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Recruitment apps for Jeddah's hotels, retailers and port businesses.

We take on recruitment app development Jeddah agencies and job boards need when hiring comes in waves: hotel openings, retail launches, port and logistics contracts, and the build up before busy Umrah periods. The product covers a job search app for candidates, a portal where employers request headcount and review candidates, and the back office your recruiters work from. Jeddah hiring moves fast and involves people from many countries, so the app has to be quick, multilingual and clear about every next step.

Discovery and design reviews for Jeddah clients run by video call with our team in Riyadh and Dubai. You see working builds at agreed points and your recruiters test them on live roles before anything goes to the app stores. Nothing reaches candidates until your team is comfortable with it.

Built for
Jeddah recruitment agencies, hospitality and retail employers hiring at volume, job boards for the western region, and licensed domestic worker offices.
Typical timeline
We agree the first release in discovery, then put the plan and its dates in writing before design starts, so your recruiters know when to expect it.
What you own
The code, both store listings, the admin and employer portals and all candidate data, registered to your company accounts.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer

Modon
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HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

Features we build

Built for volume hiring in a port and gateway city.

Jeddah employers rarely hire one person at a time. A new hotel along the Corniche, a mall tenant opening several stores, or a logistics firm winning a contract near Jeddah Islamic Port can need dozens of people in a short window. Agencies that serve them spend most of their day collecting documents, arranging interviews and chasing candidates for answers.

The features below are aimed at that pattern. They help a small recruitment team handle large intakes without losing track of anyone, and they give employers a clear view of how their headcount request is progressing. We pick the first release with you in discovery, based on where your recruiters spend the most hours today and which of your clients will use the employer portal first.

Explain your project
  • Hiring campaigns

    Group related vacancies into one campaign, such as a hotel pre opening or a seasonal retail push, with a shared landing page in the app, a target headcount and a progress bar the employer can see. Recruiters work the whole campaign from one board instead of thirty separate job posts. Campaigns can be cloned for the next opening so setup takes minutes.

    Large intakes stay organised from first advert to final offer.

  • Assessment day booking

    Candidates book a slot at a group interview or assessment day, receive a QR pass and get directions to the venue in Jeddah. On the day, staff scan passes to check people in and record results against each name on a tablet. No shows are flagged so recruiters can fill the gap from a waiting list.

    Assessment days run on time with results captured on the spot.

  • Multilingual job adverts

    Adverts in Arabic and English as standard, with the option to add other languages your candidate pool reads. Hospitality and logistics roles in Jeddah draw applicants from many nationalities, and an advert they understand brings better applications. Translated adverts are reviewed by your team before they publish.

    More complete applications from a wider pool.

  • Employer headcount portal

    Employers submit a headcount request with roles, numbers, start dates and requirements, then follow shortlists, interview outcomes and offers in one place. Several managers from the same hotel group or retailer can work in the same account with separate permissions. Requests can be split by branch or property when one group hires for several sites.

    Clients track their request without daily status calls.

  • Document collection

    Candidates photograph passports, certificates, experience letters and food handling or safety cards directly in the app. Recruiters see a checklist per candidate with what is missing, expired or waiting for review. Expiry dates trigger reminders before a card or permit lapses.

    Files are complete before candidates reach the employer.

  • Offer and acceptance flow

    Employers approve an offer in the portal, the candidate receives it in the app with the salary basis, allowances and joining terms laid out clearly, and accepts or declines with one tap. Declines ask for a reason, which helps your recruiters understand why candidates in Jeddah turn down certain roles or locations and adjust future adverts.

    Offers are answered faster and every decision is on record.

  • Overseas hire tracker

    For roles filled from abroad, a stage tracker covers offer, visa steps, medical, flight booking and arrival at King Abdulaziz International Airport. Your team records each step, and employers see an expected joining date that updates as the case moves. Delays at any step are highlighted so your team can act early.

    Employers plan rosters around realistic arrival dates.

  • Candidate chat handoff

    Many Jeddah candidates prefer WhatsApp. The app sends structured updates and interview details through the channels you approve, and replies are logged against the candidate record so the next recruiter sees the conversation. Message templates are prepared in Arabic and English.

