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WP Job Manager has been the default WordPress job board plugin for years. But if you’re a UK recruitment agency, it might not be the right fit. Here’s an honest comparison.

WP Job Manager

Best for: Generic job boards, marketplace-style sites, employers posting their own roles.

• Free core plugin with paid add-ons
• Large ecosystem of extensions
• Community support
• No ATS integration out of the box
• Basic salary field (no UK-specific handling)
• No Google for Jobs schema
• No AI search
• No GDPR tools built in

Recruiter Jobs

Best for: UK recruitment agencies with an ATS who want a branded job board.

• £24/month, everything included
• Built-in ATS sync (JobAdder, Bullhorn, Vincere)
• UK salary handling (annual, daily, hourly, competitive)
• Google for Jobs schema with visual editor
• AI-powered natural language search
• Job alerts with subscriber management
• GDPR compliance tools (auto-purge, consent, erasure)
• Dashboard analytics
• Visual carousel and layout builders

The bottom line

WP Job Manager is a solid general-purpose plugin. But if you’re a UK agency running Bullhorn, JobAdder, or Vincere, and you want your jobs on your website with proper Google for Jobs visibility, Recruiter Jobs is built specifically for that.

Google for Jobs is the blue card that appears at the top of Google search results when someone searches for a job. If your agency’s roles aren’t there, you’re invisible to a huge chunk of candidates.

What is Google for Jobs?

It’s a Google feature that aggregates job listings from across the web and displays them in a dedicated search experience. Candidates can filter by location, type, date posted, and salary — all within Google.

How Google finds your jobs

Google reads Schema.org JobPosting structured data from your web pages. If your job listings include the right markup, Google will index them and show them in job search results.

What you need

• Schema.org JobPosting markup on every job listing page
• Required fields: title, description, datePosted, hiringOrganization, jobLocation
• Recommended fields: baseSalary, employmentType, validThrough, identifier
• A sitemap that includes your job listing URLs

How Recruiter Jobs handles this

Recruiter Jobs automatically outputs Schema.org JobPosting structured data on every single job page. It includes:

• Job title, description, and date posted
• Hiring organisation with logo
• Location with addressLocality and country (GB)
• Base salary with min/max and unit (year/day/hour)
• Employment type mapped from contract type
• Valid through from closing date
• Industry from sector taxonomy
• Identifier from job reference

The schema editor

For fine-tuning, Recruiter Jobs includes a visual schema editor on every job. Click “Google for Jobs” in the admin toolbar to open it. You can override the auto-generated values — add a postcode, change the company name, add a region.

The live preview shows you exactly what Google will read, in real-time.

Testing your markup

Use Google’s Rich Results Test to verify your job pages have valid structured data. Paste any single job URL and check for JobPosting results.

If you run a UK recruitment agency, your website needs a proper job board. Not an iframe embed from your ATS. Not a generic listing page. A real, searchable, SEO-optimised job board that candidates actually want to use.

In this guide, we’ll walk through what makes a good recruitment job board, what your options are in 2026, and how to get one running on WordPress without needing a developer.

Why your agency website needs its own job board

Most UK recruitment agencies fall into one of three traps:

1. No jobs on the website at all. Candidates land on the site, see nothing relevant, and leave for Indeed.
2. An iframe embed from the ATS. It sort of works, but it doesn’t match the design, isn’t indexed by Google, and sends candidates to a third-party portal.
3. A paid hosted solution at £200-500/month. Looks OK but costs a fortune and locks you into a platform.

A WordPress job board gives you full control. Your design, your SEO, your data. And with the right plugin, it syncs with your ATS automatically.

What to look for in a WordPress job board plugin

• ATS integration — can it sync with JobAdder, Bullhorn, or Vincere?
• UK salary handling — annual, daily rate, hourly, competitive, negotiable
• Google for Jobs support — Schema.org structured data on every listing
• Filtering — sector, location, salary range, remote status, job type
• GDPR compliance — data retention, consent, right to erasure
• No developer required — visual builders, shortcodes, template overrides if needed

Your options in 2026

WP Job Manager

The most popular free job board plugin, but it’s designed for generic job boards — not recruitment agencies. No ATS sync, basic salary handling, limited UK-specific features.

Hosted solutions (Volcanic, JobMount, etc.)

Good if you have the budget. But you’re paying monthly, you’re locked in, and you don’t own the data.

Recruiter Jobs

Purpose-built for UK recruitment agencies. Syncs with JobAdder, Bullhorn, and Vincere. Google for Jobs schema. AI search. Job alerts. GDPR tools. £24/month.

Getting started

If you already have a WordPress website, you can have a professional job board running in under 10 minutes:

1. Install the plugin
2. Run the setup wizard
3. Connect your ATS (or create jobs manually)
4. Customise the layout with the visual builder
5. Start getting candidates

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