A candidate looks at jobs on their phone during a lunch break. They will not wait for a desktop portal to load. They will not fill in the same sign-up form twice. Recruitment agency apps are built to remove these small delays.
A recruitment agency website has two jobs that pull in opposite directions. It has to convince a candidate to apply in under a minute on a phone, and it has to convince a hiring manager that your consultants understand their sector better than the agency down the road.
Pay-per-post job board revenue is under pressure. Subscriptions, featured listings, CV search, pay-for-results and data: how UK job boards combine them.
Two acronyms cause more confusion in recruitment offices than almost any others: ATS and CRM. They get used interchangeably, they often appear in the same product demo, and plenty of agency owners have bought one believing they were getting the other. The confusion is understandable, because the two tools overlap in places and vendors rarely help by bundling them under a single label.
Where AI helps UK recruitment agencies, where consultants still do it better, and what the 2026 data protection rules mean for AI CV screening.
JobPosting schema is the structured data that tells Google a page is a job advert, and it's the price of entry for Google for Jobs, the boxed job listings that sit at the top of search results. Without valid markup your vacancies don't appear there, however good the advert is. With it, your listings can show salary, location, contract type and posting date directly in search, and candidates reach you before they reach an aggregator. This guide covers how to mark up job listings properly, the mistakes we see most often on UK agency and job board sites, and how to validate and monitor structured data for job listings so it keeps working after launch.
Since 6 April 2026, a recruitment agency that supplies contractors paid through an umbrella company can be made to pay that umbrella's unpaid PAYE and National Insurance. The umbrella company reform moves the tax risk up the supply chain to the agency holding the contract with the end client, and there is no due diligence defence. If you run a temp or contract desk and any of your workers are paid through an umbrella, this is now your liability as much as theirs. This post explains how agency PAYE liability works under the new rules, who carries it, and what to check and document so you aren't the one paying when an umbrella disappears.
Starting a job board is one of the more durable business models in recruitment, because a good one earns money from employers whether the market is up or down. You won't beat Indeed or LinkedIn at broad search. A niche job board wins somewhere else: a focused, qualified audience that employers in one sector will pay to reach. With UK vacancies at their lowest level outside the pandemic since 2014, employers want targeted reach rather than spray-and-pray advertising, which is what a niche board offers. This guide walks through the decisions that actually matter when you start a job board: your niche, where the listings come from, the tech, getting found, how you make money, and the legal basics.
UK job vacancies fell to 702,000 in the three months to August 2026, the lowest level outside the pandemic since 2014 and around 11% below where they sat before COVID. There are now about 2.5 unemployed people for every vacancy. For recruitment agencies that means fewer roles to fill and more competition for each client that's left.
People who apply for jobs through our platform hand over a lot of personal information: names, addresses, work histories, contact details. They do it trusting that it will be kept safe, and the agencies who run their recruitment with us are trusting us with the same thing.
A plain-English guide for UK recruitment agencies on the Employment Rights Act 2025: what's already changed, what arrives in 2027, and how to prepare.
A growing share of the traffic to the recruitment sites we host is an AI agent, not a person. Each one downloads a full HTML page to read a few hundred words of text. This is why we now serve markdown over the same URL using content negotiation, instead of the llms.txt file the industry tried first, and the two problems we ran into on the way: a caching mistake and a denial-of-service in the Accept header.