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By Meg Guiseppi

Executive Job Search: Top 100 Niche Job Boards

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 The first discussion I have with potential clients centers around their target job and industry and what, if anything, they’ve been doing so far in their job search.

Many of these c-suite or senior executives tell me they’re working hard at keeping up with posting their resumes on job boards . . . but spending little or no time on efforts that will give them the best return on time invested:

  • They haven’t reached out to their networks. 
  •  They haven’t joined LinkedIn or don’t have a complete branded profile and/or haven’t gotten busy on LinkedIn.
  • They have little or no online presence to be visible to recruiters and hiring decision makers searching online for viable candidates. 
  •  They’re not spending time researching companies for market intelligence, due diligence, and to source top decision-makers.

Posting to job boards yields somewhere around a 5-10% success rate, at best. That figure is probably high for top-level executives. You can only imagine how many thousands of people are competing for those jobs!

I recommend that they do incorporate resume posting into their job search strategy, but to greatly limit those efforts, in favor of the tactics I listed above, and do it in a better way:

1. Post your resume directly on company websites.

Research companies of interest, check out their website career/job pages and respond to job listings, which may not be posted anywhere else.

Go to Job-Hunt.org for links to thousands of employers by state and Fortune 500 company career/jobs pages.

2. Look to the niche job boards instead of the big boards.

Go where the pack isn’t hanging out. See Eric Shannon’s Top 100 Job Site Niches – 2009 on Internetinc. com and also check out his very helpful methods and observations.

His list includes the top 3 or 4 niche job sites for each top employment category, but excludes:

  • job sites that lack top Google rankings.
  • sites with high Google rankings but low credibility, authenticity or integrity. 
  • sites which require registration or paid membership to be useful.

Here are just some of the categories he lists:

  • Environmental
  • Federal
  • Finance
  • Healthcare
  • Insurance
  • International & Overseas
  • Manufacturing
  • Marketing
  • Retail
  • Sales

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