25+ Best Free Job Boards To Find Top-Quality Professionals Cost-Free

With so many people seeking new opportunities online, sourcing candidates is no longer a difficulty. You can post a job ad free of charge and hire anyone from any corner of the world with ease. Still, with thousands of job boards available, it’s important to pick the best ones and not cast your recruiting net too wide.

We’ve compiled a list of free job boards that allow you to reach out to top candidates without spending a dime. We’ve reviewed the top 8 free job boards for recruiters:

Read on to check out additional 20 free-to-post job boards that are great places to source applicants.

#1 LinkedIn

Widely regarded as Facebook for business connections, LinkedIn is the largest professional social network out there. While its primary use is to connect with your colleagues and other professionals, LinkedIn is also a job board where you can post an ad for free and reach hundreds of thousands of people.

If you want to make sure potential candidates don’t miss your ad, you can get a sponsored post for a small fee, starting from $5 a day. The downside to sponsored campaigns is that you can’t target your audience by their title. The platform has also made it difficult to track candidates without unlocking pro features.

LinkedIn allows you to integrate the ad with your applicant tracking system (ATS) easily and also has a free interview-scheduling feature.

#2 Google for Jobs

When looking for work online, around 69% of all job seekers use Google to find a vacancy instead of visiting one (or more) of the many job boards.

The popular search engine uses Google for Jobs to aggregate listings from various job boards and presents them concisely on its search result pages. 

To end up on Google’s search page, you should post your ad on several job boards that Google for Jobs uses as a source. You can also post your ad on your company’s website and use some HTML knowledge to get Google for Jobs to scrape your page and increase the visibility of your post for free.

#3 Facebook

Although it’s not as popular as it used to be, Facebook is still the biggest social media platform, with over 2 billion monthly active users. While finding new jobs is not Facebook’s primary use, you can utilize the platform to post a job position and reach a huge audience.

The website allows you to find top-quality but passive candidates who’re not seeking a new position.

Posting a job ad is free, but it’ll only show up to those who visit the dedicated Facebook page. If you want your job ad to reach a larger number of people, you’ll need to run a PPC campaign that allows you to target your audience by location, interests, and past experiences. You can determine the price of the campaign.

#4 SimplyHired

SimplyHired is both an aggregator and a job board where you can post a free job ad directly. It has the same owner as Glassdoor and Indeed, and it shows listings from those two marketplaces and a few other job boards.

You can post a job ad and search resumes for free, but you’ll need to pay for a candidate’s contact information you want to take to the next level—starting from $4.99 per candidate.

When you post an ad on SimplyHired, you’ll receive high visibility from the platform and Indeed at the same time, which can result in getting an overwhelming number of applications. Make sure you have an automated hiring funnel in place if you want your hiring process to go smoothly.

#5 PostJobFree

As the name suggests, PostJobFree allows you to post a job ad quickly, easily, and without any cost. While it caters to U.S. jobseekers—with many listings focusing on local opportunities—it’s also established as an international job board that allows you to hire people from overseas.

While you can post ads and search resumes for free, if you want to get contact information or promote your listing, you have to create a premium account. The subscription fee depends on what you want to get:

1. 2 promoted jobs, 30 resume contacts—$29 per month
2. 6 promoted jobs, 100 resume contacts—$59 per month
3. 15 promoted jobs, 200 resume contacts—$99 per month
4. 40 promoted jobs, 450 resume contacts—$199 per month
5. 100 promoted jobs, 1,000 resume contacts—$399 per month

Another benefit of using PostJobFree is the fact that it distributes ads to other global job boards, so you don’t have to do it manually.

#6 Ladders

Ladders is a job board that’s gained popularity in the U.S. and Canada. It’s a niche job board that focuses on highly skilled and experienced professionals looking for job opportunities with a $100,000+ salary.

You can post 10 jobs and view 10 resumes per month for free. If you want to go above that, you can get one of the following plans:

1. Lite Access ($159 per month)—50 posts and 50 resume views
2. Full Access ($499 per month)—100 posts and 100 resume views
3. Enterprise—The price and features depend on your company’s needs

You can also opt to promote a single job post starting from $337.

#7 AngelList Talent

AngelList Talent is a free job board that focuses on remote jobs and startups. It has a database of over 8 million users, and you can go through their resumes for free (albeit a limited number of resumes is available on the free plan).

The main advantage of AngelList Talent is that it comes with a free ATS and messaging system. You can reach out to candidates and follow their status in the hiring funnel without leaving the job board. It also has a salary calculator that takes into account:

• Skill set
• Location
• Market
• Role

The Pro account ($250 per month) offers unlimited resume views, allows instant interview scheduling, and has a database of pitch templates.

#8 Hubstaff Talent

If you’re looking to hire a freelance worker from a country with a low cost of living, Hubstaff Talent is the place for you. It has about 220,000+ monthly visitors, with only 16% of them coming from the U.S. The job board mostly focuses on entry-level freelancers, and you’ll struggle to find someone with years of experience looking for a 9-to-5 position.

The platform is free for recruiters, and there are no premium plans that force you to pay money for additional features. The website lacks an ATS, candidate matching, and job feed integration.

Free Job Posting Boards for Employers—Additional Websites You Should Use

We’ve gone over the major and most popular job boards that allow you to search resumes for free. You can also use additional free job boards that are great at sourcing candidates without any costs. When you’re hiring, you can post on as many job boards as you want—you only need to ensure you have a developed hiring process to not get overwhelmed with applications flying in.

Take a look at the following free job boards:

1. Jora
2. Startupers
3. Learn4Good
4. Find Jobs Near You
5. Handshake
6. Jobvertise
7. HotJobs
8. JobSpider
9. ReliefWeb
10. Jobisite
11. JobInventory
12. Techfetch
13. Adzuna
14. Workable
15. Homebase
16. Jobcase
17. Scouted
18. National Labor Exchange
19. Ramped
20. TheLions

Hiring the Right Candidate Is Difficult

In the sea of job boards available, you can source candidates easily. All you need to do is post a free job ad on as many platforms as you want and watch applications roll in. Sourcing applicants is the easy part—what you do with them is the problem.

Looking at someone’s CV and portfolio is not enough to tell with certainty what kind of employee they will be. Everybody’s portfolio and resume are amped up a bit, and if you want to avoid the trouble of hiring the wrong person, you need to test them and see if their performance matches their qualifications.

Pre-hire assessments are the only way to make sure candidates can deliver continuously in the position you’re offering. 

Employers who know how to spot the best candidate in the myriad of unqualified applicants rely on pre-hire testing to do so.

Gaetano (Head of Growth @ Nextiva)

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When you have thousands of applicants in your funnel, you’ll need to test each one, and that takes time. The trouble is—you need to be quick about it if you don’t want another company to hire the best candidate.

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