{"id":334,"date":"2006-09-29T11:09:31","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T16:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=334"},"modified":"2006-09-29T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T16:09:46","slug":"niche-job-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/niche-job-boards\/","title":{"rendered":"Niche Job Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google led me to this article from onrec.com &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onrec.com\/newsstories\/13632.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Niche Job Boards Provide the Best Value For Employers<\/a>. The niche job board topic is one of great interest to us. We typically spread our ads around to different sites including the main boards that everyone knows. Our experience with niche boards has not been as productive.<\/p>\n<p>This article is an opinion piece from the founder of Niche Jobboards.com so consider that fact. Yet, this stat was a bit surprising:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As an example, JobsInLogistics.com, which serves the transportation and logistics industries, attracts <strong>80 visitors<\/strong> per job ad over the course of a month. In comparison, CareerBuilder draws only <strong>15 visitors<\/strong> per job ad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our focus is primarily upon sales positions and the big boards have been quite good for our sourcing activities. We have not found the niche boards to have remarkably higher quality candidates, but that may have more to do with sales as opposed to other positions.<\/p>\n<p>For now, we&#8217;ll continue to rely on the big boards but continue to sprinkle in niche boards as an ongoing test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google led me to this article from onrec.com &#8211; Niche Job Boards Provide the Best Value For Employers. The niche job board topic is one of great interest to us. We typically spread our ads around to different sites including the main boards that everyone knows. Our experience with niche boards has not been as productive. This article is an opinion piece from the founder of Niche Jobboards.com so consider that fact. Yet, this stat was a bit surprising: As an example, JobsInLogistics.com, which serves the transportation and logistics industries, attracts 80 visitors per job ad over the course of a month. In comparison, CareerBuilder draws only 15 visitors per&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/niche-job-boards\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sourcing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-5o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":125,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/niche-employment-sites\/","url_meta":{"origin":334,"position":0},"title":"Niche Employment Sites","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Sourcing will become the most difficult task in hiring within the next 5 years if it isn't already. 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The article basically tracks a handful of higher level employees and their use of niche boards to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1666,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/07\/the-migration-to-niche-job-boards\/","url_meta":{"origin":334,"position":1},"title":"The Migration To Niche Job Boards","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"July 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the points we always push when it comes to sourcing is to use multiple channels that still includes online job boards.\u00a0\u00a0In fact we use them during our sourcing efforts, however if you talk to other recruiters you will probably hear that running ads on the boards will only\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Employment Ads&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Employment Ads","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/employment-ads\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1431,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/50000-job-boards\/","url_meta":{"origin":334,"position":2},"title":"50,000 Job Boards","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Honestly, that is the number of online job boards according to Peter Weddle in this Wall Street Journal article.\u00a0 I had no idea.\u00a0 Some perspective from the article: About 2,000 new job boards have launched annually since 2000, and there are currently about 50,000, says Peter Weddle, chief executive officer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1552,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/online-job-movement\/","url_meta":{"origin":334,"position":3},"title":"Online Job Movement","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The online job posting statistics provide a look at general hiring trends...I think.\u00a0 My question is always in regards to which online boards are being tracked.\u00a0 We are seeing a marked migration away from the big boards to the still-developing niche boards. 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The actual amounts are $5.9 billion on the Web vs. $5.4 billion for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":583,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/top-30-job-boards\/","url_meta":{"origin":334,"position":5},"title":"Top 30 Job Boards","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"January 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Weddles.com has published their annual user choice awards. Here are their top 30 online job boards. Unfortunately their newsletter does not have a link but does have some interesting points worth noting: Nine of the sites are making their first appearance. 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