Self-serve, read by a person before it goes live, usually within 24 hours, and priced so that a small employer can actually afford to hire. Applications land in a pipeline, not an inbox.
Applying is always free for candidates. Employers pay per posting. There is no subscription, no contract, nothing to cancel.
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Illustration of the dashboard. These are not a real employer's numbers.
secondjob.ca is a Canadian board built around one uncomfortable fact: most applicants never hear anything back. Everything below is included in every posting. There is no tier that withholds the pipeline, the CVs or the screening questions to sell them back to you.
You buy a posting, you write it, it goes on the board. Easy Apply, screening questions, the candidate pipeline, CV access, messaging and your company profile are in every posting at every price. What the dearer tiers add is a longer run and a better place in the results, never a feature we took out of the cheaper one.
Your posting lands in the same search results and email alerts people use to find work this week, filtered by pay, shift, evenings, weekends, overnights and hours a week, not just by job title. The candidates who filter for your shift are the ones who show up for it.
Choose Easy Apply and applications, CVs and screening answers arrive in your candidate pipeline here. Prefer your own system? Choose Apply on your own website, give us the URL, and we send the candidate straight there and count the click. It is one radio button in step 5 of the posting wizard.
Add yes/no, number, short-answer or multiple-choice questions such as "Do you have a forklift licence?" or "Can you work Saturdays?", and mark the answer you want. Every candidate is flagged against your ideal answer, so a pile of fifty is sorted before you open the first one.
Candidates move across columns: New, Viewed, Interview, Offer, Hired, Not selected. Open the CV in the browser, rate them out of five, message them without leaving the page and book an interview time. Nothing gets lost under a reply-all.
We publish the share of applicants each employer actually answered, on the job card and on the listing itself. Employers who answer get more applications. That is the whole point. How the reply record works.
Buy a posting, write it in about three minutes, and a person reads it before it goes on the board, usually within 24 hours.
Pick the tier that suits the role and pay by card, or ask us for an invoice if that is how your accounts department works. The credit sits on your account until you use it, and credits never expire.
A five-step wizard: basics, details, pay and benefits, the description, then how you want to receive applications. It saves as you go, so a refresh never costs you the draft, and you see the real listing in a preview pane before it goes live.
Your screening questions run on every application. Candidates who miss a must-have are flagged immediately, and everything sits on one screen: CV, answers and contact details.
Move a candidate to Interview, Offer or Not selected and they are told. Every answer you send lifts your public reply record, which is the number candidates look at before they apply.
It is the one number on this site we will not let you hide, and the reason candidates trust the board.
For every application sent through secondjob.ca we record whether the employer ever responded. A status change, a message, an interview invitation or a rejection all count. The share that got an answer becomes your reply record, shown as a ten-segment meter on your listings next to the median number of days it took.
Nothing is guessed and nothing is bought. A brand-new employer has no record, and we say so plainly rather than inventing one. Paying more does not move it, and no tier hides it. If you send applications to your own website instead, we cannot see the outcome, so no record is published for those listings.
Rejections count. Answering "not this time" in one click is better for everyone than silence, and it costs you nothing.
Example figures, shown to explain the meter.
Your first few answers build it. Nothing is held against a new employer.
You buy one posting at a time. There is no subscription, no contract and nothing to cancel, and every feature is in every posting. What a dearer plan buys is a longer run and a better place in the results, never a feature withheld from the cheaper one.
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Prices are in Canadian dollars. Credits never expire, and applying is always free for candidates.
secondjob.ca is new, so these are not customer testimonials. They are the outcomes the product is designed to produce, written the way the hiring managers we spoke to described the problem. We will publish named references when we have earned them.
"I do not need three hundred applications. I need the eleven people who can actually work a Saturday night, sorted before I open my laptop."
"Every candidate I ghost is someone who tells ten people we ghosted them. I want answering people to take one click, not an evening."
"Five hundred dollars to find out whether anyone in my city is even looking. I do not mind paying to hire. I mind paying like that."
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If yours is not here, ask us.
The prices are in the pricing section above, with what each tier includes.
For the run length the posting you bought includes, counted from the day it goes live. It closes itself at the end so nobody applies to a role you have already filled. You can set an earlier closing date, and you can close a job from your dashboard at any time.
Paying more buys a longer run and a better place in the results. A featured posting is pinned above every other result in the searches it matches, its card is highlighted so it reads differently from the ones around it, and it appears on the home page, for the whole of its run. Everything else is the same at every price: Easy Apply, screening questions, the pipeline, CVs and messaging are the same at every price.
