Check Out the 8 Best Sales Job Boards and Get Hiring Tips To Claim Top Talent at Any Budget

Sales roles have become more complicated than ever, and general job boards often don’t do justice to the exposure a listing needs. Whether you seek someone for prospecting leads or managing B2B accounts, going on sales-specific job boards is ideal for attracting core talent.

There aren’t many niche sales job boards out there, though, and not all of them are useful or even budget-friendly. We have reviewed eight best sales job boards to help you make the most appropriate listing choice. We’ll also discuss expert solutions to handle the common hiring challenges in this field.

What Are the 8 Best Job Boards for Sales Jobs?

There are only a handful of 100% sales-only job boards, so we’ve extended our list to online job boards known for attractive executive and marketing talent as well. Here’s an overview of the eight job boards we’ll explore:

Go through our quick reviews below to get the pros and cons of these job boards.

#1 SalesHeads

SalesHeads is a job board managed by Nexxt, Inc., an HR technology company. On average, the website has over 100,000 sales listings from a diverse range of employers in the U.S. and Canada. There are three monthly plans for recruiters:

1. Basic—$199 per month for one job listing
2. Recruiter—$299 per month for five job listings
3. Recruiter Premium—$499 per month for ten job listings

Those with a premium plan can be matched with appropriate candidates accessed from a database of 29 million resumes available with Nexxt. Recruiters get nifty infographic-style portfolio view options, and they can also import the resumes to applicant tracking systems (ATSs). Many applicants also add personality assessment tests, helpful in determining their suitability for handling a particular level in the sales funnel.

The job search is simple and organized, allowing candidates to sort listings by keywords and location. The overall UI is pretty neat as well.

#2 AA-ISP Career Center

AA-ISP (American Association of Inside Sales Professionals) offers one of the best job boards for inside sales roles at elementary to strategic levels. The website’s Career Center page has a crisp UI for both posting and finding jobs.

While jobseekers can create a candidate profile for free, recruiters have to pay for listing vacancies. AA-ISP currently offers duration-focused plans:

1. $225—1 job; live for 30 days
2. $425—1 job; live for 90 days
3. $425—3 jobs; live for 30 days each
4. $1,550—12 jobs; live for 60 days

Recruiters can match their listings with top profiles within a location provided, although the website also has an abundant repository of remote and freelancing professionals. The job board is clutter-free, but it’s hard for a particular listing to stand out in a cluster of similar roles.

#3 SalesJobs

SalesJobs has become one of the largest job boards for sales professionals worldwide. The website currently has over 1,142,000 registered sales executives and more than five million page views a month. Listings made on SalesJobs are also cross-posted to over 200 partner job boards and social media sites. While that’s an insane reach, the listings are still tailored to the U.S. job market.

The website offers three recruiter plans:

Regardless of the plan you choose, you can:

1. Customize the website’s resume screening agent to find qualifying candidates
2. Integrate the ATS you use with your account 

SalesJobs has been favorably reviewed by recruiters and applicants alike, and you can also ask for a refund if your listing doesn’t work out.

#4 Rainmakers

Rainmakers is an elite job board—the platform is preferred by employers who exclusively want to connect with the most sought-after salespeople across industries. You have to sign up for an employer account and describe the open position you wish to fill. The website will match you with candidate profiles that have the best sales statistics for the role for free.

You have to make special requests to the website operators if you want:

1. Printable worksheets of relevant candidates
2. ATS integration

The hiring process includes bidding on desired profiles along with other companies. Once you find a candidate, you’ll be paying a percentage (usually 20%) of their first-year salary as commission.

#5 SalesTrax

SalesTrax is one of the go-to job boards for tech sales roles. The company was founded in 1998 as a sales job board, but it was relaunched in 2020 to focus on creating a reliable pool of tech sales talent. You can create a detailed company profile and post jobs for selling all kinds of software, including those in tricky financial, legal, healthcare, and engineering and construction ecosystems that require an industry-specific approach.

You have to pay:

1. $399.99 for a 30-day regular listing
2. $599.99 for a 30-day featured listing (highlighted in yellow in a list of white)

The website lets you view resumes, but there is no option to sort them or integrate an ATS or other third-party software into your account. You can, however, direct applications straight to your website if it’s more convenient. The site navigation is straightforward.

#6 SalesCLASSIFIEDS

SalesCLASSIFIEDS is a minimalistic job board with a resume bank of sales professionals. You can post a job for $99, and it will be listed for 60 days. If you have more than four listings, you can get a discount of 10%–50%. Recruiters who want a resume subscription or sponsorship opportunities need to contact sales@classifiedsolutionsgroup.com for a quote.

