Recruiting practices need to pace the demands of the healthcare industry, which is why these job boards are great resources for hiring top-quality talent today.

The future of healthcare will focus on making care “smarter”—from accurately diagnosing and treating illnesses to more accessible patient data. Healthcare recruiting is changing rapidly, which means that hiring qualified medical professionals who can adapt is a top priority for hospitals, private practices, and specialty groups. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) projects that by the year 2030 the US will see a shortage of between 40,800 and 104,900 doctors and between 33,500 and 61,800 non-primary care specialists. But finding highly skilled professionals for low turnover roles doesn’t have to be daunting—check out these 10 job boards and career resources for healthcare professionals.

1. Health eCareers

More than just a job board, Health eCareers also offers career resources, news coverage, and information for all types of medical professions. For job seekers, the Salary Calculator and Salary Guide are helpful in determining how their pay stacks up against others in their field, measuring factors such as specialty, location and experience. The Health eCareers site also frequently posts articles discussing the future of healthcare and other insightful discussions aimed at medical professionals.

2. JAMA Career Center

An affiliate of JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association), the Career Center is a comprehensive resource designed for active and passive job seekers. Search queries on the job board can be tailored according to specialty skills and locations throughout the US and beyond, with international volunteer opportunities open to traveling physicians. In addition to its job board, the Career Center site offers news and advice for medical professionals mapping our their career trajectory and navigating career transitions.

3. MedicalJobs.org

MedicalJobs.org is an information-first resource for healthcare professionals that publishes weekly advice articles about different medical careers. Some of their more popular articles include: “Four great medical jobs for shy people”, “Medical Jobs You May Not Have Considered”, and “An EMT can do more than EMT!” The site’s medical career comparison tool identifies which medical job is a good fit for individuals using filters like salary requirements, education, and physical, mental, and emotional exertion levels.

4. MedJobsCafe.com

Started in 2007 as a companion website to DocCafe.com, MedJobsCafe.com is one of several branded job sites that include dedicated platforms for dentists, nurses, pharmaceutical professionals, and biotech workers. Their medical jobs listings number in the thousands and provide job seekers with granular data about potential employers such as community values and staff size, as well as additional information such as the quality of schools and weather averages in the area of the job posting. The network includes several features that are common among ATS platforms, like customized candidate profiles, job alerts, and a CV database of active and passive healthcare professionals.

5. MomMD

Dedicated to connecting women in medicine, MomMD is the largest site of its kind, with over 11,000 active members in their +1m community of female medical professionals. Unique to MomMD, the site offers a variety of resources for females at all stages of their medical careers, whether they are still in medical school or physicians pursuing Continuing Medical Education (CME) courses to stay ahead of industry developments. The MomMD job board aggregates opportunities from recruitment and staffing firms, hospitals, private practices, and academic employers across the US.

6. Medzilla

Medzila may be one of the oldest entries on this list, having started in 1994 connecting biotech, pharmaceutical, medical and healthcare professionals to employers, but that doesn’t mean the site is a dinosaur. The job search function is free for job seekers, while employers who pay an annual fee can access My MedZilla, the site’s internal applicant tracking and resume management systems, which automatically scrape job postings from the company page and archive inactive resumes to promote top quality candidates without any additional work.

7. HealthJobsNationwide.com

With nearly 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry, HealthJobsNationwide.com bills itself as “the country’s largest healthcare talent acquisition job board network”. Claiming to have “over 1.5 million healthcare job listings from over 90,000 medical facilities”, the site’s job search database has multiple search filters based on location, specialty, company name, job type, and job setting. To foster relationships between medical professionals, the site also has Medical Mingle, a social platform with forums, support groups, and articles written by community members.

8. HospitalCareers

As the name suggests, this site partners with over 20 state Hospital Associations to quickly and efficiently place healthcare professionals in hospitals all across the US. Employers pay a flat annual fee and the site automatically scrapes all open positions from a company ATS, with no limit to the number of positions an employer can post. All applications are submitted through the site, which feeds the qualified candidates back into the company ATS. The HospitalCareers network is continually growing as new hospitals are added to their partner network.

