Alerta Emprego

What Alerta Emprego does

Alerta Emprego is a Portuguese online job portal operated by AlertaEmprego, Lda., headquartered in Lisbon and founded in 2013. The company runs a two-sided recruitment marketplace: job seekers access the platform for free, while employers and recruitment agencies pay to post vacancies, build branded company pages, run targeted email campaigns, and amplify listings through social channels. The platform hosts 5,814+ active job listings (with 70+ new listings per 24 hours), a database of 185,000+ registered candidate CVs, and attracts 600,000+ monthly visitors, supported by 850,000+ Facebook followers that place it among the top 50 brands on Facebook in Portugal.

The core technology is a web-based job portal with a searchable CV/candidate database, candidate matching via 'Suggested Job Listings', saved-search-driven email alerts, application tracking, and a recruiter-facing Candidate Manager with screening questions and stage-based candidate organization. Paid employer features include standard, highlighted, and premium job postings available in 1-, 2-, and 4-week durations, Company Pages for employer branding, dedicated email marketing, and social media promotion across Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google+. International recruitment is delivered via a strategic partnership with The Network, an alliance of job portals in 125+ countries, enabling centralized cross-border hiring contracts.

Monetization is subscription- and tiered-transaction-based on the employer side, with five named revenue streams (employer job advertising, company pages, email marketing services, social media promotion, and featured homepage placement), and the platform reports an 80% employer return rate. The company operates with 11-50 employees, has not disclosed funding, and shows no evidence of external institutional investment, M&A, or public listing; an adjacent consumer sub-brand, AlertaDescontos, extends the audience into discounts.

Name

Alerta Emprego

Legal name

AlertaEmprego, Lda.

Website

https://alertaemprego.pt

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Alerta Emprego is a Lisbon-based Portuguese online job portal, founded in 2013, connecting job seekers with employers. It offers free candidate tools and paid recruiter services including job postings, CV database search, employer branding, email marketing, and international recruitment via The Network partnership.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Lisbon

HQ country

Portugal

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Employer Job Advertising: Paid job posting services for employers and recruiters. Multiple advertisement types exist including standard, featured, and premium listings with varying visibility levels and durations (1, 2, or 4 weeks).
2. Company Pages: Featured company pages with logos, descriptions, videos, images and employee testimonials for enhanced employer branding.
3. Email Marketing Services: Dedicated email campaigns and targeted alert emails sent to job seekers matching employer requirements.
4. Social Media Promotion: Job advertising through social media platforms including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google+ for extended reach.
5. Featured Homepage Placement: Premium placement of job listings on homepage and search results pages for increased visibility.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Alerta Emprego operates an online job portal in Portugal where employers and recruiters post job advertisements and job seekers search and apply for positions. The platform combines a job posting portal with a searchable CV/candidate database and offers employer branding pages, multiple advertisement tiers, email marketing services, and social media promotion.

Product overview

Alerta Emprego is an online job portal that operates as a unified platform connecting employers and job seekers in Portugal. The core product is the job posting portal (Portal de Anúncios de Emprego Online) combined with a searchable CV/candidate database. The platform offers employer branding through Company Pages, multiple job advertisement tiers (standard, highlighted, premium), and recruitment productivity tools including a Candidate Manager for filtering and organizing applicants, screening questions for pre-qualification, and an email alert system. Additional features include social media promotion, saved searches, and application tracking. An international recruitment add-on service is available through The Network partnership for global hiring needs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Job Posting Portal Online job board platform that allows companies and recruiters to post job advertisements and candidates to search and apply for positions across multiple sectors and experience levels.
• CV/Candidate Database Searchable database of 185,000+ registered candidate CVs and profiles that recruiters and companies can search to find suitable candidates.
• Company Pages Featured company pages with logos, descriptions, videos, images and employee testimonials for enhanced employer branding sold on a recurring basis to employers.
• Email Marketing Services Dedicated email campaigns and targeted alert emails sent to job seekers matching employer requirements, offered as a recurring subscription service to employers.
• Candidate Manager Tool CRM-style tool for recruiters to filter candidates by location, professional experience, and education area, organize candidates into recruitment stages, tag and rate them.
• International Recruitment (The Network) Partnership-enabled service enabling clients to recruit internationally across more than 125 countries through The Network global alliance of leading job portals, providing global coverage with local market expertise and centralized contracts and invoicing.

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% of clients return to use the platform for future hiring needs
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers15 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• The NetworkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Network is a unique alliance of leading job portals in more than 125 countries worldwide with a pool of candidates of more than 100 million candidates. The partnership enables Alerta Emprego clients to recruit internationally through a single point of contact while maintaining local quality standards. Each partner has experience and sensitivity in their local market. This partnership provides global coverage for employers while centralizing contracts and invoicing through Alerta Emprego.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Net-Empregos: One of Portugal's longest-standing online job boards, directly competing with Alerta Emprego for Portuguese employers posting vacancies and job seekers searching roles.
• Sapo Emprego: Job board operated by Portugal's leading web portal Sapo, offering job postings, CV search, and employer branding — a direct domestic competitor in the same market.
• InfoJobs: Iberian job platform (Spain and Portugal) with a large candidate database, recruiter tools, and application tracking — competing head-on with Alerta Emprego in Portugal.
• Express Emprego: Portuguese-focused job board offering job listings, CV search, and employer branding features — a direct domestic peer targeting the same SMB and enterprise employer segments.

Broad incumbents

• Indeed Portugal: Global job search aggregator with strong presence in Portugal, competing for the same employer job-posting budgets and candidate traffic, but with vastly larger scale and AI matching.
• LinkedIn (Jobs): Professional network with integrated job postings, recruiter tools, and the largest professional candidate pool — a broad incumbent that overlaps significantly with Alerta Emprego's employer and candidate value proposition.
• Glassdoor: Global job and employer review platform with integrated job listings; competes with Alerta Emprego's employer branding (Company Pages) and job posting offerings in Portugal.

Regional players

• Jobartis: Job board focused on Portuguese-speaking markets (Portugal and Brazil), providing a regional peer comparison for cross-border candidate reach and international employer services.
• Michael Page Portugal: International recruitment firm with a Portugal office focused on professional and mid-to-senior placements — adjacent competitor for the same hiring budgets, though operating on a contingency/retention model rather than a job board.

Others

• CVWarehouse: Provider of career site and applicant tracking technology to employers; relevant as an enabling technology peer that powers employer-branded career portals that compete with Alerta Emprego's Company Pages.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/alertaemprego
• Facebookfacebook.com/AlertaEmprego

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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