For candidates
Raydar is an AI recruiting agency. One 15-minute Agent Call replaces the usual screening round. The hours that saves go into the parts that decide whether you get the job: finding you the right roles, preparing you for every round, and handling the salary conversation so you do not have to.
Free for candidates, always. Our fee is paid by the company, never by you.
The difference
The screening call is the most repetitive part of recruiting and the least valuable to you. It is also where most of an agency's time goes. We gave that part to an agent so our recruiters spend their time on matching, prep and your offer instead.
How it usually goes
How Raydar works
How it works
01
Book a slot at any hour, including tonight, and join a short Google Meet with Raydar's interview agent. It asks about your background, what you want to do next, where you are willing to work, and what you need to earn. Ten to fifteen minutes and you are done.
The call is recorded and transcribed. That is deliberate: you tell your story once, and nobody makes you repeat it later.
02
We complete your profile and build you a curated list of the roles you genuinely fit, drawn from the 511 companies hiring across our network. Then we keep looking. Every day for the six months after your call, every new role that lands gets checked against you, and anything that fits is added to your list.
You hear from us either way after the call. From then on, no new roles means no email: we do not send a message that amounts to no news.
03
Before each interview we build you a document for that company, that round and the people whose names are on the invite. Not general advice. What this team is looking for, the questions you are likely to get, the weak spots in your profile and how to handle them.
It comes from the intake call with the hiring team, not from the job description. Those turn out to be very different documents.
04
When an offer comes, you have someone on your side who knows what the role was budgeted at and has done this before. Most candidates negotiate once every few years. We do it constantly, and we do it without you having to be the one in the room asking.
Our fee is a percentage of your salary. Every extra dollar we win you, we take a cut of. Read that as an incentive rather than a favour.
Interview prep
Most interview advice is generic because most recruiters have nothing specific to give you. We do. Every role in our network begins with an intake call where the hiring team says, in their own words, what they want and what would rule someone out.
That is what your prep document is built from, along with the round you are actually walking into, who is in the room, and current research on the company.
Start with a 15-minute Agent CallBuilt fresh for each round, and read by a person before it reaches you.
Compensation
Candidates routinely ask for less than the role was already budgeted at, because they are guessing and the company is not. We are not guessing either. We can see the range a company agreed to when it opened the role, which is exactly why we would rather you did not go first.
That is also why the Agent Call asks what you are targeting, base and total. Not to hold you to a number, but so that we know immediately when an offer is below what the role is funded for.
Placements
A few of the roles that started with a fifteen minute conversation and ended with a signed offer.
Member of Technical Staff
at AIUC
Principal Product Manager
at Textla
Marketing Analyst
at Strala
647 companies sit across our network and 511 of them were hiring when we last counted, from names you already know to teams you will be glad you heard about early. The whole list is public and searchable.
Straight answers
Yes, and it always will be. There is no fee to you at any point, and nothing is taken out of your salary. The placement fee is paid by the company that hires you.
The marketplace we recruit through also pays us small rewards when someone we put forward reaches an interview stage, so you never have to take our word for it that we are not simply pushing you somewhere to collect.
Yes. The call is recorded and transcribed, and Paraform, the marketplace we recruit through, keeps its own recording as the record of the conversation.
That is the whole point of doing it this way. You explain your background once, and everything after that is built on what you actually said rather than on somebody's half remembered notes.
Raydar, and Paraform, the recruiting marketplace we work through, which holds your profile and keeps the call as the record of the conversation. When we put you forward for a specific role, that company sees your profile and your résumé.
We are a recruiting agency, not a job board and not a data broker. Nobody buys your details from us. If you want to stop hearing from us, say so on the call or reply to any email and that is the end of it.
No. Plenty of people take the call while they are happily employed, so that when something genuinely worth moving for comes up, we already know enough to tell them about it.
Tell us on the call. It changes what we do and how fast. If you are late in a process elsewhere, we will say so rather than pretending we can start something that will not finish in time.
Talk to us first. A direct application can make Raydar ineligible to represent you for that role, and if we cannot represent you, you lose the prep and you lose having someone handle the offer.
We complete your profile, then match you against the roles open across our network and build you a curated list. For the six months after your call we recheck it every day, and when a new role lands that fits you, it goes on your list and you hear from us.
Once you are set up, if nothing new has landed you hear nothing. We do not send a weekly message that says there is no news.
Yes. An Intro Call is fifteen minutes with someone on the Raydar team and no agent involved. There are fewer slots and they need a couple of hours notice, so the Agent Call is the faster door, but the option is there.
Your next move
Book whenever suits you, including right now. If you would rather start with a person, you can book an Intro Call instead.
Book a 15-minute Agent Call