Monday, 9 a.m., an urgent search lands on your desk. You open your multiposting tool, publish the ad to a dozen job boards, then switch back to your ATS to track the applications flowing in through the connector. Two interfaces, two accounts, two places to check whether a listing is still up to date. If you use Talentplug, Broadbean or Jobposting, you know this back-and-forth: it works, but it adds one more piece to an already crowded stack.
You: one tool to publish, another to sort. Marvin: a single platform, where our Career app publishes the ad to 89 job boards and every application lands straight in the Desk pipeline, attached to the right role. This article compares the three biggest names in multiposting, is honest about what they do better than us, and helps you decide when a built-in alternative makes sense.
Key takeaways
- Talentplug, Broadbean and Jobposting are multiposting tools: they publish your ads across many job boards and send applications back to an ATS.
- Their shared strength: a wide distribution catalog and connectors to existing HR software.
- Their structural limit: distribution stays a separate tool, with its own account and a connector to maintain toward the ATS.
- At Marvin, multiposting is built into the suite: Career publishes to 89 job boards, and applications land directly in Desk.
- A built-in alternative makes sense if you want to cut down the number of tools; a specialized tool still makes sense if you're keeping your current ATS.
- Switching tools comes with a managed migration: a dedicated data engineer, deduplication, and your history carried over.
What is a multiposting tool like Talentplug?
A multiposting tool is software that publishes a job ad once across several job boards, niche sites and social networks, then sends applications back to the recruiter's ATS. Talentplug, Broadbean and Jobposting all fall into this category: tools built for distribution, designed to plug into an existing recruiting system.
We covered the mechanics in detail in our article on multiposting software. Here, the question is different: do you need a dedicated tool next to your ATS, or distribution built into the same place as your candidates and clients?
Talentplug, Broadbean, Jobposting: what does each tool do?
Talentplug: the French distribution specialist
Founded in Lille, Talentplug (sometimes spelled Talent Plug) is a vendor specialized in job ad distribution. In 2014, Figaro Classifieds and RegionsJob jointly acquired it (FrenchWeb). On its site, the vendor now advertises reach across more than 250 job sites, connectors to around twenty HR systems, and reporting on where applications come from.
Broadbean: distribution at international scale
Of British origin, Broadbean was acquired in June 2023 by the American company Veritone (Business Wire). The platform publishes ads to job boards, search engines and social networks, offers search across several partner CV databases from a single interface, and highlights channel performance analytics. It integrates with existing ATS platforms: roughly a hundred ATS partners were claimed at the time of the acquisition.
Jobposting: multiposting and an ATS in one tool
Jobposting presents itself as an independent French vendor. Its tool combines multiposting (APEC, France Travail, LinkedIn, Google Jobs, among others) with a built-in ATS, with the option to forward applications to another ATS if the company already uses one.
What Talentplug, Broadbean and Jobposting do better
In the interest of honesty, here's a quick rundown of where they genuinely beat us.
- Talentplug: a wider distribution catalog than ours (over 250 sites claimed, against 89 job boards at Marvin) and years of experience building connectors to HR software.
- Broadbean: international reach and a track record of performance data across countries, useful for agencies distributing abroad.
- Jobposting: an offer also built for companies that hire infrequently, who want to distribute without overhauling their whole setup.
If you're attached to your current ATS and distribution is the only thing missing, a specialized tool remains a sound choice.
Talentplug or a built-in suite: the comparison
| Criterion | Talentplug | Broadbean | Jobposting | Marvin (Career + Desk) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature of the tool | Specialized multiposting | Distribution and recruitment marketing | Multiposting and ATS | Built-in suite: ATS, CRM, multiposting, careers site |
| Advertised reach | Over 250 job sites | Job boards, search engines, social networks | Main job boards and social networks | 89 job boards |
| Link to the ATS | Connectors to HR software | ATS integrations | Built-in ATS or forwarding to another ATS | Same database as the ATS, no connector |
| Client CRM | Out of scope | Out of scope | Not disclosed | Yes, inside Desk |
| Careers site | Not disclosed | Integrates with careers sites | Not disclosed | White-label careers site |
| Source tracking | Reporting on where applications come from | Channel performance analytics | Not disclosed | Source logged on every application in Desk |
| Vendor | French (Lille) | Veritone group (United States) | French, independent | French, hosted in France (Scaleway, Paris region) |
All four solutions know how to publish a job ad. The gap is about where the data lives once the application comes in.
