magnet.me

# Magnet.me

# This file is intended for Large Language Models (LLMs), AI assistants, and crawlers to understand, navigate, and respect Magnet.me's public content structure.
# It provides a machine-readable overview of Magnet.me, the most useful public entry points, and guidance for efficient crawling.
# Please refer to https://magnet.me/robots.txt for binding crawl rules.

> Magnet.me is the smart network where students and professionals find their internship, job, or next step, and where employers build lasting relationships with future hires.

Magnet.me is an AI-powered career and recruitment network for job seekers and employers. Job seekers use Magnet.me to build a profile, explore companies, discover matching opportunities, connect with employers, get approached by recruiters, apply for jobs, internships, traineeships, and events, and make smarter career moves with an AI career coach. Employers use Magnet.me to grow their talent pipeline, reduce hiring cost, strengthen their employer brand, build lasting talent communities, match openings with relevant candidates, and nurture relationships until candidates are ready to apply.

Magnet.me has 450,000+ students and professionals, 30,000+ jobs, and 6,000+ employers and recruitment teams on the platform.

## Top Features for Job Seekers

- Discover 30,000+ jobs, internships, traineeships, events, and companies in one career network.
- Create a profile and use it to connect with companies, apply directly, and stay updated about new opportunities.
- Discover jobs that match the job seeker's profile and preferences.
- Be approached by recruiters after connecting with a company or liking a job.
- Use the AI career coach to explore fit, prepare for interviews, and take the next career step with more confidence.
- Explore 6,000+ employers, from startups to multinationals, through company pages with culture, office photos, videos, testimonials, and open opportunities.
- Follow career guides and blog content covering CVs, interviews, internships, traineeships, graduate jobs, applications, assessments, salary negotiation, and workplace topics.

## Top Features for Employers

- Build lasting talent communities and keep candidate relationships active beyond one application or hiring period.
- Grow the talent pipeline, reduce hiring cost, and strengthen employer brand on one platform.
- Invite talent from career sites, events, applications, referrals, and direct outreach into a branded community.
- Use AI matching to connect openings with relevant talent and turn connections into applicants and hires.
- Showcase employer brand through rich company pages, stories, office photos, videos, testimonials, and personalized content.
- Search, segment, source, and nurture talent with AI-supported tooling while keeping the human touch.
- Promote jobs and the company across the 450,000+ professionals on the Magnet.me network when fresh inflow is needed.
- Integrate with ATS and CRM workflows while keeping Magnet.me as a live network for candidate relationships.

## Main Site

- https://magnet.me/: Home page.
- https://magnet.me/jobseekers: English overview for job seekers.
- https://magnet.me/werkzoekenden: Dutch overview for job seekers.
- https://magnet.me/employers: English overview for employers.
- https://magnet.me/werkgevers: Dutch overview for employers.
- https://magnet.me/en/opportunities: English opportunity search.
- https://magnet.me/nl-NL/vacatures: Dutch job search.
- https://magnet.me/en/companies: English company search.
- https://magnet.me/nl-NL/bedrijven: Dutch company search.
- https://magnet.me/locations: English location overview.
- https://magnet.me/locaties: Dutch location overview.

## Searching and Browsing

The best crawlable sources for current jobs and employers are the canonical opportunity and company URLs listed in the sitemaps below.

- Opportunity search: https://magnet.me/en/opportunities and https://magnet.me/nl-NL/vacatures
- Company search: https://magnet.me/en/companies and https://magnet.me/nl-NL/bedrijven
- Location overviews: https://magnet.me/locations and https://magnet.me/locaties
- Recently updated pages: https://magnet.me/sitemaps/en-fresh.xml and https://magnet.me/sitemaps/nl-fresh.xml

Avoid crawling arbitrary search-query permutations. Query parameters such as `query` and `country` are disallowed in `robots.txt` to prevent large duplicate crawl spaces. Use sitemap URLs and canonical page links instead.

