Only kidding about the bored part. Monster.com and CareerBuilder were revolutionary 10 years ago, although how these job boards are used today is different from their initial use.

Some recruiters have discounted the effectiveness of the major job boards – much like other traditional methods that currently go unused. But you can’t create an effective sourcing strategy that provides solutions to a breadth of job types, categories, industries and geographies without the use of ALL of the best and diverse tools in your toolbox. And now more than ever, there are so many useful or relevant job boards available. Along with big job boards, if you are going to find great talent and develop a robust sourcing plan, you are going to have to also get micro. You are going to have to think small.

TRY THESE TACTICS AS WELL:

•Niche and industry job boards: If you want to find A-level talent and talent with technical skills, you need to be posting job listings on niche and industry-specific job boards. Talent that opts to use and plug into niche and industry-specific job boards already understands the riff raff and high-traffic problems the big job boards have. If you want to find talent that understands the value in standing out and being plugged into their industry, here are a few examples to get you started:
- Academia – www.higheredjobs.com

- Retail – www.allretailjobs.com

- Life Sciences – www.biospace.com

- Public Relations and Communications – www.prsa.org/jobcenter

- Military Veterans – www.vetjobs.com

•Micro global: If you need local talent in India, China, Russia, Brazil or France, you need to be using the most popular job boards in those countries. Take it a level deeper and find job boards specific to cities you need talent in or specific to industry sectors you need talent from, within that country.

•Search engines: If Google has taught us anything, it is to never underestimate the power of the search engine. Do you need to be posting jobs in jobsite search engines? Yes. Need an easy and effective method to drive traffic to your job listings? Check out the services offered by Jobs2Web, Indeed, Simply Hired and OptiJob.

When it comes to job boards, the more you winnow down the unqualified and irrelevant applicants, the easier your job will be and the easier it will be to find the best talent for the job. Have you visited some of the “big” job boards lately? Monster.com has many new enhancements and advanced hiring tools, like their career ad network that turns your job postings into online recruitment ads, as well many other great features. Monster has an estimated 20 million visitors each month. Any way you slice it, you’ll never know if you don’t explore and diversify your recruitment solutions.

This post is extracted of: Plugging Into Talent Will Fry Your Mind