9. CareerVitals

The CareerVitals job board has a clean and modern aesthetic, with a well-connected network of healthcare employers from all across the country. The site leverages the Indeed application form to provide a seamless and smooth application process for job seekers. To ensure that candidates are setting themselves up for success, CareerVitals offers a free, one-step resume critiquing service through their partnership with TopResume.

10. Health Career Center

Brought to you by the American hospital association, Health Career Center supports more than 3 million members from over 330 healthcare groups, including major industry players such as Sutter Health and LabCorp. Job seekers have access to the site’s all-in-one job search tool, as well as professional services like career coaching, webinars, and a career learning center to maximize their potential for success. Through a series of free videos, the site offers healthcare employers valuable insight into future industry challenges and developments like rural health environments, emerging roles in healthcare, and supporting physician leaders.

We recently published an updated version of this article with more great healthcare job boards for recruiters.

Finding top talent in the healthcare industry can be a daunting task. For many positions, the education requirements and average employment duration are both well above average. When searching for a highly skilled talent in lower turnover roles, you can never have enough candidates in your talent pool. SmartRecruiters’ customers have posted over a million jobs to hundreds of job boards using our online recruiting software. To find and hire healthcare professionals, we’ve taken stock of our partners, and when it comes to  job openings in healthcare, these are the six best job boards to make sure you snag the right person for the job:

Health Callings is the complete career resource for today’s healthcare professional.
Post a Job to Health Callings

Healthcare Job Site a place to manage your career, search for new opportunities and connect with top Healthcare employers and professionals.
Post a Job to Health Care Job Site

Sanagajob Healthcare Jobs. Do you like to help people? Do you look good in scrubs? The largest part-time and full-time hourly healthcare job resource.
Post a Job to Snagajob

Indeed is the #1 job site worldwide with over 140 million unique visitors each month. More people find healthcare jobs on Indeed than anywhere else.
Post a Job to Indeed

CareerBuilder helps match the right healthcare talent with the right opportunity more often than any other site.
Post a Job to CareerBuilder

Monster provides career advice, job-seeking tips and more. The global leader in connecting people to healthcare job opportunities.
Post a Job to Monster

To supplement your hiring efforts, also consider recruitment agencies with healthcare specific focus, such as HealthCare Job Solutions, or bigger agencies with respected healthcare recruitment departments, such as Kelly Services.

Similar articles: Writing my resume/bio/CV, A Guide to the Perfect Career Site, 50 Best Niche Job Boards.

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Marketing job boards! As far as job postings go there are larger job boards that promise a plethora of candidates and jobs from all industries and walks of life, but sometimes that is not what you need. There are many communities where marketers hang out.

SmartRecruiters found that 62% of open jobs are posted to niche job sites. Niche job boards are great to target candidate in a specific field.

(See the 10 Best Marketing Job Boards of 2017)

Here are the 10 Best Marketing Job Sites for the Best Marketing Jobs:

VentureBeat.com

Never miss a beat with this job board. VentureBeat Job Board is great for finding talent in tech marketing, advertising, product management, IT, and business development. VentureBeat allows the employer to cast a wide net into a deep talent pool.

Post a Job to VentureBeat

AdRants.com

AdRants is the go-to for marketing and advertising news, they also spend their time advertising jobs from your favorite advertising and marketing websites. Users can stay on the up and up of marketing and advertising trends while finding the best candidates possible.

Post a Job to AdRants

CrunchBoard

You may be seeing a theme here, advertise where advertiser’s eyes are. TechCrunch’s Job Board, CrunchBoard gives you access to millions of candidates all interested and savvy in business and technology. CrunchBoard provides marketing professionals that are technology and internet enthusiasts.

Post a Job to CrunchBoard

TalentZoo.com

Founded in 1996 as an executive search firm catering to the advertising industry, TalentZoo has continues to evolve its job board capabilities and is now regarded as one of the premier locations for talent in advertising, marketing, creative, design, new media and digital industries.

Post a Job to TalentZoo

Krop.com

Krop.com promises, “the brightest minds at the best companies.” This is the place to look if you are looking to fill creative marketing postions. Krop.com allows the employer to view candidate profiles to see if they will meet their company’s needs.

