Academic Jobs

What Academic Jobs does

Academic Jobs, operating under the legal entity Post My Job PTY LTD, is a privately held higher education job board platform headquartered in Brighton, Victoria, Australia. The company runs AcademicJobs.com, a self-serve marketplace connecting universities, colleges, and research institutions with academic talent across 900+ disciplines and 13,745+ universities globally. The platform supports 59,478 active job listings, 248,334 monthly visitors, 1.2 million active job seeker accounts, and 790,000+ job alert email subscribers, with multi-language coverage in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese across US, UK, Australian, Canadian, European, and Singaporean markets.

The core product is a freemium job posting platform offering free headline listings to universities and paid Featured ($315-$345) and Top Job placements. Beyond transactional postings, Academic Jobs has built a surrounding product ecosystem: AI Recruitment for intelligent candidate matching, AcademicConnect for employer networking and referral tracking, Rate My Professor and Rate My Employer for community reputation data, proprietary University Rankings, a white-label Higher Ed Job Board Software offering, Conference Listings, and a Research Grants portal. Distribution is anchored by partnerships with 4,000+ academic associations and 5,000+ academic networks, plus CUPA-HR membership for institutional credibility.

The business operates four revenue streams: transaction fees on paid job postings, recurring employer subscriptions, professional services for discipline-specific recruitment, and advertising via Job Boost add-ons. The team is approximately 10 employees, the company is bootstrapped with no disclosed funding rounds, and it has not been acquired or undergone structural changes. Marquee clients listed on the site include Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, Yale, Princeton, University of Chicago, Imperial College London, UCL, NUS, and ETH Zurich.

Name

Academic Jobs

Legal name

Post My Job PTY LTD

Website

https://academicjobs.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Academic Jobs operates a global self-serve job board marketplace connecting 13,745+ universities and research institutions with academic talent across 900+ disciplines, monetizing through paid job postings, subscriptions, recruitment services, and white-label software.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Job Board / Academic Recruitment Platform

NAICS

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

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Career Services & Job Placement Platforms (Jobs, Recruiting, Employer Networks) (EDAFAMAM)

akta.pro secondary industry

Employer Relations & Recruiting (Career Fairs) (EDALABAH)

Keywords

• Higher education job board
• Academic recruitment platform
• University job listings
• AI recruitment software
• Faculty hiring marketplace

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Job Postings: Revenue from employers paying to post job listings on the platform. Includes free headline listings and paid featured/top job placements.
2. Employer Subscriptions: Subscription-based services for employers and recruiters for enhanced access and features
3. Recruitment Services: Specialized recruitment solutions including AI recruitment tools, discipline-specific hiring packages, and job board software
4. Job Boost Add-ons: Premium placement and visibility enhancements for job postings to increase candidate reach

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Academic Jobs runs the AcademicJobs.com higher education job board, an online marketplace where universities, colleges, and research institutions post academic, faculty, research, and administrative roles, and where academic job seekers search and apply for positions. The platform layers AI-assisted recruitment and AcademicConnect candidate matching on top of the listings database to help employers identify suitable candidates faster, and it bundles supplementary content products (Rate My Professor, Rate My Employer, University Rankings, conferences, and research grants) to increase engagement.

