LinkUp.com, A Job Search Engine For Company Websites
There are literally thousands of job boards and job search engines on the internet, with new brands and services popping up each week. However, a newer destination that’s stood out for me recently is LinkUp.com.
This blog post will share my impressions of the site and provide some additional insight I gained from communicating with LinkUp’s head of Marketing, Molly Moseley.
What is Linkup?
LinkUp.com is a job aggregator for listings on company websites. Their technology spiders the careers sections for over 22,000 registered websites, then brings them all together under one website roof.
Per their President and CEO, Toby Dayton, “LinkUp only indexes jobs from company websites. As a result, jobs on LinkUp.com are always current, often unadvertised anywhere else, and contain no fake jobs or scam listings. Our goal with LinkUp is to offer employers and job seekers alike the best job site on the web today.”
How Does It Differ From Indeed.com?
Indeed.com is also a job aggregator, but it gathers most of its content from the paid job boards.. Monster, Careerbuilder, The Ladders, Job Fox etc. Per Moseley, “About 20% of LinkUp jobs appear on Indeed.” Therefore, we could assume that about 80% don’t! (Yes, I am a math wizard, LOL) So, it’s important that Job Seekers don’t solely rely on Indeed for one stop shopping.
Is LinkUp Easy to Use?
Overall, I found the LinkUp website easy to use and I agree that the site content (i.e. the job listings) are high quality, company listings. However, the website itself could use some enhancements from both a visual design perspective and a navigation perspective. There were some things that I found a bit clunky.
I asked Moseley if LinkUp is planning to make any enhancements to the website. She replied, ”We’re planning a variety of new solutions that really fall into 2 categories. First, for employers, we’re developing several reports that help them understand what jobs their candidates are looking at as well as understanding how, as an employer, their site is doing in terms of search engine optimization. Second, for jobseekers, our new emphasis is allowing jobseekers to leverage their personal networks to get better suggestions for employment, as well as vetting companies that a jobseeker may be interested in.”
How Does LinkUp Make Money?
Per their website, the only way LinkUp currently makes moneys is through sponsored job listings that show up within the standard search results. You should know that LinkUp is owned by JobDig which is “an employment focused media, advertising, and technology company”…similar to other paid job boards.
So…
I do recommend that all Job Seekers add LinkUp to their arsenal of job search tools.
It’s important to remember that no technology or tool is perfect, so if you want to work for specific, target companies, you should still visit their websites to make sure that nothing is missed.
Good luck!
Richard K. Berger, President – Berkent Legal Services, P.C.
Marci—Nice and informative article on LINKUP. Yes, I work at LinkUp so it is always nice when someone writes about what we are doing, who has relevant experience in the field.
You really hit on our major differences. The fact that LINKUP only finds jobs from career portals within a company site means a better overall experience for the job seeker.
You might have mentioned, too, that the job seeker goes DIRECTLY to the company to apply. LinkUp does not ask for a signup, a password or anything else that slows the procuess down. In effect, we are simply introducing the jobseeker directly to the company. They love this feature.
GL,
Thanks for your additional, very helpful comments about LinkUp.com. The site definitely has some unique features and stands out among other job search engines.
Best,
Marci Reynolds
Hi Marci -
Nice writeup about LinkUp. I did a side-by-side comparison of LinkUp and Indeed. I put the same search into both engines. There same jobs appeared on both sites. The positions that appeared on Indeed could be sorted by relevance or by date, and were more recent. LinkUp does not have a sorting function and to your point, the user interface needs work.
I’m not convinced of the that there is MORE value in posting only positions from company portals as recruiters and paid job boards can add value as well. Company web sites can have postings that are out-of-date too.