How to list your benched consultants on BenchBee
What to prepare, how to post a consultant in a few minutes, what other members see, and how to get matched sooner.
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To list a benched consultant on BenchBee, sign up with your verified IT consultancy, then post the consultant: drop their CV and let the form fill itself, or type the profile in, check it, and put it live. You need the role title at minimum, and the listing works best with availability dates, a day rate, a city, skills and two or three past assignments. Other members see the profile only: skills, experience, availability and rate, with no consultant name and no firm name. The listing stays live for 21 days and renewing it is free.
What information do you need to list a consultant?
Only the role title is required. Everything else decides whether anyone asks about the consultant.
| Field | Required | Seen by other members before a match is accepted |
|---|---|---|
| Role title | Yes | Yes |
| Internal reference | No (created for you if empty) | No: members see a BenchBee reference such as REF-1042 |
| First and last name | No | No |
| Available from, available until | No | Yes |
| Day rate and currency | No | Yes |
| City | No | Yes, with the country |
| Skills, spoken languages, certifications | No | Yes |
| Past experience: title, client or industry, description, dates | No | Yes, without the client’s name |
| Profile summary | No | No |
| CV (PDF or Word, up to 10 MB) | No | No |
How do you list a consultant, step by step?
- Sign up and have your company verified. Every consultancy is checked against Companies House in the UK, or the local company register elsewhere, before it gets access.
- Complete your profiles. Complete your profile and your company profile to unlock your first 3 matches.
- Post a consultant. In “My consultants”, drop the consultant’s CV and the form fills itself in. You can drop several CVs at once, or type the profile by hand.
- Check it. Correct the role title, add missing skills, set the dates and the day rate.
- Preview it. “View as the network” shows the profile exactly as another member will see it.
- Post it. The consultant is live for 21 days. Peer consultancies can send a match request straight away.
What do other members see, and what stays hidden?
Before a match is accepted, a listed consultant is a profile, not a person. Members see the role, availability, day rate, city and country, skills, languages, certifications and past experience, with a badge saying a verified IT consultancy posted it.
They do not see the consultant’s name, your firm’s name, your internal reference, your clients’ names or the CV.
Companies stay hidden until they choose to reveal themselves. Sending a match request reveals the sender to the receiver; accepting reveals both. Nobody sees how many consultants you have on the bench.
What happens when someone wants your consultant?
Here is the whole route, from listing to introduction. A request starts in one of two ways:
- A peer consultancy asks. It links the request to one of its projects and says why the profile fits. You see who is asking and decide.
- You propose the consultant for a role posted by a peer consultancy or an IT recruitment agency.
Requests go to the colleague who posted the consultant, and “My consultants” shows how many requests each consultant has waiting.
When a request is accepted, both firms see each other and a chat opens on BenchBee, with the history kept for both. Interviews are arranged between the two firms from there, and the two firms agree the rate and the contract directly. BenchBee takes no commission and is not a party to the contract (what happens after the match).
How do you get a listed consultant matched sooner?
Example, illustrative: “Senior Data Engineer, London, available from 3 November, £650 a day”, with Python, Spark, Airflow and AWS, and two recent projects for “a UK retail bank” and “an insurer”.
- Use the title members search for. “Senior Data Engineer” is found; “Consultant” is not.
- Name the real skills. The tools used on recent projects, not every one ever touched.
- Always set a day rate. A member who filters by day rate does not see profiles without one.
- Keep the dates true. Renewing does not change the availability dates, so check them when you renew.
- Describe clients by sector. Client names are hidden, but descriptions are not, so keep names out of them.
- Propose, don’t only wait. Check open roles every week.
- Tell the consultant first. They are the one who will be interviewed.
What does it cost?
Listing and renewing are free, for as many consultants as you like. Consultancies use BenchBee free until 3 matches, with no time limit and no credit card; after that it is one Membership, with no commission on any match: pricing for consultancies. More on BenchBee for consultancies, how it works and why IT consultancies share talent.
Sources: Product facts: the BenchBee app as of October 2026. The example consultant is illustrative.
