How Does Dice Job Posting Work, and Should You Use It?

Dice is a leading tech job board offering full-time, part-time, contractual, and third-party hiring within various technology industries.

Jobseekers use Dice to find work as developers, IT product managers, communication specialists, software engineers, and various analyst specialists. As an employer, you can offer onsite and remote jobs. While Dice is an international board, the vast majority of users (and job listings) are located in the U.S.

This article will explain how Dice job posting works and what the pricing is for employers, as well as compare it to other popular job boards.

What Does Dice Job Posting Offer?

Dice has over 5 million members and over 1.4 million visitors each month. At any given moment, over 80,000 job listings are posted on the platform.

Still, Dice is not your everyday niche job board where you publish a listing and wait for applicants to find it themselves. While you can create a job ad, Dice offers more than that.

For example, Dice Sourcing Services allows you to use the platform’s recruitment team to create a hiring campaign and come up with a shortlist of the most suitable candidates. They use advanced candidate-screening techniques to come up with the shortlist and cut your hiring time by 40%. The price of Dice Sourcing Services is available upon contact.

You can also access Dice’s resume database to search for candidates with a specific location and skill set as filters.

Users have left mostly positive reviews, especially when it comes to the resume database and how efficient it is to find potential candidates that way.

It’s worth pointing out that several jobseekers have complained about the lack of availability of remote jobs, as well as some U.S. states being underrepresented.

Dice Job Posting—What You Get

The following table shows all the available features you can expect on Dice:

Pricing for Dice Job Posting

You cannot post jobs for free on Dice. When you pay for a job ad, it’s active for 30 days, and you’ll have to renew it for the same price if you haven’t hired someone during the first month.

While they don’t have different plans with unlockable features, they offer bulk purchases that come with discounts. 

Check out the table below to see pricing details:

You can pay another $99 on top if you want to promote your job ad and increase your visibility.

Other Dice features, such as sourcing services and a resume database, have separate pricing plans, which are available only upon contacting the platform’s customer support.

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How To Publish a Job Posting to Dice

If you want to post a job on Dice, you need to complete a straightforward process.

1. Start the Process

There are two ways you can begin the Dice job posting process. You can visit the login page to access your employer account, after which you can select Post a Job.

Alternatively, you can go to the homepage and select Post Jobs in the For Employers menu. 

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When you select a pricing plan, you’ll be asked to log in to your account or create a new one. If you’re creating a new account, you’ll need to provide company and billing information.

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2. Create a Job Post

Once you’ve logged in and made a purchase, you’ll gain access to the Post a Job form, which consists of 11 different sections. The sections are as follows:

1. Job title—Try to be concise and specific with your job title so that applicants immediately know what employee profile you’re looking for. Dice advises using around 20 characters
2. Job location—You need to add the location of your company (city, state, and ZIP code). If you want to offer a remote job, enter the location of the office and check the “Work from home available” option
3. Position type—You can choose the following:

1. 1. Direct Hire
      1. Full-time
      2. Part-time
   2. Contract
      1. W2
      2. 1099
      3. You can select both tax terms and enter the contract length

1. Salary—Listing your salary will decrease the number of applications from candidates that have different expectations. You can choose a custom range scaled annually or hourly. You can also check the “Depends on experience” box if applicable

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1. Travel requirements—The form has a drop-down menu to specify any travel requirements you have. You can select working from home if you allow your employees to work remotely (fully or a selected number of days per week)
2. Job description—Your job description should go into detail about the requirements and responsibilities of the job you’re offering. Try to be as specific as possible to provide a clear idea of your expectations and limit the number of unwanted applications. Check out our guide on writing job descriptions if you’re struggling with the process
3. Skills—You can list the minimum skills and education candidates need to have to be considered for the position
4. Contact information—This section is filled out automatically with the information from your profile. You can select what information is displayed

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1. Application method—You can select:

1. Via Dice plus Email—Use Dice’s built-in ATS (applications will go to your email address)
2. Via URL—Add a URL to redirect applicants to an external website

1. Screener questions—If you select “Via Dice plus Email,” you can choose screener questions to prescreen applicants on their soft and hard skills
2. Application response—You can create a custom response email that’s sent to applicants automatically. If not, Dice will send a standard response template

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3. Post the Ad

Once you fill out all the necessary fields, you’ll be able to choose one of the following options:

• Post as Active—Your job ad will show up on the job board within 30 minutes, and jobseekers will be able to apply
• Save as Inactive—The platform saves the information you’ve provided, but it doesn’t make it live until you choose to do so 
• Preview—This allows you to see how your job ad will display to jobseekers so that you can make adjustments

Dice Compared to Other Job Boards

Dice is one of the best job boards when it comes to IT and tech listings. Still, while 5 million members is an impressive number, it’s nowhere near the numbers that global job boards offer, and many top IT professionals don’t use Dice as their source of job posts.

We’ll compare what Dice has to offer as opposed to some of the major job boards:

1. Indeed
2. LinkedIn
3. Monster

Indeed

The first difference you’ll notice between Indeed and Dice is the pricing. Indeed is a free job board that both employers and jobseekers can use free of charge. If you want to promote your job ad and reach more candidates, you can do so for $5+ a month. Another major difference is that Indeed is one of the most popular job boards on the market, but it attracts jobseekers from all industries.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn allows you to post a job ad for free, and it reaches the greatest number of people from all over the world, especially if you opt for a promoted ad. If you want to seek out professionals from outside of the U.S., you have a better chance to do it on LinkedIn than on Dice. The downside is that you’ll likely receive a lot of applications from unqualified candidates.

Monster

Monster is a pay-to-post job board that caters to all professions. While Monster is cheaper to use, Dice profits from its status as the leading job board within the tech niche. Here’s how the two platforms compare:

FAQ—Dice Job Posting Questionnaire

Check out the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions regarding Dice.

How Much Does It Cost To Post Job Ads on Dice?

Posting a job ad starts at $495 per post. You can pay an additional $99 to promote your post and increase its visibility.

How To Publish a Job Posting to Dice

The process of job posting on Dice is as follows:

1. Log in or create an account
2. Purchase a job ad post
3. Fill out the required information
4. Publish or save the post

Where To Find the Job Posting in My Account on Dice

When you’re logged in, navigate to the Jobs tab in the top menu and choose the Manage Jobs option.

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You can filter your jobs by their status (active, inactive, archive) or sort them chronologically.

What Are Some Alternatives to Dice?

Aside from the three mentioned above, you can use the following job boards to source candidates:

• Snagajob
• Careerjet
• Juju
• Ladders
• Mashable
• ZipRecruiter