Recruitics, a company that provides recruitment marketing automation and optimization, published a blog titled 10 Reasons You Can't Find Your Job on Job Aggregators. (Disclosure: We work with Recruitics to maximize our job board advertising spend.)If you've ever posted a job on Indeed, for example, or any of the dozens of other job aggregators and then run a search to find your own posting, you might have been surprised when your job didn't show up in your search results. Recruitcs offers the most common reasons this happens with some explanation for each. It's well worth reading the full post - you'll learn a little bit more about how aggregators, browsers, and search algorithms really work.

Here are the first three:

  1. Your jobs aren't sponsored for competition. Sponsored jobs compete for job seeker attention and there are usually a limited number of sponsored listings on each page. That could push your job deep into the search results.
  2. Your jobs aren't properly funded. If your daily pay-per-click budget is too low, and your job is in a popular category, the aggregator may stop showing your posting in search results once your budget is reached.
  3. Your jobs are too old. Most job seekers want to see new job postings (makes sense, right?) so aggregators often have strict criteria about how long a job can remain on their sites. If you're trying to upload an older job directly from your ATS, the aggregator may exclude that job based on the posting date within your ATS.

Read the full post here.