No. There is no free tier, no first-one-free and no trial. It is the same reason the board is worth posting on: a posting that costs money is a posting somebody meant, which is most of what keeps the results clean. If the price is the problem for you, write to contact us and talk to us rather than posting something you cannot afford to fill.
By card at the checkout, or by invoice if that suits your accounts department better. Press Buy to pay by card, or ask us for an invoice and we will send one with a reference to quote. Your postings land on your account the moment the payment clears. They never expire, so postings bought in March are still good in November. Everything is in Canadian dollars.
No. Applying is free and always will be. No fee, no subscription, no "premium applicant" tier, and we never ask a candidate for money, banking details or payment to see a job. If a listing on this site ever asks a candidate for money, report it from the job page and we take it down.
Yes. A French version is a second listing, so it uses a second posting. A multi-posting pack is the cheaper way to do it if you post bilingually. Both versions sit on the board and people find whichever one they searched for. To be straight with you: we do not translate the posting for you, and we do not machine-translate it behind your back. The words on the listing are the words you wrote.
Yes. Buy a posting, then send us the wording through the contact form (paste the text of the job straight into the message box) and we will type it up, put it on the board and link it to your employer account, creating one if you do not have it yet. The form takes text, not attachments: if the job only exists as a Word document or a PDF, the contact page carries our phone number and we will take it from there. It costs the same as posting it yourself. You get the login and the candidates come to you.
A posting credit is used up when you press publish. That is what it buys. If we do not approve the listing, the credit returns to your account. It comes back in two cases, both of them ours rather than yours: if we do not approve the listing at review, so it never reached the board at all; and if we take a live listing down for a rules or policy breach. We are not in the business of taking money for a job we then refuse to carry.
It does not come back if you close the listing early, if the run ends on its own, or if you edit a listing that is already up. Filling the role in a week is the posting doing exactly what you bought it for, not something to be refunded, and you can change a live listing as often as you like without spending another posting. A draft you never published has not used a credit at all.
Yes. In step 5 of the wizard choose "Apply on your own website" and give us the URL. We send the candidate straight to your form and count the click. The trade-off: we cannot see whether you answered anyone, so those listings carry no reply record.
It is the share of applicants you answered, measured from real applications sent through this site and published next to your listings. You cannot switch it off, because that would defeat the point, but you control it completely: answer people and it goes up. A rejection counts as an answer. New employers show "no record yet" rather than a made-up number. Full explanation.
No. Every application on a listing of yours, including the CV, the screening answers, the contact details and the message thread, is included in the price of the posting and is yours to read for as long as the listing exists, on the cheapest tier as much as the dearest.
All of them: full-time, part-time, permanent, contract, temporary, casual, seasonal, internships, apprenticeships, freelance, one-shift gigs and volunteer roles. The evening, weekend, overnight and hours-a-week filters sit on top, which is what brings in people looking for work around an existing schedule.
A person reads every listing before it goes live, usually within 24 hours, to confirm the employer is real and actually hiring. Paying for a posting is the other half: nobody buys a credit to run a scam listing for one afternoon. Candidates can report a posting from the job page, and we remove anything that asks a candidate for money, banking details or an up-front fee.
This is the whole reason the board is worth answering. A site running hundreds of thousands of listings cannot read them, which is why a scam posting can sit on one for days. We can read every single one, and while that is true we are going to.
Yes. Every employer gets a company profile with a star rating, reviews and all of your live jobs, and one review is allowed per person per company. You can edit your own profile from the employer dashboard: the about text, industry, size, website and logo.
secondjob.ca is a Canadian job board. It started as a place to find work that fits around an existing job, meaning evenings, weekends, overnights and single shifts, and now carries every kind of role, with those filters kept as the thing that makes it useful.
The reply record is the part we care most about. Applying is free and always will be, and the site is built so that the employers who treat applicants like people are the ones who get seen first.
Questions, complaints and press: get in touch.
You post real jobs at a real employer, you keep applicant data confidential and use it only to fill the role, and you never ask a candidate for money. We can remove a listing that breaks that, and we do not guarantee a hire. That is the short version. The full terms of service are the ones we actually hold employers to.
We store what an account needs: contact details, listings, applications, CVs and messages. A CV can only be opened by the person who uploaded it and by an employer that person actually applied to. We do not sell candidate data, and you can ask us to delete yours. The full privacy policy sets out what we keep, for how long, and how to make that request.
Three minutes to write, read by a person and live within 24 hours, and every applicant lands somewhere you can actually answer them.