Welcome to the Jungle

A company profile with vacancies attached

Welcome to the Jungle is an employer-brand board. The centrepiece is the company page: photography, video, written pieces about how the place actually works, faces attached to teams. Vacancies hang off that page, and that is how candidates move through the site — they read the company, then look at what it is hiring for.

It changes what an ad is doing here. Someone who lands on your role has usually arrived through the company rather than a title search, and the question in their head is closer to whether they want to work with you than whether the wording matches what they typed. The subscription model follows from that: you are paying for a maintained presence, one that has to be worth a visit between vacancies as well as during them.

Welcome to the Jungle publishes no total for how many roles are live on it, and this page is not going to invent one. The more useful measure is whether you have anything to show. A company that subscribes and then leaves the profile thin has bought a page nobody has a reason to read.

What has to be true before anything publishes

Join’s multiposting catalogue holds an access requirement for this board: “In order to link the JOIN account to WTTJ, customers must have a running subscription with WTTJ (paid) on the right tier and be enabled by WTTJ for integration.”

Read it slowly, because that is three conditions rather than one. The subscription has to be running and paid, not lapsed. The tier has to permit third-party integration, and not every tier they sell does. And the account has to be switched on for that integration at their end, which is an action only they can take. Miss any of the three and the connection cannot be made at all.

None of the three is Join’s to arrange. Join connects to an account that already exists on the right terms; opening one, moving it up a tier or enabling it all happen somewhere else. So the scheduling advice is blunt: settle this before a vacancy is waiting on it. A subscription negotiation wedged between approved headcount and a live ad is weeks nobody costed.

Who charges you, and for what

Nothing is bought through Join here, and there is no organic route either. The catalogue lists no product for Welcome to the Jungle: no rungs, no runtimes, no list price to set a Join price beside. The one comparison this site can normally make, what a product costs direct against what it costs through us, has nothing to compare.

The entire cost is the subscription, which you negotiate with Welcome to the Jungle and they invoice you for. Join neither adds to that figure nor takes anything off it. And because the integration runs on your contract rather than one of ours, we put no geographic limit on it either: wherever your subscription lets you publish, the connection publishes.

What going through Join genuinely removes is the double entry. One form, one approval, one set of fields, and the ad lands in the account you are already paying for alongside every other channel you selected, instead of being retyped into a second system by someone who has just typed it.

It is worth noticing which way that cost leans. A standing subscription bills the same whether you hire four people this year or forty, while a board that charges per ad asks for less when you hire less. So the cost per hire here climbs at exactly the moment your hiring slows.

Who this is actually for

Most people reading this can stop here. If you do not already hold a Welcome to the Jungle subscription, the decision in front of you is whether to buy one from them, and that decision has nothing to do with Join. A multiposting tool should not be the thing that talks anyone into an annual commitment with a board. We have nothing to sell you on this page, which is worth saying plainly: it makes the recommendation cheap for us to give, and you should weigh it against pages where that is not the case.

For the minority who already pay, it is simple. If the subscription is live on a tier that qualifies, ask them to enable the integration and stop copying ads by hand. The employers who get the most out of it hire continuously in engineering, product and design, because those are the people most likely to read a company page before applying, and because a fixed cost spreads across a lot of roles.

Where it goes badly: an urgent, interchangeable vacancy. Nobody browses company profiles to cover a shift next week, and a role decided on salary and title belongs on a generalist or an aggregator. The same holds for a single hire set against a full year of subscription, where the arithmetic does not come close to working.