Who we are, why we built this, and how to get in touch.
Recruitment databases go stale fast. Within weeks of being built, a chunk of any list is out of date — expired training, people who've moved on, profiles nobody has updated in months.
Our founder spent years in recruitment and sales and saw the same pattern everywhere. Recruiters lose hours chasing people who are no longer a good match. Candidates waste time on jobs they're not a fit for. And nobody has a good reason to keep their details current — there's nothing in it for them.
cvshared changes that. Candidates earn real money each time a recruiter unlocks their profile (payable in Amazon vouchers during our trial period). It's enough to keep details accurate, whether someone is actively job hunting or not. Recruiters get data they can trust. Placements happen faster.
We started with UK healthcare. The shortages are well documented, the problem is acute, and our founder has close family working in the sector. The model isn't healthcare-specific, but that's where we're focused for now.
Our founder works alongside advisors from recruitment, online platforms, entrepreneurship and industry. More on the team as it grows.
Candidates create the value in recruitment. Their time, their careers, their willingness to be contacted — that's what makes a database worth anything. They should get something back for it.
Fresh data beats stale data. A smaller, current database is worth more than a vast one that's mostly out of date. Our job is to keep what we have accurate, not to inflate the numbers.
We don't sell candidate data. Recruiters pay to unlock individual profiles, and the candidate earns money when they do.
The incentives have to keep working both ways. If we stop paying candidates fairly, the data goes stale and the platform stops being useful. That structural pressure is what keeps the model honest as we grow.