Job advertisements: Criteria list

Depending on the profile type, you have a certain quota of full-time jobs at your disposal, which you may use within a calendar year (01.01.-31.12.). For a free Recruiter profile this is 5, for the Recruiter Profile Plus 15 and for the small company profile 30 full-time jobs per year.

Important in this context: The quota does NOT mean that a certain number of full-time positions may be advertised several times a year. Once you have exhausted your inclusive quota, all further full-time jobs will be rejected. You will not incur any additional costs.

There are no restrictions for part-time jobs, internships and thesis topics.

Graduates of a tertiary educational institution - i.e. a university of applied sciences or university - have a higher level of qualification than people with a teaching or school-leaving qualification. We therefore only offer permanent positions (from 30h/week) if the following two criteria are met:

- Required education level must be “Bachelor's degree or equivalent” or “Master's degree or equivalent”.
- The description text of the advertisement must NOT state that an apprenticeship, a high school diploma (AHS/HAK/HTL) or a technical college degree is sufficient to obtain the position.

These requirements do not apply to part-time jobs, internships or thesis topics.

In the past, there have always been advertisements in the Career Zone that only consisted of a title and a PDF file. We must point out that we do not publish such job advertisements.

A job description is and remains mandatory. Ideally, this should include not only all tasks and requirements for the candidate, but also the minimum salary. A reference to an external link alone is not sufficient.

The University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria educates its students in the following subject areas: Engineering and Natural Sciences; IT, Communication and Media; Management; Medical Technology and Applied Social Sciences.

Representatives of other professions, e.g. from the fields of law, tourism or health, do not use our platform. Advertising such jobs on our platform is therefore not very promising.

We often see companies linking their own HR platforms directly in the description text of job advertisements or inviting candidates to apply via email. We advise you not to do this:

For one thing, it makes it difficult or impossible for you to track how many applications came via the Career Zone. Secondly, you will receive applications more quickly via the 3-click feature in the Career Zone.

Long, text-heavy ads are less popular. In order to make your advertisements appealing, we recommend that you keep the body text short and to the point and spice it up visually with images/graphics

If you do not want to enter any text, you can also convert your PDF advertisement into an image file and insert it in the "Description" field. This way, your job advertisement remains in the corporate design, but is not responsive.

Evaluations in the period from 24.11.2020 to 30.09.2022 (before the start of free sales) have shown that jobs from partner companies received on average twice as many clicks and approx. 50 % more applications.

This is partly due to the fact that users find more detailed information about the company in job advertisements from partners. In addition, they often come across exciting job offers when searching company profiles.

We recommend that you clarify internally which people from your company should publish job advertisements in the Career Zone and bundle your recruiting activities in a shared account.

The best way to convince students of your advantages as an employer at an early stage is to advertise internships, thesis topics and part-time jobs. These types of employment are the most relevant for prospective graduates and therefore receive the most hits and applications by far.

We would like to emphasize once again that the Career Zone is the official career portal of the FH Upper Austria, which is not connected to the FH Upper Austria School of Health Professions and therefore cannot be used by its graduates. The Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions is an independent university which, as far as we are currently aware, does not have its own career portal.

It is very beneficial for the number of applications if, instead of a letter of motivation, you only request a short text from interested parties and provide an e-mail address to which application documents can be sent instead of a link to your own HR platform. This significantly lowers the hurdle for potential applicants, as they can send you their CV with just a few clicks instead of having to create a profile on your platform.