Broadbean & RecruiterWEB
RecruiterWEB first integrated with Broadbean in 2004
Broadbean is a job distribution platform. It posts your vacancies to multiple job boards simultaneously. If your agency uses Broadbean to distribute jobs, your RecruiterWEB website can pull from the same job feed. Vacancies you post through Broadbean appear on your website automatically. Candidates who find those roles on your website apply through your branded experience, and their applications flow into your ATS.
Most agencies think of Broadbean as a tool for pushing jobs outward to third-party boards. Your RecruiterWEB website turns that same feed inward, displaying your vacancies on a site you own, that ranks on Google, that appears in AI search results, and that builds your brand rather than someone else's.
What Is Broadbean?
Broadbean is a job distribution and multi-posting platform owned by CareerBuilder. It allows recruitment agencies and employers to post vacancies to multiple job boards, aggregators, social media channels, and career sites from a single interface. Rather than logging into each job board individually, recruiters post once through Broadbean and the vacancy is distributed across their selected channels simultaneously.
Key Broadbean capabilities include:
- Multi-posting: Post a single vacancy to dozens or hundreds of job boards, aggregators, and free listing sites simultaneously, with board-specific formatting handled automatically so each listing meets the target platform's requirements
- Job board management: A centralised dashboard showing which boards each vacancy has been posted to, how long listings have been live, when they expire, and which boards require renewal or re-posting
- Candidate source tracking: Track which job boards generate applications for each vacancy, giving agencies data on board performance and return on investment across their job board portfolio
- ATS integration: Broadbean connects to most major ATS and CRM platforms, pulling job data from your recruitment system and distributing it without manual re-entry. It sits between your ATS and the job boards
- Application routing: Candidate applications from job boards are routed back through Broadbean into your ATS, consolidating applications from multiple boards into a single candidate pipeline
- Analytics and reporting: Board performance analytics showing cost per application, cost per hire, time to fill, and response rates across your entire job board portfolio, helping agencies optimise their advertising spend
- Social media posting: Distribute vacancies to LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Facebook, and other social channels alongside traditional job boards
- Career site feeds: Generate XML feeds that can power career sites and website job listings, making the same vacancies available on your own branded properties
- Compliance and audit: Posting history, version tracking, and audit trails that show where each vacancy was published, when, and what content was used
- Employer branding: Branded job advert templates that maintain visual consistency across different job boards, reinforcing brand identity wherever candidates encounter your listings
- CV search and talent pooling: Access to candidate databases across partner job boards, allowing recruiters to proactively search for candidates alongside inbound applications
- Contract and rate management: Board contract tracking, credit management, and spend monitoring to ensure agencies stay within budget and maximise their job board investments
Broadbean is used by recruitment agencies, RPOs, and in-house talent teams across the UK, US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. It is one of the most widely adopted job distribution platforms in the recruitment industry, alongside competitors like idibu and LogicMelon.
How RecruiterWEB Integrates with Broadbean
RecruiterWEB connects to your Broadbean job feed to display your distributed vacancies on your own branded website. Here is what that means in practice.
Live Job Feed from Broadbean
Vacancies distributed through Broadbean are pulled onto your RecruiterWEB website automatically via XML feed. When a recruiter posts a new role through Broadbean, it appears on job boards and on your website simultaneously. When a vacancy is filled or expires, it disappears from your website without anyone touching the CMS. Your website always shows the same active vacancies that your job board listings show.
Your Website as a Distribution Channel
Most agencies think of Broadbean as a tool for posting to third-party boards. Your RecruiterWEB website is another channel in that distribution, but one you own entirely. Traffic to Indeed or Reed builds their brand and their candidate database. Traffic to your website builds yours. Every application submitted on your site feeds your ATS, not a job board's talent pool.
Application Flow to Your ATS
Broadbean does not store candidates. It distributes jobs and routes applications. When a candidate applies through your RecruiterWEB website, their application flows into your ATS directly, not through Broadbean's routing. This means faster delivery, no middleman processing, and the candidate data arrives in your system exactly as your ATS expects it. Your website-to-ATS connection is direct.
Complementing Your ATS Integration
Most agencies use Broadbean alongside an ATS like Bullhorn, Vincere, JobAdder, Tracker, or Firefish. RecruiterWEB can pull jobs from either your ATS directly or from your Broadbean feed, depending on your setup. If your ATS is the master system for job data, we connect to that. If Broadbean is your centralised posting hub, we can use that feed. Either way, your website displays accurate, current vacancies.
Search and Apply
RecruiterWEB builds search-and-apply functionality into your website, powered by your Broadbean job feed. Candidates filter by keyword, location, sector, salary, contract type, and any other facets your data supports. They find relevant roles and apply in a few clicks. The entire journey from search to submission happens on your branded website.
