From MVP to Market Momentum

Founded by Rob Green, Rectec began as a mission-driven startup born out of firsthand frustration with the complexities of buying HR and recruitment tech. Rob, who led over 100 successful tech implementations across enterprises and recruited for notable brands like Reed, knew the buying process was broken. That insight led to Rectec’s MVP, meticulously iterated over the last few years.

Despite operating with minimal sales and marketing resources, Rectec has achieved extraordinary milestones:

Impressive revenues

120+ vendor partnerships

Over 448,000 vendor comparisons processed

Supported 900+ customers, including Sky, ISS, and Accenture

Now, with a robust foundation and proven demand, Rectec is poised for scale.

Strategic Co-Founder Addition

Joining Rob at the helm is Rohan Dickinson, who steps in as Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer. Rohan brings extensive experience from scaling with category-defining tech companies such as FundApps (reg-tech leader) and Adway (social recruitment tech leader). With a unique mix of HR background, startup founder experience, and growth-stage leadership, Rohan adds deep commercial firepower to Rectec’s leadership team.

A Market-Ready Solution, Arriving at the Perfect Time

Rectec is launching its next-generation Copilot platform – a powerful, data-driven tool built to guide HR and recruitment teams through the chaos of software selection. This new product enables instant vendor matching, tailored shortlists, and deep data insights (with up to 150+ data points per vendor), solving critical pain points at every stage of the buying journey.

The market conditions couldn’t be more fitting:

25% of IT projects fail entirely

60–80% fail to meet their objectives

70% exceed their budgets

Buying cycles are longer than ever, averaging 6–18 months

As buyers grow increasingly fatigued and marketplaces rise in relevance, Rectec’s timing is spot on. According to Gartner, 70% of buyers now prefer independent research and marketplaces when evaluating software. This said, Rectec importantly is designed and built to ensure both HR and recruitment vendors and buyers succeed!

The Next Chapter: Growth Mode

With traction, talent, and timing aligned, Rectec is entering its most exciting chapter yet. The team is actively seeking new partners, investors, and collaborators aligned with its mission to become the #1 software buying Copilot for businesses.

“Rectec was always about solving a real, painful problem. Now, with a world-class product, exceptional team, and clear market pull – we’re ready to win,” said Rob Green, Founder of Rectec.

“The future of B2B software buying is smarter, faster, and more transparent. Rectec is here to lead that charge,” added Rohan Jacob, Co-Founder & CRO.

A quick, responsive process is what you need to attract and engage the best talent.

At Rectec we help organisations to find the best Applicant Tracking System, best Recruitment CRM, or best HRIS to suit your needs, accompanied by our unique complementary technology marketplace, to help you build the perfect recruitment tech stack for your business.

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Recently there was an incredibly special night for Rectec®, as we were honoured to receive the Technical Innovation Award (International Supplier) at the 2024 Onrec Awards!

Reflecting the passion, dedication, and innovative spirit that our team pours into everything we do, this recognition really does mean so much to us.

To have our hard work acknowledged on such a prestigious platform is an accomplishment we are immensely proud of.
This award is more than just a trophy for our shelf—it’s a testament to the collaboration, persistence, and shared vision that drives Rectec® every day.

We’re so grateful to our amazing clients, partners, and supporters who continuously inspire us to push the boundaries of what’s possible in recruitment technology. Without you, this achievement would not have been possible. It’s a collective win, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to celebrate this milestone with all of you.

We’d also like to give a huge shout-out to Odro for sponsoring this award and recognizing the value of technical innovation in the recruitment space. Your support for the industry, along with your commitment to advancing recruitment technology, makes this recognition all the more meaningful.

As we look forward, we are focused on our drive to keep pushing the limits. With innovation at the core of everything we do, we’ll continue to create solutions that empower businesses to recruit smarter, faster, and more efficiently.

Here’s to the future: to staying humble, staying innovative, and always pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Thank you all again for being part of this amazing journey—we’re just getting started!

With gratitude,
The Rectec® Team

A quick, responsive process is what you need to attract and engage the best talent.

At Rectec we help organisations to find the best Applicant Tracking System or best Recruitment CRM to suit your needs, accompanied by our unique complementary technology marketplace, to help you build the perfect recruitment tech stack for your business.

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Rectec Compare made its 350,000th comparison. Another milestone hit on our mission to simplify software procurement and another step taken on our journey to help  HR and Recruitment Leaders purchase powerful tech that works hard for them, their team and their goals.

 Here’s what Rectec founder and CEO, Rob Green said on the achievement….

“When I started this journey, I was on a mission to create clarity in a world of digital confusion for the recruitment and HR industry, and we’re doing just that!

Rectec Compare is a win for every recruiter, every HR professional, and really anyone who’s wondered if there’s a better way to sift through HR tech solutions without needing a PhD in Comparison-ology (which I’m now considering founding).

So, here’s a huge THANK YOU to everyone who’s joined us on this incredible ride. 

Whether you’ve used Rectec Compare already or not, you’re the reason we’re here, celebrating this milestone with virtual confetti and possibly too much cake…”

For anyone reading this who hasn’t yet dived onto our comparison search platform, just head here and within 20 minutes you’ll have a personalised, hyper-customised shortlist of CRMs or ATSs for your needs.

A quick, responsive process is what you need to attract and engage the best talent.

At Rectec we help organisations to find the best Applicant Tracking System or best Recruitment CRM to suit your needs, accompanied by our unique complementary technology marketplace, to help you build the perfect recruitment tech stack for your business.

