General Job Boards
These job boards are great for posting just about any job. Although some of the niche sites can perform very well, these sites are more well known and get much more traffic than the other sites. On these powerhouse job boards you’ll probably spend a little more money to promote your jobs, but its worth it.
1. Indeed
Indeed. Hands down the biggest and baddest of all the job boards. What was once a job aggregator is now the best website online for promoting jobs. That being said, here are some restrictions for staffing companies and Indeed’s quality control team is pretty strict about the content they allow on their site. That means that you’ll have to work a little harder than normal making sure your job titles and descriptions are unique and follow their rules. Expect to increase your budgets over time as more staffing companies are catching on to the fact that this is the best job board out there. The good news is that Indeed offers a pay per click ad model which allows you to easily scale your marketing efforts and adjust your strategy from day to day. If you could only promote your jobs on one website, it should be Indeed.com.
2. Zip Recruiter
Zip Recruiter has some great features and service offerings but can fall flat for some industries. One thing that I’ve learned here is that you have to be vigilant about the quality of your job descriptions and job titles. You can’t be lazy, you have to be creative and test performance as if that text we ad copy (because it is). Zip Recruiter offers a service called Zip Alerts that targets job seekers in their email inbox. This service has been effective in our testing for several different staffing industries including healthcare and tech staffing.
3. Linkedin
The professional social media site is a great place to promote your jobs for many different industries. Depending on how many recruiters you have you may want to restrict who has permission to promote jobs here as you may end up having recruiters doubling up on candidates and stepping on each other’s toes. We’ve found Linkedin to be most effective for corporate recruiting, sales and tech staffing. In addition to being a great place to post and promote your jobs, Linkedin is also a great site for sourcing talent & recruiting. Make sure your agency has a strong presence on Linkedin if you plan on promoting jobs.
4. Facebook
FB has always been a good recruiting tool for staffing agencies. Whether you’re advertising your business, participating in groups, building your recruiters’ social branding, or communicating with potential candidates Facebook is an exceptional tool for staffing. Jobs on Facebook was first released in February of 2017 with mixed reviews. Combining targeted ads with Job postings is an effective way to direct traffic to your jobs, your website and get more leads. Facebook targeting is robust in that it allows you to target by age, gender, location, profession, interest, email, phone number and even behaviors. You can generate retargeting audiences from your website to advertise to job seekers who have viewed your jobs but haven’t viewed your conversion confirmation page. The power of Facebook as a recruiting engine should not be underestimated.
5. Glassdoor
Glassdoor is most well known as a database of company reviews, salary reports, and CEO approval ratings. Logically, it quickly became a place for job seekers to find great companies to work for. As a staffing agency Glassdoor is a great tool for recruiting and company branding. In addition to being an effective place to promote your jobs, Glassdoor is vital for building brand trust. Candidates that apply on Glassdoor tend to be more discerning than the average applicant. This is probably due to the fact that their researching employers before applying.
6. Monster
From the job seeker perspective, Monster compares nicely to Indeed. From the staffing agencies perspective, it barely compares. Monster doesn’t offer a pay per click ad model like Indeed and other job boards. They’re stuck in the old school “pay a flat fee per job” business model. This works well for companies advertising a handful of jobs but it quickly becomes extremely costly or unscalable for most staffing companies. As one of the most well known and trafficked websites on this list, it’s a shame Monster isn’t higher on the list.
7. Career Builder
Despite having one of the worst logo rebrands of 2015 Career Builder is still a player in the job board game. Don’t underestimate them. If you haven’t used them and have an advertising budget that isn’t abysmally low, you should test Career Builder out. We recommend starting off small and building your campaign once you’ve established effective positions & locations to promote.
8. Job.com
Much like most job boards, Job.com only offers “job slots” type promotion. This means that you have a limited number of jobs that you’re allowed to promote at any given time. That being said, it can cost as little as $30 per job slot. The site also offers resume database access which is popular among many other job boards. Job.com tends to be less effective for highly technical positions like developers, nurses, and doctors but can be very effective for other types of jobs. As #7 on this list I wouldn’t prioritize Job.com over other general job boards. However, if you have a budget to test, it’s worth a shot.
