Melissa Deaton

Melissa Deaton

Verified

Agency owner

United States

Founder & CEO

We break hiring rules—on purpose.

RecruitingRebel.com is a fractional recruiting partner for startups and lean teams who need to hire smart, move fast, and skip the traditional agency model.

We’re not a staffing agency.

We’re not a marketplace.

We’re not throwing resumes at a wall.

We’re the recruiting muscle behind growing teams that don’t have time to waste.

🔹 Fractional recruiting — Scale up or down as needed

🔹 Embedded model — We work inside your systems and culture

🔹 Startup-savvy — We get what scrappy looks like

🔹 Transparent pricing — No retainers, no commissions

🔹 Real results — From sourcing to closing, we own it

Whether you’re hiring engineers, product managers, sales reps, or your first ops lead, we help you get the right people in the door—faster and with less friction.

Recruiting doesn’t have to be broken.

Work with a rebel.

Other expertise: Agriculture

Recruiting since 2007

Retained or contingency

Areas of expertise

Software Engineering

Product & Project Mgmt

Data & Analytics

DevOps / IT

Cybersecurity

Design / UX

AI / ML

SaaS

Ecommerce & Digital

Marketing

Sales

Customer Success & Support

Finance & Accounting

People/ HR / TA

Admin & Office Support

Business Operations

Manufacturing & Production

Supply Chain & Logistics

Engineering (Mech, Elec, Civil)

Construction & Skilled Trades

Energy & Utilities

Life Sciences & Pharma

Healthcare (Clinical & Allied)

Gov & Public Sector

Nonprofit & Social Impact

Creative & Media

Executive & Personal Assistants

Geographic expertise

🇺🇸 United States

🇨🇦 Canada

Languages

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English

List of services offered

Sourcing

Initial screening

Structured interviewing

RPO

Salary & offer negotiations

Accepted payment models

Hourly rate

Contingency search

Schedule time with Melissa Deaton

Schedule time with Melissa Deaton

Get in contact with Melissa to discuss a specific project and potentially form a partnership.

What is Happlicant?

Modern software built for agency & solo recruiters

The all-in-one platform to efficiently run and grow your recruitment firm: CRM, ATS, automations, and way more.

-What is Happlicant?

Built to unleash your agency's full potential

Powerful yet flexible software tailored to help recruiters do more without paying more.

1

Placing top candidates

Happlicant is a modern & affordable CRM/ATS with automations, sourcing tools, AI resume parsing, a LinkedIn extension, & so much more.

2

Growing your agency

Win clients and wow them. Track revenue, leads, and relationships, all while keeping them in the loop with real-time updates.

3

Co-creating Happlicant

Join our Pilot Program to co-create features specifically built for agency recruiters. You shape the roadmap—we build what you need.

-What is Happlicant?

Built to unleash your agency's full potential

Powerful yet flexible software tailored to help recruiters do more without paying more.

1

Placing top candidates

Happlicant is a modern & affordable CRM/ATS with automations, sourcing tools, AI resume parsing, a LinkedIn extension, & so much more.

2

Growing your agency

Win clients and wow them. Track revenue, leads, and relationships, all while keeping them in the loop with real-time updates.

3

Co-creating Happlicant

Join our Pilot Program to co-create features specifically built for agency recruiters. You shape the roadmap—we build what you need.

-What is Happlicant?

Built to unleash your agency's full potential

Powerful yet flexible software tailored to help recruiters do more without paying more.

1

Placing top candidates

Happlicant is a modern & affordable CRM/ATS with automations, sourcing tools, AI resume parsing, a LinkedIn extension, & so much more.

2

Growing your agency

Win clients and wow them. Track revenue, leads, and relationships, all while keeping them in the loop with real-time updates.

3

Co-creating Happlicant

Join our Pilot Program to co-create features specifically built for agency recruiters. You shape the roadmap—we build what you need.

-What is Happlicant?

Built to unleash your agency's full potential

Powerful yet flexible software tailored to help recruiters do more without paying more.

1

Placing top candidates

Happlicant is a modern & affordable CRM/ATS with automations, sourcing tools, AI resume parsing, a LinkedIn extension, & so much more.

2

Growing your agency

Win clients and wow them. Track revenue, leads, and relationships, all while keeping them in the loop with real-time updates.

3

Co-creating Happlicant

Join our Pilot Program to co-create features specifically built for agency recruiters. You shape the roadmap—we build what you need.

-Features

Your new favorite software

Focus on growing your business and impressing clients with Happlicant’s powerful tools.

Handle thousands of applications in a flash

Use custom fields, qualifying questions and assessments to filter out the noise and zero in on top talent. Build custom pipelines, leverage robust analyses and trigger automated emails.

Accurately evaluate with integrated assessments

Automate all the monotonous tasks

Wow candidates & clients simultaneously

Qualifying questions

Custom candidate pipelines

Robust analytics

Smart filtering

Handle thousands of applications in a flash

Use custom fields, qualifying questions and assessments to filter out the noise and zero in on top talent. Build custom pipelines, leverage robust analytics and trigger automated emails.

Qualifying questions

Custom candidate pipelines

Robust analytics

Smart filtering

Accurately evaluate with integrated assessments

Automate all the monotonous tasks

Wow candidates & clients simultaneously

Handle thousands of applications in a flash

Use custom fields, qualifying questions and assessments to filter out the noise and zero in on top talent. Build custom pipelines, leverage robust analyses and trigger automated emails.

Accurately evaluate with integrated assessments

Automate all the monotonous tasks

Wow candidates & clients simultaneously

Qualifying questions

Custom candidate pipelines

Robust analytics

Smart filtering

Handle thousands of applications in a flash

Use custom fields, qualifying questions and assessments to filter out the noise and zero in on top talent. Build custom pipelines, leverage robust analytics and trigger automated emails.

Qualifying questions

Custom candidate pipelines

Robust analytics

Smart filtering

Accurately evaluate with integrated assessments

Automate all the monotonous tasks

Wow candidates & clients simultaneously

Stop adapting to software.
Get a CRM & ATS that adapts to
your exact requirements

Stop adapting to software.
Get a CRM & ATS that adapts to
your exact requirements

Stop adapting to software.
Get a CRM & ATS that adapts to
your exact requirements

Stop adapting to software.
Get a CRM & ATS that adapts to
your exact requirements

Overall percentile: 96th

No strings attached

Take advantage of our Pilot Program to tailor the perfect hiring solution for your needs.

Overall percentile: 96th

No strings attached

Take advantage of our Pilot Program to tailor the perfect hiring solution for your needs.

Overall percentile: 96th

No strings attached

Take advantage of our Pilot Program to tailor the perfect hiring solution for your needs.

Overall percentile: 96th

No strings attached

Take advantage of our Pilot Program to tailor the perfect hiring solution for your needs.