How it works

1. Workers create a profile: a selfie, a couple of shots, a single number (what they want to earn per month), years of experience, trade, city.
2. Companiescreate a profile: cover image, typical monthly pay, trade they're hiring for, perks, work culture, who they look for.
3. Both sides swipethrough the other side's cards. Trade and city are the only filters. There's no algorithm boosting some cards over others.
4. When both swipe right, a match happens. Chat opens between just the two of you.
5. You negotiate directly in the chat. We never negotiate for you, never take a cut of the salary, never charge a worker to find work.

• No opaque scoring.No “ELO score”, no desirability ranking, no shadow-banning, no pay-to-be-seen.
• No salary pre-filtering.A company with a tight budget can still see a worker asking for more — they decide if it's worth the stretch. A worker open to less than they asked for can still see a higher-paying company — they decide if the perks make up the gap. We refuse to silently remove options from either side.
• No fake matches. If you see a match, both sides swiped right. Period.
• No ad targeting.We don't sell your data, run ads against your profile, or share with third parties beyond the sub-processors we need to operate the service (see privacy).

The four things that decide a swipe, surfaced at the top:

Both cards scroll down to richer info — bio, what we look for, languages spoken on site, where we operate, founded year, work culture. The headline four are what decide the swipe; the rest is for after they catch your eye.

The perks list on a company card intentionally excludes anything Dutch law or the major CAOs already require. PPE, tools in trades, role-required training, 8% vakantiegeld, BPF pension floor — those are baselines, not benefits. We label them only when a company offers above that baseline: Extra vakantiegeld above 8%, Pension above CAO minimum, Career training budget. Companies shouldn't get credit for legal duties.

Job search on Jobinder is free for tradespeople, forever. No paywall on signup, swipe, match or chat. Companies pay for subscriptions when paid features launch. If a worker ever opts for paid acceleration (super likes, profile spotlight) it will be a clear, optional upgrade — never required to find work.

On Jobinder, both sides declare a single number on their card. A match doesn't mean the numbers line up — it means both sides think the rest of the profile is worth a conversation. From there you negotiate like adults, inside the chat, with no platform sitting in the middle taking a cut.

We don't take a percentage of your salary. We don't take a referral bonus from the company. The negotiation is yours.

We store what you give us, share it only with the other side of a match, and host it all in the EU. We don't train AI on your messages. We don't sell your profile to recruiters. If you leave, your account is deleted. The full details are in the privacy policy.