Where the jobs come from
Boards, the public employment service, the employers themselves, and web search for what none of them carry.
The pool is refreshed every night from four different kinds of place, because no single one of them holds the whole market.
- Job boards, the large general ones and the specialised ones, chosen per market.
- The public employment service of each country, which carries postings that never reach a commercial board.
- The employers themselves, read directly out of their applicant systems.
- Web search, to reach ads and career pages that no board carries at all.
Straight from the employer
Most companies of any size run an applicant system, and many of those publish their open roles in a machine-readable form. Job Blower reads nine of the common ones directly, which means those jobs arrive complete and first-hand rather than as a board’s summary. More than sixty further systems are recognised by name, so when an ad links into one you can see which system you are about to apply through.
Nothing reaches a candidate unchecked
Before a job can be matched against anyone it has to pass a quality gate: duplicates are merged into one entry, ads too short to judge fairly are completed from the original posting, the employer has to be identifiable, and the location has to make sense. An ad that cannot be repaired is never shown and never matched. It is better to lose one posting than to waste a recruiter’s morning on it.
What if the same job is on three boards?
It becomes one job with three sources. The same opening reappears under different addresses, in different languages and with different amounts of text; it is recognised as the same opening and merged. The job page then lists every place it was found and crosses out the ones that have since gone dead, so you can see how widely it is being advertised without ever comparing two copies of it yourself.
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