For Craigslist hiring
Posting to Craigslist? Here's how to actually read the replies.
BKKStaff plugs into your existing Craigslist post. Candidates apply through our link, our Recruiting Agent screens them, and you only meet the ones worth meeting. $99 per job, 30 days, up to 1,000 applicants.
- First job free
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- No card required
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- You keep your Craigslist post
If you've posted to Craigslist Jobs, this is your week
200 replies. Most are spam. A few are great. You'll never know which.
You posted a job for a line cook, a front desk person, a forklift driver. By Monday morning your inbox has 150 to 250 replies. Some are real. Some are bots. Some are CVs attached every which way — PDF, JPG of a printed page, "see my Google Drive (please request access)."
There's no good way to compare them. You can't tell who's serious. You can't write "thanks but no" to 195 people, so most get ghosted. Friends-of-friends in town will remember being ghosted.
By Wednesday you're too tired to keep filtering, so you hire the first decent-looking person. You know it's not your best decision. You make it anyway because the alternative is staying up another night.
Same Craigslist post · two outcomes
Before BKKStaff, and after.
- ·156 replies in your Gmail by Monday
- ·CVs in 7 different formats (and some without)
- ·No way to compare candidates side by side
- ·Three hours writing decline emails — or ghosting
- ·You hire the candidate from Thursday because you're tired
- ·Your reputation in town takes a small hit nobody mentions to your face
- ·Paste our apply link in your Craigslist post
- ·Go to bed
- ·The Agent talks to every applicant the way you would, in their language
- ·Every weak fit gets a polite, dignified decline
- ·By Wednesday, 5 to 10 interviews on your calendar with candidates who proved out
- ·Your reputation stays clean
Important
It works with Craigslist, not instead of it.
Craigslist is still where your local labor pool looks. For a lot of metros — the trades, food service, retail, warehouse — it's the channel with traffic you can't replace. We don't ask you to stop using it.
You keep posting on Craigslist. We just become the layer that reads, screens, and decides. Your Craigslist post says "apply here: [link]" and the Agent takes over the moment somebody clicks.
Same job, same reach, every decline goes out under your name. The only thing that changes is whether you spend the week reading 200 emails or interviewing the 7 candidates who actually proved out.
A typical week
A 12-person property management company hiring a maintenance tech.
Owner posts on Craigslist Jobs in the metro market. Paste the BKKStaff apply link in the post body. Closes the laptop.
156 applicants by 9am. The Agent has already replied to 94 of them, asking 1–2 questions about HVAC experience, plumbing scope, on-call availability. 11 have replied back.
7 interviews on the owner's calendar — all with maintenance techs the Agent verified through actual conversation. 142 candidates were politely declined; 7 didn't reply to the Agent's follow-up and got the non-response decline.
The owner read zero CVs and wrote zero decline emails. The hire started 11 days after the Craigslist post went up — and was someone whose CV would have been buried on page 4 of the inbox.
Pricing, in one line
$99 per job. First job free. No subscription, ever.
Your first Craigslist post through BKKStaff is free — full Agent, up to 200 candidates, no card required. After that, $99 covers the next job for 30 days and up to 1,000 applicants. Run a job, pay once, and don't pay again until you post another one.
Quick questions
Things you'd ask a friend.
Do I keep posting on Craigslist?+
Yes. Craigslist is your reach. BKKStaff is your filter. Keep posting where you've always posted; just paste our apply link in the body so replies route through us instead of your inbox.
What does the candidate see?+
They click your apply link, fill a short form on their phone, upload a CV. They get a fast, human-paced reply from the Recruiting Agent — usually within minutes — asking 1 to 3 follow-up questions about their experience. Strong fits get an interview scheduling link. Weak fits get a polite decline.
Do Craigslist applicants need an account on your site?+
No. They just need an email address. Everything happens through email — apply, follow-up questions, scheduling, decline.
What if I'm also posting on Indeed or Facebook?+
Same job, same apply link, every channel. All applicants flow into the same Recruiting Agent loop regardless of where they came from. We tag the source so you can see which channel produced your hires.
Stop reading resumes. Start interviewing the right people.
Post your first job free. We'll have a vetted shortlist of 5 in your inbox tomorrow morning.
- No card required
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- 30-day post duration
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- 7-day refund if zero applicants