    Conversations stay on record even when recruiters change shifts.

  • Referral rewards

    Placed candidates and employees refer friends through a link in the app. The system tracks who referred whom and flags rewards for payment once the new hire passes the agreed period, under rules you set. Referral rules can differ for each employer client.

    A low effort source of candidates who already know the work.

  • Recruiter dashboard

    Daily lists of interviews, documents to review, offers awaiting reply and campaigns behind target. Managers see each recruiter's pipeline and can move candidates between team members when someone is overloaded during a busy intake. Reports show time to fill by client and by role type.

    Workload stays balanced during the busiest weeks.

Who this is for

Where a Jeddah recruitment app pays off first.

The right first release depends on who you serve. A hospitality focused agency, a retail employer running its own hiring, a job board for the western region and a domestic worker office each have a different main user and a different bottleneck. Here is how we usually shape the product for each, with the part we would build first. Whichever applies, the first release is kept small enough to be used during your next major intake.

01

An agency supplying hotels and serviced apartments

Hotel clients in Jeddah and those serving Umrah guests in Makkah want large teams ready before an opening or a busy season. We start with hiring campaigns, assessment day booking and the employer portal, so the agency can show progress against headcount every day. The overseas tracker follows for roles filled from abroad. Employer users see a daily count of candidates at each stage against the headcount they asked for.

Campaigns and the employer portal come first.

02

A retailer or restaurant group hiring directly

Brands with outlets across Jeddah's malls and along Tahlia Street often run hiring in house. A branded careers app lets candidates apply to a specific branch, book an interview with the area manager and upload documents without visiting head office. HR sees applications by branch and role, which makes it easy to spot which locations are short staffed. Area managers approve interviews from their phones between shifts. Branch reports also help regional managers plan before Ramadan and the summer holidays, when demand shifts.

03

A job board for the western region

You want a job search app covering Jeddah, Makkah, Madinah and the coast. Employers post and pay, candidates search and apply, and your team moderates. We design search around district and sector, and give employers a dashboard of applicants for each listing so they return to post again. Moderation tools let your team pause or edit listings that break your posting rules.

04

A domestic worker recruitment office

Families in Jeddah want to know when their worker will arrive and what is still needed from them. A small app shows the request status, a document list and the office contact, while the official contract and steps stay on Musaned. It cuts the volume of calls and visits to the office. Arabic is the default and wording is kept short and friendly.

Kept simple for users who open it rarely.

From first call to a working Jeddah recruitment app.

  1. 01Video discovery sessionsWe interview your recruiters, a couple of employer clients and some recent candidates by video, then map how a headcount request turns into people starting work.
  2. 02Scope and release planFeatures are ranked by impact on your busiest weeks. The first release, later phases and the dates are written down and signed off before design. Changes later go through the same sign off.
  3. 03Design for many languagesArabic right to left layouts first, English second, and room for further languages in adverts, with large tap targets for candidates applying on older phones.
  4. 04Build in short cyclesCandidate app, employer portal and recruiter dashboard are built together in two week cycles, with a working build shared at the end of each one.
  5. 05Pilot on a real campaignWe run one live hiring campaign through the product with a friendly client, fix the friction points, then submit to the App Store and Google Play.
  6. 06Season by season improvementAfter each major intake we review what slowed the team down and plan the next release around it, so the app gets sharper before every busy period. Fixes found mid season can ship as small updates.

Technology

What we build this with.

Cross platform apps in Flutter or React Native, a web based employer portal and recruiter dashboard, and cloud hosting in a region agreed during discovery. We plan capacity for the spikes that come with large campaigns, so the app stays responsive when applications arrive in bulk. Image uploads are compressed on the phone so document photos send quickly on mobile data.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

What Jeddah recruiters ask before building.

The part of hiring that takes your team the most hours.

For most Jeddah agencies that is document collection and interview arrangement during big intakes, so the first release often covers campaigns, assessment day booking and the employer portal. A job board starts instead with search, employer posting and payments. We confirm the priorities in discovery by looking at how your last few large hiring projects actually ran, then write down what goes into release one. Later phases then add the features your consultants request once they are using the product daily.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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