The marketplace is where independent recruiters work hard-to-fill roles that companies publish on Chosen. Every role shows its fee, what you earn, and how fast the company actually responds — before you commit an hour to it.

Getting in

Apply at chosenhq.com/recruit/apply. Three short steps: who you are, what you recruit, how you work. A personal Gmail is fine — you don't need a company domain. We review by hand, usually within 3 business days, and the emailed status link shows where things stand the whole time.

Approved? Sign the platform agreement (plain language, published fees, no personal clawbacks) and enter your workspace.

Your workspace is the full ATS

Not a portal with a table bolted on. Candidates is the same workspace Chosen's hiring teams use: the query bar with AI search as the default (flip to standard for instant smart or boolean search), the full table with inline edits, sort, custom fields, a column layout that follows you across devices, bulk select with export, resume upload with AI parsing, and your saved AI searches under the Candidates entry in the sidebar. Your candidates are yours — companies never see them until you submit, and then they see exactly what you chose to send.

The one thing you don't have is jobs. Instead of assigning a candidate to a job, you add them to a role: select rows in the table (or open a candidate) and pick from the roles you're approved on. Roles you've applied to but haven't been approved for don't appear yet; a paused role can't take new candidates until the company resumes it.

The rest of the ATS is in the sidebar too: Interviews (HQ preps kits, joins calls, drafts scorecards), Schedule (the calendar and scheduling wizard), Analytics, and the HQ chat assistant under Tools, next to Sourcing, Screening and your booking link. Screening and the booking link get their own page: recruiter tools.

Adding a candidate from My Desk runs the real upload flow inside the dialog — drop a resume or paste text, and you watch it upload, create the candidate, attach to the role and parse, step by step. If parsing is slow or fails, you're told and can open the candidate anyway.

Applying to a role

Marketplace shows open roles as cards or as a table — toggle next to the sort. Either way you see comp band, fee, what you'd earn on a placement, and a role-health score. Health is computed from the company's actual behavior — median feedback time, calibration, past fill rate. A 92 responds; a 64 is telling you something. Click the company's name for their track record: marketplace hires, how fast they hire, how fast they reply.

The role page shows the job description and any notes the hiring team wrote for recruiters — the stuff that never makes the public posting. Apply from there. There are no seats to run out of: Chosen reviews role applications, usually within a business day, and a decline comes with a note. You can apply again later.

The evidence packet

You don't submit resumes here — you submit receipts:

Profile and resume — from your own candidate workspace.
Match report — AI-scored against the role's ranked requirements, with quoted evidence per row. Honest gaps show as honest gaps.
Scored screen — attach an askspresso-scored interview with rubric scores and timestamped highlights.
Your notes — private by default. Pick which ones ride along with the packet; unpicked notes never leave your workspace.
Your pitch — three sentences, AI-drafted from the evidence, edited until it sounds like you.

The packet won't submit until the quality gates pass: candidate consent on file, no duplicate in the company's ATS, nobody already representing them there, nobody else already submitted them to this role, the role still open, you're approved on it. The blocked reason is always spelled out. If another recruiter beat you to a candidate on a role, you're told immediately — before you polish a packet that can't win.

Chosen reviews every packet first

Submit doesn't go straight to the company. The packet sits in Chosen review — usually under a business day — and one of two things happens: it's released to the company (their review clock starts then), or it comes back to your desk as a draft with a note saying what to fix. Fix it, resubmit, same evidence. You can withdraw while it's pending; nothing has reached the company yet.

Share a role with a candidate

Once you're approved on a role, Share role gives you a private link to send candidates. They see the role — title, company, comp band, description, requirements — and can raise a hand. Interested candidates land in your workspace and on your desk, and they get the consent email automatically. Rotate the link any time; the old one stops working.

Watch the intake call

Some roles carry a recording of Chosen's intake conversation with the hiring team. When one exists, the role page shows an Intake call badge in the header with its length; click it to land on the Intake tab.

You get the recording, a summary of what was said, and a searchable transcript. Click any transcript line to jump the video to that moment. If the call was trimmed, the clock and the scrubber both show the trimmed length — you are not hunting through eleven minutes of small talk to find the part where they describe the team.

Two summaries can appear on that tab and they are not the same thing. From the intake call is generated from the recording. The bulleted list above the Brief v{n} line is the brief the hiring team edited by hand. Read both; they disagree more often than you'd expect.

Not every role has one. When there's no recording, the tab says so and shows whatever brief notes exist. A recording whose transcript failed still plays — you just don't get the search box.

Consent comes first

Before a submittal, your candidate approves representation from their phone — one tap, company-scoped, expires after 12 months, revocable anytime. One recruiter represents a candidate per company; the first consent wins.

After the company says yes

An accepted candidate lands in the company's own hiring pipeline, tagged as yours. From then on your submittal page shows the live progression: which stage they're in now, when they reached the interview, the final round, the offer. You're not refreshing an inbox hoping for news — the tracker updates as the company moves them.

Reaching the final interview also locks your finalist bonus (currently $200 per finalist, paid up front, hired or not). The full money mechanics live on how you get paid.

Messaging and role channels

Every role you're on gets a message thread with the company — decisions, questions, and system updates land there with receipts. When the company connects Slack, a shared role channel opens for everyone working the role; messages mirror both ways, so you can live in Slack and nothing is lost in the app.

Withdrawing, and changing your mind

You can withdraw a submittal while it's waiting on the company, and your candidate can withdraw themselves from their status page. Either way the packet lands back on your desk as withdrawn — reopen it later with the match report, screen, and pitch intact.

A declined submittal is different: it stays closed for that role. The company owes you a structured reason and a written note, and that feedback is the point — take it to the next candidate rather than re-sending the same packet. Same when a company passes on your candidate later, mid-process: the submittal shows the reason and note the moment they add it, next to the stage the candidate reached.

When companies go quiet

Companies commit to a decision on every released submittal within 5 business days. Past due, the company gets nudged and the submittal is flagged at risk; past 10, the listing auto-pauses and its health score drops. Slow companies pay in recruiter attention — you don't chase anyone.