"Free job posting" means three different things in 2026: genuinely free (Google for Jobs, Jooble, government boards), free with a monthly cap (Indeed's three posts, LinkedIn's one active post, Work.ua's one a month), or a card-required trial that converts to paid (ZipRecruiter). This guide sorts the boards that recruiters in the US, UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland and Ukraine actually use into those three buckets, links to each board's own employer page, says what each one does with feeds — and then shows how to post once and let the distribution happen instead of copying the same job into nine forms.

What Changed in 2026

  • Indeed capped free posting and cut off feeds. Free organic posts are limited to three per calendar month, live up to 30 days in the US, Canada, UK, Germany and the Netherlands (up to 120 days in some other countries). And since 31 March 2026, jobs sent to Indeed through a plain XML or API feed no longer get free organic visibility — only jobs posted manually or through a supported ATS integration do. Source: Indeed, free vs sponsored jobs (updated May 2026).
  • Glassdoor is Indeed now. A job posted on Indeed appears on Glassdoor automatically; there is no separate Glassdoor posting product (Indeed).
  • LinkedIn's free tier is one active post at a time. A free post stays active up to 14 days, then pauses, and closes at 30 days; applications are capped, and reposting the same title within seven days forces you into promotion (LinkedIn Help).
  • Google for Jobs remains free and unlimited — but it is not a board. It indexes JobPosting structured data from pages it crawls (Google Search Central). More on that below.

Free Job Posting Sites at a Glance

Site Free? Limits Coverage How jobs get there
Google for JobsFreeNone — needs a public page with valid schemaWorldwideJobPosting structured data (ATS or careers site)
IndeedFree with cap3 posts/month, 30 days live; sponsored ranks above free60+ countriesManual or supported ATS integration (feeds lost free reach in 2026)
LinkedInFree with cap1 active post, 14 days active, 30 days max, application capWorldwideManual, tied to a company page
JoobleFreeFeed submitted via support; crawled at least every 24 h66 country sitesXML feed from your ATS
AdzunaFree feedSponsored single posts are paidUK, US, AU, EU and moreXML feed; manual paid post
Talent.comFree tierSponsorship is pay-per-clickUS confirmed; others varyManual or feed
PostJobFreeFreeDaily posting cap; paid promotion optionalUS-centricManual
MonsterFree with cap1 free post per 30 days, small applicant capUS and partnersManual
WellfoundFree corePaid sourcing add-onsStartups, worldwideManual, built-in ATS
Hacker News "Who is hiring?"FreeMonthly thread; post from the hiring companyWorldwide, techManual comment
HandshakeFree basicEarly-career onlyUS universitiesManual
BehanceFree30-day listingWorldwide, designManual
GOV.UK Find a jobFreeEmployer account requiredEngland, Scotland, WalesManual
Werk.nl (UWV)FreeeHerkenning login; syndicates to EURESNetherlands + EUManual
Work.uaFree with cap1 free vacancy per monthUkraineManual
DjinniFree to postSuccess fee on hire (20 % of one month's salary for Ukraine-based candidates)Ukraine, techManual; applications via API to your ATS

United States and Worldwide

Indeed — three free posts a month

Still the largest applicant source in most markets, and still free within limits: three organic posts per calendar month, each live up to 30 days (US, Canada, UK, Germany, Netherlands). Free posts rank below sponsored ones, so a free listing on a popular title can sink fast. Since March 2026 only manual posts and supported ATS integrations get free visibility — a generic XML feed from your careers site does not. If your ATS is not on Indeed's integration list, post the job manually and use an apply e-mail address (below) to route the applicants back.

LinkedIn — one free post at a time

Free posting exists but is tightly rationed: one active free job per company page, active for 14 days before it pauses, closed at 30, with a cap on applications. Reposting the same title within seven days is blocked unless you promote. Good for a single senior role where the LinkedIn audience matters; useless for volume.

Google for Jobs — free, unlimited, and not a board

Google shows a jobs box above search results, populated from JobPosting structured data on pages it crawls and from partner boards. You cannot submit a job; you publish a page that carries the schema and Google finds it. That is the single most valuable free channel, because it is where candidates search. The Google for Jobs how-to lists the required fields and the three ways to get there without a developer.

Jooble — free aggregator feed in 66 countries

Jooble runs job sites in 66 countries and accepts a free XML feed from employers and ATS vendors: you generate the feed, open a ticket with the URL, and JoobleBot crawls it at least once a day. Jobs need a real company name, a location Jooble covers, and a full description with requirements — thin or multi-role postings are dropped.

Adzuna and Talent.com — free feeds, paid sponsorship

Both aggregators list feed-submitted jobs free and sell sponsored placement on top. Talent.com's free tier is confirmed for US employers; check availability for other countries on their employer page.

Monster, PostJobFree, SimplyHired, Craigslist

Monster offers one free post per 30 days with a small applicant cap. PostJobFree is free with a daily cap and distributes to search engines. SimplyHired's free posts syndicate onward after employer verification. Craigslist charges for job posts in most US cities (the fee depends on the city and is shown at checkout); posts run 30 days without auto-renewal.

Tech and Remote Boards

Most dedicated remote boards are paid: We Work Remotely, Remote OK, Working Nomads and Dice all charge per 30-day post, with prices on their sites. Stack Overflow Jobs closed in 2022 and GitHub Jobs in 2021 — any list still recommending them is stale. The free tech channels that remain:

  • Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent) — free core tier with unlimited jobs and a built-in ATS, aimed at startups; paid sourcing add-ons.
  • Hacker News "Who is hiring?" — a free thread on the first weekday of each month; post as the hiring company, one comment per company, salary ranges expected by the community.
  • Djinni (Ukraine and remote tech) — free to post, fee only on hire.
  • Your own job page + Google for Jobs — a remote role marked TELECOMMUTE in the schema surfaces for remote searches worldwide.

