idibu & RecruiterWEB
RecruiterWEB first integrated with idibu in 2007
idibu is a job posting and distribution platform. It posts your vacancies to multiple job boards, your website, and social media channels from a single interface. If your agency uses idibu to manage job distribution, your RecruiterWEB website connects directly to it. Vacancies you post through idibu appear on your website automatically. Candidates who find those roles on your site apply through your branded experience, and their applications flow into your ATS.
For many recruitment agencies, idibu is the hub. It is where jobs get posted. It is where board credits get managed. It is where distribution happens. Your RecruiterWEB website slots into that workflow as another channel, but one you own entirely, that ranks on Google, that appears in AI search results, and that builds your candidate database rather than a job board's.
What Is idibu?
idibu is a cloud-based job posting and multi-posting platform used by recruitment agencies, RPOs, and in-house talent teams to distribute vacancies across multiple channels from a single dashboard. It connects to your ATS or CRM, pulls job data, and posts to your selected boards, free listing sites, aggregators, and social channels without manual re-entry on each platform.
Key idibu capabilities include:
- Multi-posting: Post a single vacancy to hundreds of job boards, free listing sites, aggregators, and social media channels simultaneously, with board-specific formatting and field mapping handled automatically
- ATS and CRM integration: idibu connects to most major recruitment platforms including Bullhorn, Vincere, JobAdder, Firefish, Tracker, Access, and many others, pulling job data directly from your system without manual re-entry
- Job board management: Centralised dashboard showing active postings, board credits, expiry dates, and renewal requirements across your entire board portfolio in one view
- Candidate source tracking: Track which job boards, free sites, and channels generate applications and responses for each vacancy, providing performance data to optimise board spend
- Application routing: Applications from job boards are routed through idibu back into your ATS, consolidating candidates from multiple channels into your existing pipeline
- Board credit management: Monitor and manage job board credits, slots, and subscriptions across multiple boards, preventing overspend and ensuring postings stay within budget
- CV search access: Access candidate databases on partner job boards through idibu, allowing recruiters to proactively search for candidates across multiple boards from one interface
- Social media distribution: Post vacancies to LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Facebook, and other social channels alongside traditional job board postings
- XML feeds: Generate XML job feeds that power career sites, website job pages, aggregator listings, and any platform that accepts structured job data
- Analytics and reporting: Posting history, board performance metrics, cost per application, response rates, and channel comparison reports that show where your advertising budget delivers the best return
- Branded job adverts: Template management for consistent employer and agency branding across all boards, maintaining visual identity wherever candidates encounter your listings
- Compliance and audit trail: Full posting history showing where each vacancy was published, when, what content was used, and what responses were generated
- Pay-per-click and programmatic support: Integration with programmatic job advertising platforms and PPC job distribution channels for performance-based job advertising alongside traditional board slots
- Free board and aggregator posting: Automatic distribution to free listing sites, aggregators, and community boards that do not require paid credits, maximising vacancy visibility at zero incremental cost
idibu is used by recruitment agencies ranging from solo operators to large multi-brand staffing groups across the UK, Europe, and internationally. It is one of the most widely adopted job distribution platforms in UK recruitment, alongside Broadbean and LogicMelon.
How RecruiterWEB Integrates with idibu
RecruiterWEB connects to your idibu job feed to display your distributed vacancies on your own branded website. Here is what that means in practice.
Live Job Feed from idibu
Vacancies distributed through idibu are pulled onto your RecruiterWEB website automatically via XML feed. When a recruiter posts a new role through idibu, it appears on your job boards and on your website simultaneously. When a vacancy is filled or expires in your ATS, idibu stops distributing it, and it disappears from your website without anyone touching the CMS. Your website always shows the same active vacancies that your board listings show.
Your Website as a First-Class Channel
idibu lets you post to hundreds of boards. Your RecruiterWEB website is another channel in that distribution, but a fundamentally different one. Job board traffic builds the board's brand and candidate database. Website traffic builds yours. Every candidate who finds your vacancy on your website, reads your content, and applies is registering with your agency, not with Indeed or Totaljobs. Over time, your website becomes the channel that delivers candidates at the lowest cost and highest quality.
Application Flow to Your ATS
idibu distributes jobs and routes applications back to your ATS. When a candidate applies through your RecruiterWEB website, their application flows directly into your ATS without passing through idibu. The connection between your website and your ATS is direct. This means faster delivery, no middleman processing, and candidate data arrives in your system exactly as your ATS expects it.
Complementing Your ATS Integration
Most agencies use idibu alongside an ATS like Bullhorn, Vincere, JobAdder, Firefish, or Tracker. RecruiterWEB can pull jobs from either your ATS directly or from your idibu feed, depending on your setup. If your ATS has a strong API, we typically connect directly to that. If idibu is your centralised posting hub and the most reliable source of current vacancy data, we use that feed. We advise on the best approach for your specific technology stack.
Search and Apply
RecruiterWEB builds search-and-apply functionality into your website, powered by your idibu 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 idibu 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 candidate volume that most agencies hand entirely to job boards.
Source Comparison: Website vs Boards
idibu tracks which boards generate applications. RecruiterWEB tracks applications from your website. Together, you have a complete picture of candidate channel performance. If your website generates 300 applications per month at zero incremental cost while a paid board generates 200 at £800 per month, the argument for investing in your website becomes unanswerable. Most agencies discover this comparison is embarrassingly one-sided once they start tracking it.
Reducing Board Dependency
Every application from a job board is a candidate you paid to reach. Every application from your website is a candidate you reached through SEO, Google for Jobs, or AI visibility at no incremental cost. idibu helps you manage your board spend efficiently and track what works. Your RecruiterWEB website helps you need less board spend over time by building an owned channel that compounds month after month.
Free Boards and Aggregators
idibu posts to free listing sites and aggregators alongside paid boards. Your RecruiterWEB website is the ultimate free listing: it costs nothing incremental per vacancy, it displays every role you choose to publish, and it builds SEO equity with every job posted. Unlike free aggregator sites where your listing competes with hundreds of others, your website displays only your vacancies, in your brand, with your content, converting candidates into your database.
Temporary and Contract Vacancies
idibu 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. idibu 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 idibu job feed, and every application generated from those pages flows into your ATS automatically. Launch a new sector page in Design Studio and it already displays the relevant jobs from your idibu feed.
Better Than an Aggregator Listing
When idibu posts your job to Indeed, CV-Library, or Adzuna, the candidate sees your vacancy alongside your competitors'. They might apply to three similar roles in ten minutes. They are browsing a marketplace, not engaging with your brand. When the same vacancy appears on your RecruiterWEB website, the candidate sees only you. Your brand. Your content. Your expertise. They register with your agency, not with a board. That is a fundamentally different candidate relationship.
Sector and Location Landing Pages
RecruiterWEB builds sector-specific and location-specific pages that pull relevant jobs from your idibu feed automatically. A page targeting "sales recruitment Bristol" or "engineering jobs West Midlands" 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 Strategy
idibu helps you advertise on boards for immediate visibility. SEO builds organic traffic that compounds over time at no per-listing cost. The two strategies work together. A new vacancy gets instant reach through idibu's board network. Your website builds long-term visibility for the searches your candidates make. Over months, your website's organic traffic grows while your board spend can become more surgical 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, authoritative 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 idibu 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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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.
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Email: darren@recruiterweb.co.uk
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