Website relaunch for a recruitment agency
A recruitment agency had a slow site where posting vacancies was a full-day job. We built a hand-built website with its own vacancy module: three times faster and 40% more applications.
Sector
Recruitment & staffing
Services
Custom website, vacancy module, SEO
Year
2026
The challenge
The old site was a heavy WordPress theme with a page builder and a pile of plugins. Loading a page took more than five seconds on mobile — and candidates in particular browse on their phones. Keeping vacancies up to date meant wrestling with a clumsy interface, so it happened too rarely. The result: outdated vacancies, few applications via their own site and Google positions that sank away.
Meanwhile, the agency kept paying for expensive job platforms, while its own website produced almost nothing.
Our approach
We replaced the site entirely with a hand-built website — no page builder, no plugins, but a custom vacancy module:
- Hand-built and lightning fast. Bare, clean code without ballast. Every page loads in under a second, even on a mediocre mobile connection.
- Vacancy module for the team. Posting or editing a vacancy now takes two minutes via a simple form — no technical knowledge needed, and without us having to come in.
- Built for Google. Every vacancy automatically gets JobPosting structured data, so vacancies stand out in search results and in Google for Jobs.
- Apply in one minute. A short form with only what really matters, including CV upload — no account, no mandatory-field overkill.
The old content was carefully migrated with redirects, so the Google positions built up over time were preserved.
A site that finally contributes to revenue
Three months after go-live, compared with the same period a year earlier.
3×
faster load time — from over five seconds to under one and a half
+40%
more applications via their own website
Top 3
in Google for the most important vacancy search terms in the agency's niche
Because vacancies are now online the same day and are found more easily, the costs of external job platforms are also falling. The site has changed from a digital brochure into the most important recruitment channel.
What is under the hood
I used to put off posting a vacancy because it was such a hassle. Now everything is online the same day, and the number of applications through our own site has risen by forty percent. That makes us less dependent on expensive platforms.
Owner, recruitment agency
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