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Pay-to-feature job listings: how the ranked board works and what you get for a boost

How featured placement on this board is priced and ranked — a boost amount that decays by a public formula, no auction, no randomness — and how to think about what to spend.

Updated 21 September 2026 · 2 min read

This board sells one thing to companies: a featured placement whose position is decided by a formula anyone can check. Here's how it works and how to use it.

The mechanic

You pay a boost amount (from ₹99, no upper limit). Your listing's remaining amount runs down evenly over 30 days — ₹3,000 today is ₹2,000 on day 10, ₹1,000 on day 20 and ₹0 on day 30 — and the board is sorted by remaining amount, highest first. Every boost lasts the same 30 days whatever its size, so paying more buys a higher position, not a longer one. Re-boosting adds to what's left and restarts the 30 days, and keeps the listing live for at least that long. When the remaining amount falls below ₹1, the listing is still live and applicable, just not featured. The full rules are public and never change without notice.

There's no auction, no bidding against a hidden number, and no randomness. Two companies that pay the same amount at the same time are ordered by which posted more recently.

What you get

Placement in front of the seekers who come to the board every day, a real per-listing view and apply-click count (server-side, bot-filtered), and a listing page that's indexed by Google for Jobs and readable by AI assistants. You don't get a guarantee of applicants or hires — nobody honest can sell that.

What to spend

Duration is fixed at 30 days, so the only question is position. The roles at the top of the board get most of the attention. Look at what's currently at #1–#3 (the remaining amounts are shown on every row) and decide whether you want to be above them: to take #1 you pay more than whatever #1 has left today, and because every boost runs down at the same rate, you stay above it until one of you re-boosts. Re-boost when your role slips and the applicant flow drops.

Why it's not free

A free posting tier fills a board with stale and low-effort roles, and a board full of those is one seekers stop visiting. A small fee is the filter. Roles pulled from company career boards (labelled "sourced from the web") exist to make the board useful on day one and are never shown as paid.

Paying

Payment is by UPI, card or wallet through Dodo Payments, which handles tax and issues the invoice. Fees are non-refundable once the placement is live, as stated at checkout. Promote a role.

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