As well as linking with Broadbean, vacancy sharing site TheJobPost is looking for further integration

TheJobPost.co.uk, which allows employers to connect with recruitment consultancies and vice versa, has just completed its integration with Broadbean. It means that Broadbean users can post their vacancies to TheJobPost using their Broadbean account as and when they require agency support, and TheJobPost users can post out to the job boards if they have a Broadbean account.  

Further integration will follow and TheJobPost chief executive officer John Paul Caffery told Recruiter that its strategy also includes working with human capital firms in the US ahead of its launch there next year. This includes the likes of Glassdoor, the job and career community site based in Sausalito, San Francisco that is well-known for its employee-generated content. 

“With the number of significant players in the human capital sector based over in the US, our plan is to work with more and more platforms like Glassdoor,” said Caffery, “to both integrate further solutions into TheJobPost and build strong relationships, enabling us to accelerate into that market much more quickly.”

TheJobPost describes itself as “an open access job aggregator” and provides employers with access to candidates from a large number of agencies, and recruitment agencies access to a large number of employers. When an employer places a vacancy anonymously, it is matched to the recruitment agencies that are best equipped to help them. Agencies can then put forward their candidates but only after they have gone through a stringent matching process. 

TheJobPost currently has 34,000 registered UK recruitment consultants using the site, and the daily fees available to them amount to £1.6m.

Although the bulk of activity on TheJobPost.co.uk concerns agencies, it also allows employers to take a direct sourcing route via integration with services such as LinkedIn and indeed Broadbean, and the company recently staged a social recruiting conference aimed at in-house recruiters. Caffery said that while he believed direct sourcing was growing fast and becoming increasingly important to businesses, the sheer number of sourcing channels open to employers means they need more education and help to decide which one to use. 

“It means an employer could be approached with 30 different technologies and sourcing channels that seem to all do the same thing,” he said. “Going back 10-15 years there were only a couple of valid options to choose from but now there are just too many to properly evaluate. Employers need to think more carefully about what sourcing channels to use, what not to use and most importantly when to use them.”