Job board
Also called: jobs site, career site
The European job-board landscape
The main categories:
- Aggregators: Indeed, Google for Jobs. Pull listings from many sources; high reach, low intent per applicant.
- General-purpose pay-to-post: StepStone (DACH), HelloWork (FR), Infojobs (ES). Strong regional reach; cost per role.
- Tech-specific: Welcome to the Jungle, Stack Overflow Jobs, T3N (DACH). Smaller volume, higher quality for tech roles.
- LinkedIn: hybrid — job-posting board plus a sourcing tool. Charges separately for each.
Most SMB hires come from a mix. Concentrating on one channel optimizes for that channel’s biases (Indeed favors quantity; StepStone favors mid-market; LinkedIn favors senior).
The pricing trap
Two failure modes specific to job boards:
- Per-posting prices make you cautious about which roles to post. The result: not posting roles that might have produced strong candidates.
- Per-click prices look reasonable until a viral post burns through the budget without producing a hire.
The cleanest model for an SMB is an annual or quarterly bundle with predictable cost regardless of post count.
What the candidate experience looks like
Most candidates apply through 3-5 boards in a session. Your posting is sitting next to dozens of others. The clarity of the role, the salary band, and the company description do the conversion work — not the platform.
Where Join fits
Join publishes to 14 European job boards in one click as part of the standard plan, eliminating the per-posting decision for the recruiter. See the features page.
