Vacancies re-typed from the ATS by hand
A generic listing plugin has no real ATS connection, so a role closed in the system of record can sit open on the website indefinitely.
FROM WORDPRESS · RECRUITMENT AGENCIES
What breaks when a job board plugin does not talk to the ATS
A generic WordPress listing plugin usually has no real connection to the agency's ATS or CRM, so vacancies get re-typed by hand and can sit open on the site after they have already closed in the system of record. CVs arrive as email attachments rather than structured data, and Google Jobs eligibility is often quietly broken by incomplete markup nobody checked.
WHAT ACTUALLY BREAKS
Five ways a recruitment WordPress site fails, specifically
ATS connection, CV handling and Google Jobs eligibility, not generic WordPress complaints.
CVs arrive as attachments, not data
A forms plugin treats a CV upload as an email attachment someone opens manually, not structured candidate data the CRM can use.
Google Jobs listing quietly incomplete
A generic plugin often implements JobPosting structured data partially or not at all, cutting off a major candidate traffic source without anyone noticing.
Employer and candidate journeys share one homepage
The plugin template was not built for two opposite audiences, so neither gets the path they actually need.
Candidate data retention handled manually or not at all
Deleting or retaining candidate records to a stated policy is rarely a feature of a generic listing plugin, leaving it as a manual obligation nobody tracks.
WHAT CARRIES ACROSS
Listings move. The data connection does not
Content and integration are separate problems, migrated separately.
Every vacancy and candidate-facing page carries across intact. What does not carry across is how they connected to the systems behind them: manual re-entry and attachment-based CVs are rebuilt into a real API connection and structured application data.
WHAT IT COSTS
What a recruitment agency WordPress migration costs
A range, not a fixed price, because ATS integration depth moves the number.
5,500–36,700 $1,500–10,000 €1,321–8,807
Depending on integration depth with the existing ATS or CRM.
7 days
10 with the integration.
Google Jobs eligibility
A candidate traffic source that quietly disappears when structured data is implemented incompletely.
HOW IT RUNS
Four steps, specific to an ATS-connected agency
ATS connection and CV handling audited first, since that is where the actual risk sits.
01 2 DAYS
Audit the ATS connection and CV handling
We check exactly how vacancies get onto the site now, and what happens to a CV between submission and the recruiter actually seeing it.
02 2–4 DAYS
Inventory listings, structured data and existing rankings
Every job page is checked against Google Jobs eligibility and mapped against Search Console.
03 1–3 WEEKS
Build ATS-connected listings with CV parsing
Vacancies publish from the system of record, applications arrive as structured data, and JobPosting markup is implemented correctly.
04 SAME DAY + 2 WEEKS
Redirect map, cutover, verify parity
Every listing URL redirected to its new address, with Search Console watched daily for the first two weeks after launch.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
Questions about migrating a recruitment agency off WordPress
The ones that come up before anyone signs anything.
It usually has no real connection to the agency's ATS or CRM, so vacancies get re-typed by hand from the system that actually holds them. Every manual re-entry is a chance for a listing to go stale or a role to close on the CRM while it still shows open on the site.
Gravity Forms or WPForms treats an uploaded CV as an email attachment, arriving as a file someone has to open manually rather than structured, parseable candidate data the CRM can actually use.
Getting listed requires correctly implemented JobPosting structured data, which a generic listing plugin often implements incompletely or not at all, quietly cutting off a major source of candidate traffic.
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