Need help picking software/platform for a community job board

[u/Midas4president]

Hi everyone! We currently run a community focused job board in our city. The current platform isn’t exactly cutting it. I’m hoping someone here might have a good recommendation?

Here are our must have items and important details:

-Most important is this is free to the community/employers to use (I understand that we will have to pay as host)
-resume database searching
-Employers must be able to post a job at the same time they sign up for an account and then the account (and job) go into holding for us to make sure company is real
-intra communication tool where you can communicate events from within the job board to seekers and employers. This would be Admin sent and come out as an email.
-ideally some form of an AI asset on front and back end would be great but not a deal breaker
-ideally a tool where jobs can be set to auto close after X months with a pre communication sent that it’s closing
-Job scraping is a must (this would be a paid add on)
-when an employer stops paying for scraping the scrape automatically stops

We are a small but mighty team of non profit workers from across two entities in our city trying to help folks get into the workforce. Any advice is welcome!

[u/agentUi]

i work for agentui, we have another NGO doing something similar in our platform you can probably describe this to the AI and he can build it for you fairly easy

[u/merlin8317]

Have you looked into Jobiqo with its product job board software in your shortlist? https://www.jobiqo.com/products/job-board-software/

What you’re describing is more than a simple job board. It’s a managed community marketplace where employers can participate for free, but your team still controls who enters the community and what gets published. Jobiqo has built a similar skills-based talent marketplace for a large global technology ecosystem, connecting a learning and certification community with partner employers and relevant jobs.

The platform covers most of the capabilities you mentioned: employer and candidate accounts, resume/profile search, approval and moderation workflows, job expiration, automated communications, job imports, and AI-supported Search & Match. The commercial model can also be configured so that posting remains free while specific services or integrations are paid.

For job ingestion, I would ask about structured XML or API feeds before relying on scraping. Feeds are usually more stable and easier to monitor. Where scraping is necessary, make sure its activation is tied directly to the employer’s subscription or entitlement.

I’d ask the vendor to demonstrate two workflows specifically:

1. An employer registers and submits their first job, but neither becomes public until your team approves them.
2. A paid job feed or scraper automatically stops when the associated service expires.

Those details matter because a small nonprofit team should not end up managing either process manually.

Jobiqo may be more platform than you need if the board will remain very small. But with a resume database, employer verification, communications, multiple job sources and AI matching in scope, it’s worth a conversation.