Polluted Job Boards!

How these scraping techniques are costing your company wasted money and opportunities to qualified talent.

Introducing a new job into your company is an exciting occasion. Whether it’s due to team expansion, employee retirement, adopting new technology, or lightening workloads, the next step is crucial – hiring for the position. Usually, companies post the job on their website’s career page, allowing their team to monitor candidate engagement and make necessary edits or removals to the listing. However, there is often a problem – lack of visibility and clicks. To increase exposure, companies turn to traditional recruitment processes such as job boards, aggregators, social media, email campaigns, and automated advertising. This can lead to an influx of resumes, but it also opens the door to duplication. When a recruitment agency is hired, the job listing is posted on various platforms that pay the agency per click generated. This leads to syndication across multiple job boards and further duplication as boards scrape listings from each other. Some job aggregators even function as disguised advertising schemes, devoid of genuine content. Unfortunately, this duplication is not beneficial to job seekers, who have to navigate through outdated and repetitive information. It also comes at a high cost to the company’s marketing budget and employment brand. However, job boards benefit from these duplications as they attract more applicants and employers, leading to increased investment in their services. As a result, the leading job boards prioritize quantity over quality in the data marketplace, making them unlikely to address the issue of duplication. This situation creates inaccurate trend analysis, diminishing the predictive power of job market data. Let’s take a deeper look into the issues at hand.

Hiring for a new position is an important step in any company’s growth. To attract the right candidates, companies usually post job listings on their websites. However, the lack of visibility and clicks often leads them to explore other recruitment strategies, such as job boards, aggregators, and social media. While these methods increase exposure, they also come with a significant downside – duplication. In this blog post, we will explore how scraping techniques on online job boards are costing companies wasted money and opportunities to qualified talent.

Understanding the Financial Aspect

Let’s take Company X as an example. They hire a recruitment agency to extend the reach of their job listing. The agency charges Company X for each click generated by the ad. This pay-per-click model seems reasonable at first, as the agency posts the listing on its own job search engine. However, here’s where the problem starts – job boards.

Job Boards: The Real Pandora’s Box

Recruiters pay job boards a fee for every click generated, often earning more from the company than they pay the job boards. This leads to the syndication of the listing across multiple job boards and further syndication to specialized and less monitored boards. As a result, duplicate listings become prevalent.

The Distorted Maze of Online Job Boards

Job boards not only scrape job listings from each other but also use third-party content to supplement their own listings. This creates the illusion of a wide selection of job openings, but in reality, it’s just duplication. Some job aggregators even function as disguised advertising schemes, devoid of a real audience and valuable content. The sheer scale of syndication can only be managed through automation, exacerbating the problem of duplication.

The Cost to Companies and Jobseekers

Duplication hinders jobseekers, who have to navigate through outdated and repetitive information. It also comes at a high cost to companies’ marketing budgets and employment brand. Leading job boards prioritize quantity over quality, turning into data farms. They benefit from more applicants and listings, attracting employers and recruiters to invest in their services. Unfortunately, this profitability makes it unlikely for job boards to address the issue of duplication.

The Impact on Job Data

Duplication not only affects jobseekers and companies but also job market analysts. When purchasing job market data from job boards, analysts receive a mix of genuine and fraudulent listings, along with duplicates. This creates inaccurate trend analysis and diminishes the predictive power of the data.

A Solution: SaaSquatch

At SaaSquatch, we understand the frustrations caused by duplication on online job boards. That’s why we curate job opportunities straight from the organization’s website and update our listings every night. By offering the most up-to-date and accurate opportunities in the SaaS, Tech, and Software industries, we strive to be the number one, one-stop-shop for all hiring needs.

The issue of duplication on online job boards is a growing problem that affects companies, jobseekers, and the accuracy of job market data. As the leading job boards prioritize quantity over quality, it’s crucial for companies to explore alternatives like SaaSquatch for efficient and accurate hiring processes. By doing so, companies can save money, attract qualified talent, and make effective data-driven decisions for their recruitment efforts.