Also: Company’s own homepage, job board
English: online career site
The significance of online job advertisements is continually increasing. Possible options include:
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The company’s own homepage, which allows electronic job postings to be displayed directly on the company’s website. This method is now widely used by numerous businesses for recruitment purposes, as it provides the opportunity to present the company in far more detail than traditional print media allows. Potential candidates can be specifically targeted. They can find the company either via a search engine or by directly entering the company name.
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Commercial job boards, which have seen significant development in recent years. Depending on the provider and duration, standard job postings typically cost between €400 and €1,000 per listing. Job seekers generally post their resumes for free, while companies can view them for a fee. Interested parties can search for relevant positions using criteria such as industry, region, job field, profile, or company name. The market leader in commercial job boards in Germany is Monster. Nowadays, large job boards also offer additional services such as Direct-Selection or HR-Consulting.
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Non-commercial job boards, which are also operated in large numbers. For example, the Federal Employment Agency offers an electronic job placement service as a job board, providing a complete applicant management system for employers. With approximately 230,000 job listings, “Arbeitsagentur.de” is one of the largest job boards in the German-speaking world. Additionally, newspapers and publishers run non-commercial job boards.
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Newsgroups, which are thematic discussion groups. Messages are written and received as emails, and they are publicly available for any member of the discussion forum to read.
