Top 100 job board niches - 2008

Eric, Thanks for putting together this list. There is so much clutter in the job board space that it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. You list is a start -- although Weddell's lists 40K jobsites. Hard to believe. Hopefully one day http://www.OnlineRetailJobs.com will make this list! Nice job, Harry Joiner

** es ** thanks Harry! 

Thank you for including CollegeRecruiter.com in your list of the top 100 job boards and its entry level category. Please note that we're a proud member of the International Association of Employment Web Sites (IAEWS). If you could update our list to reflect that, we would greatly appreciate it.

** es ** Steven, thank you for pointing it out - I have added the IAEWS flag for you.

Hey Eric - thanks for the nod in this article! Since we've really only been "official" for a few months, it's very cool to get a mention. I will gladly notify all the members of the WirelessJobs.com community! : ) Dennis

** es ** So you don't mind if I call you "Dennis the Maniac"... lol, you rock pal!

Eric, Thanks for including AccountingJobsToday.com in the Accounting Category and I really appreciate making the list. I especially enjoyed reading your methodology and and your definition of the maniac entrepreneur, which sounds very familiar to me. AccountingJobsToday is also a member of IAEWS and we have included your Internet 100 logo on our about us page Thanks again for what you are doing. Todd

** es ** many thanks Todd! We are also using the logo on our employers page and here.

I have updated the page for you. I started doing the IAEWS flag midway through my research and knew I had left a couple out...

Thanks for putting this together. Looks like a great resource.

** es ** thanks to you Ami for brainstorming with me, it was very helpful!

Eric, a truly great list. A terrific starting point for job seekers on the hunt for something above and beyond the major boards.

Gave you a quick re-blog on RecruiterGuy.net.

Thanks for putting this together - it's nice to see some of my favorites made the list. :-)

RecruiterGuy

** es ** thank you Chris, love your introduction video on your blog!!

Seems odd that certain really popular sites are blatantly left out of this list. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxJobs, for instance, is not listed under xxxxxxxxxx? CareerMetaSearch.com is not listed anywhere? What about regional sites? Pretty weak stuff.

** es ** I spent a lot of time looking at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxjobs.com - it was one of the most difficult to evaluate.  Is a blog really a job board?  I think it could be depending on the implementation but this one fails a lot of basic credibility tests. This particular site is plastered with non-original content and advertising from indeed.com and google.com to the point where it's hard to find anything. The link to information about the founder in the about page is broken.

The balance of evidence here points to a website owner extracting every conceivable dollar of value created with little regard for the candidates. I concluded that this website was search engine spam.

Perhaps I am wrong, but your comments about the site shed no light on the issue.  This is a great example of a job board coasting in a low competition environment but headed for rapid decline without an injection of blood sweat and tears by its absentee owner. 

Great list! Thanks for taking the time to make it. We are a new regional job board that launched in January 2008. We are helping local companies fill important job openings, having fun and making $. Please check us out when you get the chance. www.newjobtree.com and would you suggest a small site like ours join the IAEWS? Thanks for your input. Dwight

** es ** When you are new and when you have competition, you need absolutely every sliver of credibility that you can drum up. I would absolutely join. When did you launch? I will add you to my recent job board launches list.

Well I disagree about xxxxxxxxxxxxxxJobs - it has lots of original content and has been delivering original job listings (not listed anywhere else) and articles since it launched in 2006. Apparently you dont subscribe to the eNewsletter xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Careers like 50,000 other people do. Just click on the eNewsletter section and start reading.

To blast a site, owner and its content with no knowledge of its readership is pretty lame. xxxxxxxxxx and plenty of other partners & clients feel its a pretty good little site. Same could be said for other sites you left out like CareerMetaSearch.com or perhaps PaidContent.org. Yeah some of these sites may border on being blogs but so what? This reeks of NicheBoards.com - one of the biggest scams in the job board industry. A small group of sites that self-proclaim they are the leaders in their industry niche.

** es ** just checked compete.com to make sure that I didn't clearly make an obvious mistake and xxxxxxxxxxxxxxjobs.com currently has less traffic than any of the sites I listed. Considering that wirelessjobs.com is only months old, that should be a wake-up call. I am not bashing your site, just saying it is not the best choice for this list based on fairly consistent criteria.

This has nothing at all to do with nicheboards.com which is akin to a small trade association with monthly dues. if you turn your focus to creating value and building credibility I will gladly add you to this list and it won't cost you a penny.

Hi Eric, I run Idealist.org, and it was great to see that 'wow' by our name. Thank you! Ami

** es ** my pleasure, you have more than earned it Ami!

Eric This thread was brought to my attention. I operate xxxxxxxxxxxxxxJobs and don't know anyone named Michael Rogers nor appreciate your attacks. While we appreciate his support, it is not his site nor is he employed by us. Our client base and partnerships (i.e. xxxxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxxx.com, etc) have given us enough credibility without needing this list to validate our existence.

