Job Board now has public job listings

Job Board 2.2.0 puts your jobs on your own site for anyone to search: filters for IR35, day rate and remote work, a page for every job that Google's job search understands, and confidential roles that stay confidential.

By Darryl Waterhouse · · 3 min read

Until now, a Job Board site showed its jobs to people who had signed up. From Job Board 2.2.0, anyone can browse and search your jobs on your own site, and every job has its own page that search engines can find.

We built it with IT recruitment in mind: contract and permanent roles, IR35, day rates and remote work are all first-class.

Switch on Public job listings and your site gets a jobs page, at /jobs unless you choose another address. Visitors filter by keywords, type of role, IR35, on site, hybrid or remote, location, minimum pay or day rate, and how recently a job was posted, then sort by newest or by pay.

The public job list with its filter panel and the newest roles, including a confidential one

Every search has its own link, so a contractor can bookmark "outside IR35, remote, from £500 a day" and come back to it. Search for a place and remote roles are included, shown as Remote (UK), and "Permanent" includes full-time roles too.

A Leeds search sorted by pay, with Leeds roles and remote roles together

A page for every job

Each job has its own page with the full description, the details and Apply. It also carries the structured data Google uses for its job search: title, pay per year or per day, remote or the location, and the closing date. When a job closes, its page says so and it leaves your sitemap.

A job's public page: the details, the description and Apply

Apply in a click, or sign up first

A signed-in job seeker goes straight to the apply form. Anyone else can sign in, or sign up as a job seeker, and lands back on the same job afterwards.

The apply step for a visitor who is not signed in: sign in, or sign up to apply

Confidential roles stay confidential

Tick Confidential on a job and the public sees "Confidential client" instead of the company, everywhere: the list, the job page and the data Google reads. Signed-in candidates see it too, until they are shortlisted. Then the company is revealed to them.

The job editor's Where the work is and Confidential settings

Put jobs on any page

Two shortcodes put jobs anywhere on your site: a search box, and a list you can narrow by type, IR35, remote or company. Here is a home page using both.

A home page with a job search box and the three newest roles

Switch it on

Open the Job Board settings and turn on Public job listings. Choose the address, and whether company names are shown at all.

The Public job listings settings: the switch, the address and Show company names

Only published jobs from approved companies are ever shown. Applicants, candidates, credits and notes never appear on the public pages.

Explore Job Board, or read How to find your next IT contract on a Job Board site.

Every company and person in the screens above is made up.