10 best job boards
April 2, 2009 by Sam NarisiPosted in: In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Online recruiting, Web site
With so many job boards online — and new ones appearing every day — it’s tough for HR to know where to focus its energy. Here’s some expert recommendation of which sites are most worth using.
These are the 10 best sites for recruiters and job seekers, according to a recent article in PC magazine:
- Beyond.com – A combination of smaller, niche job boards that each focus on a different industry, job type or geographic area.
- Careerbuilder.com – Though some HR experts recommend shifting money away from the big, general boards and toward more focused sites, CareerBuilder still gets more than 23 million visitors a month. That’s a lot of job candidates.
- Craigslist.org – It’s not a very polished site, and some of the listings seem less than legitimate, but posting an ad to Craigslist is free in most areas, so experts say there’s little reason not to use it.
- Execu-search.com – A site focused on recruiting upper level employees.
- Hound.com – Hound lets candidates search through jobs listed on employer Web sites.
- JobServe.com – Claiming to be the world’s first online recruiting service, JobServe advertised 2.5 million positions in 2008.
- Jobster.com – Combining a job board with a social networking site, Jobster lets candidates create detailed profiles to help employers find and learn more about them.
- LinkedIn.com – From searching through users’ profiles to posting job listings, LinkedIn provides a variety of ways to find candidates.
- TheLadders.com – Only lists jobs that pay more than $100k a year, and charges job seekers to use the site.
- SnagAJob.com – Basically the opposite of ExecSearch and TheLadders, SnagAJob focuses exclusively on hourly jobs.
What recruiting sites do you recommend? Share your advice in the comments section below.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 6:22 am
Where to start.
I appreciate the time it took to put together such a list. Kudos for that. But let me make a few comments — maybe to help some folks further.
One really has to be careful with CL these days, enough said.
Hound charges the job seeker, big time, as does theladders. Hound is also a noted spammer operation. TheLadders is under constant pressure now that it was discovered they also get jobs from Simply Hired, Indeed, Monster et al. So, not all jobs are over 100k but you still do pay.
Nick Corcodilos of AskTheHeadhunter has some further insights on job boards.
Thanks.
April 6th, 2009 at 9:56 am
FYI, Jobserve is currently experiencing a “site outage”
April 9th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
What happened to Monster.com? I thought they were #1?
Don’t go to iHire.com either! They advertise access to thousands of jobs for free, but you only get the list for free. You have to pay to find the company name and contact info.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Hound promotes itself as a job board that obtains information directly from employer websites and updates the listings almost daily. I spent about 10 minutes cross-referencing many of the jobs displayed on Hound to the employer websites. Most of the jobs listed on Hound were no longer on the employer websites -ie. they were incredibly outdated! All of this for a service that charges subscribers. Seems like a scam to me.
I found that the Ladders also has many outdated jobs.
I find myself going to Indeed.com and my State’s Department of Employment website, which is a surprising source of good information and professional job listings.
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Lynn…please try LINKUP.com and I am sure you will have better results. The jobs on LINKUP are only from Company websites and if they have been taken down on the home site, they are not on LINKUP.