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Modern outplacement your employees will actually use

DirectApplicant is a modern outplacement platform that gets laid-off employees back to interviews in days, not months. Employees get real-time job alerts sourced directly from employers' career pages, ghost-job detection, application tracking, and 24/7 AI career coaching. Programs are published openly from $749 per employee — typically 75% below the legacy quote on your desk, and the only program in the category built around a product employees use every day.

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How it works

1. Send us your list

Share the names and email addresses of affected employees. There's no implementation project — setup happens the same day.

2. Employees start searching

Each employee gets a personal invite, sets up job alerts in minutes, and starts receiving fresh openings collected directly from company career pages — with AI coaching for resumes, job fit, and interviews.

3. You see engagement

Your HR team gets weekly engagement reports — activations, active users, alerts delivered, and self-reported interview activity — for the whole cohort.

DirectApplicant vs. traditional outplacement

Traditional pricing reflects publicly listed program rates from major providers; many providers do not publish pricing.
DirectApplicant Traditional outplacement
Price $749–$2,995 per employee per program, published openly with volume discounts $1,000–$25,000+ per employee, custom quotes
Time to deploy Same day — send a list, employees are searching within minutes of accepting Typically weeks of contracting and implementation
Core service Real-time job discovery: alerts from employers' own career pages, ghost-job detection, direct applications, application tracking Scheduled coaching sessions plus a resource portal
Coaching AI coaching 24/7 — job fit analysis, resume optimization, interview prep Limited human coaching hours, booked in advance
Reporting Weekly cohort engagement reports for HR Periodic program summaries
Commitment Published per-employee programs with pilot cohorts and volume discounts Custom-quoted program fees, negotiated case by case

Transparent pricing

Published openly — rare in this category. Volume discounts at 50+ employees (15%) and 150+ (25%).

Core Plus Executive

$749

per employee · 3-month program

Full platform, AI coaching, same-day deployment, weekly cohort engagement reports

$1,495

per employee · until placement or 6 months

Everything in Core, program runs until placement, priority employee support

$2,995

per employee · 12-month program

Everything in Plus, white-glove onboarding, dedicated program check-ins

Pilot cohorts run at a founding rate of $599 per employee with agreed success metrics, and employees keep their accounts when the engagement ends.

Get a quote for your cohort

What would you save?

Typical mid-market programs run $1,000–$5,000 per employee.

Traditional outplacement

$75,000

DirectApplicant Core program

$18,725

Your savings

$56,275

Beyond the direct cost difference, outplacement support is widely reported to shorten unemployment-insurance claim duration and reduce dispute risk during workforce reductions.

Employer FAQ

DirectApplicant is a modern outplacement platform. Instead of coach-led programs billed per employee, your departing employees get the DirectApplicant job search product: real-time job alerts collected directly from employers' career pages, ghost-job detection, application tracking, and 24/7 AI career coaching — paid for by you at a published per-employee program price.

Programs are priced per employee and published openly: Core is $749 for a 3-month program, Plus is $1,495 (until placement or 6 months), and Executive is $2,995 (12 months). Volume discounts start at 50 employees. Traditional programs are commonly quoted at $2,000 to over $10,000 per employee.

Same day. Send us your employee list and every employee receives a personal invite; most are set up with job alerts within minutes of accepting. There is no implementation project, integration, or training required.

Legacy providers are built around scheduled human coaching delivered through older portals, with per-program pricing that is rarely published. DirectApplicant is built around the job search itself: fresh openings sourced from company career sites, instant alerts, direct applications, and AI coaching on demand — at a transparent, published program price.

No — coaching is delivered by AI, available 24/7, and covers job fit analysis, resume optimization, and interview preparation. If your severance package includes human coaching hours from another provider, DirectApplicant complements it well; if you need executive-level human coaching as the centerpiece, a traditional provider may fit better.

Full Premium access: unlimited job search over openings collected directly from employers' career pages throughout the day, saved searches with instant email alerts, ghost-job detection that flags stale or reposted listings, an application tracker, and AI coaching (job fit analysis, resume optimization, interview prep).

Share a list of names and email addresses. Each person receives a personal invitation and sets up their own account — no passwords to distribute and no licenses to manage. Employees can keep using their account on their own terms after the engagement ends.

Your HR team receives engagement reporting for the cohort — activations, active users, alerts delivered, and self-reported interview activity — on a weekly cadence during the engagement.

Yes. Employees own their accounts and their data. The platform includes self-service data export and deletion, cookie consent management, and GDPR-aligned privacy tooling. Employers see cohort-level engagement, not employees' individual search activity.

Yes — most new customers start with a pilot cohort (for example, 15–25 employees) at a founding rate of $599 per employee, with agreed success metrics like activation and engagement rates, then expand at list pricing. Use the contact form and we'll set it up the same week.

Managing a workforce transition right now?

Contact us — we can have your team set up this week