Top 100 job board niches
by eric shannon on June 18, 2008
in job boards,lists
Here is the 2011 guide to the top 100 US job board niches. Keep reading if you are looking for the ’08 guide — for each employment niche it lists the top 3 or 4 niche job boards. This report excludes:
- job boards that lack top Google rankings
- boards with with high Google rankings but very low credibility or authenticity.
- sites that require job seekers to pay or register
- job search engines that aggregate other job board postings
In a few special cases, it includes high traffic boards that lack a top Google rank. If you want to look at the same jobs or the same jobseekers that everyone else is looking at, this list is not for you.
But, if you are looking for a unique job opportunity or job seeker, this is for you. This report relies on my 11 years of experience running a top niche job board and nearly a hundred hours of research. If you are deeply interested in the job board industry, you may also like to read my editorial observations.
If you skip this, here is the executive summary – there’s a flood of search engine spam out there. So avoid posting your job or resume the first place you come to. Remember the old saying “measure twice, cut once”. To get it right on the first try, look for websites with personality, that win meaningful awards, that are in the news, that publish a blog – whose credibility is clearly high. If you are job searching, you may also find our CareerAdviceBlogs.com helpful.
First, the top 30 job board niches. These rankings represent an average of 12 months search data at Google and are influenced by seasonal considerations as well as the recession — so take this top 30 ranking loosely.
1. work at home jobs 2. marketing jobs 3. medical jobs 4. sales jobs 5. accounting jobs 6. airport jobs 7. art jobs 8. bank jobs 9. warehouse jobs 10. college jobs 11. computer jobs 12. construction jobs 13. data entry jobs 14. driver jobs 15. security jobs |
16. engineering jobs 17. entry level jobs 18. environmental jobs 19. federal jobs 20. finance jobs 21. government jobs 22. healthcare jobs 23. education jobs 24. hotel jobs 25. insurance jobs 26. international jobs 27. hr jobs 28. legal jobs 29. nursing jobs 30. law enforcement jobs |
If this is in any way useful or interesting to you, please share it with your friends or readers if you are a blogger! If the response is sufficiently positive, you may encourage me to publish more research. Here are all 100 categories and their job boards arranged alphabetically:
Legend
- anonymous! - no information on the about-page or contact-us about who owns or runs this website
- association – site is operated by a trade association
- free - free for employers
- growing! – compete.com shows significant and consistent traffic growth
- IAEWS - displays International Association of Employment Web Sites logo
accounting
- accountingjobstoday IAEWS
- careerbank.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- jobsinthemoney.com owned by Dice.com
administrative, data entry & secretary
- homeworkers.org
- net-temps.com
advertising
- marketingjobs.com
- talentzoo.com
aerospace
- aeroindustryjobs.com anonymous!
- ctsinternational.com
agriculture
- agcareers.com
- agindustryjobs.com
airline
- avjobs.com
apparel
- clothingindustryjobs.com anonymous!
- fashioncareercenter.com anonymous!
architecture
- architecturejobs.com anonymous!
- e-architect.com anonymous!
arts
- artjob.org
- artcareer.net
audit
- careersinaudit.com anonymous!
- taxtalent.com anonymous!
automotive
aviation
- aviationemployment.com
- aviationjobsearch.com uk board
- avjobs.com
banking
- bankjobs.com
- careerbank.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- jobsinthemoney.com owned by Dice.com
biotech
- biohealthmatics.com
- biospace.com
- medzilla.com
broadcast
- careerpage.org
brokerage
- brokerhunter.com
callcenter
- callcentercareers.com
- callcenterjobs.com
chemical
child care
- care.com growing!
- greataupair.com
- nannies4hire.com
college
- see entry-level
communications
- writejobs.com
computer & systems
- computerjobs.com owned by JobServe.com
- computerwork.com owned by JobServe.com
- dice.com
- gjc.org
- tech-centric.net
construction
- constructionexecutive.com
- constructionjobs.com IAEWS
- mepjobs.com IAEWS
- topbuildingjobs.com
consulting
consumer
corporate
- see management
courier
- see delivery
creative
- krop.com
customer service
- callcentercareers.com
- employmentguide.com owned by Landmark Communications
database
- databasejobs.com anonymous!
- dbjobs.org
defense
- defensetalent.com
delivery & courier
design
- aigadesignjobs.org
- coroflot.com
- fashioncareercenter.com
distribution
- see logistics
diversity
- diversityjobs.com owned by LatPro.com
- diversityworking.com
- hirediversity.com
- latpro.com
- womensjoblist.com
driver
- classadrivers.com
- everytruckjob.com
- jobsintrucks.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
education
- higheredjobs.com
- schoolspring.com
engineering
- engcen.com
- engineerjobs.com anonymous!
