IrishJobs ie

What IrishJobs ie does

IrishJobs.ie operates Ireland's leading online recruitment marketplace, connecting job seekers with employers and recruitment agencies across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Dublin, the platform functions as a two-sided job board where candidates can search across 50+ job categories spanning construction, IT, healthcare, management, engineering, accountancy, logistics, social care, manufacturing, and skilled trades, while employers and agencies post paid job advertisements to access the candidate pool. At the time of data collection, the platform reported 9,207+ active job listings and 1,314+ companies actively hiring, with enterprise customers visible across its category pages including Dalata Hotel Group, AIB Group, Northern Trust, University College Dublin, Stryker Ireland, Bon Secours Health System, ICON Clinical Research, and Sysco Ireland.

The core product is the IrishJobs.ie web platform, complemented by a mobile application for job seekers, a dedicated recruiter hub (hub.irishjobs.ie) for managing existing postings and viewing applications, and a self-service e-commerce portal (ecommerce.irishjobs.ie) for purchasing job posting packages. Platform features include search and filtering, CV registration with employer visibility, personalized email job alerts, salary benchmarking data, and career advice content including Inside Story employer profiles. Supporting research products include biannual Hiring Trends Reports compiled in partnership with parent company The Stepstone Group (based on surveys of 500 employers and 1,000 professionals) and a Quality of Applications report analyzing recruiter perspectives on application quality. The technology is a standard online job board stack with search, application management, employer–candidate matching, and mobile delivery layers.

IrishJobs operates on an advertising-based revenue model, charging employers and recruitment agencies to post job listings. Pricing is not publicly disclosed but is offered through quote-based and pay-as-you-go job posting packages via the recruiter e-commerce portal and direct sales channels. The platform serves both direct employers and recruitment agencies as paying customers, while job seekers access the platform free of charge. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Stepstone Group, a European online recruitment operator, which provides data infrastructure and research capabilities that power IrishJobs' market intelligence products and operations.

Name

IrishJobs ie

Legal name

IrishJobs

Website

https://irishjobs.ie

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

IrishJobs.ie is Ireland's leading online job board, connecting job seekers with employers and recruitment agencies since 1995 across 50+ categories, generating revenue from paid job advertising on its web and mobile platforms as a subsidiary of The Stepstone Group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Recruitment

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131), Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Professional & Business Services Marketplaces (Freelancers, SMB Services) (BPAMAHAG)

Keywords

• Online job board
• Job recruitment platform
• Recruitment advertising
• Candidate search
• Career services

Headquarters

HQ city

Dublin

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Job Advertising for Recruiters: IrishJobs generates revenue by charging employers and recruitment agencies to post job advertisements on the platform. Recruiters pay to access the platform's candidate pool and post job listings.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

IrishJobs.ie operates Ireland's leading online job board marketplace, connecting job seekers with employers and recruitment agencies through searchable job listings, CV registration, and targeted email job alerts. The platform monetizes primarily through paid job advertising and recruitment packages sold to recruiters and direct employers, while job seekers access core search, application, and career advice services free of charge.

Product overview

IrishJobs.ie operates as Ireland's leading online recruitment platform, offering a unified job search and hiring ecosystem. The core product is the job search platform (irishjobs.ie) which connects employers with jobseekers through job listings, CV registration, and targeted job alerts. Supporting the core platform are career advice content services providing guidance on CVs, interviews, and industry-specific salary information. The company also produces proprietary research reports including the Hiring Trends Update (biannual) and Quality of Applications report, providing market intelligence on Irish employment trends. Jobseekers can search across sectors including Construction, IT, Health, Engineering, and 50+ other categories, with job listings spanning roles from entry-level to executive positions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• IrishJobs.ie Job Search Platform Online job board providing job search functionality across Ireland with job listings categorized by sector, location, salary, and job type. Includes search, filtering, and job application features for job seekers across 50+ industries.
• CV Registration Candidate profile and CV management service allowing jobseekers to create accounts, upload CVs, and make their profiles visible to employers and recruiters searching the platform.
• Job Alerts Email notification service that sends jobseekers targeted job matches based on their saved preferences, search criteria, skills, and locations.
• Recruiter Job Advertising Paid job posting and recruitment advertising service sold to employers and recruitment agencies, available via self-service ecommerce portal and dedicated recruiter hub with analytics.

Named customers8 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

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Totaljobs: Totaljobs is a major UK-based job board that also serves the Irish market, providing a directly comparable two-sided recruitment marketplace model with advertising-led monetization.
• Reed.co.uk: Reed is a UK recruitment platform with job board services extending into Ireland, operating a comparable job posting and candidate search business model targeting similar employers.

Emerging players

• Workvivo: Workvivo is an Irish-founded employee engagement and intranet platform whose recruitment-adjacent employer branding capabilities overlap with IrishJobs' Inside Story content plays, targeting the same HR buyers.
• IrishJobs parent Stepstone Group competitors: Ceviu (Norway), Experteer (DACH): Ceviu is a Nordic recruitment marketing platform offering programmatic job advertising and employer branding tooling — adjacent to IrishJobs' recruitment advertising offering and a comparable Stepstone-like regional player.

Direct peers

• Indeed Ireland: Indeed operates a global job aggregator with a dedicated Irish presence, competing directly with IrishJobs.ie for both job seeker traffic and employer recruitment advertising spend in the Irish market.
• Jobs.ie: Jobs.ie is one of the leading Irish job boards and a direct competitor to IrishJobs.ie, serving both job seekers and employers across Ireland with a similar job posting and CV-search business model.
• Monster.ie: Monster.ie is a major global job board brand with a dedicated Irish presence, offering job posting and CV search services that directly compete with IrishJobs.ie for employer recruitment budgets.
• Stepstone (UK/Europe): Stepstone is the parent company of IrishJobs.ie and operates comparable job boards across Europe (Germany, UK, etc.) with the same job posting and recruiter revenue model offering a view of how IrishJobs could scale across geographies.
• LinkedIn (Ireland): LinkedIn is the dominant professional network and a major player in Irish recruitment, monetizing job postings and recruiter tools in direct competition with IrishJobs.ie for the same employers and candidate pool.
• RecruitIreland: RecruitIreland is an Irish-focused recruitment and job board platform serving both employers and candidates in Ireland, operating a similar listing-based marketplace model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Irishjobsie
• Facebookfacebook.com/irishjobs.ie
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/irishjobs-ie

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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