Where to look for a job in Italy in 2026: the sites that actually work

Sites to avoid (or already closed)

Not every board that shows up on Google is still alive. These aren't worth your time anymore:

• InfoJobs.it — permanently closed on 31 December 2025. The listings were not migrated elsewhere.
• Monster.it — barely indexed anymore, redirects to the US site and returns very few Italian results.
• Jobrapido and similar aggregators — often unindexed, with searches that come back empty.
• TrovoLavoro — not actually a job board. The name belongs to a newspaper supplement and, separately, to an unrelated startup; there is no searchable listing database behind it.

The boards that actually work

These sources return real, recent listings, verified in 2026:

• Bakeca.it — the most reliable generalist board, with dated listings across every category.
• Subito.it — large generalist marketplace, great for region-based searches.
• iProgrammatori.it — IT/development sector only, but with hundreds of fresh listings. Excellent for tech.
• it.jooble.org and AlmaLaurea — a broad aggregator and a portal for junior/graduate roles.

Staffing agencies: a large share of the market

In Italy many companies, especially SMEs, don't post directly — they rely on staffing agencies. Their portals are well indexed and cover a huge slice of the market:

• Randstad.it and Adecco.it — the most active, with hundreds of dated listings and good regional coverage.
• GI Group and Manpower — two more agencies with wide coverage across the country.
• Orienta and Umana — smaller, but strong in specific regions and industrial sectors.

Two consequences worth planning around. First, a large number of Italian employers never advertise publicly at all — if you only search job boards, those roles are invisible to you. Second, because agency portals are so well indexed, agency listings tend to crowd out everything else in your results, and the same role often appears under three different agencies. Recognise the duplicates and skip them rather than applying three times.

Tech roles and international companies

For technical and English-language roles, it's worth checking the ATS platforms used by international companies with Italian offices — Lever, Greenhouse, Workable, SmartRecruiters. They're a useful supplementary source, especially in software.

Two ATS platforms are not worth your time in Italy: Personio and softgarden are DACH-focused and have close to zero Italian presence. They are excellent for a German search and almost empty for an Italian one — see our Germany guide if you're looking across the border.

Practical search tips

• Use job titles in both Italian and English (e.g. "sviluppatore" and "developer", "ingegnere" and "engineer") — listings use one or the other.
• Add the city and province code (e.g. "Milano MI", "Roma RM") to narrow results to your area.
• For niche roles, search the company's own "careers" page directly — it often beats the generalist boards.

Search traps specific to Italian

Searching in Italian has a few failure modes that quietly cost you hours. We hit all of these while building and testing our own Italian queries:

• Never search for "AI" on its own. In Italian, ai is an everyday preposition ("to the"), so the search engine matches thousands of ordinary sentences and buries the actual jobs. Search intelligenza artificiale, machine learning or deep learning instead.
• "LLM" collides with law degrees. An LL.M. is a Master of Laws, and in Italy that meaning wins. Use LLM engineer or large language model to disambiguate.
• Always add a date filter. Italian boards are slow to take expired ads down, so an unfiltered search mixes live roles with postings that closed months ago. Use Google's Tools → "Past week" — that is exactly the window our own nightly search runs on.

Questions people actually ask

InfoJobs has closed — what should I use instead?

There is no single replacement, and that is the honest answer: InfoJobs shut down on 31 December 2025 and its listings were not migrated anywhere. The closest match for general coverage is Bakeca.it, with Subito.it for region-by-region searching and iProgrammatori.it if you work in IT. Expect to check two or three sites where you used to check one.

Why does searching for "AI" jobs in Italian return junk?

Because ai is a normal Italian word — the contraction of "a i" ("to the"). Search engines can't tell your acronym from the preposition, so you get pages of unrelated Italian prose. Search intelligenza artificiale, machine learning or deep learning. The same trap catches LLM, which in Italy usually means a Master of Laws.

Is it better to go through staffing agencies or apply directly?

Both, but you cannot skip the agencies. In Italy a large share of hiring — especially at small and mid-size companies — happens exclusively through agenzie per il lavoro such as Randstad, Adecco, GI Group, Orienta and Umana, and those employers never post publicly at all. Apply directly where a company has a real careers page; use the agencies to reach everyone who doesn't.

Are ATS platforms like Lever and Greenhouse useful in Italy?

For one specific slice, yes: international companies with Italian offices, mostly English-speaking technical roles. Lever, Greenhouse, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters and Workday all return Italian results. Personio and softgarden do not — they are DACH-focused. Treat ATS pages as a supplement to the Italian boards, not a substitute for them.

Keep reading

• Searching job boards with Google site: queries — the operator behind most of the tactics above, with the exact syntax for Bakeca, Subito and the ATS platforms.
• Remote jobs in Europe — if you'd rather not be limited to Italian employers.
• AI job search vs. auto-apply tools — why we send you one match instead of firing off a hundred applications.

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