Choosing a private static IP when you source candidates

You have already paid for a database seat, searched a specialism, and found nothing current, so the names on the screen were out of date before you logged in. Your question stopped being which tool has the largest index and became which one still shows people in the role today. That is the shift this page works from.

The figure that matters is not a total of records, because a bigger index you cannot trust costs you the same as a smaller one. What you count instead is how long you need an address in a given country while you work a shortlist. Bulletproof IP is bought by cover period, so the length of your search sets the tier, not the size of the pool.

In practice you log in through the private static IP, open remote desktop where you need it, and keep the same credentials across the working week. That continuity is what makes a narrow specialism workable. You are not re-establishing a location each morning, and the person on your shortlist appears the same way twice.

Across all three levels the core is the same: a private static IP held with your own credentials, with remote desktop access included, and the address replaceable while the term runs. The tiers are separated by how long that cover lasts, so you are choosing a window rather than a feature set. The lifetime tier runs for the platform's lifetime.

The middle level adds six months of cover to the platform, and the top level adds twelve. For a recruiter working one specialism in one country, that difference is about whether a search extends past a quarter, a half year, or longer. If your hiring clients brief you in cycles, match the window to the cycle.

What changes your day to day is small. Your credentials stay yours, so a colleague does not inherit a shared address, and if the address stops behaving as you need, it can be replaced mid-term. What does not change between levels is the interface or the way you search. Only the cover period moves.

Underneath the tier choice sits a simpler worry: that the source you rely on will be stale by the time you search. A private static IP does not fix a stale database. It fixes the problem of your connection being inconsistent, so the results you see are the results for the location you selected, not a guess.

That is why a recruiter should think about what the address is for. If you need to see a market as a local user sees it, a stable address in that country matters. If your issue is the quality of the candidate records themselves, no routing change will solve it, and you should look at your data source instead.

The honest framing is that this service gives you a consistent route with your own credentials and remote desktop when you need it. It does not refresh a candidate database, and it does not make a restricted platform account usable again. Read it as a connection tool for your sourcing workflow, then judge whether your real bottleneck sits there.

Moving up a tier buys time, not features. The step from the platform lifetime level to the six-month cover adds a defined period in which your private static IP arrangement continues with support for replacement during the term. The step to twelve months extends that same window further. Nothing extra is switched on in the interface.

For a recruiter, that means the decision is about planning horizon. If you are running searches for a client across a year, the longer cover removes the need to revisit the purchase mid-way. If your work is project based and short, the lifetime platform level may be enough, because you are not committing to a renewal date you have to track.

Weigh it against how often you will actually source in that country. A long cover window you barely open is not a saving. A short one that lapses while a search is live costs you continuity. Choose the tier that ends after your searches end, not before, and keep the renewal date visible for the term tiers.