About us

We make Western Balkan talent reachable.

CandidateForce is the hiring platform employers use to find, contact and hire skilled workers from the Western Balkans — directly, in their own language.

Real candidates

The talent pool is real, not scraped.

We operate the regional job portals where workers across the Western Balkans build their profiles. The candidates you see on CandidateForce are real people who registered to find work abroad — not data bought or scraped from elsewhere.

Our own job portals

Workers register on the regional portals we run across six Western Balkan markets.

Registered and active

Candidates create and maintain their own profiles, so the data stays current and usable.

Complete profiles

Experience, qualifications, language level and availability are visible before you reach out.

The team

So who is behind all of this?

  • A developer?
  • A SaaS company?
  • A big tech investor?

Actually, no.Behind CandidateForce are two founders with 5+ years in the recruitment business — the people who run the #1 recruitment agency in the Balkans and built this platform out of what that work actually needs.

Adil Salkičević
Runs the company

Adil Salkičević

Co-Founder & CEO

Adil leads CandidateForce day to day and is CEO of Balkan Recruiters, the #1 recruitment agency in the Balkans. Years of placing workers across the EU showed him exactly where hiring breaks down — and that operator's instinct sits behind every product decision we make.

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Dženan Hrvić
Builds the structure

Dženan Hrvić

Co-Founder & CSO — Strategy

Dženan is Co-Founder and CSO at Balkan Recruiters, where he contributes to operational structuring and strategic development. His role emphasises long-term scalability, cross-border collaboration and execution discipline in dynamic business environments.

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Why we built it

Hiring across borders is harder than it should be.

Employers across Germany and the EU face a growing shortage of skilled workers, while qualified candidates in the Western Balkans are looking for opportunities abroad. The two sides rarely meet — sourcing is scattered, language is a barrier, and the process is slow.

CandidateForce closes that gap. One platform to search candidates, post jobs across regional portals, chat with automatic translation and manage every step of hiring — so you can reach Balkan talent directly, without a traditional agency in the middle.

Managed recruitment

Want the whole thing handled?

From finding candidates to testing, documentation and the visa, Balkan Recruiters runs the full service. CandidateForce stays the platform; they do the hands-on work.

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The company

Company & legal details

CandidateForce is operated by Balkan Recruiters. Full legal entity, address and registration details are in our imprint.

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