United Kingdom and Ireland

  • GOV.UK Find a job — the Department for Work and Pensions board, free for employers with an account, covering England, Scotland and Wales.
  • Indeed UK — the same three-free-posts rule, 30 days live.
  • Reed — paid: a single credit is £89 + VAT for six weeks live, with paid boosts on top (Reed).
  • CV-Library, Totaljobs — paid per post; prices on their sites.
  • Ireland: Jobs.ie, IrishJobs.ie — paid, quote-based or per post. Free reach in Ireland comes from Indeed's cap, Google for Jobs and the Jooble/Adzuna feeds.

Netherlands

  • Werk.nl (UWV) — the government portal, free for employers with an eHerkenning login; vacancies syndicate to the EU-wide EURES network.
  • Indeed NL — one of the five countries with three free posts, 30 days live.
  • Nationale Vacaturebank — paid, no free tier.

Poland

  • Pracuj.pl — paid; new-employer promotions appear from time to time but there is no permanent free tier.
  • OLX Praca — a limited free option with dynamic pricing at posting time; posts that link to an external application page need a paid package.
  • JustJoin.it, NoFluffJobs, Aplikuj.pl — paid, self-service; prices on their sites.
  • Free reach in Poland: Indeed (outside the five 30-day countries, free posts stay live longer), Google for Jobs, and the Jooble feed (Poland is one of the 66 sites).

Ukraine

  • Djinni — free to post and to source; you pay a success fee only when you hire: 20 % of one month's salary for a Ukraine-based candidate, 50 % for candidates elsewhere, with a 30-day guarantee (Djinni pricing). Applications can flow straight into your ATS through Djinni's API — see the Djinni integration.
  • Work.ua — one free vacancy per month, verbatim from their free-job page; paid packages add volume and CV-database access.
  • DOU — paid: $25 per listing, live one month, cheaper at volume (DOU advertising). The tech audience is worth it for developer roles.
  • Robota.ua — a free option exists; check the current quota on the employer page.
  • Happy Monday, Lobby X — paid with specific free carve-outs (first vacancy, NGOs, veteran-owned businesses); confirm on their sites.
  • Telegram job channels — free, high reach for tech and marketing roles, no structure: applications arrive as messages. Route them with an apply e-mail address so they land in the pipeline like everything else.

Post Once, Distribute Everywhere

The boards above have four different intake mechanisms, and that is the real reason "free" costs so much time: every board wants the job typed into its own form and sends applicants to its own inbox. A modern ATS collapses that into one publish action:

  1. Google for Jobs via structured data. The ATS hosts a public job page with a complete JobPosting block, keeps it in a sitemap, renews or expires validThrough, and returns 410 when you unpublish. In MindHunt AI this is a per-position toggle; the Details tab tells you if the description is too short (under 75 words) or the company name is missing before Google ever sees it.
  2. Jooble via XML feed. A second toggle adds the job to a feed Jooble crawls daily — title, region, country, salary, description, company, job type, dates and expiry — for all 66 country sites.
  3. Djinni via API. Link a position to a Djinni vacancy once; new applications (name, contacts, CV, cover letter, answers) are pushed and polled into the pipeline, deduplicated against candidates you already have.
  4. Every other board via an apply e-mail address. Each position gets an address like apply-xxxxxxxx@apply.mindhuntai.com. Paste it into the "send applications to" field on Indeed (turn on "résumé as attachment" in its alert settings), Jooble, Work.ua, Robota.ua, DOU, CV-Library, JustJoin.it, a Telegram channel — any board that lets you choose where applications go. (LinkedIn does not: it only e-mails a notification, and the CV stays inside LinkedIn.) Incoming e-mails are parsed — CV attached, name, e-mail, phone, LinkedIn extracted from the CV — and become applications in the same pipeline, flagged for review when the board hides the applicant's e-mail. Rotate the address if a board starts spamming it.

Every application, whatever the board, then gets the same treatment: AI screening against the job requirements (a fit score, a verdict, reasons and red flags per applicant), deduplication against your existing candidates, and a place on the Kanban board next to the candidates you sourced yourself. The job board, distribution, apply e-mail and screening are on every plan, including Free. This is what inbound recruiting looks like when it is set up properly.

How to Get Results From Free Postings

  • Write the title people search for. "Senior Backend Engineer (Python)", not "Rockstar Coder". Free listings live or die on search matching.
  • Write the whole description. Google, Jooble and most boards drop teasers; 75 words is the floor, 300–600 is where it works. The job description guide has the structure.
  • Put the salary in. Boards rank it, Google shows it, candidates filter on it.
  • Renew before it expires. Indeed's 30 days, LinkedIn's 14, Google's validThrough — a filled-looking listing gets no applicants.
  • Reply within a day. Free boards send the same candidate to ten employers; the first reply wins.
  • Track source of hire. After three roles you will know which two boards are worth the form-filling and which ones only send noise.

When to Pay

Sponsor when the role is hard to fill, urgent, or high volume — a sponsored Indeed post or a DOU listing for a niche developer role is money well spent. For everything else, free distribution done properly (Google, Jooble, the free caps on Indeed and LinkedIn, the national boards) reaches most of the same candidates. And for senior or passive talent, no board of any price replaces sourcing.

Publish Once. Every Board, One Pipeline.

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