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How to Plan a Recruitment Agency Website
A recruitment agency website serves two connected markets: employers choosing a partner and candidates deciding whether to trust an opportunity. Give each a direct path without splitting the brand in two.
Separate employer and candidate intent early
Give employers clear routes to hire, discuss a role, or understand a specialist service. Give candidates routes to search vacancies, register, submit a CV, or get role-specific guidance. The two audiences can share expertise and brand proof, but they should not have to pass through each other’s calls to action.
The guide to designing for multiple audiences helps decide where journeys should separate and where shared content is genuinely useful.
Explain markets through real buying questions
Structure sectors, disciplines, locations, seniority, contract types, and services around the way clients and candidates describe demand. Create a dedicated page only when the agency has distinct expertise, proof, people, and a meaningful next step for that market.
For employers, explain the engagement model, search or selection process, team, communication, and the information needed to begin. For candidates, explain representation, privacy, interview support, and how updates are handled without promising outcomes the agency cannot control.
Make vacancy discovery and applications dependable
Define filters that reflect the actual inventory of roles rather than every possible label. Each vacancy should state responsibilities, essential requirements, location or remote terms, employment type, compensation where permitted, process, closing information, and the responsible contact.
Keep application friction proportional to the role. Support accessible document upload, clear error recovery, mobile completion, consent choices, confirmation, and a fallback contact route. Remove expired roles promptly and decide whether useful URLs show related opportunities or a clear closed state.
Connect the website to recruitment operations
Map how the applicant tracking system, CRM, job feeds, email, analytics, consent records, and team notifications exchange data. Use the guide to scoping custom website functionality before assuming an integration will handle every edge case.
Assign owners for vacancy accuracy, sector pages, consultant profiles, salary resources, enquiries, and privacy wording. Test the full route from publishing a role to receiving and acknowledging an application, not only the public interface.
Make both sides of the market clearer
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