If you’re a recruiter or director of human resources, optimizing your recruitment process—from sourcing all the way to hiring—is a constant, never-ending challenge!
To reach the best candidates and receive the right applications, you’ll naturally want to publish your ads on the best job boards.
That's why this insight into the best job boards will save you time.
Depending on your needs, one or more solutions may exist. Some sites allow you to reach a larger audience, many offer free trials, and yet others are accessible via mobile apps. Additional services are also sometimes offered such as candidate tracking, résumé analysis, and candidate comparisons.
To help you identify the solution that best suits your needs, we’ve compiled this list of the best tools for businesses.
Here, you’ll find descriptions for how they work as well as key features, strengths, limitations, and pricing.
Check out our comparison of the 10 best job boards for recruiters below:
Our goal: to help you find the platform that will allow you to reach the right candidates and receive the most relevant applications. Let's get started!
The largest job site to announce jobs on a big scale
Indeed has approximately 250 million monthly users. Its huge reach allows it to publish ads in all sectors of activity and at all levels of experience, for every type of contract (permanent, temporary, seasonal, internship, and more).
On the recruiters' side, the platform allows them to perform specific searches by job title, salary, or publication date in order to stay informed about available competing offers.
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Pricing: free; with paid plans starting at €150 per month
An all-in-one employer branding site that allows you to post jobs, list employee reviews, and compare salaries throughout each market
Belonging, like Indeed, to the Recruit Holding Co. Ltd, Glassdoor relays on its web pages all the job offers present on Indeed.
But Glassdoor's uniqueness lies elsewhere. It offers each company a candidate page on which employees who work or have worked there can post a review, commenting on the quality of management, salary levels, or the fairness of the recruitment process. This makes Glassdoor the "employer brand" platform par excellence. Each company can maintain its own reputation.
Attracting nearly 55 million unique visitors per month, Glassdoor touts a large pool of potential candidates.
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Rates: starting at €199 per month for a premium account
The recruitment solution offered by the world's number one professional social network
LinkedIn is the most well-known professional social network, but it's also a popular site where HR hunts for top talent. Recruiters can choose between two packages, LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Recruiter Lite. With over 750 million users, LinkedIn Recruiter offers a rich and highly qualified talent pool.
LinkedIn attracts executives and professionals from all industries. The platform allows you to easily target the most qualified candidates based on your search criteria.
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Pricing: from $239/month for Recruiter Lite, and $899/month for LinkedIn Recruiter
An advertising platform to attract candidates from all sectors
Attracting millions of visitors per month, Monster is one of the leading job boards. There’s a fee for recruiters to post jobs, and several rates are available depending on the number of jobs, additional features selected, and the length of time you post.
Monster offers candidate management tools as well as analysis of each job posting. Not specialized, the platform attracts candidates from all sectors, and all types of contracts are available.
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Rates: from €375 for the publication of an offer over 30 days, or €399 over 60 days
A smart platform to increase your ads’ reach
ZipRecruiter is one of the non-specialized platforms, attracting candidates from all sectors. Only available for now to employers in the U.S. and the U.K., this job board allows HR departments to post jobs on several partner sites, beyond the ZipRecruiter platform.
Relying on artificial intelligence to connect recruiters with the right candidates, ZipRecruiter touts over 30 million job seekers in its database.
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Rate: starting at €249 per month
Google's tool for broadcasting your job listings worldwide
Google for Jobs is a free service that uses AI and machine learning to extend the visibility of job listings by displaying them in Google search results. This feature helps job seekers find relevant listings directly in their Google search results.
You can also integrate Google Jobs from the job page of your site so that they automatically appear in the search results afterwards.
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Rate: completely free
An international job site tailored to U.S. American, Asian, and Canadian employers.
CareerBuilder is a global job board that also publishes and relays job postings to media partners and industry sites. CareerBuilder offers several services such as access to its candidate database, marketing tools, and resources to help companies find, manage, and hire the most qualified candidates.
In particular, it helps employers hire candidates in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada.
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Rate : from €350 per month
A local recruitment solution for U.S. employers
Craigslist is one of the most popular job boards in the world. Millions of jobs are posted each year in hundreds of different cities. It is used extensively throughout North America and attracts general labor and office workers in particular.
Craigslist runs classified ads that attract large volumes of applicants.
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Rate: between €10 and €75 per ad depending on the location
The exclusive recruitment platform for highly qualified candidates
Ladders is a job board that connects Canadian and American employers with highly qualified professionals in the €100,000+ salary range. The platform averages 4 million unique visitors per month and 240,000 job listings. Ladders' candidates are typically senior executives and business leaders with superior potential.
Ladders offers employers a variety of resources with each job posting, including numerical analyses.
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Price: free (limited functionality) or €500 per month
The recruitment solution for low-skilled, hourly-paid jobs.
Snagajob is an online job search platform focused on hourly and temp jobs. It is one of the leading hourly job platforms in the United States.
With Snagajob, employers can post jobs, track candidates, conduct online interviews and hire the most qualified candidate. The platform allows employers to create targeted campaigns and pay only for results through a pay-for-performance model.
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Rate : from 89 € per month
