If you run a recruitment agency and have started searching for a recruitment website builder, you are usually deciding between three things: a do-it-yourself website builder, a recruitment platform that charges a monthly fee, or a site built for you. The honest version is that they are not three ways to the same result. They are three different products, and only one of them fills roles.
What a recruitment website builder actually gives you
A general website builder lets you assemble pages from templates: a home page, an about page, a contact form, and a jobs page that you update by hand. It is quick to start, and the monthly cost looks low. What it does not give you is the part that does the work: live jobs that search and filter, CV uploads that go somewhere useful, and jobs that appear in Google for Jobs so candidates actually find them.
A recruitment-specific builder gets closer, but the gap is the same. The site describes your agency; it does not run it.
What the monthly platforms cost
Recruitment platforms such as Volcanic and RecruiterWeb charge several hundred pounds a month for a template you rent. Over three years that is well into five figures, the site still looks like every other agency in your niche, and you never own it. The monthly figure is not a bad deal because the software is good; it is a bad deal because the cost keeps going while the site stays a template.
What a built site does differently
A purpose-built recruitment site is a job board you own. Roles sync from your recruitment software and close themselves when filled, candidates register and upload a CV in under two minutes, and every role carries the details Google for Jobs reads. Hiring managers get their own pages, because they want different things from the same site than candidates do.
That is why a recruitment build sits above a brochure build on price. The gap is the job board, the registration flow and the integrations, not the page structure.
The comparison that matters
The number on its own is misleading without the alternative. A build you own is a one-off cost: our recruitment website development starts at £895 rather than the £395 brochure build, because the job board and the integrations are real work. Changes afterwards are £25 a batch as you need them, or £95 a month if you want someone on hand. Most agencies are ahead within the first year, and the site is an asset rather than a subscription.
When a builder genuinely makes sense
If you are starting out and cannot justify a build yet, a builder is a reasonable placeholder. Treat it as temporary, and do not pay monthly add-ons for years. The expensive way to end up with a recruitment site is a template you never own and a jobs page you still update by hand.
For the full picture of what a recruitment agency website can include — the job board, candidate registration, consultant pages and the Google for Jobs setup — see website development for recruitment agencies. How we build is on the services page, and how it works out on price is on the pricing page.
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- Website development for recruitment agencies· Job boards, CV uploads and vacancy forms for employers.
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