Jobboard Finder’s opinion
Summary: Jobs.bg is a generalist Bulgarian job board created back in 2002 and run by the CEO, Plamen Voushev. If you speak Bulgarian, he believes foreign language learning will be essential to find a job in the future. The Jobs.bg website is itself available in English and Bulgarian. Without being the most impressive-looking job board, it’s the 28th most visited website in the country, the leading job board and it attracts 3.95million views a month! There is no “About Us” section, and practically nothing on Linkedin (except 311 followers), but the Q&A section does provide some information about the job board. Even the social media is difficult to track down: no Twitter page and a number of fake-looking Facebook ones. It would seem that the page with 160 224 followers is the right now, but it has no posts anyway. Jobs.bg owns Economy.bg, which publishes articles about the labour market, keeping jobseekers and recruiting updated on local and international happenings. Finally, we stumbled across an article in which a jobseeker accused Jobs.bg of hindering the job search for some candidates (by not pass on CVs even though candidates had applied to job offers). Comments from other users agreed with the accusations.
Design: The site is dominantly purple and the partner economy one is dominantly orange. The homepage is in four parts: you can use the search engine box to look for a job and on the job page, you have filters (the location, the category, the type, with remote interview, with work from home, the level, the keywords, the languages, jobs in Bulgarian only, the salary, the publication date) above the listing. You can visit the company pages (all of the featured ones are hiring), you can discover the job offers through the many industries or you can read the Economy.bg articles. The information for each advert is clear (there are even icons indicating if the offer has videos and a business card). Each job offer layout is different to reflect the company. Next to the job listing, there is also a list of top employers.
The job board objective: Jobs.bg aims to dominate the employment market in Bulgaria by keeping the job search simple and the recruitment process straightforward.
Recruiter observations: Depending on where you company is from, the form is not exactly the same. It’s easy to set up an account (even without a correct identification number), and to create a company page. To actually create a job offer, you’ll have to call. The expiry date is optional when creating a post and recruiters can include preliminary questions.
Jobseeker observations: It’s easy to create an account and to apply to job offers. You often have some questions to answer though and you need a CV, unless you are redirected.
The job offers: There are 40 181 job offers are currently on the website. Most of the industries/categories have hundreds – if not thousands – of job offers, but those with the most are sales, manufacturing, hospitality and IT. Only remote work has no job offers.
Reactivity: They answer quickly and are helpful.
Special features: The offers posted today; the top 50 employers; the news from economy.bg; the clear GDPR information; job alerts.
Verdict: Jobs.bg is easy to use for both jobseekers and recruiters. It’s still a bit troubling to think that they might withhold information but the article was more than 5 years old, so we’d prefer to think that is no longer the case. It’s a successful job board and popular choice in Bulgaria.
