Empleo Público is a public employment search tool for Spanish citizens, providing vacancy announcements and notification alerts on iOS.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Productivity
Sentiment
1.0
1 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The platform removes the friction of manually monitoring disparate government job boards, though the lack of persistent search tracking limits its effectiveness.
For Citizens seeking employment within the Spanish public administration sector.
What does it look like?
Key features
Aggregates public employment opportunities published by various Public Administrations.
Filters job listings by location, position, and qualification level.
Alerts users when followed announcements receive updates.
How much does it cost?
The app is provided as a free public service by the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration with no visible monetization.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentperformanceopaqueShow more...
The app currently operates at a maintenance cadence, with only one release identified in the analyzed window. This single update, shipped 70 days ago, focused exclusively on minor bug fixes. There is no evidence of new feature development or live operations, suggesting a stable but inactive development cycle. The publisher provides no insight into the roadmap, as the release notes remain uniformly opaque.
Who built it?
Ministerio de Asuntos Economicos y Transformacion Digital
7 apps tracked · Productivity
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews upset.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Inability to save search queries prevents users from tracking specific items or receiving relevant notifications
1 of 1 recent reviews analyzed · limited sample
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Competitive landscape for Empleo Público
How's the Productivity market?
Empleo Público maintains a niche position as the official government job portal, yet its 1-star rating across a small sample size indicates significant friction in core workflows. The lack of updates over the last 70 days signals a maintenance-only posture that leaves the platform vulnerable to more agile job-aggregation alternatives.
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Key takeaways for Empleo Público
Where is it heading?
The market for public employment discovery is consolidating around platforms that offer high-frequency updates and personalized tracking. Empleo Público remains in a maintenance-only posture, which leaves it exposed to churn as users seek more functional, third-party alternatives that prioritize search persistence.
- The maintenance-only release cadence (70 days since last update) prevents the platform from addressing critical user-requested features like saved searches.
- Persistent user frustration regarding search-save functionality erodes the value of the notification system, leading to lower engagement and negative sentiment.
The SWOT
- Official government-backed data source provides high trust
- Fully free service model removes financial barriers
- Implementing saved-search feature would address primary user complaint
- Push notification integration for saved searches could increase usage
Next best moves
Ship saved-search functionality because it is the top-requested feature → increase user retention
The counter-intuitive read
The app's low rating is a feature of its government-mandated scope…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The platform's development status remains stagnant, with no new features or bug fixes released since the last report. The analysis now explicitly identifies third-party aggregators as a direct threat to the app's user base.
Bottom line
The platform serves a vital public function, but the lack of persistent search tracking prevents it from becoming a daily utility. Implementing a saved-search mechanism would unlock the retention loop necessary to move the app beyond its current maintenance-mode stagnation.
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Is Empleo Público free to use?
Can I save my job searches in the app?
Is there an alternative for tracking public jobs?
Sources
- [1] App Store listing, source
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