What criteria should I use to judge job-posting sites?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

The amount of sites (both free and paid) offering to post job openings keeps growing. Free or paid is not a good criteria to judge quality by, as many paid sites just take jobs from other (free or paid) websites and aggregate them just to get better traffic from search engines.

When looking for a place to post a job opening, what criteria are most important in finding the best candidates? Are sites (like Stackoverflow Careers for programmers) directed toward the audience you want to fill the job more effective than aggregation sites (like Monster.com)? Is it better to advertise to a wider audience, or to focus on a single site to post all job openings? Does it depend on the type of position? What criteria should an employer use to judge the effectiveness of these postings?

Although, it can be a general question, but my focus is on teaching and education jobs!

manpreet 2 years ago

Are you tracking how your current applicants hear about the job openings to which they're applying? That information will tell you where people interested in your open positions have been going to find you, and it's a good place to start. Applicant Tracking Systems often record how the applicant found the opening and affix it to the candidate's profile as something like "Original Source".

If you have an urgent need and can't wait to build that data set, you might talk to a friendly recruiter from another company to see where they get the best results.