9. Google Job Search
Technically Google Job Search should be higher on the list. Also, Google Job Search technically isn’t a job board. But it is one of the most powerful and cutting-edge ways to promote your jobs online. Google doesn’t actually allow you to “post” jobs to their careers search engine. Instead, they’ve developed a method for your jobs to be found by their crawlers. There are two ways to get your jobs picked up in Google Job Search. The first, direct integration, is the most straightforward and, from our experience, the most effective. In order to directly integrate with Google, you have to implement a structured data markup on your job details pages and job search results (this is assuming you have your ATS integrated into a job board on your website). There are a few other requirements and Search Console can be used to view the success of your efforts. The other option for getting your jobs listed in Google job search results is by using a third party job site that already integrates with Google. You should already be posting your jobs on many of these sites including Facebook, LinkedIn, CareerBuilder, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, and Monster. There are a number of technical reasons why your jobs may not be appearing in Google’s job search results. Reach out if you’re having trouble getting integrated.
10. Jobs2Careers
You’ll want to work closely with your Jobs2Careers account rep as they have the control to open the floodgates or give you some really targeted traffic. The quality of candidates can vary greatly so it’s important to communicate to your account rep about what’s working. Jobs2Careers, like Indeed and ZipRecruiter, offers a Pay-Per-Click ad solution that allows you to only pay for the clicks or applications that you receive. This is great for agencies who have a limited budget and no time to waste testing job sites that don’t deliver. While J2C is quite far down on the list, it’s a tool that we often recommend to our clients. J2C tends to be most effective in retail, sales & corporate recruiting, and hospitality but has also proven itself time and time again in the healthcare industry (nursing, allied, and locum tenens).
11. Simply Hired
In May of 2016 Simply Hired announced that it was shutting down. Fast forward to July and Recruit Holdings, the same company that owns Indeed, acquired Simply Hired. Since then, it’s been as effective as ever as a recruiting tool. When you promote your jobs on Simply Hired it gets distributed across hundreds of affiliate job boards. Simply Hired is a potent source of lead volume. Quality is the real problem here and it can be difficult to nail down quality leads for highly technical positions in healthcare and information technology. If your agency is in need of a massive amount of leads to call on, train your recruiters with, or you’re staffing for an industry such as retail, hospitality or sales utilizing Simply Hired in your strategy is recommended.
Healthcare Job Boards
Healthcare Staffing is one of the biggest industries in staffing in the United States. Recruiters all over the country are jockeying for position in an extremely competitive field. Whether your agency staffs registered nurses, physicians, surgeons, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, nursing assistants, nurse practitioners, or any other position in the healthcare industry these job boards will be valuable to your marketing efforts. Ranking these sites has proven to be difficult since they all have pros and cons with varying levels of efficacy and are often for completely different industries (locum tenens vs travel nursing for instance).
1. Travel Nurse Source
One of our favorite Track5Media websites is Travel Nurse Source. The site accepts XML job feeds from most applicant tracking systems and has an API for you to easily integrate your jobs into their search engine. Travel Nurse Source (TNS) has also been around for a long time and it has developed a huge database of candidates which you can access, downloading full records of their application & resume. For that reason alone this is one of the most effective niche tools for travel nurse recruiters online. There are other opportunities on TNS to promote your business and with the applications downloaded from TNS you can create remarketing audiences to be used on Facebook and Google Adwords.
2. Allied Travel Careers
Another of our favorite sites from Track5Media, Allied Trave Careers (ATC) is a powerful tool for recruiters in allied healthcare. Find candidates for everything from Med Tech, Lab Tech and X-Ray Tech positions to SLP, PT and OT positions. Some of the biggest players in Allied Staffing promote their jobs here, and for good reason. If you’re looking for another place to promote your jobs in allied healthcare, this is where we recommend going immediately after Indeed.
3. Nurse Grid
Nurse Grid is a new-ish calendar and shift exchange application for nurses. It allows you to create a profile, select the facility you work for, and communicate with other nurses in your unit, mainly for the purpose of trading shifts. They also market their product to nurse managers who can use the app for managing their unit. The app also allows for job listings which is great since you have a captive audience of exclusively qualified candidates. While this option hasn’t been tested as much as all others, there is a very high potential upside. It’s absolutely worth testing. If you’ve promoted jobs on Nurse Grid we’d love to hear from you.
4. Nurse Recruiter
Nurse Recruiter is one of the more established and well-known niche nurse job boards. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best. While it’s definitely an effective site, as it becomes more popular it also becomes more competitive and expensive. We always recommend proven lead sources like Nurse Recruiter to our clients but also love to test new opportunities and growth hack our clients to the top of their industry. Nurse Recruiter will make a safe and effective part of the digital marketing strategy for your staffing company.
