With a Pro or Premium subscription, CareerPlug automatically shares your jobs with our partner job boards. If you find your job postings on a non-partner job board or website, this could be due to web scraping.
What is web scraping?
Web scraping is when websites use software to comb the internet and gather data on open positions, then repost them to their site.
CareerPlug cannot prevent scraping. Sites that do this can scrape data from any publicly available (and not copyrighted) pages on the web — such as the content on major job boards and your own careers page. CareerPlug is not responsible for scraped job postings and cannot control what appears in scraped postings on non-partner job sites.
Note: If a job is scraped at any point before being closed or removed from a careers page, a scraped posting could still be active on a non-partner job site. However, job seekers cannot apply to a closed job.
Are there any benefits to my job being scraped?
Yes. If your scraped job appears accurate and intact — meaning no information is added, removed, or otherwise misrepresented (job title, employment type, salary range) — on a non-partner job site, this just means more exposure in more places for your job. It's a great way to get more applicants from more diverse sources.
Note: Scraped postings are not linked to the original job. When you update a job in CareerPlug, changes to any associated scraped postings will not be reflected until the non-partner job site scrapes your job again.
What should I do if my job's been scraped?
Review the scraped job posting thoroughly to verify its accuracy, and then review the non-partner job site to determine whether you would like your job to be posted there.
If your job has been scraped to a non-partner job site where you don't want it posted, your scraped posting contains inaccurate information, or your email inbox is being hit with spam due to a scraped posting, we recommend contacting the site directly to request that they remove your job posting. You can search for a support email via Google or the job site.
If your job has been scraped to a non-partner job site where you'd like it to remain posted, and your scraped job posting is accurate, then it's up to you. You can contact the job site directly to request that they remove the posting, but there's no harm in allowing it to remain visible, as this means more exposure for your job and potentially more applicants.