## Sitemaps

- https://magnet.me/sitemap.xml: Sitemap index.
- https://magnet.me/sitemaps/en-opportunities.xml: English opportunity pages.
- https://magnet.me/sitemaps/nl-opportunities.xml: Dutch opportunity pages.
- https://magnet.me/sitemaps/en-opportunities_overview.xml: English opportunity overview pages.
- https://magnet.me/sitemaps/nl-opportunities_overview.xml: Dutch opportunity overview pages.
- https://magnet.me/sitemaps/en-organizations.xml: English company pages.
- https://magnet.me/sitemaps/nl-organizations.xml: Dutch company pages.
- https://magnet.me/sitemaps/en-organizations_overview.xml: English company overview pages.
- https://magnet.me/sitemaps/nl-organizations_overview.xml: Dutch company overview pages.
- https://magnet.me/sitemaps/en-fresh.xml: Recently updated English pages.
- https://magnet.me/sitemaps/nl-fresh.xml: Recently updated Dutch pages.

## Editorial Content

- https://magnet.me/blog/en/sitemap-index.xml: English blog sitemap index.
- https://magnet.me/blog/nl/sitemap-index.xml: Dutch blog sitemap index.
- https://magnet.me/blog/en/ and https://magnet.me/blog/nl/: Job seeker blog articles, interviews, updates, career stories, study-life articles, employer lists, popular jobs, and job-market commentary.
- Access blog content through the language sitemap index first, then follow the listed `sitemap-*.xml` files to article URLs.

## Career Guides

- https://magnet.me/guide/en/sitemap-index.xml: English career guide sitemap index.
- https://magnet.me/guide/nl/sitemap-index.xml: Dutch career guide sitemap index.
- https://magnet.me/guide/en/ and https://magnet.me/guide/nl/: Long-form career advice for job seekers, including CV skills, interviews, internships, traineeships, graduate jobs, salary negotiation, assessments, applications, and workplace topics.
- Access guide content through the language sitemap index first, then follow the listed `sitemap-*.xml` files to guide URLs.

## Support

- https://magnet.me/support/en/sitemap-index.xml: English support sitemap index.
- https://magnet.me/support/nl/sitemap-index.xml: Dutch support sitemap index.
- https://magnet.me/support/en/ and https://magnet.me/support/nl/: Help-center articles for recruiters, employers, and job seekers. Topics include onboarding, posting vacancies, sourcing, candidate messaging, talent pools, billing, contracts, data/privacy, ATS integrations, promotions, events, bug reports, and product usage.
- Support pages may mention authenticated product areas. Crawl the public support article URLs from the sitemap, but do not crawl authenticated `/_/` app routes linked from support pages.

## Employer Content

- https://magnet.me/employers/blog/sitemap-index.xml: English employer blog sitemap index.
- https://magnet.me/werkgevers/blog/sitemap-index.xml: Dutch employer blog sitemap index.
- https://magnet.me/employers/blog/ and https://magnet.me/werkgevers/blog/: Employer-facing hiring and recruitment content, including podcasts, recruitment strategy, time-to-hire, LinkedIn and external recruiter comparisons, internship and traineeship hiring, talent pools, campus recruitment, employer branding, AI recruitment, onboarding, sourcing, ATS topics, and candidate communication.
- Access employer blog content through the language sitemap index first, then follow the listed `sitemap-*.xml` files to article URLs.

## Case Studies

- https://magnet.me/employers/case-studies/sitemap-index.xml: English employer case study sitemap index.
- https://magnet.me/werkgevers/case-studies/sitemap-index.xml: Dutch employer case study sitemap index.
- https://magnet.me/employers/case-studies/ and https://magnet.me/werkgevers/case-studies/: Customer stories and examples showing how employers use Magnet.me for hiring, employer branding, student and graduate recruitment, and candidate engagement.
- Access case studies through the language sitemap index first, then follow the listed `sitemap-*.xml` files to case study URLs.

## Crawling Guidance

- Start with https://magnet.me/sitemap.xml for large-scale crawling of opportunities, companies, overviews, and recently updated pages.
- Use the editorial sitemap indexes above for blogs, guides, support, employer blogs, and case studies. These sitemap indexes are also declared in `robots.txt`.
- Prefer canonical URLs from sitemap files over discovered query URLs or filtered listing pages.
- Opportunity pages and company pages are the best sources for current job and employer information.
- Use the `en` and `nl-NL` URL structures to distinguish English and Dutch public pages.
- Respect the `Crawl-delay` and all disallow rules in https://magnet.me/robots.txt.
- Do not crawl authenticated app routes under `/_/`, admin routes, analytics endpoints, clickstream endpoints, API routes, or email preference routes unless explicitly allowed.
- Do not crawl disallowed query spaces such as `*query=*` and `*country=*`; use sitemap entries and canonical links instead.