5. Nurse.com
This site is primarily a learning resource for nurses but has developed into a substantial lead source for travel nurse agencies. It is expensive, and can be hit or miss in terms of generating enough leads. There are additional benefits associated with being an advertiser here including added brand awareness and trust building in the nurse community.
6. Explore Health Careers
Explore Health Careers (EHC) produces a lot of content and resources that tend to lean toward nursing students and new grad nurses. This means that it may be less effective for travel nurse staffing agencies that often require nurses to have a minimum of 2 years experience before traveling. However, advertising on a site like EHC is effective at building brand recognition among students and new grads so that when they’re ready to travel, they already know you.
7. NGPT
New Grad Physical Therapy is similar to EHC in that it tailors content toward students and new grads. This is less of an issue for allied healthcare staffing as new grads and clinical fellows are often embraced in the travel therapy industry. NGPT provides an interesting advertising model that can only be described as “custom”. They provide job listings, content promotion, inclusion on their social media profiles and other unusual perks. While this wont be the most effective tool in your arsenal, it’s worth looking into as an option.
8. Locum Jobs Online
Yet another site from Track5Media, Locum Jobs Online (LJO) is a robust marketing and lead generation resource for locum tenens staffing agencies. As one of the lesser well-known niche locum tenens job boards, it has less competition while simultaneously providing exceptional quality candidates. Volume tends to be lower than Track5Media’s other sites, but it’s definitely a highly recommended job board for locums agencies. The fact that LJO is #8 on this list doesn’t reflect how valuable it is. From our experience nursing and allied staffing deal in greater volume and therefore provide more leads. Unfortunately, that was one of the factors we looked at when choosing the rankings for this list. Promote your jobs freely and with confidence on LJO.
9. All Physician Jobs
Essentially a duplicate site of Locum Jobs Online, All Physician Jobs (APJ) is equally as valuable for locum tenens & physician staffing agencies. One thing to note about these sites is that they allow you to create recruiter profiles which can then be reviewed. This allows candidates to research recruiters and work with only the best. If you have a positive reputation and employ talented recruiters this could be a boon for your firm.
10. Nurse.org
Primarily a source for hospital reviews, career guides and scholarships, Nurse.org also offers job promotion services. With a community of over one million nurses, this is another option for a nurse staffing firm looking to expand their marketing efforts. Nurse.org is somewhat untested for Staffing Nerd and our clients but could prove to be useful. If you have experience promoting jobs on Nurse.org we’d love to hear from you.
11. My CNA Jobs
Not all healthcare staffing agencies are interested in hiring CNAs. Those who are will find MyCNAJobs.com to be an practical source of applications. Although you may find that leads from Indeed are cheaper and more abundant, diversifying your efforts will be key to growing your staffing company.
BMJ Careers
BMJ Careers is a specialist job board for Doctor, GP and hospital based jobs in the UK and around the world. The site is continually updated, ensuring the latest medical vacancies are at your fingertips. The site is continually updated, ensuring the latest medical vacancies are at your fingertips. You can search all areas of medicine by sector, specialty, location, career level and contract type. Ensure that you are the first to hear about medical vacancies by signing up for job alert emails. They attract around 150,000 unique online users each month and the print editions of BMJ are delivered direct to the homes of 105,000 doctors every week. The BMJ Clinical Research edition reaches 81,700 hospital doctors and BMJ General Practice is delivered to 27,600 GPs every week.
Tech & Creative Job Boards
Staffing for information technology and creative jobs is difficult. You have one of the most Internet-savvy demographics as your potential candidate which means you have to be sharp. Utilizing cutting-edge tactics and venturing into the unknown is sometimes required to get a leg up on your competition. The following job boards are known to be useful tools for tech & creative staffing agencies. If you’re interested in growth hacking your industry with outside the box marketing strategies, hire Staffing Nerd.
1. Dice
Dice is owned by DHI Group, a parent company for many online job boards. Posting jobs on Dice is pretty spendy starting at $395 per job. Depending on your companies goals and advertising budget Dice may or may not be an option. If your agency is looking for a new lead source that has been proven to deliver, Dice is a great option. From our experience, it’s most effective for recruiting developers, engineers, and information architects but can be useful for recruiting game designers and other high tech designers.
2. Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow claims that applicants will never receive recruiter “spam” or see fake job listings on their site. While I would hope that nobody is posting fake jobs, I feel like there are ways for tech staffing firms to promote jobs on Stack Overflow. It’s one of the best places online to promote jobs for developers so getting your jobs here has a lot of potential upside.
3. Angel List
Startups are always in need of developers. Angel List is one of the best places for candidates to find open positions. However, chances are you’re not a startup. So figuring out how to get your jobs on Angel List is key. Once you solve that problem, you’re in for some fun. Contact Staffing Nerd to discuss how we can help solve complicated problems like this.
4. Dribbble
Along with most job boards out there, Dribbble offers a per job pricing model. The power of Dribbble lies in its user base. With so many talented designers visiting the site every day, Dribble has a captive and targeted audience waiting to apply for your positions.
5. Krop
Krop is a great site for creatives who are looking for new work. Similar to dribbble there are awesome portfolio building tools and the site is very robust from the candidates perspective. The job seekers user experience is excellent on Krop. From the employer/staffing agency perspective, it’s pretty good as well. They only offer single job postings for about $200 per job. This is pretty typical but considerably more affordable than some job boards. Krop also offers access to a database of over a hundred thousand resumes. This monthly subscription service grants you unlimited access to resumes for creative talent. This makes Krop a great tool for recruiters looking for top talent. Utilizing this tool you can sort by location, experience, specialties, education, availability and even willingness to relocate.
6. Behance
Behance was one of the first portfolio sites to make it big by being sold to Adobe in 2012. Since then the site hasn’t looked back. As a portfolio service for creatives, it’s top notch. As a tool for recruiters and marketers working in the staffing industry, it leaves something to be desired. Posting a single job is pretty spendy with Behance. They also have an option called Adobe Talent Unlimited which costs $1,500/mo. Now before you scoff at the price tag think about what the product offers, which is a lot. Adobe Talent Unlimited grants you unlimited job postings on Behance. While this sounds amazing, there are some cons to the service. First, when you search for creative jobs on Google (which is what most job seekers do), Behance rarely ever shows up on the first page of search results. Second, unlimited posting means a lot of manual data entry and account management. If you choose to go this route, you may need to dedicate some serious hours to working Behance.
7. Authentic Jobs
Authentic is another creative job board for your agency to test out. We don’t have much experience using Authentic Jobs but this is primarily due to the higher cost of entry (#300 per 30-day job posting) and the lack of control managing budgets, bids, etc. According to our research, it appears to be popular with some big brands. However, we’ve never worked with a staffing agency who has successfully utilized Authentic Jobs in marketing efforts for their company.
1. Snagajob
Snagajob isn’t exclusively designed for hospitality jobs. However, it is tailored toward hourly jobs and focuses heavily on retail, food services, hotels, etc. The site can be frustrating from the user experience side of things. Navigating the site requires sifting through complicated lists of categories. That being said, the pricing model is very affordable and structured in a way that lends itself to staffing. Snagajob allows you to manage multiple locations with one listing which is great if you’re hiring for positions in multiple locations.
2. Hcareers
Hcareers is one of the most prominent hospitality focused job boards online. The user experience for job seekers is better than most. However, for employers, they gate job posting with an annoying sales process. Hcareers resume search feature is valuable and can be a very effective recruitment tool. Since turnover is so high in many hospitality industries, even if your contacts are currently employed it can be good to simply make contact.
3. Hospitality Online
Many major hotel chains actively use Hospitality Online on a regular basis. That may or may not be the reason their price tag is so high. Although the site isn’t a huge powerhouse in organic search engine rankings, it does appear to get a lot of traffic (most likely paid traffic). This means that there are going to be a lot of qualified job seekers seeing your jobs. That being said $485 is pretty steep for something like a janitorial position.
4. Craigslist
The job board on Craigslist is a mixed bag. Chances are you’ll get a lot of unqualified candidates. That being said, it’s pretty affordable and the Craigslist job board lends itself to entry level positions and jobs that don’t require higher education or a lot of experience.
Corporate Recruiting & Sales Job Boards
For all you internal corporate recruiters out there looking to hire new recruiters for your staffing agency, these job boards are for you. Obviously, some of the top generic sites are going to be more effective but if you have the budget and/or the time testing out some of these sites could prove to be very valuable.
1. Ladders
Ladders exclusively promotes jobs that pay over $100k a year. This is where you want to go if you’re hiring for a director role, an executive, a high-end developer, sales manager or any other position that might rake in a hefty salary. Ladders is state of the art from the job seeker and employers perspective. This makes sense as it’s selling itself as the premium site for premium corporate talent. Ladders does not disappoint.
