Best Job Search Platforms in Austria (2026)

Which Other Job Boards Should You Know in Austria?

Beyond the top picks, Austria has a deep bench of boards worth checking. EURES is the free EU-wide public network for cross-border roles, run alongside the AMS. Work in Austria, the Talent Hub run by the government agency ABA (Austrian Business Agency), is a free hub aimed at international skilled workers and Red-White-Red Card candidates. XING is the DACH-region professional network, strongest for German-speaking passive candidates. Indeed Austria is a very large aggregator for high-volume and operational roles, Hokify is mobile-first for entry-level and blue-collar jobs, and metajob is a meta-search engine that indexes most other boards at once (manatal, 2026). DerStandard Karriere and monster.at round out the generalist options.

The AMS runs two separate tools, and both are free without registration for searching. The eJob-Room is the self-service board where employers post their own vacancies. alle jobs is a search engine that adds the eJob-Room, jobs from company websites in Austria, federal and state public-sector vacancies, and selected jobs from Germany's Bundesagentur für Arbeit. Start at ams.at/allejobs if you want one search across most Austrian sources.

The table below compares the main Austrian job platforms for both job seekers and employers, including whether posting a job is free or paid.

Sources: qureos hiring guide (2026), manatal (2026), jobs.at (2026). Audience figures are approximate and change over time.

How Many Job Listings Does Each Austrian Board Carry?

No board covers the whole market. The AMS counted 77,157 open vacancies in April 2026, while the largest commercial board, karriere.at, showed 13,300+ on 18 October 2026. Specialist boards are small but dense: medjobs.at lists about 4,000 care and medical roles and hotelcareer.at about 3,700 in hotels and restaurants. StepStone, LinkedIn and Indeed publish no Austria total at all.

Two features matter more than size for newcomers. Work in Austria, the Talent Hub of the government agency ABA, is the only board in our set that lets you filter for employers willing to sponsor a work permit. And StepStone asks for a CV upload before you can apply, so keep a PDF ready. Every board here is free for job seekers.

Which Job Platforms List Apprenticeships, Student Jobs and Graduate Roles in Austria?

For an apprenticeship (Lehrstelle), start with the AMS eJob-Room. The AMS calls it Austria's largest apprenticeship exchange, and you can also register with the AMS as an apprenticeship seeker (AMS). Graduates should add Absolventen.at, which lists trainee programmes and career-entry jobs. For part-time work while you study, StudentJob.at covers side jobs, holiday jobs and internships, and Unijobs.at targets students and career starters.

Researchers use EURAXESS, the EU portal for PhD, postdoc and research positions, plus university career centres. Search in German as well as English, because most Austrian ads use German titles. Useful terms: Praktikum (internship), Ferialjob (summer job), Lehrstelle (apprenticeship), Teilzeit (part-time), Vollzeit (full-time) and Berufseinstieg (career entry).

How Much Does It Cost to Post a Job in Austria?

Posting a job in Austria ranges from free to over €1,000 per listing. Public channels are free: the AMS eJob-Room, the EU EURES network, and the government Work in Austria Talent Hub all let registered employers post at no cost. Commercial boards charge per ad: jobs.at lists single ads from about €240 (small) to €570 (large) for 30 to 60 days (jobs.at, 2026). karriere.at and StepStone sell premium single-ad tiers priced on request; StepStone's German rate card runs roughly €149 to €1,599 per ad as a reference point (StepStone, 2026). LinkedIn allows one free job post at a time, with promoted ads from about USD 10 per day (qureos, 2026).

For employers and recruiters, the best channel depends on the role. karriere.at and StepStone win on white-collar quality and nationwide reach; LinkedIn and Indeed Austria are best for volume and speed in high-volume hiring; devjobs.at leads for developers, Absolventen.at for graduates, and XING for German-speaking passive candidates (qureos, 2026). Executive hires often use Experteer, while free public reach comes from the AMS, EURES, and Work in Austria (manatal, 2026). Austrian job ads are usually posted in German; English-only ads are common only for international roles in Vienna.

Every Austrian job ad must state the minimum pay. The Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (GlBG, § 9 Abs. 2) requires the collectively agreed or legal minimum salary for the role, plus whether the employer is willing to pay more. The rule covers part-time and marginal jobs too; only top executives such as managing directors are exempt. A first breach brings a written warning, repeat breaches a fine of up to €360. Applicants and the Gleichbehandlungsanwaltschaft can report an ad (Arbeiterkammer).

How Do You Search for Jobs in Austria?

Can You Get a Job in Austria Without German?

Yes, but the field is narrow and mostly in Vienna. English-only roles cluster in tech, engineering consultancies, international organisations and the regional head offices of multinationals. Outside those niches, employers can usually find a German speaker: the AMS counted 77,157 open vacancies against 320,316 people out of work in April 2026, an unemployment rate of 7.5%. That is roughly 4 jobseekers per advertised vacancy.

For office roles, filter LinkedIn and StepStone Austria by English-language ads and target employers whose working language is already English. For entry-level income, hospitality, warehouse and delivery work hire with English more often than office jobs do, and asking in person works better than an online application. Plan on reaching B1 German within your first year: it widens the market and earns extra points for a Red-White-Red Card.

How Does a Kollektivvertrag Set Your Minimum Salary?

Austria has no statutory minimum wage. Pay floors come from the Kollektivvertrag (KV), the collective agreement that unions and the WKO sector groups negotiate for each industry. It binds every business in the sector, so it covers you whether or not you join a union. Your contract names the agreement, and your Verwendungsgruppe (job grade) sets the minimum monthly salary you can be paid.

Read the KV minimum in a job ad as the floor for negotiation. Many ads add that the employer will pay more depending on qualifications, and that Überzahlung is where your offer is decided. Remember that most agreements pay 14 salaries a year, so divide an annual figure by 14, not 12, to compare it with the monthly KV table. Look up the agreement on kollektivvertrag.at before your salary talk, and run the offer through the federal gehaltsrechner.gv.at to see your net pay.

What Should Your Austrian CV (Lebenslauf) Include?

The Austrian CV (Lebenslauf) is tabular, reverse chronological and at most 2 pages, with certificates attached as a separate PDF. A photo is traditional and many smaller firms still expect one, but no law requires it, and international employers increasingly prefer CVs without one. Non-EU applicants gain more from stating citizenship and permit status than from a photo, because it answers the employer's first question.

Two Austrian habits surprise newcomers. Employers read the Dienstzeugnis, the written reference a former employer issues, so ask for one whenever you leave a job. And Initiativbewerbungen, unsolicited applications sent straight to a company, are normal here rather than pushy. Write the application in the language of the ad: answering a German ad in English tells the reader you cannot work in German.

How Does the Austrian Application Process Work?

Entity References

Full factual profiles for each brand covered on this page:

• karriere.at

  Austrian Job Search Platforms

• StepStone Austria

  Austrian Job Search Platforms

• Lebenslauf

  Austrian Job Application Standards

• Austrian Job Search Platforms

  Austrian Job Search Platforms

• RankscaleJobs

  Austrian Job Platforms

• DevJobs.at

  Austrian Job Platforms

• LinkedIn

  Austrian Job Platforms

• BMAW (Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Wirtschaft)

  Austrian Government Portals and Regulators