What CV-Online Estonia does

CV-Online Estonia (trading as CV.ee) is an online job portal founded in 1996 and headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. It operates a two-sided marketplace connecting Estonian employers with job seekers through its web platform at cv.ee, which currently lists 4,070+ active vacancies. The platform's core technology is a web-based job board with a candidate database (growing by 12,000+ CVs per month), employer job posting system, candidate management tools, and email notification services for job seekers. Founded in the early Estonian internet era, it has accumulated nearly three decades of brand presence in a market of roughly 1.3 million people.

The company monetizes exclusively on the employer side through a multi-tiered offering. Employers can purchase job posting packages at three price points: Standard (€299 per 30-day listing with account management), Premium (€497, adding social media advertising on Facebook/Instagram/Google with 30,000+ impressions and weekly auto-refresh), and Premium Plus (€995, with 60,000+ impressions and daily refresh). Adjacent revenue streams include CV database access subscriptions and CV-Online värbamisteenused, a professional full-cycle recruitment service operated via a dedicated site (varbamisteenused.ee). Job seeker access to listings, alerts, and applications is free, supporting a product-led growth motion on the candidate side paired with direct sales and account management on the employer side.

CV-Online Estonia is a privately held company operating as part of the Alma Career family, a Finnish-headquartered pan-European online career network whose subsidiaries run job boards across Central Europe, the Baltics, the Adriatic, and Scandinavia. Within Estonia, the customer base spans major banks (SEB, Swedbank, LHV, Bigbank, Luminor, Nordea), telecom operators (Telia, Elisa), retail chains (Selver, Lidl), energy (Enefit), and industrial firms (ABB, Ericsson, Circle K). Revenue, headcount, and funding are not publicly disclosed; the entity operates as a strategic subsidiary of Alma Career rather than an independent venture-backed business.

Name

CV-Online Estonia

Legal name

CV-Online Estonia

Website

https://cv.ee

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Tallinn

HQ country

Estonia

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Job Posting Packages: Employers pay for job posting packages to publish vacancies on the platform. Three tiers available: Standard (€299), Premium (€497), and Premium Plus (€995), each with varying visibility, duration, and additional features.
2. CV Database Access: Employers pay for access to search and contact candidates in the CV database, with monthly additions of over 12,000 new CVs.
3. Recruitment Services: CV-Online recruitment services (CV-Online värbamisteenused) provide full-cycle recruitment support, candidate sourcing, and screening for employers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CV-Online Estonia operates the cv.ee online job portal, a two-sided marketplace connecting Estonian employers with job seekers. The company sells job posting packages (Standard €299, Premium €497, Premium Plus €995) to employers, alongside CV database search access and full-cycle professional recruitment services. Job seekers access job listings, subscribe to email alerts, and submit applications for free.

Product overview

CV-Online Estonia (CV.ee) operates as an online job portal platform with a multi-tiered employer service model. The core product is the CV.ee Job Portal enabling job search and applications, supported by employer job posting services in three tiers (Standard, Premium, and Premium Plus), CV database search access, professional recruitment services (CV-Online värbamisteenused), and email notification subscriptions for job seekers. The platform is part of the Alma Career family of Central European and Baltic job portals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CV.ee Online Job Portal Online job portal platform enabling job seekers across Estonia to search and apply for 4,070+ active job listings, subscribe to email notifications, and manage applications. The portal serves as the primary marketplace connecting employers and candidates throughout the country.
• Job Posting Packages Three-tier job posting service for employers: Standard (€299) with 30-day listing and personal account manager; Premium (€497) adding social media advertising on Facebook, Instagram, and Google with 30,000+ impressions and weekly updates; Premium Plus (€995) with 60,000+ impressions, daily automatic updates, and a 14-day premium listing badge.
• CV Database Search Subscription-based access for employers to search the CV database of job seekers, with over 12,000 new CVs added monthly. Enables proactive candidate sourcing and recruitment outreach.
• CV-Online Recruitment Services (CV-Online värbamisteenused) Professional full-cycle recruitment services provided by CV-Online specialists, including candidate sourcing, screening, and full hiring process support for employers seeking flexible and managed recruitment solutions.

Quantifiable outcome

• 4,070+ active job listings
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Alma CareerflagshipOthers · 1 January 1996CV-Online Estonia (CV.ee) is a member of Alma Career family. Alma Career Oy and its subsidiaries operate job board portals across Central Europe (Jobs.cz, Profesia.sk, Prace.cz), Baltics (CVonline.lt, CV.lv, CV.ee, Dirbam.lt), Adriatic (MojPosao, Vrabotuvanje), and Scandinavia (Jobly.fi). Alma Career is the parent company providing strategic direction and shared resources across the network.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: Global professional network with a large Estonian user base; competes with CV-Online on recruiter candidate search, job postings, and employer branding, but offers a far broader professional social platform.
• Indeed: Global job search aggregator with significant Estonian inventory; competes for employer job-posting spend and job-seeker traffic through SEO and a pay-per-click model that pressures CV-Online's subscription pricing.
• StepStone: Large European job board operator with presence in multiple markets; overlaps with CV-Online on cross-border hiring, especially for Estonian employers recruiting into Western Europe.
• ZipRecruiter: Global online employment marketplace using AI-driven matching; overlaps with CV-Online's employer-paid job-posting and candidate-matching model, and represents a technology benchmark for the next phase of CV-Online's product roadmap.

Direct peers

• CV.lv: The Latvian counterpart within the Alma Career group; operates an identical job-board marketplace model with employer job postings, CV database access, and recruitment services for the Latvian market — directly comparable in product, pricing logic, and customer segments.
• CVonline.lt: Lithuanian sister site in the Alma Career network, running the same dual-sided job-board platform with tiered employer packages and CV database — directly comparable in business model, scale, and customer profile to CV-Online Estonia.
• Jobs.cz: Czech Republic's leading job portal and another Alma Career property; offers the same product mix (job postings, CV database, recruitment services) at a much larger scale, making it a useful scale benchmark for CV-Online Estonia.
• Profesia.sk: Slovakia's flagship job board and part of Alma Career; shares the same platform and monetization design, making it a directly comparable sister company for benchmarking KPIs and pricing.
• Jobly.fi: Finnish job portal within the Alma Career family; operates an analogous marketplace model for a similar-sized Nordic-Baltic market, offering a comparable framework for product and commercial benchmarking.

Emerging players

• Workable: Cloud-based ATS and sourcing platform used by mid-market employers globally; increasingly substitutes traditional job boards with direct-apply career pages and AI sourcing — a structural threat to incumbent job boards including CV-Online.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cvonline
• Facebookfacebook.com/cvonlineestonia

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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