IT Recruitment strategies : 4 Niche Job Boards for Free Job Posting and Resume Search

IT recruitment has its own challanges as you need to fine highly qualified technical talent quickly. In order to be sucesful here you will need to deploy IT recruitment stategies that work. You just cannot depend on large job boards like Dice and Monster as thousands of recruiters and employers and sourcing and recruiting same talent base. So many times we spend precious time recruiting a top end talent from major job boards only to be informed that the candidate is already on employers databank or aready in their shortlist.

Why? because you are depending on the same resume sources. The biggest job boards are also the most common resume sources!

You will have to go beyond the major Job Boards to be sucessful and you will have to be creative in your IT recruitment strategy. The following websites allow you Free Job Posting and Resume Search to find IT talent. The following Job Boards allow you Free Job Posting and Resume Search both and can add to your recruiting efforts.

http://www.itjobcafe.com/

According to compete.com estimate ITJobCafe.com attracts 16,114 uniques visitors per month.This is one of the oldest FREE job sites for IT Recruitment. ITJobCafe.com is a specialized portal that focuses exclusively on IT professionals. Here you can post upto 100 jobs FREE alog with a basic resume search. I have been using IT Job Cafe with good results.

http://www.jobirn.com/

According to compete.com estimate http://www.jobirn.com/ attracts 38,985 unique visitors per month. Jobirn is referral network that connects applicants with employers. Jobirn makes connecting easy with features like Video conferencing and chat where you can chat directly with job applicants. The site also offrs job postig via email saving time for recruiters. The resumes search is basic but can get you a gem of a resume if you are doing a simple search.

These are 2 new Job Boards worth taking a look. They offer impressive features but since these are newly launched services; their resume banks are light at the moment. But worth giving a try as they are growing fast within the IT recruitment community and free job positing can get you good visibility on the internet.

http://www.talentspro.net/

Talentspro is one of the new services with impressive functionalities for information technology recruitment.The Job Board offers resume match functionality to shortlist resumes quickly. The site offers Good Search functionality where you can save & schedule your searches. The portal also offers branded company pages to list all your jobs.

http://www.bestmindz.com/

Bestminds is new job portal which allow you to manage your Jobs and Candidates on bench. The site also offer basic applicat tracking features to manage job applications and resume submissions. A feature worth looking at is the peer networking feature that help you to network with recruiters and resource vendors. The site also has a web chat feature that allows you to collaborate with Recruiters, Employers and Job Seekers.

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How to get your Jobs Listed on Job Aggegation websites

One of the most effective IT recruitment strategies is to get your jobs listed on Job Aggregation websites. They can provide excellent visibility for your jobs posts and thereby helping you to locate interested local talent that can make a difference to your recruiting efforts.

What are the Job Aggregation Websites?

The aggregation websites crawl job openings of leading companies, job boards and trusted feeds from leading recruitment agencies and present those in front of job seekers in searchable format. They are getting increasingly popular as they provide job seekers with choice. The job aggregation websites compile their job listings from thousands of sources. So the job seekers can view opportunities they would have missed if they were just depending on a single job board to find their next employment opportunity. Most of these job aggregation websites provide excellent search and sort tools and saves precious time and effort in job search as the job seekers can sort though the openings my location and skills quickly and easily. If you have a well written / interesting job post then it will attract attention of job seekers. This can make a huge difference in your recruiting efforts.

Some of the biggest and popular job aggregators on the internet are:

1. http://www.indeed.com/
2. http://www.simplyhired.com/
3. http://www.glassdoor.com/
4. http://www.careerjet.com/
5. http://www.jobrapido.com/
6. http://www.jooble.com/
7. http://www.juju.com/
8. http://www.oodle.com/
9. http://www.trovit.com/
10. http://www.linkup.com/

How to get your jobs listed?

As a recruiter it is becoming increasingly signifcant to get your jobs listed on these job aggregation websites to gain maximum exposure on the positions you are trying to fill. There are many advantages:

1. They present your jobs in front of thousants of internet job seekers whose resumes are not on Job Boards.
2. Gives good exposure to your openings on the internet and these jobs are crawled and direct accessible on leading search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing.
3. You can get them listed Free of cost.  No need for expensive jobs subscriptions to publish jobs.There are several free services that will allow you to get your jobs listed on job aggregation websites for Free.

