Jobs on WordPress: who updates them when the agency is busy?
WordPress is a good website. Jobs need more than a page: an ATS connection, an application form, Google for Jobs, and someone to keep it current. Compared side by side.
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- Set up within one working day
- You pay when you go live
Sometimes WordPress is simply the better choice.
Stay with WordPress if one of these is you.
- You employ a developer who knows WordPress and has time for it.
- You have a handful of jobs a year, all office roles, and they rarely change.
- You want one admin for your whole site, and you are fine with a job being an ordinary page there.
- You have one jobs page on your company site and that is enough. Then you do not need a careers site, ours included.
This is probably how it goes now.
The job from March is still up. The mechanic was hired, but taking the page down means an email to the agency, a ticket, and an invoice for fifteen minutes of work. So it stays. The application that comes in tonight is for a job that no longer exists.
At the next plugin update, the application form is down for an afternoon. You find out when someone calls, and most people do not call.
Agencies that build WordPress integrations say it themselves: an integration built by an agency with little experience works on delivery day, so ask up front who picks up the phone when something breaks a year later. We think that is a good question. Our answer is at the bottom of this page.
What you sign up for with WordPress, and with us.
| Aspect | WordPress site from your agency | Exenzo |
|---|---|---|
| Where your site lives | On your own domain. That is a point for WordPress. | On careers.yourcompany.com. On a path of your main domain when we manage the site. |
| Where your jobs come from | Retyped, or an integration your agency built and maintains. | From your ATS, automatically: Recruitee, Homerun, AFAS, Bullhorn, Carerix, OTYS, MySolution, RecruitNow, Emply. Or from any feed. |
| What Google sees | Job data only if someone builds it in. A closed job stays up until someone removes it. | Every job gets the data Google asks for. Expired jobs drop out of Google automatically. |
| The application form | One form for everyone. Anything else is custom work. | You decide what the form asks. Every application lands in your ATS, with the source attached. |
| A change | A ticket at the agency, an hourly rate, a week or two. | You ask in the chat, approve the proposal, and it goes live. |
| Upkeep and updates | WordPress, theme, plugins, hosting and security: yours, or a maintenance contract. | Included in the plan. |
| What you measure | Google Analytics, for visitors who accept cookies. | Applications are counted server-side, whatever the cookie choice. Without consent, nothing third-party loads. |
| What it costs a month | Hosting, a maintenance contract, and the agency's hours. | From €89 a month. Trial site is free, you pay when you go live. |
Do the sum yourself.
Take your agency's last three invoices for the careers page. Add them up and divide by the number of months. That is what a page costs when you are not allowed to touch it. With us, changes are part of every plan, from €89 a month. One agency hour a month is roughly what Basic costs.
What you are probably thinking.
"We want to keep our WordPress site."
Fine, it stays. Your careers site goes on careers.yourcompany.com and your site links to it. Want it on yourcompany.com/careers? That works when we manage the site.
"Our developer can build this too."
Probably. The question is not whether it can be done, but what it costs over three years: updates, keeping the integration alive, and the day that developer moves on.
You're talking to the person who builds the software.
I'm Koen. I've been building Exenzo since 2014, from Zeist. For years I watched employers pay for small technical changes to their careers site. So I built it so you ask for those in the chat, without a quote. A demo is half an hour with me, not a sales script. If I think Exenzo isn't right for you, I'll say so in that half hour.
Book a 30-minute demoTomorrow your trial site is ready, with your own jobs in it.
We set it up with the jobs from your ATS. You check whether it is right. You pay when you go live.
- Free trial site
- Set up within one working day
- You pay when you go live
Three questions we often get.
Can Exenzo put the jobs on my WordPress site?
No. We build the careers site itself, on careers.yourcompany.com. Your WordPress site links to it with one button.
Do my old job URLs keep working?
Yes. Every old URL gets a 301 to the new one.
What does a change cost once the site is live?
Nothing extra. Changes through the editor and the assistant are part of every plan.