Google for Jobs
Every job pulled from Broadbean onto your RecruiterWEB site is automatically formatted with the structured data Google for Jobs requires. Your vacancies appear in Google's job search results. Candidates find your roles through Google, land on your website, and apply through your branded experience. One RecruiterWEB client saw 90,000 Google for Jobs visits in their first month after switching. That is a candidate channel most agencies hand entirely to job boards.
Source Comparison
With Broadbean tracking which job boards generate applications and RecruiterWEB tracking applications from your own website, you can directly compare your website's performance against your paid job board portfolio. If your website generates 200 applications per month at zero incremental cost while a job board generates 150 at £500 per month, the ROI case for investing in your website becomes obvious.
Reducing Job Board Dependency
Job boards charge per posting, per slot, or per click. Every application that comes through a job board is a candidate you paid to reach. Every application that comes through your own website is a candidate you reached for free through SEO, Google for Jobs, or AI visibility. Broadbean helps you manage your board spend efficiently. Your RecruiterWEB website helps you reduce it by building an owned channel that compounds over time.
Temporary and Contract Vacancies
Broadbean distributes permanent, temporary, and contract roles. RecruiterWEB handles all three on your website, displaying shift patterns, contract durations, day rates, hourly rates, and start dates where relevant. Candidates can filter specifically for temporary or contract work, and applications for these roles flow into your ATS with the data your team needs.
No Candidate Portal Required
Your ATS handles candidate data and pipeline management. Broadbean handles job distribution. Your website handles your online presence and candidate experience. RecruiterWEB does not build candidate login portals because they create GDPR compliance risks and add friction that reduces applications. Candidates apply through clean, simple forms that feed data straight into your ATS.
Design Studio Compatibility
Every RecruiterWEB plan includes Design Studio as standard. You can build landing pages, campaign pages, and content pages yourself without waiting for a developer. Every page you create works alongside your Broadbean job feed, and every application generated from those pages flows into your ATS automatically. Launch a sector-specific landing page in Design Studio and it already displays the relevant jobs from your Broadbean feed.
Better Than an Aggregator Listing
When Broadbean posts your job to Indeed, Totaljobs, or Reed, the candidate applies on that board's platform. They see competitor vacancies alongside yours. They may register with the board instead of with you. They are the board's candidate, not yours. When the same vacancy appears on your RecruiterWEB website, the candidate sees only your brand, only your roles, and only your content. They register with you. They are your candidate.
Sector and Location Landing Pages
RecruiterWEB builds sector-specific and location-specific pages that pull relevant jobs from your Broadbean feed automatically. A page targeting "IT recruitment jobs London" or "healthcare vacancies Manchester" displays matching roles with supporting content that helps the page rank for that search term. When a candidate finds that page through Google and applies, their data enters your ATS directly.
SEO That Complements Your Board Spend
Broadbean helps you advertise on boards. SEO helps you rank without paying per listing. The two strategies complement each other. A new vacancy gets immediate visibility through Broadbean's board distribution. Your website builds long-term organic visibility for the search terms your candidates use. Over time, your website's organic traffic grows while your board spend can become more targeted and efficient.
AI Visibility
AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews are increasingly used by candidates to find jobs and agencies. Job boards dominate traditional search results. But AI search results cite specialist websites with structured content. RecruiterWEB builds sites that AI can read, understand, and recommend. SEO ranks your page. AI cites your page. Both channels send candidates to your website rather than to a job board.
Upgrade Without Starting Over
RecruiterWEB operates on an upgrade path model. If you start on a Start-up or Themed plan and later move to a semi-bespoke or fully bespoke design, your Broadbean feed integration carries forward. Nothing is thrown away. Your job feed, your application flow, and all the SEO equity your site has built continue working exactly as they did before, in a new design.
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Book a demo with Darren, our founder, today. He has walked your walk, having been a recruiter and then a recruitment company owner.
RecruiterWEB makes websites for recruiters & executive search firms globally. We are the highest featured, lowest-cost spend vendor in our space, and we do not take part in the following pricing scams that many in our space like to follow:
- The pay-for-features scam: we don't take part in this scam. All our features are free of charge.
- The pay-for-jobs scam: we don't take part in this scam. All our clients can post unlimited jobs free of charge.
- The pay-for-pages scam: we don't take part in this scam. All our sites can have unlimited pages.
- The pay-for-traffic/storage scam: we don't take part in this scam. All our sites can have unlimited traffic and data storage.
- The pay-for-various levels of support scam: we don't take part in this scam. All our sites can have unlimited support for all clients.
- We also supply branding, marketing, and SEO services to support those clients, enabling them to win more sales and maintain fee margins.
Call: 01223 655278
Email: darren@recruiterweb.co.uk
LinkedIn: Darren Revell
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