Recruitment websites that workboth sides of the desk.
C4 Studios builds websites and automation for recruitment agencies — sites that convince candidates to apply and clients to brief, without one audience drowning out the other. Sites from $1,500; job boards and portal features scoped from the $2,500–$4,500 tiers; and automation behind the scenes from $750, which is where agencies usually feel it most.
Why are recruitment websites so hard to get right?
Because they’re two websites wearing one domain. Candidates want jobs, fast search and a painless application. Clients want proof you can fill roles: sectors, process, results, a confident brief-us path. Most agency sites pick one audience by accident — usually candidates, because jobs are the easy content — and then wonder why the site never produces a client lead.
The fix is structural, not cosmetic: two clear front doors from the first screen, each leading to a path built for that audience, with the jobs board doing candidate work and the client side selling capability like the professional-services firm you actually are.
The agency site, done properly
Two front doors
“Find a role” and “Find people” from the first screen — each audience routed to a path built for them.
A jobs board that’s current
Fed from your ATS where possible, manageable in minutes where not. Stale listings cost more credibility than no listings.
Painless applications
Apply in under two minutes on a phone. Every extra field costs you the candidates worth having.
Sector pages for clients
One page per specialism with real numbers — time-to-fill, roles placed — because clients hire specialists, not generalists.
Consultant profiles
Candidates google the consultant before returning the call. Give them something better than a LinkedIn ghost.
Brief-us path
A client enquiry form that captures role, urgency and salary band — qualified before the first call.
What about the outbound side?
A website converts the demand that finds you; recruitment mostly runs on demand you go and find. That’s why we built C4 Lead Engine — a done-for-you outbound system that researches and qualifies fresh prospects overnight and drafts a personalised email to each one, straight into your own inbox by 9am. You read them with your coffee and hit send; nothing leaves your outbox without you. Agencies are the textbook case: high deal value, clear targets, and a sales motion that rewards consistency over genius.
It runs as a separate engagement from the website, but they’re built to feed each other — outbound earns the click, the site closes the credibility check. There’s a full rundown on the Lead Engine page.
Where automation pays in an agency
| Workflow | What it replaces |
|---|---|
| Candidate acknowledgment + status updates | The “black hole” reputation that kills referrals. |
| Interview scheduling and reminders | Three-way email tennis and no-shows. |
| Client brief intake and routing | Briefs lost in inboxes while a competitor returns the call. |
| Reference and document chasing | The admin nobody bills and everybody hates. |
| Review collection after placements | Your best proof, gathered while everyone’s still happy. |
What does a recruitment website cost?
A dual-audience agency site typically lands at $1,500–$2,500; ATS integration and portal features are scoped on top. Automation workflows start at $750, and Lead Engine is quoted as its own engagement.
The services behind it
Common questions
From $1,500 for a dual-audience site with a managed jobs board, sector pages and brief-us path. ATS integration and candidate portals move builds into the $2,500–$4,500 range depending on your system. Everything is quoted fixed against written scope.
Usually — most modern ATS platforms expose feeds or APIs we can pull listings from, so the website stays current without double entry. Where integration isn’t possible, we build the board to be updated in minutes, because a stale board is worse than none.
A done-for-you outbound system: it researches and qualifies prospects overnight, then drafts a personalised email to each — in your voice, into your own Outlook or Gmail — by 9am, for you to approve and send. Nothing sends without you. The website convinces; Lead Engine fills the top of the funnel that referrals and job ads don’t reach. From $1,950 setup, $250 a month.
The site plus automation can: instant acknowledgment, honest status updates at each stage, and a polite close-out when a role fills. It’s the cheapest reputation repair in recruitment, because “they actually got back to me” is rare enough to be a differentiator.
Four to six weeks for the dual-audience build including sector pages; ATS integration adds a week or two of testing. The pacing item is usually sector copy and consultant photos — we front-load both, and C4 Lens can shoot the team in a morning.
Fill your own funnel for once.
Tell us your sectors, your ATS and where new business comes from today. We’ll scope the site — and tell you straight if Lead Engine fits.
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