Research entry
RoleUp — Irish Job Board with Recruiter Transparency
2026 · Independent Project
A live Irish job board with a public recruiter response scoring system, salary benchmarks from 22 data sources, and subscription data products. Built with Django 5.2 + HTMX.
Overview
RoleUp is a privacy-first Irish job board built around a single differentiator: every company gets a public recruiter response score. Response rate, speed, and consistency are calculated from real application data and displayed before a candidate applies. The goal is to make the job search process less opaque — candidates can see who actually responds before investing time in an application.
Recruiter Response Scoring
The response score is a composite 0–100 rating built from:
- Response rate — what percentage of applications get any reply
- Response speed — median time from application to first contact
- Process consistency — variance in outcomes across similar candidates
- Candidate experience — conversion efficiency through each stage
Scores are calculated from real application pipeline data and updated continuously. Companies with no data show as unrated rather than zero — the absence of signal is surfaced honestly rather than penalised.
Salary Data
Salary benchmarks are sourced from 22 ingestion pipelines covering:
- Government / institutional — CSO PxStat, DETE work permits, CIF wage agreements, CIPD, Forsa, HSE, PublicJobs, local government and universities
- Recruiter guides — Morgan McKinley, Hays, Cpl, TTM Healthcare, Sigmar, Brightwater
- First-party postings — direct scrape of salary ranges from job posts, startups, SmartRecruiters, LifeScience Ireland
All ingestors share a BaseSalaryIngestor framework that handles deduplication,
validation, confidence scoring, and audit logging. Low-confidence rows are silently
filtered from public display; only medium and high-confidence benchmarks are shown.
Salary data products:
- Salary Report PDF (€9.99) — benchmark data for a specific role and county, generated on demand with ReportLab
- Negotiation Guide PDF (€14.99) — benchmark + experience-level breakdown, county comparison, sector trend, word-for-word scripts, objection handling, email templates
- Salary Pro subscription (€19.99/month) — full data access via API
Platform
- Stack — Django 5.2 + HTMX, PostgreSQL (SQLite for local dev), ReportLab, Stripe
- Auth — Candidate and recruiter accounts with Google OAuth; API token auto-rotation on credential change
- Security — ClamAV CV scanning on every upload before recruiter download;
Cloudflare Turnstile anti-bot gate on apply and alert forms;
detect-secrets+ruffpre-commit hooks;pip-auditin CI - Recruiter tiers — Free / Starter (€49/mo) / Growth (€149/mo); job post limits per tier; Growth unlocks CV database search
- Observability — Sentry for exceptions and alert pipeline failures; weekly KPI report automation; product event tracking
Status
Live at roleup.ie. Active development — current focus is on expanding the salary data pipeline and improving the candidate dashboard experience.