Are you looking to hire for your team or business? With so much choice online it is not easy to know where to promote your job vacancies. There are many job boards online for recruiters and candidates to use. A niche job board is different from a generalist job board. They help you reach a specific type of candidate looking for a specific type of career opportunity. Posting a job on a niche website grows the pool of potential candidates you may find.
What Are Niche Job Boards?
A niche job board is focused on a specific industry, sector, location, skillset or other factors. As a result, job seekers who are looking for something specific, will be going on these websites for this reason. A job seeker looking for a specific accountancy role might go on a jobsite promoting finance and accounting roles. A job seeker looking for a job in London, might go on a jobsite for jobs only in London. A job seeker looking for a remote job might go searching for job boards that only promote jobs where you can work remotely and from home.
Parents & Careers is a jobsite for busy parents looking for work that suits their busy family life. This could be working for a business that offers family friendly policies such as parental leaves and extra holiday leave. Or it could be working for a business that offers flexibility around location (remote or home working) or the amount of hours (compressed hours, working around school hours).
Reach A Targeted, High-Quality Pool of Candidates
Promoting your job vacancy on a niche job board can be more efficient in terms of finding the right candidate that suits the role and the company culture. It also offers you the possibility of reaching candidates that you would otherwise not find on a large, generalist platform. Not all job seekers like to use big platforms such as Indeed and Linkedin. By using a niche job board you increase your chances of finding great talent that you would otherwise not find on larger, general platforms. It is cost efficient and the hiring process will be faster. The applications and CVs you receive will be higher quality. The candidates who apply will have the right qualifications for the role, so you don’t have to sift through hundreds of irrelevant resumes.
Niche job boards tend to offer a more tailored, personalised service, where they promote your job vacancy in various channels such as social media or newsletters. They may email your job vacancy to a subset of candidates that they know are looking for a specific type of role. Niche job boards can sometimes have an offering that is a hybrid between a recruitment firm and a job board. If you are a small business not keen on spending a lot of money on recruitment fees with a traditional recruitment firm, posting a job vacancy with a niche job board is ideal.
Parents & Careers will post your job vacancy on our live job board but also email the job opportunity to our candidates who are relevant for the role. We have an extensive database of high quality candidates that we will reach out to. We can also share it on social media and other channels that are appropriate. With the focused, tailored approach, employers can be certain that applicants are genuine and possess the right qualifications.