55+ Best Job Boards To Find Your Perfect Employee Fast and at Any Price Point

Regardless of the position you’re looking to fill, every hiring process starts with getting candidates to apply. Online job boards allow you to tap into the international talent pool and help you reach potential employees with ease.

Still, there are thousands of job boards out there. Some focus on a particular country, while others cater to specific professions, including creative, tech, and finance jobs. You shouldn’t limit yourself to a single job board, but going too broad will clog your hiring funnel and make the whole process too complicated.

That’s why we’ve created a list of the best job boards you should post your job ads on if you want to find qualified candidates with varying experience and salary expectations. We’ll go in-depth about the 10 top job boards for all positions:

Continue reading to find a list of 45+ best niche job boards for recruiters in specific fields.

#1 LinkedIn

LinkedIn is the largest professional social network that has grown to the point of becoming a necessity for every professional. Aside from the social aspect, LinkedIn is also a job board with thousands of companies posting ads and hundreds of thousands of people seeking jobs every day.

You can share and post a job ad for free, and if you want to stand out, you can get sponsored job ads starting at $5 per day. While it’s not optimized for hiring in niche industries, you’ll get exposure to over 300 million active users. Since it’s a social network, a top-quality professional can find your job ad even when not actively job hunting and apply. The downside of such a huge number of users is that you can get many unqualified applicants trying their luck.

As an employer, you can have a company page and establish yourself as a brand so that candidates have a better idea of what you’re looking for.

#2 SimplyHired

SimplyHired is a free job board popular among employers and jobseekers because of its slick and user-friendly interface. The website has over 5.5 million unique visitors per month. Because it has the same owner as Indeed and Glassdoor, SimplyHired shows listings from these two websites and a few other job boards as well.

The platform enables you to post job ads and search resumes free of charge, but there is a pay-to-contact fee (which depends on multiple factors, such as the candidate’s experience and number of available applicants) if you want to get candidates’ contact information.

When you post a job ad on SimplyHired, it automatically gets advertised on more than 100 other job sites, including Indeed, Glassdoor, GetHired.com, etc., bringing you extra visibility.

SimplyHired is a good option if you’re looking for entry-level positions, but it might not be as useful when recruiting roles where a higher level of expertise is required. If the latter is the case, you’ll need to implement another recruiting strategy (such as posting on job boards focused on executive and high-level positions) and adapt your screening process to cover all the bases.

#3 Snagajob

Snagajob is the largest online job platform dedicated to hourly and shift work, with around 100 million registered jobseekers and opportunities. Due to its primary focus, the job board is popular with employers and workers in the retail and hospitality industries.

The website has a great reach, with over 3.8 million unique monthly visitors.

The starting cost for posting a job ad on Snagajob is $89 per month. To get information about other pricing plans, you have to contact them directly.

Besides posting ads, Snagajob also allows you to track applicants, schedule listings, and fill shifts. As an employer, you can use the website’s dedicated platform to manage listings, advertise jobs to active jobseekers, and review applications.

#4 Google for Jobs

Despite so many job boards around, most people (69%) start their job search on Google. Google for Jobs is an aggregator that uses various job boards to show listings on its search result pages. While it’s not a job board per se, it will load ads from all the major job boards that integrate with Google for Jobs, and your ad will automatically get picked.

You can also use your website instead of posting a listing on a third-party job board. Post a job ad on your web page and use a standardized code that allows Google to scrape data and display it in its search results.

You can’t promote your job ad or add any additional info about your company.

#5 Craigslist

While finding new job opportunities is not Craigslist’s main purpose, its job board section is a popular source for many candidates based in the United States and Canada.

Using the job board costs from $10 to $75 per job post, depending on the location you choose. The post is public for 30 days. One issue with Craigslist is that job ads are listed in reverse chronological order, and when you post a new ad, you’ll get buried on a double-digit page.

The platform is focused on local and freelance jobs. If you want to hire a highly specialized employee, you’ll be better off posting your ad elsewhere.

#6 ZipRecruiter

ZipRecruiter started off as an ATS that turned into a job board, with Indeed seen as the main competitor. The platform helps you reach a lot of candidates as you can use it to post job ads on various boards simultaneously.

