Where to Post a Job for Free — and What to Do When Nobody Applies

Free channels worth using

Start with the channels where your candidates already are, not the biggest ones. For most solo recruiters and boutique agencies the free mix below outperforms a paid slot on a general board.

• Your own public vacancy page — shareable, indexable, and yours
• Professional Telegram channels and communities in your market and language
• LinkedIn as an organic post, and in relevant professional groups
• Facebook job groups, which are still the main channel in several markets
• Niche community boards for the profession — often the highest signal per applicant

Make the posting itself do more work

Free reach amplifies a good posting and buries a vague one. Concrete title, real salary range, location and work format in the first two lines, and a short application form — every extra required field costs you applicants.

• Use the title candidates search for, not the internal grade name
• Publish a salary range; postings without one get materially fewer applications
• State remote, hybrid or on-site explicitly, in the title if possible
• Keep the form short — name, contact, CV or profile link

When posting is not enough

Inbound posting reaches people who are actively looking today. The person you actually want is usually employed and not reading job boards. That is what sourcing is for: FindHire runs your job description against LinkedIn, Telegram, GitHub, job boards and Facebook groups, scores each person against the brief, and drops the matches into the same pipeline as your applicants.

• Same vacancy, both directions: inbound applications and outbound AI sourcing
• Applicants and sourced candidates share one pipeline and one CV database
• Constant monitoring keeps adding people while the role stays open, first day free

What is free here, permanently

Posting vacancies, the public vacancy page, the applicant pipeline, the candidate database, hiring metrics and your public recruiter portfolio cost nothing. Only AI sourcing and monitoring are metered with F&H tokens, and new accounts start with free tokens plus a daily top-up.

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