Job seekers are often told to find jobs that fit your skills and experience while applying to companies whose values and corporate cultures fit yours. Almost every job seeker is aware of the most common places to find and search for jobs. Often, these job boards are flooded with good prospects and prospects who are taking a chance and hoping their resumes land into the hands of a hiring manager, regardless of whether the role fits.

Top job boards like LinkedIn Jobs, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor, LinkUp, Google for Jobs, Monster, and CareerBuilder fall victim to a flood of applicants. Although they are used by top companies (and job seekers who are a great fit for the position often get found) niche job boards also exist. On a niche job board, job seekers can turn away from the customary places where "everyone" is applying for jobs, and stand a better chance of landing an opportunity.

These boards are more specific and focus on factors like industries and locations to find unique talent and listing the job openings of companies that fit certain criteria.

If you are looking for your next opportunity, consider exploring the following niche job boards:

Dice.com

Criteria: Technology

This platform helps technology professionals manage their careers and employers connect with highly skilled tech talent.  Dice provides insights, data, and career opportunities for technology professionals while putting state-of-the-art tools in the hands of recruiters and employers seeking tech talent.

Theladders.com

Criteria: Annual salaries of $100,000 or more

Along with high-level job search, they offer membership with features including in-depth company search and company information, including salaries.

OneWire.com

Criteria: Financial services industry

OneWire allows users to confidentially search and apply to jobs, join employer talent communities, and stay open to new opportunities at top finance companies.

JournalismJobs.com

Criteria: Media

JournalismJobs.com is the largest and most-visited resource for journalism jobs. It features a wide range of job listings in the fields of job listings for online media, newspapers, tv, radio, magazines, nonprofits, and academia. It also includes career advice and the latest journalism news.

Dribble.com

Criteria: Design professionals

The platform helps design talent share, grow, and get hired by over 40,000 of today’s most innovative brands around the world.

Krop.com

Criteria: Creative

Through the platform, most talented candidates at all experience levels can meet and get hired by the globe's most respected creative brands.

FlexJobs.com

Criteria: Remote, part-time, freelance, and flexible jobs available.

FlexJobs has become a leader in the flexible job movement currently disrupting the traditional workforce. It helps professionals find flexible jobs around the world and at all levels of their career: entry-level and  executive, part-time and full-time.

We Work Remotely

Criteria: Remote

We Work Remotely is the largest remote community in the world and can be used by job seekers to find remote work opportunities.

Craigslist.com

Criteria: Any jobs

Since it is an enormous, widely-distributed, mostly-free online classified ads site, you can find jobs from employers you won't find on most job boards because the platform is very visible but also inexpensive for small employers to use to post their opportunities. It also offers a wide range of jobs beyond the typical professional office jobs that dominate most job boards, including construction, retail, transportation, restaurant cooks and wait staff as well as crews for movies and TV shows.

eluta.ca

Criteria: Canadian job board

Eluta.ca is a job search engine that specializes in finding direct-employer jobs. It is the exclusive home of Canada's Top 100 Employers project and indexes jobs directly from employer websites, finding thousands of unadvertised positions that you won't find on search engines that just scrape job boards.

University alumni networks

University alumni networks are an excellent way to make contacts in one’s field or to get help starting on a new career path. The most effective job search strategy is "networking” or leveraging the power of your network. It will be best to connect with your university alumni and take advantage of this powerful resource.

Local Chamber of Commerce

A local Chamber of Commerce is a network of local businesses within a particular niche or industry. Every local chamber of commerce is different and could provide you with access to businesses in your local area who may be hiring.

iHire.com

iHire connects industry-focused and career-minded candidates with employers in 56 niche communities.

angel.co

Criteria: Start-ups/tech

AngelList is a platform that builds the largest startup community. The platform is built for tech startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.

builtin.com

Criteria: Tech

Built-In is a platform that unites companies and people around their shared passion for tech and the universal need for purpose.

Idealist

Criteria: Nonprofit and public service jobs

Idealist is a non-profit organization based in New York that connects people and organizations. Their site lists various opportunities to connect with non-profit and public service organizations through jobs, volunteering, internships, grad school and more.

Select Leaders

Criteria: Real estate

Select Leaders is the leading job network for real estate jobs. They provide a platform to post your resume and find jobs and professional development opportunities in the real-estate market.

Candor

Criteria: Companies hiring during Covid-19

Candor has created a database with live hiring updates of companies during COVID-19. You can discover if a company is hiring, undergoing hiring freezes, or laying off.

Jobscan

Criteria: Companies hiring during Covid-19.

Jobscan has compiled The Ultimate List Of Companies Still Hiring from multiple companies and news sources into one place.

This list is not meant to add more to your job searching agenda but rather to condense it as you explore job boards more suited to your target-industry or location. One of the best things you can do as a job seeker is to put a job search strategy in place that will enable you to strategically tackle your job search without becoming overwhelmed. Now, you can explore both the main job boards and some niche job boards to find your next best opportunity.

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