Top 100 job board niches

top niche job boardsThis is the 2008 guide to the top 100 US job board niches -- the 2009 Top 100 job sites report is here. 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


top 100 job board nichesIf 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

administrative, data entry & secretary


advertising

aerospace

agriculture

airline

apparel

architecture

arts

audit

automotive

aviation

banking

biotech

broadcast

brokerage

callcenter

chemical

child care

college

communications

computer & systems

construction

consulting

consumer


corporate

courier

creative

customer service

database


defense

delivery & courier

design

distribution

diversity


driver

education

engineering

entry-level & college

environmental

executive

facilities

fashion

finance and investment

fitness & wellness

food service

forestry

government

hardware

healthcare & medical

home

hospitality& hotel

hourly

hr

insurance

international

internet

internship

investment

journalism

laboratory & technician

law enforcement

law

logistics and distribution

maintenance

management & corporate

manufacturing

marketing

media

medical

merchandising

mining

modeling

news

non profit

nurse

oil

operations

pharmaceutical

pharmacy

pr

printing

project

publishing

qa

radio

real estate

recruiting

restaurant

retail

safety

sales

science

seasonal

secretary

security

senior and retirement

software

sports

supply

systems

tax

technician

technology

telecom & wireless

textiles

therapy

tourism & travel

training

transportation & airport

tv

underwriting

utility

veterinary

veteran

volunteer

warehouse

wellness

wireless

Qestions or suggestions? This is a difficult exercise and I welcome your questions and suggestions!

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