- engineerjobsearch.com
entry-level & college
- aftercollege.com
- experience.com
- collegegrad.com
- collegerecruiter.com IAEWS
environmental
- ecoemploy.com
- environmental-jobs.com
- ecojobs.com
executive
- 6figurejobs.com
- execsearches.com
- execunet.com
- theladders.com
facilities
fashion
- stylecareers.com
- fashioncareercenter.com
- clothingindustryjobs.com
finance and investment
- careerbank.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- jobsinthemoney.com owned by Dice.com
- efinancialcareers.com owned by Dice.com
fitness & wellness
- fitnessjobs.com
- exercisecareers.com
- exercisejobs.com
food service
- foodindustryjobs.com
- foodservice.com
forestry
- treecarejobs.com
government
- usajobs.gov
- governmentjobs.com
- govtjobs.com
hardware
healthcare & medical
- healthcareerweb.com
- healthecareers.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- healthjobsusa.com IAEWS
- medhunters.com
- medicalworkers.com
home
- worldwideworkathome.com
- jobsformoms.com
- tjobs.com
hospitality& hotel
- hcareers.com
- hospitalityonline.com
- hoteljobs.com anonymous!
hourly
- snagajob.com
- employmentguide.com
- groovejob.com
hr
- jobs4hr.com
- jobs.shrm.org association
- workforcehrjobs.com
insurance
- greatinsurancejobs.com
- insurancejobs.com
- ultimateinsurancejobs.com
international
- internationaljobs.org
- intljobs.org
internet
internship
- internjobs.com
- aftercollege.com
- campuscareercenter.com
investment
- see finance
journalism
- journalismjobs.com
laboratory & technician
- healthjobsusa.com IAEWS
law enforcement
- 911hotjobs.com
- lawenforcementjobs.com
- policeemployment.com
law
- attorneyjobs.com
- emplawyernet.com
- lawjobs.com
logistics and distribution
- jobsinlogistics.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- jobsinmanufacturing.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- maritimejobs.com
maintenance
management & corporate
manufacturing
- jobsinmanufacturing.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- manufacturingjobs.com IAEWS
marketing
- marketingjobs.com
- talentzoo.com
media
- massmediajobs.com IAEWS
- mediabistro.com owned by JupiterMedia.com
- varietycareers.com owned by ReedBusiness.com
medical
- see healthcare
merchandising
- see retail
mining
- miningjobs.org association
- minejob.com
modeling
news
- newsjobs.com
non profit
- idealist.org wow!
- nonprofitjobs.org
- nonprofit-jobs.org owned by ExecSearches.com
- opportunitynocs.org
nurse
- nursingjobs.com
- nursingjobs.org anonymous!
- nursing-jobs.us anonymous!
oil
- infooil.com
- offshore-marine.com
- oilandgasjobsonline.com owned by EnergyJobSites.com
- oiljobfinder.com
operations
pharmaceutical
- biospace.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- medzilla.com
- pharmadiversityjobboard.com
pharmacy
- careerpharm.com association
- rxcareercenter.com anonymous!
pr
- prweekjobs.com
- workinpr.com
printing
- printworkers.com anonymous!
project
- justprojectmanagerjobs.com owned by JupiterMedia.com
publishing
- bookjobs.com association
qa
- qajobs.net
radio
- massmediajobs.com
- tvandradiojobs.com
real estate
- selectleaders.com
recruiting
- ere.net
restaurant
- hcareers.com
- starchefsjobfinder.com
retail
- allretailjobs.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- fashioncareercenter.com
safety
- ehscareers.com IAEWS
- environmentaljobs.com
sales
- marketingjobs.com
- salesjobs.com
- salestrax.com free
science
- nature.com magazine / journal
- sciencejobs.org
- scjobs.sciencemag.org
seasonal
- backdoorjobs.com
- coolworks.com
- jobmonkey.com anonymous!
secretary
- see administrative
security
- clearancejobs.com owned by Dice.com
- clearedconnections.com
senior and retirement
- retirementjobs.com
- seniorjobbank.org
software
- prgjobs.com anonymous!
sports
- teamworkonline.com
supply
- jobsinlogistics.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- supplychainjobs.com
systems
- see computer
tax
- careersintax.com
- taxtalent.com IAEWS
technician
- see laboratory
technology
- dice.com
- justtechjobs.com owned by JupiterMedia.com
- tech-centric.net
telecom & wireless
- tech-centric.net
- telecomcareers.net
- wirelessjobs.com ning community site
textiles
therapy
- therapyjobs.com owned by HealthcareJobBoards.com
tourism & travel
training
transportation & airport
- jobsinlogistics.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
tv
- massmediajobs.com
- tvandradiojobs.com
underwriting
- insuranceunderwritingweb.com IAEWS owned by Insurance Jobs.com
- underwritingjobs.com anonymous!
utility
- utilityjobsonline.com
- utility-worker.com owned by EnergyJobSites.com
veterinary
veteran
- militaryjobzone.com
- vetjobs.com
volunteer
- backdoorjobs.com
- idealist.org wow!
- volunteermatch.org wow!
warehouse
- warehousejobs.com
wellness
- see fitness
wireless
- see telecom
Qestions or suggestions? This is a difficult exercise and I welcome your questions and suggestions!
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