You can choose to pay for a single job post oz ZipRecruiter, which can cost $16 or $24 a day. You can also pay for a subscription model, renewed monthly:

• Standard—$299
• Premium—$419
• Pro—$899

Every plan allows you to reach candidates proactively using AI, target applicants by location, and post ads with ease on 100+ job boards. With the Premium plan, you get access to the platform’s database of 36+ million resumes, while the Pro model maximizes your visibility with TrafficBoost and allows you to integrate with an external ATS.

You can also opt to pay for access to the platform’s CV database only. The database pricing ranges from $50 (25 resumes) to $4,000 (2,000 resumes).

#7 Monster

Monster is a global job board with a dedicated U.S. website. It’s one of the pioneers when it comes to online job boards, having been around since 1994. The website attracts 35 million unique visitors each month.

You can’t post a job ad on Monster for free. There are different plans you can choose from that come with different features, including:

• Starter—$279 per month (1 job post, 50 resume views)
• Standard—$399 per month (3 job posts, 150 resume views)
• Premium—$649 per month (5 job posts, 250 resume views)

The downside of these plans is that the cheapest one doesn’t include job alert emails sent to candidates. Another issue with sourcing candidates on Monster is that many employers have reported a lot of inactive profiles that inflate the platform’s number of members.

#8 Facebook

Facebook has over 2 billion active monthly users. While they might not use the social media platform to search for job vacancies, you can drive their attention to the open position in your company. 

You can post a job ad on Facebook’s job board for free, but if you want to reach a significant number of potential candidates, you’ll need to promote your job vacancy by boosting your post. The price of the promotion depends on your campaign.

You can use Facebook’s PPC campaign to get your ad to show up in other sections of Facebook, and people can see your post while scrolling through their feeds. Running a campaign allows you to target potential candidates by geographical location, interests, and job experiences. This way, you can target a diverse group of applicants. 

Facebook’s job board is a great way to find passive candidates, i.e., top professionals who’re not actively seeking a new position.

#9 Nexxt

Formerly known as Beyond, Nexxt is a job board with over 85 million users and dedicated to U.S. jobseekers. The website has over 42 million candidate profiles with CVs and portfolios that you can browse through.

Regardless of the plan you choose, you’ll receive jobseekers’ demographic data and job ad analytics, and the platform will send out job alert emails to matching candidates. The plans include:

• Talent Pro—$199 per month (1 job slot)
• Recruiter—$299 per month (5 job slots)
• Recruiter Premium—$499 per month (10 job slots)

Aside from the global job board, Nexxt has over a dozen niche job boards in its network, with websites dedicated to customer service, hospitality, healthcare, marketing, and other fields. They also have different solutions for small or medium businesses, agencies, and enterprises.

#10 CareerBuilder

CareerBuilder is a popular job board for employers seeking candidates in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Aside from being a job board, CareerBuilder serves as a recruitment platform and offers marketing tools and resources to hiring companies. CareerBuilder also allows you to integrate a third-party ATS of your choice.

The website boasts over 80 million CVs in its database that you can access to find the perfect candidate. The number of CVs you can access per day and the number of job ads you can post depend on the plan you choose. CareerBuilder has three monthly subscription plans:

• Lite (1 job ad, 10 resume actions per day)—$349 per month
• Standard (3 job ads, 30 resume actions per day)—$449 per month
• Pro (5 job ads, 50 resume actions per day)—$749 per month

Subscriptions come with a free five-day trial. You can also opt for a one-time payment of $425 that allows you to post a single job ad (available for a year) and make 10 resume actions per day.

Top Niche Job Boards

If you would like to make sure professionals from a specific field see your job ad, you can turn to niche job boards in addition to the general ones. Virtually every profession has dedicated job boards, and we’ve selected the best ones, depending on what type of employee you’re looking for.

How To Ensure You Hire the Right Person for the Job

With hundreds of job boards available and thousands of people looking for jobs on them each day, getting candidates to apply for a position is easy. The following steps in the hiring process can be costly, time-consuming, and nerve-wracking.

Spotting an inexperienced applicant takes a second, but how do you assess if a candidate that has an impressive CV and a portfolio with all the plaudits will perform well on the job?

To make sure a candidate has a skill set to go with an admirable portfolio, you need to introduce pre-hire assessments. Testing your applicants before you hire them will give you an insight into their actual performance and the value they will bring.

Experienced employers have identified pre-hire assessments as the number-one solution to properly rating a candidate.

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