Summer job platform through Gateway Umeå

Do you want to reach out with summer job opportunities to students in Umeå? Now we at Umeå Municipality offer a free digital solution to boost your numbers.

The purpose of the summer job platform is for more students at UMU and SLU to discover the job opportunities you offer. By gathering as many summer jobs as possible in one place it will help students to find and apply for summer jobs in Umeå, hence discover careers, industries and life in Umeå during the summer. Participation is voluntary and free of charge.

What does the platform offer?

The platform gathers and displays summer job advertisements in Umeå. To handle the volume of ads, the ads are automatically scraped from LinkedIn and published on the Gateway Umeå summer job platform after they've been provided the correct information. Students visiting the platform can view the ads, click through to the LinkedIn postings, and access the employers' application pages. They can also search and filter jobs based on categories. Neither employers nor students need to register as users to utilize the system.

To add your summer jobs on the platform, the following is required:

Advertisements must be published on LinkedIn.
Specify Umeå as the geographical location.
Include #gatewayumea2025 at the end of the ad text.

That's it. Easy, right?

Time schedule

We're ready to receive your summer jobs ads right now. However, depending on the volume of summer jobs added to the platform we will commence marketing efforts by mid to late January. The campaign ends mid to late March, depending on how many jobs remain to be filled.

Our commitments

Gateway Umeå is working to ensure that the tool functions as smoothly as possible, but we want to emphasize that we are a small, local team. We cannot guarantee that your specific ad will receive a certain level of traffic—we can only do our best to benefit everyone involved. Although the scraping of ads is automated, we will continuously conduct quality assurance and potentially perform proofreading, as well as categorize the jobs.

We are also committed to:

Promoting the platform to students, starting in January 2025. As an employer you are warmly welcome to share our material on your channels for greater distribution!
Categorizing ads and specifying correct expiration dates provided, if that information has been provided to us.
Conducting a final evaluation of traffic data and outcomes, which can be shared with participants after the campaign period. If you'd like to take part in this data, please contact us directly after the conclusion of the campaign.

Further inquiries

General questions: Please contact Josefin Nordfjell.

Technical issues: Please contact Oscar Sedholm.

Questions & Answers

Why LinkedIn?

The tool we use (JBoard) can scrape all ads marked correctly in a web page's code. Platsbanken currently does not mark their ads in a way that make it possible for search engines like Google or JBoard to automatically pick them up. In addition, LinkedIn is currently an industry standard for job advertising.

We already have ads running. Can they still be included?

Yes, if you adjust them according to the instructions above, they will be automatically scraped from LinkedIn once we have started the process.

What type of data do you collect, and can you share it with us?

We operate under GDPR regulations and Umeå Municipality's privacy policies, as well as the limitations of the JBoard platform. This means that we can provide general data such as the number of jobs, the number of visitors, the number of job views, and the number of clicks on jobs. We will also collect data on the number of students that interact with our QR code physically on the campus area. We will not regularly share data but will select and share the most valuable finds in the evaluation.

Who owns the content on the platform?

The respective employers own their content on the platform in the form of copy, logo, and other details. However, we reserve the right to remove content that: a. may be perceived as offensive/inappropriate b. contains illegal information c. is irrelevant, i.e., not located in Umeå or has expired d. poses a security risk to the user.

We no longer want our summer jobs on the platform; what should we do?

If the jobs does not include the hashtag #gatewayumea2025, they will not be scraped. In the case that you previously chose to participate and included the hashtag but now want to remove your jobs, simply remove the hashtag and the tool will automatically remove them from our platform in 1-2 working days time.

Aren't you competing with other job portals by offering this solution?

No other party currently aggregates summer jobs in Umeå in one place. If another party steps forward and wishes to undertake this effort, we may reconsider the situation. Until then, this service is offered for free as part of the project Gateway Umeå at Umeå Municipality.