CV database
CV database: search Western Balkan profiles and contact them directly
A CV database is a searchable pool of candidate profiles: you filter by trade, experience and language level and approach the right people directly, instead of posting an ad and waiting. What makes CandidateForce different is who is in the database – skilled and semi-skilled workers from the Western Balkans who are actively looking for a job abroad.
What you can do on the platform
Candidate databaseSearch candidate profiles Post jobs and collect applications Manage the hiring pipeline Message candidates directly Message candidates in their language (auto-translated) Schedule and run interviews Track status from first contact to start
Who is missing from most CV databases
DistributionThe large CV databases are full of people who already work in the country you are hiring in – and every other employer is competing for exactly those people. If you are looking for welders, automotive technicians or professional drivers, the search rarely fails because of the software; it fails because of the pool. The right profiles are either not there or have long been approached.
What the database gives you
ApplicationsRegistered candidates from the six Western Balkan countries: trades and metalwork, automotive, construction and installation, production and CNC, professional drivers, care and hospitality. Every profile belongs to a person actively looking for a job abroad.
How hiring from the Western Balkans works
HiringSearch candidate profiles by profession, experience and language level – or publish a job ad and collect applications.
Contact and interview Work permit and visa Arrival and first day
Roles
What you can filter by
Work experience
Qualifications and certificates
Language level
Availability
Willingness to relocate
Country
Registered on regional portals
Workers create their profiles on connected Western Balkan job portals, not scraped from elsewhere.
Complete profiles only
Candidates appear once their profile reaches the required completeness, so the data is usable.
Experience and qualifications
Work history, language level, driving licences and certificates are visible on each profile.
Work permit
The Western Balkans Regulation: the simplest route to a work permit
The Western Balkans Regulation (§ 26 (2) BeschV) opens the German labour market to citizens of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Albania for any job – no formal recognition of qualifications required. What is needed is a concrete job offer and approval from the Federal Employment Agency; currently 50,000 approvals are available per year.
As the employer you provide the job offer and the employment contract; the candidate applies for the visa at the German embassy in their country. For professions with recognised qualifications, the skilled-worker visa or the EU Blue Card are alternatives. You can run the visa process yourself – or hand it over to our partner Balkan Recruiters.
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Common questions
A searchable pool of candidate profiles. Instead of posting a job ad and waiting for applications, you filter the pool by trade, experience, language level and availability and approach the right people directly. Candidate database, applicant database and resume database all mean the same thing.
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.
Talk to Balkan Recruiters
Start hiring from the Western Balkans.
Search candidates and post your job on CandidateForce, free to start.