Job board definition and lexicon
What are job boards ?
A job board – also called job site, job portal, job website or employment website – is a website that deals specifically with employment or careers.
A job board enables employers to publish job offers for a position to be filled. For their search, jobseekers navigate through different websites in order to find a job.
What are the different types of job boards?
We have distinguished 4 types of job portals (generalists, specialists, news and classifieds and employment offices).
A generalist job board is a job site that is not sector or position oriented, i.e. all kinds of positions or sectors are represented.
- HeadHunter (hh.ru)
- Naukri
- Career Builder
- Seek.com.au
- Pracuj Poland
Few examples of generalist job boards :
On the other hand a specialist job board is a job portal focusing on one type of sector or position e.g. a job board specialized in the environment sector or a job board only for sales people.
- Upwork: specialist freelance jobboard
- Letudiant : specialist graduates and students jobboard
- FreshersWorld : specialist graduates and students jobboard
- NRMjobs : specialist in Agriculture, education and energy
- Computer Jobs Ireland : IT / engineering specialist jobboard
Few examples of specialist job boards :
A news and classifieds website, as its name suggests, displays news and/or classifieds and has an employment section. Nowadays all the local and national newspapers and classifieds websites have a job section.
- Meinestadt Germany jobboard
- TheGuardianJobs UK jobboard
- Kariéra Zoznam Slovakia jobboard
- Jófogás Hungary
- Finn.no in English
Few examples of news and classifieds websites :
An employment office or employment agency is a national organization that displays job offers and matches employers with employees. In countries they are public and in some others they are private.
- Work In Denmark jobboard
- USA Jobs
- Arbeitsagentur
Few examples of employment offices :
What are the different ranges of job boards?
There are 3 types of ranges for job boards. A job board can be:
- Local, meaning the job board only covers a region within a country e.g. only the New York State in the USA.
- National, which means the job board operates at a national scale.
- Multi-countries, meaning it covers several countries, e.g. a job board operating in the whole of Europe.
What is an aggregator?
An aggregator or a metasearch engine is a website that aggregates job offers from multiple sources such as job boards, employers’ career websites, online classifieds and associations’ websites.
- Indeed USA jobboard
- Neuvoo Italy
- OpcionEmpleo Spain jobboard
- Indeed Malaysia Jobboard
- Trovit Singapore jobboard
Few examples of aggregators of jobs :
What is an employer review website?
An employer review website is a website where current and past employees from a specific company write reviews about their experience within the company. They can give a grade and also post comments. Glassdoor USA is one of the most famous employer review websites.