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Finding work in Australia: where job seekers look
SEEK, Indeed and LinkedIn carry jobs of every kind, while graduates, backpackers, public servants, community workers and artists each have sites of their own.
Job seekers in Australia have a handful of large general boards to choose from, and a longer list of smaller sites built for one kind of work or one group of people, from graduates to backpackers on a working holiday.
The fifteen sites below fall into five groups: the general boards, the search engines that gather jobs from across the web, the government services, the sites for one group or one field, and a board for remote and flexible work. Most are free for job seekers; one remote board and one arts site charge for full access. Live job counts change every day.
The general boards
SEEK is an online employment marketplace founded in Melbourne in 1997 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, with more than 60 million candidate profiles. You can upload your resume to your SEEK profile and use it to apply for jobs, or let employers find you through your profile.
LinkedIn Jobs is the job board inside the LinkedIn professional network. A basic account is free, and you can apply for many jobs directly on LinkedIn; paid Premium subscriptions, which may be free for the first month, add more job search tools.
Indeed Australia is the Australian site of Indeed, a general job site for every kind of work run by Recruit Holdings, with 8.3 million visits a month in Australia. You can search jobs, post a resume and research companies, and narrow a search by salary, industry, job title or experience level.
CareerOne is a general job site with more than 238,000 available jobs. You start with your resume, and its matching tool, Banjo, keeps learning how you match to jobs and puts you forward to employers who are hiring. Gumtree, the Australian classifieds site, also carries jobs: people use it to sell or find a wide range of goods and services, from a new vehicle to a new job, and it has 6 million users and more than 2.5 million listings.
Search engines that gather jobs
Three sites work as search engines rather than boards, pulling listings together from elsewhere. Jora, run by Job Seeker Pty Ltd, is a search engine just for jobs: it pulls listings from across the web so you can see every relevant job in one search. Adzuna Australia sets out to find every job, everywhere, and brings them into one place. SimplyHired covers millions of jobs worldwide in one search, by job title, skills or company, and its Australian site lets you sign in or create an account to search.
For someone searching widely, that means one search instead of several.
Government services and public service jobs
Workforce Australia is a government service for most people looking for work, at no cost to individuals. Besides job search, it offers activities to support people into work, such as Employability Skills Training, and it has helped more than 1 million Australians find a job.
APS Jobs is where the Australian Public Service and other government agencies post their vacant positions, including graduate programs. It showed 618 jobs in October 2026, and you do not need an APSJobs account to apply for a vacancy.
Sites for one group or one field
SEEK Grad, formerly GradConnection, links students and graduates to jobs and is free for them to use; it has more than 130,000 graduate accounts. You choose the industries you want to hear about and get them by email, research companies, talk to other graduates in forums and let employers find your profile.
Backpacker Job Board connects backpackers and people on working holidays with employers in sectors from agriculture and construction to hospitality, sales and marketing. It is free for backpackers and has more than 200,000 employers and 500,000 backpackers registered. Its founder built it while on a working holiday in Australia.
EthicalJobs.com.au lists roles where the main focus of the job or the organization is social justice, social equity or environmental sustainability, such as jobs at not-for-profit and community organizations. More than 40,000 jobs are posted on it each year.
ArtsHub is a site for jobs in the arts, with news and reviews too, and hundreds of arts organizations post jobs on it each month. Its Opportunities directory brings art prizes, residencies and grants together in one place, and full job access comes with a membership.
Remote and flexible work
FlexJobs lists professional remote and flexible jobs in more than 50 career fields, from entry level to executive and part-time to full-time, in the US and around the world. More than 10 million job seekers have used it. Unlike most of the sites here, it needs a paid subscription to see and apply for its jobs.
Letting employers find you
Several of these sites work in both directions. On SEEK you can apply with the resume on your profile or let employers find you through it. SEEK Grad lets employers find a graduate's profile, and CareerOne's matching tool, Banjo, puts you forward to employers who are hiring. Indeed Australia takes a posted resume, and LinkedIn's Premium subscriptions add more job search tools to a free basic account. For job seekers who would rather not search every day, a profile on one or two of these sites can bring the jobs to them.
Using more than one site
Because nearly all of these sites are free, a job seeker can use several at once. Someone who works in one field can pair a general board such as SEEK or Indeed Australia with that field's own site: APS Jobs for the public service, EthicalJobs.com.au for community work, ArtsHub for the arts. Graduates have SEEK Grad, and backpackers on a working holiday have Backpacker Job Board.
The two places to check the cost first are FlexJobs, which needs a subscription, and ArtsHub, where full job access comes with a membership.