2. Sales Heads
Sales Heads is similar to Sales Gravy from the job seekers perspective. But from the employers perspective, it’s much better. Sales Heads is owned by a company called Nexxt that has a robust job promotion network and unique pricing structures for staffing agencies.
3. Sales Gravy
Sales Gravy is kind of herky-jerky. The site itself is built well and has proper functionality but it looks a little dated and has an awkward setup for employers. Posting a single job is actually pretty affordable but there are a number of issues with their dashboard. I wouldn’t highly recommend Sales Gravy but if you’re looking to branch out and test a new job board for hiring recruiters and sales professionals, this is a good option to try.
Cannabis Job Boards
Cannabis staffing is a quickly growing industry. With several new states legalizing cannabis for recreational use each year, the need is increasing exponentially. Many positions in the industry have high turnover rates (budtenders, trimmers, etc.) so it’s important for cannabis staffing companies to build a steady pipeline of candidates. Because many job boards are wary of the legal implications of promoting cannabis jobs they shy away from it. Which means cannabis staffing companies like yours have to use third-party job boards like the ones listed below.
1. Green Street Jobs
Green Street Jobs (GSJ) provides some interesting solutions to many of the issues that plague the cannabis staffing industry. When applying the site requires candidates to rank their skills and experience from 1-10. Then from the employer side, you can filter out candidates who don’t meet your criteria. Also when posting jobs you can customize the requirements to ensure that you only get interview qualified candidates. As of this writing, Green Street Jobs offered free job postings as well as premium options which is great, especially for new cannabis staffing agencies working with limited budgets.
2. 420 Careers
420 Careers offers free job postings as well as boosted jobs for only $50. Many leading cannabis staffing agencies are already posting here. The rules & regulations for posting on 420 Careers are pretty loose. Many companies post jobs that list the positions as multiple trimmer, budtender, and other jobs in cannabis across a whole state. This site is a great way for you to get your name out there and build brand recognition as well as collect leads for qualified candidates.
3. Weed Hire
Weed Hire doesn’t have the best user experience from the employer or job seekers perspective. Registering is kind of tricky but job postings are only $4.20 which is very affordable and kind of funny. Weed Hire also offers resume database access and “VIP” job postings for $500. The VIP package is very strange though. They give you 10 days to post up to 5 positions that last only 15 days on the site. This is abnormal for all job boards, even cannabis job boards. They quote a publication on the site that said: “Weed Hire is the Monster.com of Marijuana”. We’re not sure if that’s a compliment or not.
4. Ganjapreneur
Ganjapreneur no longer has a job board. That being said, they do have a job board directory and a massive amount of clout in the industry and they’re one of the highest cannabis career sites online. Getting your cannabis staffing agency listed on Ganjapreneur’s industry directory will help your firm build brand awareness and potentially drive traffic to your jobs.
5. MJCC
Marijuana Jobs and Cannabis Careers probably has the worst branding out of all cannabis job boards online. It’s almost as if they read an SEO article about exact match domain names from 2001 and built their business off of it. That being said, MJCC has a pretty decent site and affordable job postings. The biggest drawback is that they charge job seekers. Granted they only charge $10. But any cost to the job seeker is too much. When it comes to job boards the applicant is the commodity and it shouldn’t cost them money to apply.
6. Cannabis Jobs Board
Another winner of the boring website name award, Cannabis Jobs Board. Job postings are currently free and the site is associated with The THC University which means that you might find yourself interviewing trained, qualified job seekers for your positions.
7. 420 Jobs Board
One of the biggest problems that plagues the cannabis industry is brand recognition. With so many companies choosing generic names like 420 Jobs Board it’s hard to differentiate between who’s good and who’s not. 420 Jobs Board offers free job postings and premium upgrades. The site is very functional and has talent profiles which make recruiting a lot easier.
8. Cannabis.net
Social networking, dispensary maps, business listings, store, event calendar, and job board. Cannabis.net is pretty bulky. That being said they have a job board and they have an active user base that will continue to drive traffic to your jobs if you promote them here. Cannabis.net job postings are affordable and they’re live for 60 days instead of the standard 30 days. They also offer resume access and background check services.
9. THC Jobs
Update: THC Jobs is under new ownership and has a new site up. Available on the site is a signup for updates about the new sites launch date.