Post a Job to Krop

FlexJobs

FlexJobs is an award-winning job site for part-time or full-time flexible jobs, such as telecommuting or flextime, in 50+ categories, entry-level to executive. In some situations you will not need a full time marketing professional, or perhaps you’ll need a contract marketer. If your needs aren’t full time this is where to start your candidate search.

Post a Job to FlexJobs

Mashable.com

With an Alexa Rank of 327, your odds of finding a qualified candidate increase significantly. Mashable is a go to news source for Social Media, Tech, and more. The Mashable job board is great for finding bloggers, consultants, designers, developers, executives, marketers, and mobile programmers.

Post a Job to Mashable

RecruiterMedia.com

RecruiterMedia has 27 regional job boards to attract the highest quality candidates in your area. “RecruiterMedia believes in a holistic job seeking and recruiting approach.” In addition to job boards they offer recruitment search engine marketing and sourcing services.

Post a Job to RecruiterMedia

MediaBistro.com

Mediabistro.com has more to offer than just job postings, they also provide news, resources, community events, and courses for both employers and jobseekers. Look to MediaBistro for jobs in social media and traditional media professionals covering journalism, social media marketing, and much more.

Post a Job to MediaBistro

PaidContent.org

As a member of the GigaOM network, paidContent.org provides global coverage of business and digital content. PaidContent.org describes themselves as “the digital world’s most highly targeted recruitment center,” connecting the best digital media and marketing professionals to the best jobs.

Post a Job to PaidContent

The benefits of posting to a niche job board are clear, you narrow down your talent pool to a dedicated, unique and engaged audience. If you’re looking for marketing professionals give these ten job boards a try, and prepared to be wow’ed by talent.

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If you’re building a sales team, it probably means your company is in a good place. There’s a demand for your product and you need to hire people to meet it. So what is a good sales hire made of, and where do they come from? Let us shine a light on the path to great hires and killing quotas. 

Let’s start with where to post your open sales jobs to create large talent pools, so you can attract and make the best hire.

Top Sales Job Boards for Best Sales Jobs:

SalesGravy.com connects top sales professionals to sales talent, offering professionals over 30,000 pages of related content and opportunities for career advancement.

Craigslist is the 7th most viewed English speaking website worldwide and offer local job posting. No matter where you are, you’ll be able to find someone on Craigslist.

SalesHeads.com is a premier destination for finding sales professionals looking for career advancement, networking and more.

Mashable’s job board is great for finding your tech savvy breed of salespeople. Their job board covers just about every position an internet company needs.

Simply Hired: Maximize your exposure in front of an audience of over 30 million job seekers. Sponsored job ads receive premium placement in relevant search results.

Glassdoor.com is a jobs and career community that offers the world an inside look at jobs and companies, but also tons of great job opportunities.

CareerBuilder.com is the largest online career site in the United States with more than 23 million unique visitors, 1 million jobs and 32 million resumes.

Monster.com job advertisements reach an estimated audience of 23 million and are included on affiliate websites, including thousands of newspaper partner sites.

LinkedIn is the largest professional network where you can reach 120+ million people worldwide across all the major industries.

Indeed PRO sponsors your jobs on Indeed.com so they are highlighted and remain on top of search results driving more traffic. That means all eyes on your open job.

Now to defining and identifying the best qualities in a sales hire. Here’s a quick check list from “How to Hire A Sales Person” to help you identify the criteria you want:
1. No typos or grammatical errors on their resume.
2. Obtained a college degree (the actual degree did not matter).
3. Experience selling real-estate or autos.
4. Demonstrated success making quota and achieving success.
5. Able to perform under “vague instructions” (tested through assessment and interviews).
6. Excellent at multi-tasking and following up on tasks.
7. Ability to Build Relationships.
8. Strong Reasoning Skills.

Best of luck and happy hiring!

Also don’t forget to check out top job sites by niche, and as recommended by Alexa.

You need to make new hires, but with so much choice online, where is best to post your job openings and expect to find the right candidate? Niche job boards are one solution, that should allow you to attract top talent, and deliver quality candidates with experience or interest in your specific industry (updated Dec 2017). The best job search sites include not only niche job boards, but also niche communities and niche publications.  SmartRecruiters’ customers have posted over a million jobs using our online recruiting software. We’ve found that 62% of open jobs are posted to niche job sites.

