Learn why TheirStack is the best job board backfill solution and how to backfill a job board using webhooks
Backfilling a job board involves augmenting its own job listings with external postings from various sources. This integration allows job boards to present a broader array of opportunities to their users, helping to attract more traffic, boost user engagement, and ultimately enhance their overall value proposition.
Backfilling job boards is a common use case for our Job data platform and it was built with this in mind:
Original job link to company website When a job originates from a company's career page, we include the URL (final_url) so you can redirect users to the correct source. You can also get only jobs from career pages with the final_url_exists filter.
Standardized job descriptions Our job descriptions are standardized across all information sources in Markdown format, ensuring consistency.
Company information Most of our jobs are enriched with company information, so can use the company domain, industry, headcount, revenue, type, location and technologies used for your company profile page.
Up-to-date data The data is up-to-date, with new jobs being added to our database every minute.
Filters If you are a niche job board, you can use the job_title_or filter to get specific jobs, or the company industry_id_or filter to get only jobs from companies in a specific industry or any of our 20+ filters.
16k+ job data sources so you can get a wide range of jobs from all over the world. Learn more
You have two options:
Webhook (Recommended): Set up a webhook to listen for the new.job event. By applying the necessary filters, you can ensure that you only receive the job postings that meet your specific criteria. This approach allows you to automatically receive new job listings as soon as they are published.
Step 1 - Create a job search with your desired criteria (e.g: location, company, technology, etc). You can create as many as you want. It's important to create exclusive criteria to avoid receiving duplicate job postings.
Step 2 - Set up a webhook to listen for the new.job event. How to set up a webhook
API: Use our Jobs API to fetch jobs periodically. Check out our Fetch jobs periodically guide for more details.
The API approach is more cumbersome as it involves some extra steps from you, so our recommendation is to use webhooks.