European LinkedIn Alternatives

XING is a job board where you search for work or let recruiters find you. It hosts over 1 million active job listings across Europe, with salary ranges and employer reviews to help you evaluate opportunities.

You can browse jobs by role, location, and skill, or narrow results by what matters most to you: career level, workplace type, salary expectations, and work arrangement. The platform highlights several job categories to explore:

Job types and flexibility options:

• Remote roles if you want to work from anywhere
• Part-time positions to balance other commitments
• Mini-jobs for short-term or supplementary income
• Roles with flexitime for schedule control
• Positions suited to career changers based on skill match

Instead of applying cold, you can build a profile, set your job preferences, and receive offers directly from recruiters. Over 20,000 recruiters actively use the platform to source candidates, so your profile becomes visible to hiring teams looking for your skill set.

The platform also includes tools to strengthen your candidacy: you can build a professional CV within the site to make a strong first impression, and the Career Guide offers articles and advice from industry experts and insiders.

XING works as both a traditional job search engine and a talent marketplace, so whether you prefer to hunt for roles or wait for inbound interest, the approach is supported.

Sifa replaces a static LinkedIn URL with a live profile that gathers your work as you publish it. Instead of maintaining a CV by hand, Sifa pulls posts, code commits, articles, photos, talks, and reviews from apps you already use, Bluesky, GitHub, ORCID, and others, into one central profile. It's built on the AT Protocol, an open standard, so you own your data and can take it anywhere.

You're for professionals who publish work across multiple platforms and want a single place to point people to. Academics, developers, designers, writers, and anyone who collaborates and gets endorsed can build a profile that reflects what they actually do, not what they claim to do.

Key capabilities include:

• Automatic aggregation from Bluesky, GitHub, RSS feeds, ORCID, and other AT Protocol apps as you publish
• Traceable endorsements signed by real accounts, not anonymous votes or inflated numbers
• Custom domain support so you can use your own domain as your username
• Standalone website generated automatically at page.sifa.id, no maintenance required
• Company pages to show team members and collaborations
• Import from LinkedIn to get started quickly

What sets it apart: every claim links back to its source. An endorsement isn't a number someone gamed; it's a signed statement from a real person saying what you actually did. The profile updates itself as you publish, so there's no busy work keeping it current. You can share one link instead of a PDF. Hosted in Germany under EU jurisdiction, it's free while in alpha, and your data stays yours to keep, no lock-in, no ads, no feed algorithm to feed.