The Muse for Employers
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What is The Muse for Employers
The Muse for Employers is an employer branding and recruiting platform tied to The Muse job site and career content network. It helps employers publish jobs, build company profiles, and run brand and job advertising to reach candidates researching workplaces. Typical users include talent acquisition and employer branding teams that want to influence candidate consideration earlier in the job-search process. The product emphasizes content-rich employer profiles and audience targeting rather than end-to-end applicant tracking.
Employer branding content format
It supports company profiles that include culture, benefits, and workplace content alongside job listings. This can help candidates self-select based on role expectations and work environment. The content-first approach fits teams that invest in employer brand storytelling rather than only transactional job posting.
Access to job-seeker audience
It connects job advertising to The Muse’s job-search audience and career content readership. This can be useful for awareness and top-of-funnel sourcing when compared with tools focused mainly on outbound outreach or internal HR workflows. It is oriented toward attracting candidates who are actively researching employers.
Campaign-style recruiting support
It is structured around promoting roles and the employer brand through advertising and featured placements. This aligns with recruiting teams that run periodic hiring campaigns or need visibility for priority roles. It can complement an existing recruiting stack by driving traffic into downstream application processes.
Not a full ATS replacement
The product is primarily a job site and employer branding channel rather than a system of record for applicants. Organizations typically still need an applicant tracking system for requisition management, compliance workflows, and hiring team collaboration. This can add integration and process overhead if workflows are expected to be fully unified.
Limited automation and CRM depth
Compared with dedicated recruiting automation and candidate relationship management tools, it is less centered on sequencing, two-way messaging, and pipeline automation. Teams that rely on high-volume outreach, SMS-first engagement, or automated screening may need additional tools. As a result, it may not cover later-stage engagement and conversion workflows.
Channel performance varies by role
As with most job advertising channels, results can vary by geography, seniority, and job family. Hard-to-fill roles may require additional sourcing channels beyond a job site audience. Measuring ROI may depend on tracking setup and the ability to attribute applicants and hires across multiple sources.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Essential | Custom pricing — plans start at $10,000 per year (annual partnership); contact sales | Employer profile + Unlimited jobs; Quarterly hiring roundups; Core services: Easy Apply, ATS integration, Insights & Analytics, Customer video hosting, Employer awards eligibility; Dedicated account manager |
| Professional | Custom pricing — contact sales | All Essential features PLUS: Two additional hiring roundups (total six/year); Two branded articles; Three employee testimonial videos; Two newsletters; One hiring event; Job sponsorships (10 job slots per job board) |
| Premium | Custom pricing — contact sales / request demo | All Professional features PLUS premium add-ons: dedicated email, montage video, bi-quarterly hiring roundups, quarterly newsletter inclusion, 2x hiring events/year, branded articles, additional job sponsorship slots; tailored for high impact and visibility |
Seller details
The Muse, Inc.
New York, NY, USA
2011
Private
https://www.themuse.com/employers
https://x.com/themuse
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-muse/
