I run the search.
You show up to the interviews.

Role sourcing, a resume variant per posting, submission inside five days, and a direct line to the hiring manager on every role.

Hasan Waheed, photographed head and shoulders in a suit and tie
Hasan Waheed. Co-founder, Zee Careers. Paid by the candidate, never by the employer.

2,200+interviews generated for clients since 2020, across the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.

The hiring system is broken. We flipped it.

Every recruiter you have spoken to was paid by the company. That is the business model, not a conspiracy. Reverse recruiting puts the agent on your side of the table.

Reverse recruiting, candidate first

You are the client. I source against your written target, tailor a resume variant per posting, submit inside the first five days, and contact the hiring manager and the internal recruiter on every role.

  • Paid by you. Represents only you.
  • Outreach to the hiring manager on every submission
  • Day four and day eight follow-ups, tracked
  • Twenty or more hours a week back in your calendar
  • Competing offers timed to land together
  • Nothing sent without your sign-off

Traditional agency recruiting

Paid a percentage of your salary by the employer. Loyal to the client who signs the invoice. Your interests are a rounding error in someone else's placement fee.

  • Works the roles they have, not the roles you want
  • Incentivised to close fast, not to close high
  • No loyalty to you once the fee is paid

Side by side

Who pays
Traditional recruiterThe employerReverse recruiterYou
Who they represent
Traditional recruiterThe company with the open seatReverse recruiterOne candidate at a time
Roles in play
Traditional recruiterOnly the roles on their deskReverse recruiterEvery role matching your written target
Hiring manager access
Traditional recruiterGatekept by the processReverse recruiterDirect outreach on every submission
Your weekly time
Traditional recruiter15 to 25 hoursReverse recruiterUnder two hours: interviews and decisions
Visibility
Traditional recruiterSilence between callsReverse recruiterA live tracker: every contact, dated

Everything between your current job and your next offer, run for you.

  1. 01

    Resume, LinkedIn and bio, rebuilt

    A master resume rebuilt for how parsers actually read, then a tailored variant per posting. LinkedIn rewritten for recruiter search, plus a short bio for the introductions I make on your behalf.

    Master resume, per-posting variants, LinkedIn rewrite, executive bio.

  2. 02

    Sourcing and applications, run for you

    You sign off a written target: level, function, company type, comp floor, location, work authorisation. I source against it daily and submit between 50 and 140 targeted applications a month depending on the tier, each inside the first five days a posting is live.

    50 to 140 submissions a month by tier, sub-five-day submission, a shared tracker.

  3. 03

    A direct line to the hiring manager

    On the $1,000 tier every application gets a second route in. I identify the hiring manager and the internal recruiter, write to both by email and on LinkedIn, and follow up on day four and day eight. VPs, Directors and Founders read short, specific notes. That is what they get.

    Hiring manager and internal recruiter outreach, day four and day eight follow-ups. Top tier only.

  4. 04

    Interview prep and offer negotiation

    Also on the $1,000 tier, and at no extra charge. Prep before every round, a debrief after. When offers land, I run the counter-offer playbook: timing competing offers together, anchoring on total compensation, and scripting every reply so you never negotiate against yourself.

    Round-by-round prep, a counter-offer playbook, and every reply scripted before you send it. Top tier only.

Moving markets? Your work authorisation shapes the search from day one.

Sponsorship and status are filters in the sourcing target, not an afterthought at offer stage. This is not immigration advice. A licensed adviser handles your filing.

TN status
Canadian citizens taking US roles in eligible professions. USCIS
H-1B transfers
Sourcing limited to US employers with a record of transfer sponsorship. The employer files the petition, not you. USCIS
UK Skilled Worker sponsorship
Targeting employers the Home Office has licensed to sponsor, so no interview is wasted. GOV.UK
Compensation and time calculator

What does running your own search actually cost you?

An illustration, not a quote and not a promise. Every assumption it makes is listed under the sliders. Your real number comes out of the call.

I co-founded Zee Careers because the person doing the searching should be the one you are paying.

Career advice is abundant. Execution is not. Most candidates know what a good search looks like and still cannot run one, because they have a job, a family and roughly twenty free hours a week that a proper search eats whole.

So I run the search. I take on a small number of clients at a time, source against a written target, write a resume variant for every posting, submit inside five days, and contact the hiring manager and the internal recruiter on every role. Since 2020 the work has generated more than 2,200 interviews for clients across the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.

Everything lands in a tracker you can open whenever you want. It names who was contacted and when, which is the whole reason one person doing the work beats a platform pretending to.

Zero employer bias
No placement fees, no client companies, no side to serve but yours.
Three markets
US, UK and Canadian searches, including cross-border and sponsored moves.
Maximum compensation
Offers timed together and negotiated on total comp, not base alone.
Strict discretion
Nothing goes out without your sign-off. Your current employer never hears from me.

Questions candidates ask first

General

What is reverse recruiting?
A recruiter who works for you instead of for a company. I source roles against your written target, tailor and submit applications, contact hiring managers directly and negotiate offers. You pay me, so I answer only to you.
Who is this for?
Senior individual contributors, managers, directors and executives in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada who have a job, a target, and not enough hours to run a proper search themselves.
Will my current employer find out?
No. Nothing is sent without your written sign-off, your current company is excluded from all sourcing, and I never contact anyone in your existing reporting line.

Process

How long until the first interviews?
Most clients see first-round interviews inside the first three weeks, once the target is signed off and the resume variants are live. Timelines vary by market, seniority and how narrow the target is.
What do you need from me?
A written target we agree together, your existing resume and LinkedIn, roughly one hour a week for interview prep and decisions, and honest feedback after every round.
How many roles will you apply to each month?
It depends on the tier. 70 to 90 at $300, 120 to 140 at $500, and 50 to 100 at $1,000. All of them go out inside the first five days a posting is live, each with a resume variant written for that posting. The top tier is deliberately the lowest count, because those roles also get hiring manager and recruiter outreach and follow-ups on day four and day eight.

Global markets

Can you place me in a country I do not currently live in?
Yes, across the US, UK and Canada. Work authorisation becomes a filter in the sourcing target from day one so we only pursue employers who can actually hire you.
Do you handle visa sponsorship?
I target employers with a record of sponsoring the route you need, such as TN status, H-1B transfers or UK Skilled Worker visas. The filing itself is handled by a licensed immigration adviser, not by me.
What about fully remote roles?
Remote is a market in its own right in the sourcing target. I filter for employers that hire in your tax residency, which avoids the offer collapsing at contract stage.

Pricing and guarantee

What does it cost?
Three monthly options, no success fee. $300 for 70 to 90 applications with a resume variant written for each posting. $500 for 120 to 140 of those plus a written search strategy. $1,000 for 50 to 100 worked roles, which is fewer applications but adds hiring manager and recruiter outreach on every one, LinkedIn rebuilt, interview prep and offer negotiation.
Is there a guarantee?
Nobody can honestly guarantee an offer. On the $1,000 tier I guarantee ten or more interviews inside ninety days, meaning scheduled conversations with employers, or I keep working at no charge until you get there. On the lower two tiers I guarantee the work rather than the outcome: the agreed submission volume, and a tracker you can audit at any time.
How do I qualify?
A clear target, a track record that supports it, and availability to interview. The 15-minute call exists to establish exactly that before either of us commits.
Complimentary 15-minute strategy call

Fifteen minutes with me. You leave with a plan either way.

We confirm the target and I tell you honestly whether I can move it. No pitch deck, no obligation, and confidential by default.