While people used to study the job listings in daily newspapers, today they simply browse the internet when looking for a new professional challenge. There are now numerous, well-known job portals that offer up-to-date vacancies from a wide range of industries. Many job boards also provide useful additional functions, such as the ability to submit your own CV or helpful tips on successful applications. The 10 most important job portals in Austria include:
Stepstone.at
Stepstone was founded in 1996 in Norway and now has offices in Europe, the USA and Asia.
- Listings: Stepstone records about 6,000 new job listings per month for Austria. Those who want to expand their search to all of Europe will find over 200,000 job offers from a wide variety of sectors and professional fields.
- Target audience: Stepstone appeals to a very large group of jobseekers. Whether management positions or secretarial jobs, engineering or creative work – the range of offers is broad.
- Search function: The quick search only requires entering the desired job title and location. You can also search in detail by occupational field or in so‑called job channels that specialize in a particular sector.
- Additional services: free job listings by email, newsletter, application tips, creating your own CV.
Meinjob.at
The Austrian online job platform www.meinjob.at is a company of the Mediengruppe Österreich and belongs to the OE24 network.
Listings:
- Meinjob.at records around 6,500 new job listings monthly for Austria.
- The focus of the jobs offered is in the areas of sales, controlling, finance and accounting, retail and more.
Target audience:
- Meinjob.at is generally aimed at anyone looking for a job, but especially those interested in well-known companies based in Austria such as Post, Erste Bank, Fressnapf or Raiffeisen Landesbank.
Search function:
- The suitable job is searched for taking into account the category, the federal state, or a corresponding keyword.
Additional services:
- Free job listings by email
- Newsletter
- Job alert
- Gross–net calculator
- Integration of ads into the daily newspaper Österreich
- Icon with the text 'Applications from people with disabilities expressly welcome'
- Meinjob.at also offers an apprenticeship page at www.lehrling.at
Karriere.at
Karriere.at is an independent career portal whose aim is to bring Austrian executives and domestic top companies together.
- Listings: The focus of the jobs offered is in the areas of leadership/management/entrepreneurship, accounting/controlling, and sales/customer service. Occasionally scientific professions or jobs from the education/training sector are also offered.
- Target audience: Karriere.at primarily addresses skilled and managerial staff from technical and commercial fields.
- Search function: Those searching for a job via Karriere.at must specify 4 criteria: on one hand the desired occupational field and federal state, and on the other the preferred type of employment and the desired position level.
- Additional services: salary calculator, templates for cover letters, job alert, career blog, enter your own CV.
Monster.at
Around 2.6 million searches are conducted on monster.at per month – the Austrian job portal also benefits from the international Monster network, which extends to over 60 countries worldwide.
- Listings: Here you will find job postings across all industries and federal states. Particularly popular are the sectors marketing/PR, sales and administration. Those who want to look beyond the horizon will also find worldwide job offers.
- Target audience: Monster.at primarily appeals to people who plan their career path individually and want a highly personalized job search for this purpose.
- Search function: Searches are made by a corresponding keyword and by federal state/postcode/location. Alternatively, applicants can also filter by a specific company or a specific category/industry.
- Additional services: jobs by email, enter CV, application tips, forum for exchanging experiences with other applicants.
Gigajob.at
Strictly speaking, gigajob.at is a meta-search engine that largely relies on other job portals.
- Listings: Applicants can choose from almost 7,000 job offers. The job postings relate to a wide variety of sectors and federal states. Worldwide offers are also available on gigajob.at.
- Target audience: Gigajob.at appeals to the entirety of people who are currently looking for jobs.
- Search function: The simple search requires entering the desired job title and the desired work location. If desired, the search can be filtered by country, city, industry and type of work (e.g. teleworking).
- Additional services: create an applicant profile for free, free access to FAQ help for applicants, career journal, application tips.
Green-jobs.at
The career platform green-jobs.at emerged from a joint initiative of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Karriere.at and Green Jobs Austria.
- Listings: As the name suggests, green-jobs.at only features job offers from the environmental industry. Listings always relate only to domestic companies; international jobs are not advertised.
- Target audience: Green-jobs.at appeals to applicants interested in a profession in the environmental sector and/or related fields. Areas of deployment are varied; they range from consulting to leadership/management to clerical work or legal services.
- Search function: The search form is simple and easy to understand. Searches are made by job title and the desired location of the future employer.
- Additional services: application tips, gross–net calculator, magazine on 'green topics', information on education and training, company fact checks, newsletter.
AMS e-Jobroom
The so‑called e‑Jobroom is the official online job portal of the Public Employment Service (AMS) Austria.
- Listings: With the e‑Jobroom, AMS Austria expands its area of activity. It ensures that advertised jobs are accessible and viewable around the clock for applicants. All positions that have been reported as vacant to the Public Employment Service are listed there, including apprenticeships and training positions.
- Target audience: For many jobseekers, AMS is the first point of contact. Accordingly, the target audience of the e‑Jobroom is broad. It is basically aimed at all people of any age who are looking for a new job.
- Search function: The e‑Jobroom offers 3 different search functions. The free search can be by profession, location or company name. The guided search filters by type of employment, and the AMS job robot searches external company websites for offers.
- Additional services: creation of personality and interest profiles by applicants. Registered users can enter CVs and save search criteria.
Hoteljob-oesterreich.at
If you are interested in a job in gastronomy or hospitality, hoteljob-oesterreich.at is a good place for you.
- Listings: This portal specializes in job offers in the hotel, gastronomy and tourism sectors, as well as in activities carried out on river and cruise ships.
- Target audience: The addressees are primarily executives but also skilled workers from various areas such as childcare workers, head chefs, butlers, hotel managers and many more.
- Search function: The search mask includes the categories profession, area and desired rank.
- Additional services: save CV including photo for free, information for applicants, post job searches.
Unijobs.at
Originally started as a student platform, unijobs.at is now considered one of the largest job boards for side and part‑time jobs.
- Listings: Unijobs.at offers side jobs, part‑time jobs, student jobs, marginal employment and internships from all professional fields and in all Austrian federal states.
- Target audience: The platform's name already gives clues about its audience. Unijobs.at is primarily aimed at students looking for side jobs or graduates who want to gain initial work experience after completing their studies.
- Search function: Searches are made using 3 different categories. Applicants must specify the type of desired activity, the type of employment and the desired federal state.
- Additional services: blog, application tips, search results by email and the option to save favorites for the next search.
Jobspot.at
Jobspot.at is another attractive job board for both applicants and companies looking to advertise a position. To distribute listings especially effectively, jobspot.at relies on social media.
- Listings: Jobspot.at offers positions from a variety of professional fields. In addition to searching for full‑time jobs, applicants can also look for freelance work and internships.
- Target audience: Basically anyone who is looking for new professional challenges.
- Search function: When searching for jobs, filters include job type, salary range, job category and publication date. If desired, you can also try the 'keywords' search, which finds job offers matching specific terms.
- • Additional services: free publication of your CV, blog on application and career topics, social networking on Facebook, Twitter and co.
