This is the 2009 guide to the top 100 US job board niches. For each top employment category it lists the top 3 or 4 niche job sites. This report excludes:
- job sites that lack top Google rankings
- sites with high Google rankings but low credibility, authenticity or integrity.
- sites which require registration or paid membership to be useful
The point of this list is to avoid looking at the same jobs or job seekers that everyone else is looking at. Yes, you should use one of the largest general-purpose job boards and a job search engine. There, you will find the greatest numbers -- and you will be competing with everyone and their brother.
But, if you are looking for something harder to find, this report may be helpful. It relies on my 12 years of experience running a top niche job board and dozens of hours of research. If you are deeply interested in the job board industry, you may also like to read my methods and observations companion to this report.
Here are the Cliff notes for anyone in a rush - 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". Look for websites with personality, that win meaningful awards, that are in the news, that publish a blog - whose credibility is clearly high.First then, the top 30 job site 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 for what it is, just a snapshot in time. the number in parentheses shows how the category moved up or down from 2008 to 2009.
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1. management jobs (na) |
16. warehouse jobs (-6)
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If this is in any way useful or interesting to you, please share it with your friends or readers if you're a blogger or use Twitter (link HTML / graphics here)! If the response is good, you might encourage me to publish more research. Without further ado, here are all 100 categories and their job boards arranged alphabetically:
Legend
- association - site is operated by an association and/or nonprofit
- 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
advertising 
airport
- artjob.org association
- artsusa.org association
attorney
automotive
- bankjobs.com
- careerbank.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- jobsinthemoney.com owned by Dice.com
callcenter
ceo
clerical
- prsa.org association
- computerjobs.com owned by JobServe.com
- computerwork.com owned by JobServe.com
- dice.com
construction
consulting
contract
- computerwork.com owned by JobServe.com
- net-temps.com
corporate
- see also management
creative
customer service
data entry
dental
director
- jobsinlogistics.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- see also logistics
- bubbajunk.com
- classadrivers.com
- jobsintrucks.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
education
- higheredjobs.com
- nationjob.com
- see also teaching
- asce.org association
- engcen.com
- engineer.net
- mechanicalengineer.com
environmental
executive
facilities
fashion
- brokerhunter.com
- careerbank.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- jobsinthemoney.com owned by Dice.com
- efinancialcareers.com owned by Dice.com
government
- allhealthcarejobs.com
- healthecareers.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- healthjobsusa.com IAEWS
- medhunters.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- medicalworkers.com
- see also medical
- see also healthcare
- hcareers.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
hr
- jobs.shrm.org association
- workforcehrjobs.com
insurance
international & overseas
it
- computerwork.com owned by JobServe.com
- dice.com
- lawenforcementjobs.com
- see also police
law
- jobsinlogistics.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
management
manufacturing
- jobsinmanufacturing.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- manufacturingjobs.com IAEWS
mechanic
- allhealthcarejobs.com
- medhunters.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- medhunting.com
- see also healthcare
merchandising
- see retail
non profit
oil and gas
- oilandgasjobsonline.com owned by EnergyJobSites.com
part-time
pharmaceutical
pharmacy
- careerpharm.com association
- healthecareers.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- rxcareercenter.com
police
- policeone.com
- see also law enforcement
project
public relations
- jobs.prsa.org association
- talentzoo.com
qa
radio
receptionist & secretary
- see administrative
restaurant
- foodservice.com
- hcareers.com owned by OnTargetJobs.com
- see also food
- allretailjobs.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
safety
science
- nature.com magazine / journal
- sciencejobs.org
- scjobs.sciencemag.org
seasonal
- see administrative
- clearancejobs.com owned by Dice.com
senior and retirement
social work
software
student
summer
supply
- jobsinlogistics.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
- see computer
teaching
- schoolspring.com
- teacherjobs.com
- see also education
- computerwork.com owned by JobServe.com
- dice.com
technician
- computerwork.com owned by JobServe.com
- dice.com
- see also laboratory
technology
temporary
- astd.org association
transportation
- jobsinlogistics.com IAEWS owned by Don Firth
warehouse
non profit
- idealist.org wow!
- nonprofitjobs.org
- nonprofit-jobs.org owned by ExecSearches.com
- opportunitynocs.org
- philanthropy.com
volunteer
- backdoorjobs.com
- idealist.org wow!
- volunteermatch.org wow!
Qestions or suggestions? Please read how this report was put together first... this is a difficult exercise and I welcome your questions and suggestions!