The Best 50 Niche Job Sites in alphabetical order

To attract talent that is driven to work in your industry and be the best in their field, post your job openings to the appropriate niche job boards, niche job sites and publications. With SmartRecruiters free recruiting software, you can post job openings to all these sites in one click.
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Adrants

Advertising jobs from your favorite advertising website, Adrants.

AllRetailJobs.com

The #1 job board for the Retail Industry.

Artconnect

Find artists from anywhere in the world. Sort postings by city or discipline and be inspired by the boundless creativity.

Authentic Jobs

Where companies and creative professionals meet to make a better web.

Beyond.com

Beyond.com is the one career network as focused as you are!

ClearanceJobs

ClearanceJobs is the premier secure job board focused exclusively on candidates with active or current U.S. government security clearances.

CollegeRecruiter.com

Newest job posting ads from CollegeRecruiter.com, the leading job board for students searching for internships and recent grads looking for entry-level jobs.

coroflot

Design-driven companies worldwide use Coroflot to recruit outstanding creative talent.

CrunchBoard

CrunchBoard gives you access to the millions of technology and business savvy readers of TechCrunch, MobileCrunch, CrunchGear, TechCrunch IT and is one of the most popular job boards for internet and tech jobs.

Culintro

Culintro is a national restaurant organization. Members have access to the fastest growing culinary job board, culinary internships and networking opportunities.

Dice.com

Dice.com is all about celebrating tech and tech careers – advice, community and having some geeky fun.

DiversityJobs.com

DiversityJobs.com is a job search engine that finds job listings from company career pages, other job boards, newspapers and associations.

Doostang

A community of over 1 million elite professionals with inside access to thousands of jobs from top employers.

eFinancial Careers

eFinancialCareers is the leading global career site network for professionals working in the banking and finance industry.

energyfolks

Energyfolks is a growing network of energy interested students and professionals from across the world’s top universities.

FinancialJobBank

FinancialJobBank.com is the premier career site for job seekers and employers in the Accounting and Finance industry.

FlexJobs

FlexJobs is an award-winning job site for part-time or full-time flexible jobs, such as telecommuting or flextime, in 50+ categories, entry-level to executive.

Geebo

Nationwide free classifieds for housing, rentals, roommates, employment, jobs, vehicles, autos, sale.

Vercida

Vercida connects your company to a diverse array of candidates, and help employers create a work environment that’s equitable for all.

Healthcare Jobsite

HealthcareJobsite.com is the premier career site for job seekers and employers in the Healthcare industry.

HireFlyer

HireFlyer.com is the top job search website solution online.

IT Job Pro

#1 IT Job Site, ITJobPro.com is a HUB for IT Professionalism world-wide looking for employment in Information Technology.

Joblux

Luxury Brands and Retail Careers Network.

JobsInLogistics.com

The #1 Job Board for the Logistics Industry.

JobsInManufacturing

For all positions in plant management, production planning, materials management, engineering, maintenance, purchasing and logistics.

JobsInTrucks.com

The #1 Driver Job Board.

Juju

Juju.com is a job search engine, not a job board. Juju’s comprehensive search results link to thousands of employer career portals, recruiter websites, job boards, and other employment sites all over the Internet.

Krop

Creative & Tech jobs.

The Levo League

Levo League is a thriving online and offline community of young professionals, role models, and innovative companies taking Gen Y by storm.

Mashable

The Mashable job board is great for finding bloggers, consultants, designers, developers, executives, marketers, and mobile programmers.

mediabistro.com

Community, jobs, courses, news, and resources from mediabistro.com and beyond. Please note that featured jobs posted to this feed are #paid.

RecruiterMedia

Offers a smart alternative to universal employment websites with the only national, city-specific, job board on the planet!

Sales Gravy

SalesGravy.com connects top sales professionals with organizations looking for sales talent.

SalesHeads

SalesHeads.com is the premier career site for job seekers and employers in the Sales industry.