SalesCLASSIFIEDS may not have the best reach among competitors. The job board seems unreliable and poorly moderated, with almost no active listings appearing for many search criteria. SalesCLASSIFIEDS also has no resume sorting or ATS integration features.

#7 Salesmanagement

The Salesmanagement job board is operated by the Sales Management Association (SMA), a global, cross-industry sales leadership platform based in the U.S. You can post a 30-day job listing for $75 without creating an account. You can also customize your listing with details like the company logo, video, and tagline. Salesmanagement currently doesn’t offer candidate sorting, ATS integration facility, or other hiring management tools.

You can post jobs for three categories:

1. Sales enablement (advertising, copywriting/editing, buyer journey mapping, etc.)
2. Sales management
3. Sales operations

The job board has a crude search feature, and the vague job categories make it hard for candidates to find what they’re looking for. We wouldn’t call it an active job board.

#8 Ladders

Ladders is not 100% focused on sales, but the site has a dedicated section for sales and business development roles. Ladders is developed for finding experienced U.S. and Canadian professionals only—you cannot make a listing on the site unless your position holds an annual salary of $100,000 or more.

You can post jobs on the website for free, but you need to subscribe to premium plans ($199–$597 per month) for advanced candidate search and applicant management features. A concerning issue with Ladders is its predominantly negative user reviews on Trustpilot.

How Useful Are Sales Job Boards? Should You Consider General Job Boards?

While we have listed out the top sales job boards, most of them keep their operations limited to North American markets. It makes more sense for worldwide recruiters to use high-traffic international job boards with defined web pages for sales roles. Some of the best options include:

1. LinkedIn
2. Monster
3. CareerBuilder

You can also consider other job boards if the role you wish to advertise:

• Has digital marketing or product development and management elements
• Needs strategizing for both B2B and B2C sales
• Requires niche talent from a specific industry

Why Hiring Sales Personnel Is a Challenge and How To Do It Better

Regardless of the job board(s) you choose, finding suitable salespeople gets increasingly difficult because of certain industry factors. 

According to research by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, traditional sales roles are expected to decline over the next decade because of the increase in e-commerce sales (which require more SEO and digital marketing talent). The constant stigmatization of sales roles has also enticed tech-savvy millennial and Gen-Z jobseekers to groom themselves for other revenue-driving positions, mostly roles in marketing and business consultancy rather than sales.

If you want to hook the right talent in, you must:

1. Word the job description properly—Your job description shouldn’t be a boring wall of text with unrealistic KPIs. State the responsibilities of the position clearly, talk about your company culture, and use your words strategically to attract performance-driven talent
2. Incorporate sales assessment into the hiring process—Overcoming candidate mismatch is one of the biggest challenges of hiring salespeople. Sales positions require awareness of a specific buyer group. Use a carefully designed sales assessment test to evaluate the industry-specific sales acumen of a candidate so that their experience or credentials doesn’t create a bias

The use of pre-hire assessments is also emphasized by a prominent growth marketer Gaetano Nino DiNardi (Aura, Nextiva):

Image source: Gaetano Nino DiNardi

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Pre-hire assessments improve employee retention and productivity, but most companies shy away from testing because of time and budget constraints. Say you conduct testing manually—the hiring cycle could span over months, during which you’re likely to lose good candidates to other companies, and that would be an utter waste of resources.

Using third-party testing software is another option, but their pricing plans are usually out of budget for small and medium enterprises.

How Workello Streamlines and Automates the Hiring Task

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With Workello, you get:

1. Customizable job descriptions—No more worrying about missing the right tone or vocabulary for attracting quality salespeople as Workello provides you with several pre-written job descriptions to customize
2. Pre-hire assessments developed by experts—Workello’s carefully developed pre-hire tests help predict an applicant’s on-the-job performance. There’s no room for bias when you make 100% data-driven decisions
3. A centralized dashboard—The Workello dashboard helps you create and manage a hiring funnel, allowing you to screen applicants, send tests, set up interviews, or send professional rejection emails with a single click

Here’s how Workello can help you hire the top 1% of salespeople at any price point—you can:

1. View all candidate applications in the same place—your unique Workello dashboard
2. Send pre-hire sales assessments developed by subject matter experts to promising candidates with a single click
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4. Hire a sales expert who is a perfect fit for your organization

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