• https://jobshouts.com/ : Jobshouts! also distributes job postings to Job Aggregators like Indeed, Simply Hired etc.
• http://www.postjobfree.com/ : An excellent free service that allows to to post free and also broadcasts the jobs to leading job aggregation websites such as Simply Hired, Indeed, Careerjet, Oodle Etc.
• http://www.jobzoom.com/ : A similar service like Postjobfree that allows to to post free and also broadcasts the jobs to leading job aggregation websites such as Indeed, Oodle Etc.

Also refer my Prevous articles on: Social Media Posting and Free Jobs Sites

Apart from these websites Free and Feature rich Applicant Tracking system like Smartrecruiters can help you to automatically post your jobs on Job Aggregation websites.

Read Prevous article on Smartrecruiters

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Bullhorn Reach & Jobshouts 2 Excellent Free Social Media Recruitment Tools

Following up on my earlier article on Social Media Recruitment I did a quick research on social media recruitment tools on the internet. There are excellent social media recruitment tools out there but most of them requires paid subscriptions. Out of those, 2 services (Jobshouts & Bullhorn Reach) stood out as they are Free and Very Effective in reaching hidden talent and referrals on your social networks.

Social media recruitment can be a very usefull tool for recruiters as these tools allow you to share your jobs with your connections on popular social networks quickly. But in order to be sucessful in social media recruitment space you need to build your social networks diligently. Larger the number of connections you have on the social media platforms like Linkedin, Facebook, Google + and Twitter, the better will be the results.

http://www.bullhornreach.com/

Bullhorh Reach is a excellent social recruting tool and allows 2 Free Job Posts. Once you sign up Bullhorn Reach linked ups with your social media accounts on LinkedIn, Facebook & Twitter allowing you to quicky share your jobs with your connections across social networks.

https://jobshouts.com/

JobShouts is a job distribution network and social recruiting search engine. JobShouts! is integrated with social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and LinkedIn. Allowing you to quickly publish your Jobs across your Social Media Accounts.

Apart from Social Media platforms, Jobshouts! also distributes job postings to Job Aggregators like Indeed, Simply Hired etc thereby allowing you a good presence on the traditation internet job advertisement space as well.

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4 Free Job Posting Sites for Recruiters

Where do I post my Jobs?

One of the biggest challenges any recruiter faces is how to reach out to qualified talent quickly. Everyday thousands of job applicants search the internet for their next employment opportunity. The most effective methods is to advertise jobs on the Internet.

The Challenge: Most of the job boards offer paid job advertisement slots and expensive. 

Remember most of the job seekers are not going to restrict their searches on major Job Boards Like Monster or Dice. They also search on popular search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo and increasingly on Job Aggregation websites like SimplyHired, Indeed, Oodle etc. This is where advertising on the internet comes in.

The following are few websites that allow you to advertise jobs  free and they produce results. They are crawled regularly by Google and some of then are directly liked with Job Aggregation websites. Your Job Post will quickly show up on Google, Bing etc and in turn in front of thousands of job seekers. A well drafted job advertisement will attract job applicants that can make a difference in your recruiting efforts.

http://www.jobvertise.com/

One of the oldest free services jobveetise adds 44,433 new jobs every week. Jobvertise's mission is to provide top tier recruiting and career tools at little or no cost. With over 200,000 employer accounts and over 1 MILLION resumes Jobvertise appeals to recruiters working for themselves and Fortune 500 corporations.

http://www.postjobfree.com/

An excellent free service that allows to to post free and also broadcasts the jobs to leading job syndicators such as Simplyhired, Indeed, Careerjet, Oodle Etc.

http://www.devbistro.com/

Devbistro offer FREE job posting (5 Jobs Per Month). Each month, the site attracts over 350,000 visitors (1.5 million pageviews) and growing! Employers using devbistro.com vary from Fortune 500 to startups located around the globe. These include global Technology leaders such as Google, Amazon.com, Microsoft, Dell, Yahoo, Oracle, Ebay, Electronic Arts, Accenture and many others.

http://www.jobzoom.com/

A similar service like Postjobfree that allows to to post free and also broadcasts the jobs to leading job syndicators such as Indeed, Oodle Etc.

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