Are Job Boards Being Outdone By Social Media? Not Really...

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Following up on one of my previous blog posts, it’s pretty obvious that social media recruiting is not going to go away any time soon. But, this does not mean that the job boards aren’t vital anymore to the recruiting industry. They most definitely are and will keep highlighting the attributes of an organization, driving traffic to websites or acting as a marketing tool.

There are more than 150,000 job boards on the Internet and they’ve been around for uae phone number library a while. As times are changing and technology advancing, job boards keep evolving increasing their usability, adapting to challenges and offering new services for both employers and job seekers.

Nowadays, job boards come in all shapes and sizes and by using them employers can stop all the delays in recruitment, easily see each candidate’s contact information or control the online advertising.

There are two major genres of job boards that have been very successful in the recruitment industry:


1. Niche job boards

Niche job sites usually focus on one industry, sector, location or job function avoiding candidate spam and, thus, having more suitable candidates. There are niche job boards for almost everything – jobs in marketing, sales jobs, part-time jobs, contract jobs, jobs for old people etc. – and many of them offer additional features like human resources advice or salary checkers.

The niche job boards provide job vacancies relevant mostly to those who already have a clear career plan. The applicant response is usually significantly lower than the number of applications received on generalist job boards, but more targeted and relevant.