A separate distribution tool: what a connector costs you day to day
A connector between two tools works as long as both evolve together. One update on one side, a renamed field on the other, and some applications can come through without their source, or attached to the wrong role. Nobody notices right away: you discover it while trying to figure out why a job board seems to have stopped delivering anything.
There's also the admin overhead: two accounts to manage, two sets of users, two interfaces for every new consultant to learn. And once a role is filled, you need to make sure it's closed everywhere, in the distribution tool as much as in the ATS.
For an agency, this goes beyond convenience. Applications collected on a search feed tomorrow's candidate pool: if they arrive incomplete or duplicated, the whole database degrades.
How does Career replace a separate multiposting tool?
Publish to 89 job boards straight from the role record
In our Career app, you create the ad once, pick the relevant job boards from our list of platforms (general, tech, finance, healthcare, construction, public sector, international), and distribution goes out in one click. You don't have to publish everywhere: the selection happens ad by ad, based on the role or the industry.
Applications land in Desk, attached to the right role
Every application received from a connected job board is automatically imported into Desk, our ATS and CRM, attached to the right role and tagged with its source. No third-party connector to monitor: multiposting and the pipeline share the same data.
A careers site under your brand, fed by your live listings
Career also generates a white-label careers site, hosted on your own domain or a Marvin subdomain. It updates in real time with the active listings in Desk and is customizable (colors, logo, layout) with no development required.
A source on every application, to pick your next job boards
Because the source is logged on every application, you can see which job boards actually deliver for a given profile, and adjust your distribution search after search.
Switching multiposting tools: what to expect
The real obstacle to switching is rarely distribution: it's your history. Years of applications, notes and client exchanges sit in your current ATS, and nobody wants to start over from an empty database.
At Marvin, migration is handled for you: a dedicated data engineer carries over candidates, clients, notes and history, with AI-assisted deduplication, and a CSM supports you through onboarding.
For a recruitment agency currently running a distribution tool wired into an ATS, the switch comes down to replacing two pieces with one, without losing what's already been built up.
Which option should you choose?
- You're keeping your ATS and distribution is the only gap: a specialized tool like Talentplug or Jobposting gets the job done.
- You distribute at scale across several countries and want granular control over ad performance: an international platform like Broadbean is built for that.
- You want to cut down the number of tools and find candidates, clients and distribution in one place: a built-in suite like Marvin is more coherent.
- You're an agency or a staffing firm with a candidate pool worth growing: centralized data matters more than the size of the job board catalog.
Frequently asked questions about Talentplug and its alternatives
What is Talentplug?
Talentplug is a French multiposting vendor based in Lille: its tool publishes job ads across many job sites (over 250 according to the vendor) and connects to existing HR and ATS software.
What's the difference between Talentplug and Broadbean?
Both distribute job ads across many channels. Talentplug is a French specialist in multiposting; Broadbean, owned by the American company Veritone since 2023, emphasizes international reach, channel performance analytics, and multi-database CV search.
What alternative to Talentplug exists if you want to centralize everything?
A built-in recruiting suite, where multiposting shares the ATS's database. At Marvin, Career publishes to 89 job boards and applications land directly in Desk, with no third-party connector.
What's the link between Marvin and Xtramile?
Career's multiposting runs on Xtramile's technology, built into the suite: you don't need to open a separate account or set up a connector.
How many job boards does Career cover?
Career covers 89 job boards: general, tech and IT, finance, healthcare, construction and industry, public sector, specialized and international. You choose the relevant ones for each ad.
Can you get your history back when leaving a multiposting tool?
On Marvin's side, migration is handled for you: candidates, clients, notes and history are carried over by a dedicated data engineer, with deduplication.
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