I appreciate you pointing out the dead link on the site and will fix accordingly. But before you convince your readership of falsehoods like we get less traffic than ALL of the other sites, this is simply not the case. Visit http://www.quantcast.com/xxxxxxxxxjobs.com/traffic for our stats as Quantcast code rests on our server and Compete.com code does not - thus offering more accurate numbers.

As far as original content goes, we publish one HR interview and one HR article each month along with unique job postings not available on any other site from some of the industry's top employers. Visit our site and just look at our past history. So I'm not sure the motivation behind this, but please remove us from your site entirely as we did not volunteer to be dragged into this discussion.

** es ** Gladly! Your name and your site's name has been removed. I have no interest in highlighting anyone's defects.

Your cohort (who used some of the same exact language as you did when talking about your website) called my research 'weak' without even reading my discussion of the methods and criteria used. In my defense, I walked him through the decision-making process I went through with your site.

Regarding traffic levels, looking at your Quantcast data would not shed any new light on the question. Sure, we'll find out that your actual traffic is higher than what compete.com estimates. In all likelihood, your competitors traffic is also higher than compete.com's estimate. Only if all your competitors have the Quantcast code on their site would we learn something from it about your relative traffic levels.

Original content? Great, make it easier to find than cpc ads and 3rd party content...

is too wide to be considered as a niche, Eric... ElecroJob is a unique job listing site, specialising in jobs for ONLY electrical/electronic pros all around the UK. And only UK. Anyway - Eric - this is great ranking. brilliant job. Maybe it's time for UK Top 100 job board niches?? Tara

** es ** you have a point! there are dozens of engineering specialties and each one will eventually have its own thriving job boards.  thank you.

Eric, excellent job. I just blogged about it at the JibberJobber.com blog. Narrowing 40k+ boards down to a hundred... quite a job. This will serve as a great resource for my job seekers, and it will be fun to see how it changes/evolves (yes, I think you committed yourself to a long-term project :p).

Jason Alba CEO - JibberJobber.com

** es ** thank you Jason, I enjoyed reading your post - it's dead on!

I love the list and was thinking that perhaps next time you would add religion as a niche category. I would like to see our board make it there - www.nyjewishjobboard.com

** es ** that is quite a niche Jonathan!  The categories are chosen by jobseekers searching on Google, not by me... 

What an odd list. Some of these sites have never worked correctly, and I've checked them out for years on occasion...careers-in-finance.com for example. And there is nothing but garbage on it. It's not alone. I would take any of the sites at www.CareerSitesCompany.com over most of these. At least there is some pleasant pictures and useful things to do, something the other web sites makers / affiliate marketers left out. One big pile of text and links is no fun or nice to sort through. Any site, like HJ, dice, Mnstr, CareerBuilder that does not provide job openings from all boards, company sites, etc. is fairly useless nowadays. All in one search sites are the only way to go.

** es **  Robert, you are right that careers-in-finance.com doesn't belong in a list like this and I have replaced them with careerbank.com whose ranking improved dramatically for the term 'finance jobs' since I released this list. There are still a few other sites that I am embarrassed to have in this list, but they sit in categories with little competition.  Thank you for pointing this out. I added your site  to my list of job board networks

I'd say you should include a new category (freelancer jobs) and put there http://www.elance.com, http://www.getafreelancer.com + update the list (I guess it falls under engineering) with http://www.oil-offshore-marine.com. And finally... under "operations" you list no website. So why do you have the cateogry without any site? DO you have an update for "operations".... the same is valid for consulting and consumers

** es **   Freelancer was not one of the top 100 most searched categories. But, oil is... I updated the oil category with your website which is well done and has about the same traffic as the boards that rank for 'oil jobs'.  Many categories like 'operations' had no sites meeting the criteria.

Eric - Great list! I was, however, wondering why workinsports.com was not mentioned in the sports niche. If you search the term “sports jobs” on Google, you will find that workinsports.com always appears in the top three so i am not sure how you could of missed us. According to compete.com, our traffic is more than twice our nearest competitor (jobsinsports.com) and more than five times that of sportscareerfinder.com. By competitor, I refer to subscription-based sports industry job boards. We have been around for 8 years and have definitely established ourselves as the leaders in this niche. We are also the only IAEWS members in this category (and we display the logo with imense pride). Please let me know what is takes to be considered for inclusion on this page and be considered for the top 100. Thanks you for managing this great resource. John Mellor - President & CEO, WorkInSports.com

** es ** thank you for writing John -- I suspect you may have ranked fourth when I put together the list.  There was a lot of volatility in the last couple of months.  Often, the results vary widely depending on where you search Google from. But, if not, then I made a mistake. Anyhow, I have added you to the list and congratulations on your business!