All common questions about Hirebase answered here.
Other job sites make money by getting companies to pay to post their jobs. That means companies don’t post all their jobs, and when they do hire, they often forget to take them down.
This means on other job sites like Linkedin and Indeed you are often wasting your time applying to jobs that are in reality no longer hiring.
Hirebase is different, we scan company career pages directly, which eliminates expired jobs and finds hidden jobs you won’t find except for on the company’s website. This saves you time and effort by making sure you are only applying to real roles from companies who are actually hiring.
And we have more jobs than anyone else.
Hirebase works by crawling company career pages directly, so we have the single best source of truth on who is hiring on the internet. We remove jobs that are not hiring within 24 hours, and we built an extremely powerful search engine that caters to every kind of search. Salary range, visa sponsorship, currency of the salary of the job - there is no other job search website that allows for this level of filter customization when it comes to the job search, not to mention having the most up to date, live jobs.
Most people spend their times searching on Linkedin, Indeed, Angelist, etc. for jobs. All those sites are what you could call "secondary platforms", where companies pay to post jobs. What happens is a company posts jobs on their internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System), and then pays to repost them on one of these secondary sites to get eyeballs/traffic, this is how 99% of job boards work.
What we've seen in practice time and time again is that this secondary list of jobs is not accurate/up to date of the jobs the company is actually hiring for. Very frequently, you will find jobs that you will never find unless you go directly to the companies career page.
This is what we mean by hidden jobs.
When you click on the "Apply Now" button on a job page, it will take you directly to the company's ATS (Applicant Tracking System), which is the best place to submit your application. By applying through the ATS, your application goes straight to the recruiter or hiring manager at the company you are interested in, ensuring that your application is properly received and considered. Many tech companies utilize comparable software for application management, so you may notice similarities in the application forms across different companies. We make sure that each "Apply Now" button directs you to the correct application page within the company's ATS for that specific job posting.
Linkedin is a mixed bag. LinkedIn allows companies to post 1 job for free but otherwise charges companies to post jobs, this means that companies will often not post all of their jobs on Linkedin. As a result, you think you are seeing all the jobs at a particular company, but it is likely that there are actually some sneaky ones that are hidden company’s website.
In addition, companies often forget to take their listing down from Linkedin, and what's worse sometimes just keep “reposting” a job that has actually been live for a long time in order to farm more candidates. You may think “oh a job was just posted 3 days ago” but it has actually been on the site for 6 months and you are just wasting your time. Hirebase doesn’t do all that B.S., you see the real date a job was posted and we remove it within 24hrs from when the company takes it down.
Not to mention, the competition on Linkedin is extremely high for a limited number of roles. You can find roles on Hirebase that are harder to find and therefore have less applicants.
Good grief, Indeed is the worst of them all.
Indeed has all the problems that Linkedin does, but worse, and they have another terrible problem. Indeed is fertile ground for what you can call “Bounty Hunter Recruiters”. They are middle men, sometimes recruiting firms, that get a cut when they refer a candidate to a company. So when you see a company hiring, but it’s not the actual company, this is likely why. These bounty hunters move from role to role quickly, are only looking for a needle in a haystack candidate, and will likely ghost you unless you are one of the first applicants to the job. Worse, they NEVER take the posting down, and 99 percent of the time your application goes into a black hole.
These middlemen recruiters run rampant on Indeed, making it one of the worst places on the internet to conduct your job search. Indeed doesn't care because they still make money when recruiters post their jobs.
The reason google jobs sucks (it could be great) is because they also aggregate jobs from crappy 3rd party job sites.
So in addition to having up to date jobs on Google jobs, they are mixed in with older listings that have been reposted on to terrible 3rd party site's like Lensa, Ladders, ZipRecruiter, Indeed, where you can’t even apply to the job directly, you have to create a separate account and fill out an application directly their own website.
That means the company who is hiring has to go out of their way to login and review applicants directly on that 3rd party site instead of just using their ATS. Essentially, you are way less likely to get a job from one of these 3rd party sites because jobs on average are resposted, and companies only use those sites if they don't get enough applicants into their ATS.
TLDR: Google mixes high quality listings with crappy listings and has no way to filter them out. Hirebase does this for you.
Hey guys, my name is Spencer. When I was 23 (having graduated from college the previous June), I spent almost 6 months applying to jobs with no luck. Every single job search engine or job board I tried, sucked. I knew I wasn’t going to get a job competing with 400 applicants on LinkedIn, and I didn’t want to waste my time applying to expired listings on random job boards. Hirebase should have been built by someone else, but it wasn’t. After finally finding a job and then being laid off after 6 months, I used my unemployment money to finish development and put it out into the world.
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Hirebase is a job search engine that scans the entire internet for live listings from company websites, and organizes them in one place with both an easy to use and extremely powerful search engine at your fingertips. Since we scan companies directly, you can find jobs on Hirebase that are not on LinkedIn or anywhere else AND there are never any expired jobs. It is simply "all the jobs, from all the companies, actually hiring now on the internet". You should never have to look for a job somewhere else. If you still do, please reach out and tell me what we can do to change that.
