1. 01

    A brief you can hold us to

    We start with a call about the role: what the person actually does, who they report to, what a strong first year looks like and what has gone wrong before. The result is a written brief with clear must-haves and nice-to-haves. It lives in Pickr, and every candidate is scored against it. If you already have candidates in a spreadsheet or another ATS, we bring them across first.

  2. 02

    Sourcing and a scored shortlist

    Our recruiters run the search in your Pickr account. AI finds and scores candidates in minutes, the recruiter reviews every one of them, and you receive a shortlist with match reasoning in plain language. Your hiring manager can read it in a few minutes and decide who to meet, without opening a single CV.

  3. 03

    Structured interviews with your panel

    Every interview follows a scorecard built for the role, with tailored questions and room for evidence rather than impressions. Interviewer and hiring-manager seats are free, so your whole panel works in one place and feedback lands the same day instead of in an email thread nobody reads.

  4. 04

    Offer, handover and follow-up

    We handle references, the offer conversation and the candidate's questions until the start date. Everyone else in the pipeline gets a proper answer, not silence. After the hire, the full record stays in your account and we check in with you on how the placement is going.

Included

What you get

A Pickr account that is yours

Full access to Pickr for the length of the engagement and beyond, with your own users, pipeline and candidate pool. You see every candidate, every note and every stage change as it happens. Nothing sits behind an agency wall.

A named recruiter, not a ticket queue

One experienced recruiter from ScalingPPL owns your search from brief to start date. You know who is working on your role, you can reach them directly, and they know your company by the second search.

Shortlists with reasoning you can forward

Each candidate on the shortlist comes with a match score and a plain-language explanation of why they fit and where the gaps are. Your hiring manager can make a call from the shortlist alone and explain it to anyone who asks.

Structured interviews and scorecards

Role-specific interview questions, a scorecard for every interviewer, and a side-by-side comparison across candidates that shows what people actually observed rather than a gut feeling written up a week later.

A talent pool that gets smarter

Every candidate we source, every interview and every hire stays in your account. The next search starts warmer, and the matching gets more accurate for your roles with each one we fill. Every hire makes the next one smarter.

Who it is for

A good fit if

  • Companies hiring without an in-house recruiter
  • Founders who want the role filled, not another tool to learn
  • HR teams with more open roles than hands
  • Companies replacing a contingency headhunter with something they keep
  • Teams that want the data to stay theirs after the search

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is recruiting as a service?

Recruiting as a service means you get recruiting software and the people who run it as one engagement, instead of licensing a tool and staffing it yourself or paying a headhunter who keeps the data. With Pickr, experienced recruiters run your searches inside your own account, so shortlists, interview notes and the candidate pool stay with you once the role is filled.

How is this different from hiring a recruitment agency?

A classic agency works in its own system and sends you CVs by email. When the mandate ends, the candidates, the notes and the reasoning stay with the agency. Here the recruiters work inside your Pickr account. You see the pipeline live, your hiring managers interview with scorecards, and everything stays yours afterwards.

Do I need to buy Pickr separately?

No. Pickr is part of the engagement. You get your own account with full access for as long as we work together, and you can keep using it on your own afterwards. Pricing depends on the roles and the setup, so book a call and we will walk you through the options.

Who are the recruiters?

They come from ScalingPPL, the recruitment agency run by Pickr's founder Andreas Amann. They work their own mandates on Pickr every day, which is why the software fits the way a search actually runs. A named recruiter owns your role from the brief to the start date.

Where is candidate data stored?

Candidate data and the application are hosted in Frankfurt, Germany. Pickr is GDPR and DSGVO compliant, a data processing agreement (AVV) is included, and names and emails are redacted from AI prompts by default. Candidates are informed when AI is used to evaluate them, and no hiring decision is made without a person.

Can I take over the search myself later?

Yes. Everything the recruiters build lives in your account: the brief, the talent pool, the scorecards and the reasoning behind every decision. You can run the next search yourself, hand it back to us, or split the work between your team and ours. Nothing has to be exported or rebuilt.

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Written by Andreas Amann

Founder of Pickr. Former operator at startups in Berlin and Silicon Valley, where he helped scale companies from 40 to 200+ people. Built Pickr after years of using every major ATS as a recruitment agency owner at ScalingPPL.

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