CV-Library review: UK job board with many agency jobs

CV-Library is a job board for the UK. Recruitment agencies and employers pay to post their jobs there and to search the CVs job seekers upload. For job seekers, registering a CV, searching and applying are free.

Who CV-Library is for

CV-Library suits people in the UK who are happy to be contacted by recruitment agencies. By its own account it carries more jobs from agencies than any other job board. Registration is only open to candidates in the UK.

What CV-Library offers

• Job search by job title and place.
• CV in the database: recruiters can find your CV and contact you, unless you hide it.
• Job alerts: new jobs that match your criteria, by e-mail as often as daily.
• An app that sends a notification to your phone when new matching jobs go live.

Who pays for what

Job seekers

Nothing for registering a CV, searching and applying

Employers

Pay for each job posting and, separately, for searching the CV database

How to apply

You need a CV-Library account with a CV to apply. For a job you apply for on the site, your stored CV goes out with a cover letter you can change for each job. Some jobs link out to the recruiter's own site, where you apply as it asks. CV-Library gives no feedback on applications. For that you contact the recruiter.

Where the listings come from

The jobs on CV-Library are posted there by recruitment agencies and employers, who pay for them. By its own account, a posting is also shared across the relevant sites of a large partner network, job search engines such as Adzuna and Jooble among them. So a job you find on a search engine may well have started on CV-Library.