Product overview

AcademicJobs.com operates as a unified higher education recruitment platform offering a comprehensive job board ecosystem with multiple interconnected services. The core platform (AcademicJobs.com Job Board) serves as the primary job board connecting 13,745+ universities with academic talent across 900+ disciplines. The platform integrates AI-powered recruitment tools for intelligent candidate matching, alongside complementary features including Rate My Professor and Rate My Employer (reputation management tools), University Rankings (proprietary ranking system), and Higher Ed Job Board Software (white-label solution). Additional services include AcademicConnect (social sharing), Job Alert System (email notifications with 790,000+ subscribers), Recruitment by Disciplines (targeted hiring services), Conference Listings, and Research Grants. The platform supports job posting packages ranging from free headline listings to premium featured placements with job boost add-ons.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AcademicJobs.com Job Board Platform Online job board for posting and searching academic, faculty, research, postdoc, and higher-education-adjacent positions, used by universities and academic job seekers globally.
• AI Recruitment AI-driven recruitment tools that assist universities and academic employers with candidate sourcing, matching, and shortlisting across the platform's academic job seeker database.
• Rate My Professor User-generated ratings and reviews of professors intended to help prospective students and academic job candidates evaluate teaching faculty.
• Rate My Employer User-generated ratings and reviews of academic employers, primarily universities and research institutions, designed to inform candidates' job choices.
• University Rankings Rankings and comparative information on universities globally, intended for students and academics evaluating institutions.
• Higher Ed Job Board Software White-label / embedded job board software for higher education institutions that want to operate their own academic job posting and search experience.
• Conference Listings Directory listings of academic and research conferences, used by academics and researchers to find events in their specialty.
• Research Grants Directory of research grant opportunities intended for academic researchers seeking funding in addition to employment.

Quantifiable outcome

• 248,334 monthly visitors seeking academic positions
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CUPA-HR (College and University Professional Association for Human Resources)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerA proud member of CUPA-HR, the professional association for higher education HR professionals. This membership provides credibility and access to the primary decision-makers in academic hiring.
• Academic Associations NetworkcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership network of 4,000+ academic associations and 5,000+ academic networks globally for distribution and candidate reach
• Harvard UniversityminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTop-tier university client using the platform for faculty and staff recruitment
• Stanford UniversityminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTop-tier university client using the platform for faculty and staff recruitment
• University of OxfordminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTop-tier university client using the platform for faculty and staff recruitment
• MITminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTop-tier university client using the platform for faculty and staff recruitment
• University of CambridgeminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTop-tier university client using the platform for faculty and staff recruitment
• National University of Singapore (NUS)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTop-tier university client using the platform for faculty and staff recruitment

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Indeed: Indeed is the dominant general-purpose job board with a substantial academic filter and broad candidate base. While not specialized, its scale and brand overlap with Academic Jobs' employer and job seeker audiences.
• Glassdoor: Glassdoor is a broad incumbent job board with salary benchmarking and employer reviews that overlap with Academic Jobs' Rate My Employer and salary features, attracting some of the same academic job seeker audience.
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a broad professional network and recruiting platform with deep penetration in academia. Its university partnerships, faculty profiles, and Jobs functionality overlap meaningfully with Academic Jobs' employer and candidate value proposition.

Direct peers

• HERC (Higher Education Recruitment Consortium): HERC is a consortium-based higher ed recruitment platform serving dual-career and faculty hiring, directly comparable to Academic Jobs in serving university HR departments and academic job seekers with a similar institutional model.
• Jobs.ac.uk: Jobs.ac.uk is a UK-focused academic job board serving UK universities and HE institutions, directly comparable to Academic Jobs in targeting academic job seekers and competing with its UK country portal.
• HigherEdJobs: HigherEdJobs is one of the largest US-focused higher education job boards, directly competing with Academic Jobs for university faculty and administrative recruitment budgets across the same institutional buyer base.
• Academic Transfer (ACademic Transfer): AcademicTransfer is a leading academic job board focused on European universities and research institutions, directly competing with Academic Jobs' European country portals for the same faculty and postdoc candidate pool.
• Times Higher Education Jobs: Times Higher Education Jobs is a global academic recruitment platform from the well-known THE brand, directly competing with Academic Jobs for academic employer branding and faculty hiring at leading universities.
• Chronicle of Higher Education Jobs: Chronicle Jobs is the recruitment vertical of the Chronicle of Higher Education, a dominant higher ed publication, competing directly with Academic Jobs for institutional HR advertising budgets and senior faculty searches.

Emerging players

• ResearchGate: ResearchGate is a research-focused social network with a growing jobs feature that serves the same academic researcher and postdoc candidate base as Academic Jobs, representing an emerging specialist competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/academic-jobs

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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