Simply Hired

We are a job search company whose goal is to make finding your next job a simple yet effective, enjoyable journey!

SnagaJob

The largest part-time and full-time hourly job resource. Check out their 4 Easy Steps to Recruiting Hourly Workers.

StackOverflowCareers

Careers 2.0 matches great programmers on Stack Overflow with great jobs.

Tech Careers

TechCareers.com is the premier career site for job seekers and employers in the IT and Engineering industries.

TechFetch

Tech jobs for top talent. Their vision is to create a global tech workforce community and empower them with opportunities to deliver global technology solutions.

TipTopJob

TipTopJob is the Generic Job Board that covers over 35 industries – search and apply for jobs online.

TweetMyJobs

Leading social and mobile job distribution network. We provide job seekers with great job matches where they want them, when they want them.

VentureBeat

The VentureBeat Job Board is great for finding people in IT, tech marketing and advertising, product management, and business development.

WayUp

Your source for the latest internship trends, tips, and access to great internship opportunities.

YouTern

YouTern connects emerging talent with dynamic start-ups, change oriented non-profits and passionate entrepreneurs – through internships!

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Many organizations discover that the best source for entry-level jobs are former interns, especially when resumes aren’t much use for evaluating new graduates.

If you have an effective internship program that emphasizes mentoring, your interns not only experience the values of your company, they have the chance to demonstrate their enthusiasm in helping you meet those aspirations.

So how do you find “the best” interns? These specialized job boards for interns can help you target just the right prospects. Each attracts some of the best students available so you can highlight your opportunities in ways that will not only promote your internship as a great experience, but attract students with plenty of talent potential.

Here are the 6 best job sites for recruiting interns

YouTern

YouTern has helped connect thousands of students to opportunities for education and mentorship, not only through its job postings, but also through its blog, The Savvy Intern.

Not only has the site been featured in major media such as Inc. magazine and The Wall Street Journal, it’s also been recognized by Forbes as one of “The Top 75 Websites for Your Career” and by Mashable as a “Top 5 Online Community for Starting Your Career.”

CollegeRecruiter

Over the last 20 years, CollegeRecruiter has helped Fortune 1,000 companies, federal government agencies, and many other employers meet their demand of hiring hundreds or even thousands of students and recent graduates every year.

The company offers job postings, of course, but also opportunities for targeted email, mobile banner ad, and display ad campaigns with attention to both quantity and quality of applications.

Internships.com

One of the world’s largest internship sites, Internships.com has been ranked by Forbes as one of its “Top 10 Career Websites.” Basic posts are free, and you can search the site’s database of student resumes.

The site also offers a wide range of resources to help you follow best practices for making your summer internship programs successful.

Internjobs.com

InternJobs.com features an extensive global database of internships and entry-level positions for students and recent graduates.

In addition, the site’s partner resources include SummerJobs.com (for summer employment opportunities) and OverseasJobs.com (for professional positions abroad), which can also help you source talent for your internship roles.

WayUp

Used by more than 3.5 million college students and recent graduates, WayUp includes jobs and internships from more 300,000 companies.

If diversity is one of your mandates, WayUp notes that its user base is 60 percent female and more than 30 percent “underrepresented minorities.”

LinkedIn

Although LinkedIn doesn’t specialize in internships, it can be a valuable resource because it combines not only job listings but an active social media presence.

Students looking for internships are certainly using the site and creating profiles you can review to get to know potential candidates in addition to posting your opportunities.

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Obviously campus career fairs and contact with professors at colleges and universities helps you build relationships to find talented young people, but when you look for other places to promote your opportunities, definitely consider these six sites!

SmartRecruiters’ Talent Acquisition Suite increases recruiter productivity by enabling you to distribute jobs to hundreds of job boards with just one click.

For companies hiring less than 10 people at a time, SmartStart is completely free.

Recruiters know that marketing job boards perform well because while larger more general sites get more traffic, it’s the niche sites where talented marketing candidates hang out with a sense of community — discussing their careers and experience.

