Jobindex gathers together all job ads in Denmark

At Jobindex, we gather together all job ads in Denmark and run the country’s largest job ad archive, which is used by our job-seeking candidates and the Ministry of Employment, among others.

About jobs ads and the job ad archive

Jobindex is the controller of all of the job ads on our websites and in our job ad archive, which is a collection of all of the job ads published in Denmark. This responsibility applies not only to job ads placed by customers, but also job ads retrieved from other external sites by our robot scanner.

The job ad archive is a so-called publicly accessible information database and subject to the rules for publicly accessible information databases in the Mass Media Information Databases Act.

Sharing job ad data

Jobindex cooperates with Damvad Analytics, HBS Economics, the Ministry of Employment, and the daily newspaper Børsen, who we provide with a copy of our job ad data. Our partners use the data to make analyzes and statistics, and we want to inform you that a copy of your data is stored with our partners.

Contact information in job ads

Most job ads contain general personal information in the form of contact details, usually those of the HR Officer or Manager of the department seeking to hire. This personal data is often the individual’s full name, email address and/or phone number.

We store these contact details either because you and your company have placed a job ad with us or because we have retrieved your job ad with our robot scanner, which adds all of the job ads that are not placed with us to our list of job ads.

The purpose of saving contact information from job ads

Jobindex will initially save your contact information in Jobindex’s current list of job ads, and will later save a copy in our job ad archive. The job ad archive is available to anyone and it currently contains three million job ads, which are used by our job-seeking candidates to retrieve information in connection with the following, for example:

  • Submission of unsolicited applications – who is a relevant person for the candidate to contact, provided this person is still employed there?
  • Invitation to a job interview – here the job ad can aid in the candidate’s preparation, and they can retrieve details for a contact person if they lost them
  • Research – what type of employees has the company searched for before?

The job ad archive is also used by the Ministry of Employment, among others, to analyse labour market trends. The number of job ads in the archive over time is a significant indicator of the development and growth of the labour market, and is also useful for forecasting unemployment and future skills needs.

Storage of ads and contact information

Jobindex will store ads and contact information for as long as it serves an archival purpose. In some specific cases, contact information can be erased.

Requests for deletion of ads or contact information

We will save and store a copy of your company’s job ads because we would like to provide our job-seeking candidates and other relevant parties a reference for all job ads that are published in Denmark. The legitimacy of this interest is underscored by the fact that the information in a job ad is produced and published by the recruiting agency itself. We therefore generally do not remove job ads from our job ad list or archive.

If you would like the contact information in your company’s job ads to be removed —as well as from our job ad archive — you and your company must contact us and explain why the information should be erased. For example, your reason might be if a person is receiving harassing phone calls that can be traced back to the contact information provided for them.

Personal data will be removed after a specific assessment has been made

This means that we will remove your contact information after we have specifically assessed you and your company’s request. We will weigh your request against our legitimate interest in storing the personal data.

The data can be removed no earlier than three months after the application deadline. This gives our job-seeking candidates the opportunity to retrieve relevant information with reference to the reasons previously mentioned.

Complaint to the Danish Press Counsil

You and your company have the right to file a complaint with the Danish Press Counsil if you are dissatisfied with our processing of information in the ad archive. You can find the Press Counsil's contact details on their website.