RecruiterDesk vs a spreadsheet

For a brand-new recruiter with one or two mandates, often yes. A spreadsheet is free, flexible and familiar. It starts to cost you once you juggle several mandates and clients, because there is no real pipeline, no fitment scoring, no reminders, and no safe handling of candidate data.

You move when the manual work of a spreadsheet, scoring candidates by feel, chasing follow-ups from memory, rebuilding submissions, and keeping candidate data organised and compliant, starts costing you more time and placements than the software costs. RecruiterDesk adds that structure for one flat monthly price.

In a spreadsheet, it depends on someone remembering to type a note in the right tab. In RecruiterDesk, if a candidate withdrew, took another offer or a counter-offer, went unresponsive or lost interest on an earlier mandate, a Before chip shows wherever they are added again, with the role, client, round and date, read from the record itself. Details that belong to the person, such as notice, buyout and earliest joining date, are filled in on their next mandate, so you do not ask again.

Yes, and in both directions. Import your candidate sheet as Excel or CSV by mapping its columns onto the talent fields, or drop their resumes in bulk. Add your clients by hand in a minute, and add mandates by hand or import a client's demand tracker into mandates in one go. Export everything to CSV at any time, so moving off a spreadsheet does not lock you in.