Not all job sites, only the best

Every week at whatjobsite, new job sites ask to be listed in our database of job boards. Most of the time we are happy to include new job sites on whatjobsite. Indeed, we include nearly all sites in our A to Z directory.

However, we do not include all and every job board in our front end home page search engine. In fact, we only include a small proportion of the many thousands of job boards in the UK. We hover between a total of 100 and 120 job sites in our front end search engine.

The reason for our not including every site is that our goal at whatjobsite is to drive recruiters to quality job boards. While there are many thousands of job boards in the UK, the vast majority of them are, sadly, of marginal recruitment effectiveness for employers. For this reason then, we try to limit the job boards we profile to market leaders in their sector.

We are lucky that when we approach most leading job boards they are happy to be included on whatjobsite. Most of the time job boards see the value of what we are trying to do with whatjobsite — point recruiters to quality job boards.

So, most of the job boards in our search engine are either whatjobsite approved websites or our advertising partners. You can spot the approved sites by the approved website image on their profiles. You can spot our advertisers because they have logos and lots of information on their profiles.

But sometimes job boards don’t want to pay to include their site on whatjobsite. That’s unfortunate for us but it could be more unfortunate for our employer users. Just because a job board doesn’t advertise on whatjobsite doesn’t mean it isn’t the best job site at what it does. What do we do then?

Well, the truth is, we do sometimes include such sites in our front end job search database. Clearly, if we didn’t include them on whatjobsite we would not be presenting the best possible online recruitment advertising options for employers.

For this reason then, from time to time, you you will see an ‘unverified site’ in the search results on whatjobsite. Although these sites have not submitted their information to us for verification, our research (and our industry knowledge) suggests that they are the best at what they do. It’s our view that they should be considered as a job board advertising option.

So, when you search our database of job boards for job boards by location or job role or industry sector, you can be sure that while you are not getting every job board you are getting the best!