Evan Sohn named several companies as competitive reference points or market comparables during the interview. In the do-it-yourself job posting category, he cited ZipRecruiter, Indeed, and LinkedIn as the primary alternatives to using a recruiter. He described Fiverr and Upwork as analogues to Recruiter.com's on-demand marketplace model, positioning the company as, in his words, Fiverr for recruiting.
Sohn referenced ZipRecruiter's revenue multiple of five to six times run-rate revenue and Fiverr's multiple of approximately 22 times revenue as benchmarks for valuing Recruiter.com's own business segments. These multiples reflect Sohn's characterization of public market trading levels as of October 2021 and are not figures confirmed by those companies. He also cited DocuSign as a comparable for the SaaS software segment, noting that operations software of that type trades at approximately 22 times revenue, again per Sohn's framing and not a company-confirmed figure. Bullhorn, iCIMS, Jobvite, JazzHR, and NXTThing were mentioned by the interviewer in the context of private equity consolidation activity in the recruiting software space, but Sohn did not provide metrics for any of those companies.