So here are the 10 best marketing job boards:

10. CrunchBoard

If you’re looking to fill a marketing role in technology, CrunchBoard can give you lots of visibility. It’s the official board for TechCrunch, a leading resource for technology news with an audience of more than 12 million readers each month. That means your jobs will be visible on the entire TechCrunch network, which includes the website, email newsletters, and social media presence.

9. Krop

This board caters mostly to the communications side of marketing, specifically creative and account services talent at all levels of experience and with a wide selection of expertise in specific industries. Creative marketing and advertising professionals review jobs posted here – and are also offered the opportunity to post portfolios of their work that you can review.

8. FlexJobs

When marketing roles are temporary or freelance, consider FlexJobs — an award-winning site for finding part-time or full-time employees or contractors, as long as your role allows for some flexibility in schedule, telecommuting, etc. If you’re offering that kind of flexibility, here’s where you can find qualified marketing talent.

7. Mediabistro

When looking for media specialists, Mediabistro is the premier job site and career destination for the most talented professionals. They post jobs, of course, but also offer courses and advice to keep promising candidates returning to the site so they can better manage their careers.

6. Monster

Although it’s one of the largest, the aptly-named Monster site attracts plenty of qualified marketing candidates. In addition, the site operates in more than 40 countries and it offers a wide variety of tools to precisely target specific types of marketing talent across social media and other job sites.

5. Dice

Another site generally known for finding technology talent, Dice is an excellent source for marketing talent in the technology sector. The site offers career advice and salary surveys that attract more than 2 million visitors per month in both North America and Continental Europe.

4. LinkedIn

LinkedIn isn’t just a job board. It’s rapidly become the world’s largest professional network with more than 500 million users in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. If you’re looking for marketing talent, you can pinpoint highly specific roles, skills, and industry sectors.

3. Indeed

Indeed may indeed encompass more than marketing roles, but you can’t ignore the world’s number one job board that attracts 200 million unique visitors every month. Although the site includes free listings, Indeed says that sponsored listings attract 5 times more clicks.

2. Getting Hired

If you’re filling a marketing role and diversity represents one of your key mandates, consider posting a Getting Hired. This site is dedicated to meeting the needs of employers who value inclusion and diversity by connecting those employers to skilled professionals with various disabilities (as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act) through a site that’s easily accessible and also offers a variety of educational resources.

1. GlassDoor

When you’re looking for marketing talent, you can’t ignore GlassDoor. That’s because the site not only lists jobs, but allows candidates to research companies to find opportunities they might not otherwise find. The site is well known for helping employers not only fill roles, but also enhance their employer brand

If you’re looking for marketing professionals try these ten top job boards. You’re likely to be “wowed” by the quality of talent you find.

SmartRecruiters’ Talent Acquisition Suite increases recruiter productivity by enabling you to distribute jobs to hundreds of job boards with just one click.

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You know that neighborhood bar you always go to? Ever think stop to think why it’s your favorite? I’m going to guess it has everything to do with the bartender. A great bartender sweats the details, actively listens, and makes lots of friends. Interestingly enough, the same could be said for a great recruiter!

Are you just taking orders and pouring drinks? Or are you really getting to know people?

Recruiters and bartenders work in the “people business.” Both have to deal with lots of different personalities every day. Patience and flexibility are key.

The ability to cultivate relationships is what will make or break you. A great bartender greets you with a smile, engages you in a bit of friendly conversation, and makes you feel like you’ve been friends for years. When it comes to building repeat business, a great bartender has it going on!

With people increasingly changing jobs, you should be focusing on the relationship with your candidate, not just the resume. Develop your relationships over the phone, and also on social media. Put yourself out there and let people see your human side.

You may also want to change up your networking strategy. If you go to two networking events each month, ditch one and use the two hours you’ve saved to keep up with existing contacts. With fewer connections, you have more bandwidth for keeping relationships real.

All relationships are based on quid pro quo: doing something for someone who, in turn, does something for you. Treat your candidates and contacts with respect and do nice things for them whenever you can. Pour them a shot now and then, on the house. You will be the first one they turn to when they are ready to change jobs or are searching for a candidate.

Are you so busy washing glasses and changing the keg that you forget to ask your customers what they want?

