We really enjoy interacting online with our ‘followers’ via our various social media channels.
Recently, one of our followers asked the question: “Why do you charge a fee for people to apply for jobs rather than just including the email address on the job advert?”
It’s a fair point, and given it’s not the first time we have been asked this question, we thought we’d create a new post here that better explains why we sometimes limit access to job application links to paying members of our website only.
This way, if someone asks this question in the future, we can refer people to this article on our website. We can also continue to update this article if any follow-up questions or themes need to be addressed.
How Jobs End Up On 482jobs
So let us start with the jobs you will find here on 482jobs.com. In general terms, the jobs you will find on our website appear here through two routes:
- An Employer chooses to advertise a job on 482jobs.com.
- The 482jobs team has identified a job as offering sponsorship to overseas candidates.
An Employer chooses to advertise a job on 482jobs.com
If an employer wishes to advertise on 482jobs.com, they can do so by paying us a small fee. Once this fee is paid, and the job is reviewed, the job is then posted on our website. All paid jobs are shared without any restrictions to our website visitors. Everybody visiting our website can access the applications links without any limits and apply for these jobs directly.
Jobs our team have identified as offering sponsorship
The other jobs you will find here on 482jobs.com are jobs our team has identified as providing sponsorship visas to overseas candidates!
Collectively, the 482 jobs team spends hundreds of hours trawling the internet each month looking for jobs where the employer is willing to offer sponsorship to overseas candidates.
To identify these jobs, our teams visit many Australian websites, including Australian job boards, Australian recruitment company websites, Australian Government websites, and the career sections of over 30 large Australian companies that frequently sponsor overseas candidates.
Once we have identified a job vancy is offering sponsorship, we then manually add the job to our database so that our visitors can find both the jobs added by advertisers and the jobs we identify, all in one place.
From the employers perspective, we post these jobs for free on our website. The employer does not pay 482jobs for these job advertisements and we do not receive a referal or agency fee for any candidates placed via these job adverts.
All jobs posted by the 482jobs team at no charge to the recruiters require a paid membership before you can unlock the application links associated with these positions.
So why would companies pay?
So why would companies pay to advertise sponsored jobs when you will share their job advert for free?
Well, that’s a very fair question, but the reality is that without paying a fee to advertise directly, the advertiser will have their application link hidden behind our paywall.
Many thousands of people visit 482jobs daily, but only a small percentage (our paying members) have unrestricted access to all of the jobs we post!
This is beneficial for our members as it limits competition for jobs, but It is not so great if you are an employer looking to maximize the number of job applications!
Ultimately, by choosing to advertise directly with 482jobs, employers can guarantee that anyone interested in applying for their job can do so without any restrictions. This, in turn, will maximize the number of potential candidates applying for each job vacancy.
Eventually, we hope that as more and more employers advertise directly with 482jobs.com, most of the job posts you’ll find on our website will allow you to apply without any restrictions. The reality however, at least in the short term, is that attracting hundreds of Australian advertisers each month will take some time.
Summary
So to summarise, we cover our costs to offer our service in two ways.
- When a company pays to advertise a job, in which case the jobs are unlocked, and anyone can apply for free.
- By charging a low-cost membership to unlock the jobs, our team has identified and shared.
We hope this helps clarify the reason behind our approach – if you have any further clarification questions, please feel free to ask them using our comment form below.
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