Case study

Rare Find Talent:a recruiting site with its own candidate pipeline.

Rare Find Talent is a boutique executive search firm. I built its website and the candidate pipeline behind it: a five-step application with resume upload, spam protection, and a private dashboard where the recruiter reviews every applicant. Candidate data lands in storage the firm owns, not in a job board’s database.

Business
Recruiting agency
Status
Live, and I still maintain it
Website
rarefindtalent.com
Screenshot of the Rare Find Talent website
The problem

What Rare Find Talent needed

A small search firm runs on trust. Candidates need a polished place to apply, and the recruiter needs every resume in one place the firm controls. The usual answers are a job board, which owns the first contact with the candidate, or an applicant tracking system with far more features than a one-recruiter firm will ever use.

What I built

What I built for Rare Find Talent

  1. 01

    A site written for senior candidates

    A fast, polished site that explains the firm’s executive search, contract placement and career coaching, for the candidates and the companies hiring them.

  2. 02

    Five-step application with resume upload

    Candidates apply in five short steps and attach a PDF resume. Each step checks its fields before moving on, so incomplete applications do not reach the recruiter.

  3. 03

    Spam and abuse protection

    Every submission passes a Cloudflare Turnstile check and server-side rate limiting before anything is stored.

  4. 04

    Data the firm owns

    Resumes go to private file storage, each application becomes a row in a Google Sheet the firm controls, and an email alert goes out for every submission.

  5. 05

    A private recruiter dashboard

    The recruiter signs in with a one-time link sent by email, with no password to forget, and reviews candidates and resumes in one place.

Built with

  • React
  • Vite
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Cloudflare R2
  • Google Sheets API
  • GitHub Pages
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