Advertise a role
Advertise a new or existing role on the Smart jobs and careers website, commercial job sites and newspapers.
Find out whether you need to advertise a vacancy.
In general, you do not need to advertise your vacancy where the role is:
- entry level (AO1/2 or equivalent)
- for 6 months or less
- to be filled via transfer, redeployment, or secondment at or below level
- to be filled using an order of merit for a recurring vacancy
- casual (engaged on an hourly basis, irregular hours of work, no paid sick or annual leave).
If you're advertising multiple positions, contact QSS Recruitment to negotiate a suitable timeframe.
Timeframes
Online: ads are published on Smart jobs and careers and commercial job websites within 3 days (providing your documents are complete and correct).
Print: there is a Thursday 12pm deadline for ads to appear in print from Friday the following week. The ad will appear either midweek or on the weekend based on the paper's schedule. If you're advertising in a regional paper, contact us to confirm their print schedule.
Advertise on SmartJobs and careers
Smart Jobs and careers is the Queensland Government’s online job search page. There is an external and private version of this page.
How much will it cost?
The charge for advertising on Smart jobs and careers is included in QSS's customer recruitment retainer.
See our Service level agreement price list.
Advertise on other platforms
You can advertise on the following websites:
There are a number of metro and regional newspapers available for advertising. Contact QSS for the latest availability.
How much will it cost?
Once you submit a Request to hire form, QSS will provide you with a quote for your approval before placing the ad.
Using a non-standard ad
You can prepare an ad that doesn't use the standard Queensland Government job ad template.
If your ad is for:
- the Courier Mail or Weekend Australian, you need approval from the Department of Premier and Cabinet
- a regional role appearing only in a regional paper, you need approval from your agency.
If you receive the appropriate approvals and want to use a different banner, logo or photo, you must send this to QSS Recruitment as a JPG file.
You can use images and videos in your job advertisement to help attract candidates.
Add an image
To include an image in your job advertisement:
- Upload the image to a public internet site.
- Tell us in the Comments section of the Request to Hire form that you want to include an image and provide the URL to where the image is hosted.
We'll publish your vacancy on Smart Jobs and Careers with the image included.
Add a video
To include a video in your job advertisement:
- Upload the video to your agency's YouTube channel (don't allow comments).
- Copy the link from YouTube using the right-click Copy embed code option (or copy the URL for the video).
- Add the embed code or URL information to your Short description on the Media Options form.
- Tell us in the Comments section of the Request to Hire form that a video is included in the Short description section of the advertisement.
We'll publish your vacancy on Smart Jobs and Careers with the video included.
Image and video URL character limit
URLs are included in the job advertisement short description character limit (900 characters). If you need help shortening your URL, contact QSS Recruitment.
You can add questions to your job advertisement to help you shortlist candidates. You need to do this before completing the Request to hire form. Complete a Springboard questionnaire form in the QSS Self Service Centre. We'll build the questionnaire, send a draft to you to approve, and add it to the vacancy once you submit the Request to hire form.
Complete the Media options to advertise a role form with your ad descriptions. You’ll need to attach the PDF output to the Request to hire form.
Complete the Request to hire form to advertise a role. Make sure you’ve completed the Request to hire checklist and Media options form.