Recruiting can be a hectic business and multitasking is important, but not at the expense of having a thorough understanding of what your candidates and hiring managers need. Coming up with a match is your bread and butter, so it’s really important to take the time to get to know what everyone wants.

Asking good questions seems like common sense, but so many recruiters don’t do it. Sometimes the question is as simple as, how much money are you looking for? And sometimes it’s more complex, like, what workplace culture suits your approach best? Either way, being able to ask the right questions at the right time is the key to success, both behind the bar and at your desk.

Are you garnishing the drink and putting a napkin down, or just slapping it on the bar?

Great recruiters don’t just put a candidate in front of a hiring manager and hope for the best. They take the time to ensure each candidate they send out is as appealing to the hiring manager as possible. They provide candidates with an interview itinerary that includes names, job titles and backgrounds of the decision makers they’ll be meeting with, along with a copy of the actual job description so they can easily reference it. Some recruiters even go so far as accompanying their candidates to the interview and making the introduction in person.

When you put in the extra effort to prep your candidates, they come across as more confident and capable, your clients are happier with the people you send, you close more deals and get more repeat business. You’re everyone’s favorite bartender, er, recruiter!

Major job boards such as Monster, Indeed and CareerBuilder are widely used by all types of companies today because they are effective at extending the reach of job postings to a broad audience. However, relying only on them might negatively impact your hiring. Even though they work well for high volume recruiting, such as filling store-level positions, things get trickier when you need candidates with specific skills.

We are not talking about only tech talent. Every industry struggles with hard-to-find, high-skilled talent, including logistics managers for retail, nurses for health care and designers for fashion.

However, if you are sourcing high-skilled talent only on major job boards, you will find yourself in one of these two painful situations:

• You may get a few high skilled candidates, buried among hundreds of non-relevant applications, making it almost impossible to find the gems.

OR

• The right talent simply doesn’t apply to your job posts. The opposite happens: your job post gets buried among thousands of irrelevant job postings, when high-skilled candidates are not willing to spend too much time browsing jobs.

So what should you do? You should incorporate niche job boards to your sourcing strategy!

Here’s how niche job boards can help you achieve hiring success in 3 different ways:

1. Remove the noise.

According to HCareers, it is likely that 95% of applicants won’t be qualified when you post only on major job boards. That’s too much noise in your applicant pool, and it is likely that you don’t have a dedicated team of statisticians willing to data-mine all your applications to find the right candidates. A targeted approach with niche job boards removes the likelihood of getting non-relevant applications and optimizes the use of your recruiting dollars.

2. Get more applicants with specific skills.

Besides removing the noise, you need also a higher number of qualified applicants. When you use niche boards you are targeting the right talent where they spend their time. And we are not talking only about tech talent: for instance, you can find hard-to-find fashion designers and style creators using fashion focused job boards such as FashionUnited.

3. Target people that are passionate and savvy about your industry.

High performing employees don’t stand out only for their skills, but also for their passion and engagement. Job boards focused on a specific industry or interest increase your odds of finding highly motivated candidates who are savvy about your industry. Taking the fashion industry as an example again, having employees that love fashion and are genuinely interested in the latest trends, you guarantee that your brand is always fresh and up-to-date. Boards like FashionUnited increase candidate engagement by offering multiple services to its visitors, such as industry news.

Want to know how to best hire fashion professionals?

SmartRecruiters has partnered with FashionUnited to empower customers to distribute jobs to FashionUnited’s job board with 1-click. Learn more and get started by accessing FashionUnited’s profile in the SmartRecruiters’ Marketplace today.

FashionUnited is an independent international B2B fashion platform. Globally active, the website reaches more than 1.6 million industry professionals per month. At FashionUnited, we strive for more fun and efficiency in fashion! That’s why we created a one-stop-shop platform where visitors can find the latest fashion news, a career center, an events calendar, an article archive, various trade statistics, employer branding pages and more.

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This article was written by Lena Steffen, Marketing Executive for FashionUnited. After arriving in Amsterdam over a year ago, Lena started working at FashionUnited as an intern, emphasizing on the French market. After 6 months of her internship, she was then hired as a full time employee and now works as a Marketing Executive for the fashion platform.

