This 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 |
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
- accountingjobstoday IAEWS
- careerbank.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- jobsinthemoney.com owned by Dice.com
administrative, data entry & secretary
advertising
aerospace
- aeroindustryjobs.com anonymous!
- ctsinternational.com
agriculture
airline
apparel
- clothingindustryjobs.com anonymous!
- fashioncareercenter.com anonymous!
architecture
- architecturejobs.com anonymous!
- e-architect.com anonymous!
audit
- careersinaudit.com anonymous!
- taxtalent.com anonymous!
automotive
aviation
- bankjobs.com
- careerbank.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- jobsinthemoney.com owned by Dice.com
biotech
broadcast
brokerage
callcenter
chemical
- care.com growing!
- greataupair.com
- nannies4hire.com
college
- see entry-level
communications
- computerjobs.com owned by JobServe.com
- computerwork.com owned by JobServe.com
- dice.com
- gjc.org
- tech-centric.net
consulting
consumer
corporate
- see management
courier
- see delivery
creative
customer service
- callcentercareers.com
- employmentguide.com owned by Landmark Communications
database
- databasejobs.com anonymous!
- dbjobs.org
design
distribution
- see logistics
diversity
- classadrivers.com
- everytruckjob.com
- jobsintrucks.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- engcen.com
- engineerjobs.com anonymous!
- engineerjobsearch.com
executive
facilities
fashion
- careerbank.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- jobsinthemoney.com owned by Dice.com
- efinancialcareers.com owned by Dice.com
food service
forestry
hardware
- healthcareerweb.com
- healthecareers.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- healthjobsusa.com IAEWS
- medhunters.com
- medicalworkers.com
- hcareers.com
- hospitalityonline.com
- hoteljobs.com anonymous!
hourly
- jobs4hr.com
- jobs.shrm.org association
- workforcehrjobs.com
internet
internship
investment
- see finance
journalism
- healthjobsusa.com IAEWS
- jobsinlogistics.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- jobsinmanufacturing.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- maritimejobs.com
maintenance
manufacturing
- jobsinmanufacturing.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- manufacturingjobs.com IAEWS
media
- massmediajobs.com IAEWS
- mediabistro.com owned by JupiterMedia.com
- varietycareers.com owned by ReedBusiness.com
- see healthcare
merchandising
- see retail
mining
- miningjobs.org association
- minejob.com
modeling
news
non profit
- idealist.org wow!
- nonprofitjobs.org
- nonprofit-jobs.org owned by ExecSearches.com
- opportunitynocs.org
- 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
pharmacy
- careerpharm.com association
- rxcareercenter.com anonymous!
pr
printing
- printworkers.com anonymous!
project
- justprojectmanagerjobs.com owned by JupiterMedia.com
publishing
- bookjobs.com association
qa
radio
real estate
recruiting
restaurant
- allretailjobs.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- fashioncareercenter.com
safety
science
- nature.com magazine / journal
- sciencejobs.org
- scjobs.sciencemag.org
seasonal
- backdoorjobs.com
- coolworks.com
- jobmonkey.com anonymous!
- see administrative
- clearancejobs.com owned by Dice.com
- clearedconnections.com
senior and retirement
software
- prgjobs.com anonymous!
sports
supply
- jobsinlogistics.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- supplychainjobs.com
systems
- see computer
tax
technician
- see laboratory
technology
- dice.com
- justtechjobs.com owned by JupiterMedia.com
- tech-centric.net
- tech-centric.net
- telecomcareers.net
- wirelessjobs.com ning community site
textiles
therapy
- therapyjobs.com owned by HealthcareJobBoards.com
tourism & travel
training
- jobsinlogistics.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
underwriting
- insuranceunderwritingweb.com IAEWS owned by Insurance Jobs.com
- underwritingjobs.com anonymous!
utility
- utilityjobsonline.com
- utility-worker.com owned by EnergyJobSites.com
veterinary
veteran
volunteer
- backdoorjobs.com
- idealist.org wow!
- volunteermatch.org wow!
wellness
- see fitness
wireless
- see telecom
Qestions or suggestions? This is a difficult exercise and I welcome your questions and suggestions!
