about hyring
Hyring is a tech-led marketplace that connects organisations with vetted human capital professionals, on demand. It was built in the UAE by people who had spent their careers inside the hiring process, and who kept watching the same thing go wrong from the inside.
An enterprise client signs with a recruitment agency. The fee is 20 to 30 percent of first-year salary. Across a large hiring programme that runs into the millions.
The actual work is done by one or two individual recruiters. They are good. They are the reason the roles get filled. The client did not choose them, often never meets the wider team behind the logo, and has no say in who is assigned or whether that person stays on the account next quarter.
So the outcome depends almost entirely on one variable, and that variable is the one thing the client has no control over. Meanwhile the recruiter doing the work keeps a fraction of the fee their work generated.
Everybody in recruitment knows this. Very little in the market was built to fix it.
If your result depends on which specific person works your assignment, why can you not choose that person, deal with them directly, and pay for their time rather than a share of somebody's salary?
That is the whole of Hyring. Put the choice back in the client's hands. Keep the specialist's earnings with the specialist. Remove the percentage-of-salary structure that made a routine hire cost as much as a car.
the gap we found
This is not a general complaint about recruitment. These are three specific, structural holes in the market, and they compound each other.
A company hiring five to fifteen people a year is too small to justify a permanent talent function and too price-sensitive to hand every role to an agency. Nothing served that middle properly, so those companies either overpaid or the founder did it themselves, badly.
Experienced recruiters, human capital partners, employee relations specialists, coaches and organisation designers have gone independent in large numbers. But clients could not tell a genuinely excellent independent from a confident profile, so most defaulted back to agencies out of caution. Good supply, no trust layer.
The comparable platforms globally are built for United States technology hiring. They have effectively no presence in the UAE or Saudi Arabia, and no understanding of nationalisation targets, local labour frameworks, or how hiring actually happens in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. That is the market we built for first.
what we believe
The individual is the variable that determines your outcome. Handing that choice to a supplier and hoping is not a model, it is a habit. On Hyring you see who you are getting, and why we picked them.
The platform reads every brief against the whole bench, because consistency at scale is a technology problem. The Hyring team vets every specialist before they join it and checks every match before it goes out. The recruiter then owns the candidate shortlist and answers for it, because judgement is not a technology problem.
If we do not deliver, you get your money back in full. Retained search elsewhere takes money up front that you do not see again, which puts the cost of failure on the client who has the least control over it.
A recruiter who builds the relationship, runs the search and closes the hire should not be handing over most of the fee. Independents keep the majority of theirs here, which is precisely why the good ones join.
where we are now
We are not going to dress up an early-stage company as a mature one. Here is the position, stated plainly.
specialist hires delivered on a single enterprise cybersecurity programme in Abu Dhabi
countries where we can source or place human capital specialists
shortlist validated by the Hyring team before it reaches a client
disciplines on the bench, from executive search and employer branding to organisation design, coaching and employee relations
The platform reads every brief against the entire bench and finds the match, which is work no person can do consistently at volume. What the Hyring team does is the part that actually protects the client: vetting every specialist before they reach the bench, and checking every match before it reaches you. The recruiter then owns the candidate shortlist and puts their name to it. As volume grows the matching gets better, because every completed assignment feeds it. The vetting standard and the human sign-off do not move. If we ever quietly drop those, we will have become the thing we were built to replace.
the people behind it
Hyring is run by people who have carried hiring targets themselves, in this region, including onsite delivery on the enterprise programmes described in our case studies.
A global headhunter and entrepreneur with thirty years in the industry, across the United States, the United Kingdom and most recently four years in MENA. Founder of Hyring. Personally led embedded recruitment onsite at a sovereign-backed technology group, delivering over one hundred hires in six months. That delivery standard is what the vetted global network was built around.
Fourteen years in the UAE, based in Abu Dhabi. Global experience across talent attraction, talent acquisition, change and transformation, partnerships and marketing, leading global teams in Fortune 100 companies and in start-ups.
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Biography to be added: the engineering background, and how the platform, the app and the data spine are built and run. The technology positions on this site, matching validated by a person, arithmetic a client can recheck, an audit trail on every engagement, are this seat's to deliver. awaiting name and copy
Vetted specialists across ten disciplines and more than 50 countries, each verified before they take a brief.
Backed by operators rather than funds. The angels behind Hyring came from sovereign investment, from technology leadership in this region, from a senior product role inside a major UAE technology group, and from a chief people officer seat. They invested because they had lived the problem from one side of it or another. The round is raised and deployed, into engineering, the platform and runway. confirm what may be said publicly, and whether investors are named
common questions
Hyring was started by recruitment practitioners in the UAE who kept seeing the same pattern from the inside: an enterprise client paying an agency 20 to 30 percent of first-year salary per hire, running into millions across a large programme, while the actual work was done by one or two individual recruiters the client never chose and often never met. The value sat with the individual and the margin sat with the agency, while the client carried both the cost and the risk. Hyring was built to put the choice of specialist back in the client's hands, keep the specialist's earnings with the specialist, and remove the percentage-of-salary fee structure.
Hyring is headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, working across Abu Dhabi and Dubai as its home markets. Abu Dhabi is where our largest enterprise delivery has taken place. From there we serve the wider GCC, including Saudi Arabia, and place specialists into and out of more than 50 countries.
Hyring is independently owned and is not part of, funded by or contracted to a recruitment agency group. We do not run a preferred supplier list that pays for placement, and no specialist can buy a better position on your shortlist. Our commercial outcome is the same whichever vetted specialist you choose, which is what makes the recommendation worth listening to.
where the work runs
The same vantage point in every city, because the work looks the same from the desk it is done at. Abu Dhabi is home; the bench works across the region.
work with us
Organisations get a specialist chosen by a person who read the brief. Independents get live mandates without the business development grind.