Most job seekers do not need to be everywhere.
They need the right boards for their market.
If you search across too many portals too early, two things happen fast: your search gets noisy, and your tracking falls apart.
Job portal comparison table
Live job counts move every day. Some portals publish a clear count, some hide it, and some only use broad wording like "millions of jobs." The table below uses the closest public signal visible on 31 March 2026.
| Portal | Candidate cost | Region | Public job-volume signal | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LinkedIn Jobs | Free. Premium subscription optional. | Global | "Millions of jobs and people hiring" — LinkedIn does not publish a live count. | Professional roles, white-collar hiring, recruiter visibility, internships, network-adjacent searches |
| Indeed | Free | Global, 60+ countries | 645M+ job seeker profiles; no live global job count surfaced on public pages. | Broad coverage, local search, high-volume role discovery, fast filtering |
| Glassdoor Jobs | Free | Global major markets | Glassdoor markets "millions of jobs"; part of the Indeed group. | Company research, salary context, interview reviews, comparing employers before applying |
| Monster | Free | US + multiple international markets | Millions of jobs; 12M+ job seekers connected to employers per year. | Broad category search, entry-level, shift work, remote filters, high-volume browsing |
| Reed | Free | UK | 115,292 jobs (31 March 2026). | UK market, agency-heavy search, office roles, education, accountancy, admin |
| Totaljobs | Free | UK | 119,496 jobs (31 March 2026). | UK market, broad commercial hiring, strong volume, salary and career-advice support |
| jobs.ch | Free | Switzerland | Total count not publicly surfaced; broad private-sector volume. | Core Swiss market coverage, multilingual Swiss search, private-sector roles |
| JobScout24 | Free | Switzerland | 85,290 vacancies (31 March 2026). | Swiss market coverage, multilingual search, broad private-sector hiring |
| Job-Room | Free | Switzerland | 61,103 positions (31 March 2026). | Switzerland-specific search, official public employment service context, local and public-interest roles |
What each portal is actually good at
Use LinkedIn when your target roles are relationship-heavy or recruiter-driven. That includes product, software, consulting, marketing, finance, operations, and most mid-senior white-collar roles.
Its strength is not just the listings. It is the surrounding context: shared connections, recruiter presence, hiring-manager visibility, and a clean path from job post to company page to person.
Its weakness is noise. Easy Apply makes volume easy for candidates and filtering harder for recruiters.
Indeed
Indeed is the broadest "start here" board for many markets. It is especially useful when you care more about volume and local coverage than brand or networking context.
Its weakness is duplication. The same role often appears through multiple employers, staffing firms, or reposts.
Glassdoor
Glassdoor is strongest before you apply, not after. Use it to decide whether a company is worth your time. The reviews, salary data, and interview notes are the differentiator.
Its weakness is that it is rarely the cleanest single source of truth for your active pipeline.
Monster
Monster is still useful when you want broad category coverage fast, especially across operational, service, shift-based, or early-career roles.
Its weakness is that for many professional searches, candidates often end up cross-checking the same companies on LinkedIn or Indeed anyway.
Reed and Totaljobs
If you are searching in the UK, these two belong on the shortlist.
Reed is strong when you are comfortable working through agencies and want dense UK inventory. Totaljobs is strong when you want a very broad UK board with high visible volume and useful salary and advice content around the search.
jobs.ch, JobScout24, and Job-Room
If you are searching in Switzerland, these are not optional side boards. They are core.
jobs.ch and JobScout24 are the obvious starting points for broad Swiss private-sector coverage. Job-Room matters because it sits closer to the official Swiss employment-service ecosystem and surfaces a large, very local inventory.
Recommended portal mix by market
If you are applying in Switzerland, start with jobs.ch, JobScout24, Job-Room, and LinkedIn.
If you are applying in the UK, start with Reed, Totaljobs, LinkedIn, and Indeed.
If you are applying internationally for white-collar roles, start with LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor. Add Monster if your category or market still has strong volume there.
The rule most job seekers learn too late
Job portals are good for finding roles. They are bad at being your system of record.
The moment you search across more than one board, you need to track outside the portals themselves. Otherwise you lose the exact job link, the version of the CV you sent, when you applied, who you spoke to, and whether you already followed up.
That is the difference between searching and managing a search. For a detailed breakdown of exactly what breaks when you rely on a portal as your tracker, read Why job portals fail at application tracking.
Start tracking for free at jobsfast.io. Save jobs from any of the portals above with the Chrome extension, and keep every application, CV version, cover letter, and follow-up date in one place — regardless of which board you found it on.