Every year millions of skilled people apply abroad and never hear back — often because the employer could never have sponsored them in the first place. In the UK, the Netherlands and Ireland we match the employer against the government's own sponsor register, so you can see who can genuinely hire you before you spend a week on the application. Those three are where the board has real depth, because they are the only countries publishing anything checkable. For everywhere else there is a guide to how sponsorship actually works there, and a role is listed only when the advert states it outright.
Most job boards that advertise “visa sponsorship” simply match the phrase in a job advert and hope. We check the employer's name against the government's own list of licensed sponsors, so you stop spending weeks on applications that were never going to work. There are — live roles on this board right now, refreshed daily.
Roles are read directly from the employer's own applicant tracking system — Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby. Nothing is scraped from LinkedIn or Indeed, so every listing is first-hand and the apply button goes to the real application page. The employer name is then matched against the government register, and only an exact match earns the verified badge; near-misses are rejected on purpose, because a wrong sponsorship claim costs you an application. Finally, any posting that explicitly says sponsorship is unavailable is dropped, even when the company holds a licence — a licence covers the company, not necessarily the vacancy.
The employer's name was matched against the official government register of licensed visa sponsors. It confirms the company holds a sponsor licence. It does not guarantee this specific role is open to sponsorship: licences can cover only some teams or seniority levels, and the decision is always the employer's.
No, and we would rather say so than fake it. Applicant tracking systems only accept applications submitted with the employer's own credentials, so no third-party site can genuinely submit on your behalf. The apply button opens the employer's real application page. What we can do is tailor your CV to the role before you go — that button hands the job description straight to the AlterCV editor.
Job feeds are re-read every day, and roles that disappear from an employer's feed are removed within about three days. The government sponsor registers are re-downloaded roughly weekly — the UK publishes a fresh file most working days.
Either it doesn't publish a public job feed on one of the systems we read, or its registered legal name differs from its trading name — “Stripe Payments UK Ltd” versus “Stripe”, for example — in which case we decline to guess. Coverage grows as more employers are added.
A sponsored application turns on salary thresholds and whether the employer can sponsor at all. These are kept current and dated, because a stale threshold is worse than no threshold.