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We’ve just performed our ​ 300,000th comparison! ​

Huge numbers at Rectec HQ, another massive milestone knocked down on our path to procurement dominance, and another step on the journey to helping as many Recruitment and HR leaders buy recruitment tech with objectivity and specificity.

To quote our Founder and CEO, Rob Green…

“What an absolutely mind blowing moment for the team. 

It’s sometimes the case that we forget just how many people our comparison service has reached. And what I’m most proud about is that the numbers keep growing. Searches are being conducted all over the world, and our reputation is, seemingly, continuing to precede us in exciting new markets.

I absolutely LOVE helping agencies and employers to find the right tech. From the day I Founded the company and now into my 4th year, I’m still encouraged and passionate about operating in this incredible little niche.

The future is looking incredibly bright. So keep watching this space for more exciting news in the future. Every milestone is another step on the path to our growth mission and vision of a technically-engaged community of recruiters, HR professionals, agency paragons and leaders in our sector.

Here’s to the next 100,000!”

For anyone reading this who hasn’t yet dived onto our comparison search platform, just head here and within 20 minutes you’ll have a personalised, hyper-customised shortlist of CRMs or ATSs for your needs.

 A quick, responsive process is what you need to attract and engage the best talent.

At Rectec we help organisations to find the best Applicant Tracking System or best Recruitment CRM to suit your needs, accompanied by our unique complementary technology marketplace, to help you build the perfect recruitment tech stack for your business.

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However, some serious questions do have to be asked if recruiters, HR professionals and, indeed, clients and candidates are to benefit from this raft of money spilling into our neck of the human capital world. 

If we’re all facing a potential recession, and many critical sectors face crippling staff shortages whilst simultaneously battling rising prices and inflationary pressure on basic goods and services…where is all this investment going?

Is this investment being used to target the pain points in existing recruitment methodologies, or are there new fields of recruitment tech solutions being created? 

The state of the recruitment tech union.

Looking at the numbers, recruitment tech investment does indeed seem geared towards specific sectors. However, some topline stats:

• “Recruitment and HR technology VC investment neared $5 billion in the second quarter of 2022…(putting) 2022 on course to even or break the record-breaking year of 2021”.
• “Global HR technology venture capital investment outperformed the rest of the market through the first half of 2022”.
• “More than half (54%) of start-up businesses who have secured private equity or venture capital funding in the past 12 months invested capital in tech recruitment”.

Considering the fallout in overall tech staff numbers in the latter parts of Q1 and over Q2 – typified by the layoffs in some of the world’s now-most recognisable tech firms like Netflix, Microsoft and Meta – the continued good health of HR and recruitment tech can be seen as something of an outlier event in the VC world. 

So where is the investment going?

Looking further into the WorkTech report quoted above, investment is focused on three distinct sectors:

• HCM – “the HCM sector amassed a total nearing $2.175 billion”.
• Talent Acquisition – “Talent acquisition’s market share amassed $1.2 billion”.
• Talent Management – “Talent management $1.1 billion”.

HCM, or Human Capital Management is the unique array of processes, strategies and tools that business leaders utilise to improve employee performance, and the recruitment and retention of effective staff. In theory and practice, it’s basically how leaders build effective working environments to get the very best out of their teams.

In effect, HCM is like the “360 recruitment” of recruitment operations: it’s an entirely holistic approach to creating a certain type of recruitment and HR culture, built around getting the most out of its people.

And in our modern, digitally transformed post-pandemic working world, HCM is supported by, indeed entirely built upon, recruitment tech. 

So where should UK companies, looking to invest in recruitment tech, put their money?

Rectec have pioneered the world’s first Recruitment Tech Marketplace to expressly deal with this question – when considering the wealth of technical solution available to recruiters, agencies and HR teams, having a simple place in which to access complementary recruitment tech providers cuts out hundreds of wasted hours aimlessly scouring search engines and demos looking for the right fit.

We most certainly don’t advocate blindly following investor trends without research. For business leaders in the UK considering building a new and improved recruitment tech stack, our advice would be there’s no better place to start than following the money…

AI.

• “Nearly 67% of HR professionals believe that AI has many benefits and a positive impact on the recruitment process”. Here at Rectec, we’ve always believed AI is only as effective as the human wielding it, but it cannot be ignored that AI recruitment functionality will vastly improve service time, and delivery of recruitment services, across the board. 

Social Media Recruiting.

• The complete dominance of social media for data, audience connection and reach means our increasingly digital lives offer a unique access point for recruiters and HR teams to leverage opportunities. From automated job ads and targeted online spending to integrated social media applicant tracking system plug-ins, we’re at the “Wild West” stage of social media recruitment strategy building, and the money is piling into the sector.

Web3.

• Blockchain and decentralised ledgers will completely change how we create and access data and recruitment will stand to benefit from the rise of Web3 in everything from smart contracts to metaversal working environments and more. 

It’s natural to be cynical about recruitment tech changing the industry uniformly for the good. After all, effective recruitment is built upon trusted relationships between people, not programmes or ledgers. 

But savvy investment of time and money into recruitment tech is worthwhile, and you’d be following in the footsteps of almost three-quarters of UK employers – “67% of companies…invested more (in 2021, and)…in 2022, that number is expected to increase to 73%”.

A quick, responsive process is what you need to attract and engage the best talent.

At Rectec we help organisations to find the best Applicant Tracking System or best Recruitment CRM to suit your needs, accompanied by our unique complementary technology marketplace, to help you build the perfect recruitment tech stack for your business.

You can click here to register for Rectec Compare – and best of all, it’s completely free of charge.

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