You’ve spent all this time crafting your job listings and it’s published live on the web. Congratulations. How do you begin promoting it? Driving traffic to your job listings begins with a strategy because, let’s face it, your job listings are not going to engage great candidates if no candidates can find it. You can’t have a party if you don’t send invitations. Here are 11 free and paid sources from 5 different acquisition channels to get you started.

Referral Traffic

1. Your own online properties. Do you have a your own career website? Finding great talent in your industry can be easy by sending your company or blog’s traffic to your job listings. A career website should have a mission statement, some rich media, and an up to date listing of your open jobs.

2. Social Bookmarking sites allow users to bookmark their favorite websites or pages that other people can publicly view and vote up or down. If you bookmark useful content other people will find it, share it, and vote it up so others can enjoy it. Oh yeah, and it only takes about 20 seconds to bookmark your site. One popular social bookmarking site is Reddit, and guess what, they have a section dedicated to job listings. Visit http://www.reddit.com/r/jobopenings/ to post your job now.

3. Free job boards like Indeed and SimplyHired, also known as job aggregators, are places to start driving free targeted traffic to your job listings. If done manually, it’s a bit more time consuming than social bookmarking, but it is well worth it. To save time you can try using a service to post a job to hundreds of job boards with one click.

4. Free Press Releases. You probably want to partner with your marketing team on this one. To get more exposure, you can write a press release announcing your new open position/s and submit to a free PR distribution site like PRlog.com. Press releases can trigger Google Alerts for people subscribing to your company or the open job position.

5. Forum/Community posting: Modern recruitment marketing campaigns require posting to relevant forums and communities. There are community forums setup online for virtually every niche, industry, or topic you can imagine. Some forums may even have board on solely to post open jobs. Try searching for “(Your Industry) forum” or (Your Industry) “powered by phpBB” or (Your Industry) “powered by vBulletin” on Google, don’t forget the quotes.

Organic Search Traffic

6. Search Engine Optimization. This may seem like an obvious one, and I’ve discussed this in the past, but it can’t be overlooked. Make sure your job listings are optimized for search engines. SEO optimized job posting requires page titles, heading, and META tags to ensure they target the keywords for your job opening you’re looking to rank highest for.

Social Media Traffic

7. Social Sharing. Start with Twitter and Facebook. On Twitter, tweet your job listings out with the hashtag relevant to the job opening, such as #sales to hire a salesperson or #tchat to hire a talent acquisition role. On Facebook you should post a job to your network of friends and create your own Facebook careers page to your company page.  Also make sure to add a “Like button” on your site to entice visitors to like your Facebook fan page. As you gain more likes, you’ll gain more candidates.

“Social broadcasting can be useful, it lets your entire audience know that your company is growing and hiring,” says SmartRecruiters Content Marketing Director David Smooke, “but the future of social media recruiting lies in targeted one to one communication from trusted source to prospective hire.” Learn More about Employee Referrals via Social Media.

Paid Traffic

8. Paid Search. Although Google Adwords and BingAds are typically utilized to entice consumers, PPC has a place in recruiting. Recruitment pay-per-click programs can be easily done using your job listings as landing pages. Assuming your job listings are optimized for organic search, your quality score for your job listings will be high and costs will be down.

9. Paid Social. TweetMyJobs is a great option to leverage paid search on Twitter, which is great for targeting people based on what they like to talk about. Another 3rd party service I recommend is Candarine, not only do they provide paid social traffic, but they also target the niche communities and forums mentioned above. Additionally, Advertising on Facebook brings you powerful location, demographic and interest targeting allowing you to reach the right hires.

10. Job Boards. Did you think I forgot about the most reliable way to drive traffic to your job listing? Heck no! Success is about picking the right job board. Here are the best job boards for tech, marketing, internships, healthcare, startups, and more specific niches.

Email Traffic

11. Email. Consider adding links to your job listings or careers site in your weekly/monthly newsletters. If you have customers who love your product, why not have them work for you? I’ve heard many cases where customers become employees. If you want to be more targeted campaign, you can send out an email to the relevant members of your talent community.

Using a few of of the sources I cited will get traffic flowing almost instantly. Outline a strategy, execute and do it all over again.

Happy Hiring!