We recommend you do not search for your jobs on job boards to see if they appear. Job boards tailor search results to the specific job seeker, meaning your jobs aren't guaranteed to show up in every search — especially since you aren't the target audience.
If you’re not getting any applicants and you're worried your job isn't visible on job boards, don't panic. Instead, try the following:
- Wait at least 24 business hours after posting your job. This gives most job boards enough time to receive, review, and add your CareerPlug job to their organic job feed.
- Monitor applicant activity for your job using the clicks/applicants chart. This is the best way to confirm that applicants are seeing your job on job boards. Only Admin users can access reporting in CareerPlug.
- Ensure the language in your job posting follows our job board best practices. Using certain characters, words, or phrases — or having duplicate postings — can cause job boards to exclude your job from organic visibility.
- Ensure that you’ve communicated to the job board in question that CareerPlug should be your source for job postings. This is typically only necessary if you've had a previous employer account with the job board or used another ATS to post jobs prior to CareerPlug.
- Contact CareerPlug Support to get help with your job posting. Schedule a 20-minute video call with a Hiring Expert, create a support request online, or email the Hiring Expert team at support@careerplug.com.
To see which sources produce the most applicants for your jobs, you can use the Source filter on your Applicants page (for active applicants) or the Source Analysis charts on your Account Insights page (for all applicants, including those you've hired).
Don't be alarmed if most of your applicants come from Indeed since it's the most popular job board in the U.S. To expand your applicant pool, we recommend using custom sources to share your jobs with local job boards. Custom sources allow you to recruit and track applicants from sources other than job boards where CareerPlug already sends your job.
If you've posted your job and want to ensure it appears higher in a job board's search results, try sponsoring your job. You can easily sponsor your jobs on Indeed and ZipRecruiter from CareerPlug.