Melbourne Jobs · Free while we launch
Free job posting on Melbourne's own publication. Your listing is quality-checked, published to our readers and pushed to Google job search. Applications land straight in your inbox.
How it works
No sales calls, no contracts, no credit card field hiding at step four. Create an account, post the role, and our editors take it from there.
Company name, your email, a logo. That's the lot. Your logo appears on every job you post, so candidates recognise you instantly.
About 2 minutesRole, pay, suburb, closing date and three short sections. Listings that show pay get noticeably more applications, so we make it easy.
About 5 minutesAn editor checks every listing before it goes live, usually within one business day. Then it's on the site, in Google job search and in front of our readers.
Live within 1 business dayWhat free actually includes
Free job ads elsewhere are usually the crippled tier. This is the whole product.
Compare
Where a Melbourne small business can advertise a job right now, and what it costs.
| Melbourne Jobs | SEEK | Indeed | Gumtree | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to post | $0 | From ~$300+ | Free tier, pay for visibility | Free / paid tiers |
| Melbourne-only audience | Yes | National | Global | National |
| Human review of every ad | Yes | Automated | Automated | Minimal |
| Google job search | Included | Yes | Yes | Limited |
| Editorial audience | 180k+ readers | Job seekers only | Job seekers only | Classifieds traffic |
| Sales calls after signup | Never | Likely | Likely | n/a |
Competitor pricing and features as commonly advertised for standard listings, mid 2026, and may change. SEEK, Indeed and Gumtree are trademarks of their respective owners.
Who hires here
We cover the city's venues, events, shops and studios every week. These are the roles our readers look for.
The heart of the board
Chefs, baristas, floor and bar staff, venue managers, kitchen hands
Festival city, year round
Event coordinators, production crew, front of house, promoters
Strips, markets and stores
Store managers, sales assistants, booksellers, visual merchandisers
Studios, galleries, agencies
Designers, producers, gallery assistants, photographers, writers
Brands that live here
Social media managers, marketing coordinators, content producers
The engine room
Office coordinators, receptionists, bookkeepers, executive assistants
The obvious question
There isn't one, but here's the honest answer. We're building Melbourne's jobs board the same way we built Melbourne's publication: start with quality, earn the audience, charge for extras later.
Standard listings stay free while we launch. Down the track we'll sell optional upgrades like featured placement and newsletter boosts. The free listing you post today is the full product, not a teaser.
Questions
Yes. Posting a job on Melbourne Jobs is completely free while we launch: no credit card, no trial period, no charge when your listing goes live. Standard listings stay free; optional paid upgrades like featured placement will come later.
You choose the closing date, up to 60 days from posting. We email you three days before it closes, and you can repost a closed job in one click.
Yes. Every listing is published with Google's JobPosting structured data, which makes it eligible for Google job search results, the job panels people see when they search things like "barista jobs Melbourne".
Through a short form on your listing: name, contact details, cover note and CV. You're emailed the moment someone applies, and every application and CV is stored in your employer dashboard. You can also link out to your own careers page instead.
Any Melbourne business hiring for a genuine role: venues, shops, studios, agencies, offices. Every account is verified by email and every listing is quality-checked before publishing.
Because a board full of spam and commission-only "opportunities" helps nobody. An editor checks each listing, including that advertised pay meets award minimums where shown, before it goes live, usually within one business day.
Full-time, part-time, casual, contract and internship roles across hospitality, events, retail, creative and media, marketing, and office and admin. The role must be based in or around Melbourne.
Yes, post as many genuine roles as you're hiring for. Each one is reviewed individually and gets its own listing, stats and applications.
Three things: it's free, it's Melbourne-only, and your ad sits inside a publication people already read, not a database they only visit when job hunting. You reach passive candidates: the reader who loves your venue and didn't know you were hiring.
You need to be a real, verifiable Melbourne business. We check email domains and business details as part of review, and we may ask for an ABN if we can't verify you another way.
Posting on Melbourne Jobs is the cheapest option that still reaches a local audience: it is free, with no credit card and no paid tier hidden behind the free one. SEEK charges from around $300 a listing, and the free tiers on Indeed and Gumtree tend to bury your ad unless you pay for visibility. Here your standard listing is the full product, free for the life of the ad.
Post it here. Every Melbourne Jobs listing is published with Google's JobPosting structured data, so it is eligible for Google job search at no cost. You do not need your own careers site or any technical setup: post the role, we handle the structured data and submit it for indexing.
Yes. Hospitality and retail are the heart of the board: chefs, baristas, floor and bar staff, venue and store managers, sales assistants and more. Post as many genuine roles as you are hiring for, each reviewed and published free, in front of readers who already follow Melbourne's venues and shops.
Browse live Melbourne jobs from the places we write about.
Free while we launch
Post your job now and it can be live, in Google job search and in front of Melbourne readers by tomorrow.
Post a job freeNo credit card · Reviewed within one business day · Cancel or close any time
Free job posting in Melbourne. Melbourne Jobs lets Melbourne businesses advertise jobs free: post hospitality jobs, events jobs, retail jobs, creative and media jobs, marketing jobs and office and admin roles at no cost. Every free job ad is quality-checked, published to Melbourne Insider's readers and included in Google job search.
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