what niche job boards do you use to find job openings?

by Alison Green on April 17, 2025

It’s the Thursday “ask the readers” question. Today we have two letters, one question. The first:

I’m a fed in a (relatively) safe job in a (relatively) safe agency, and while I’m hoping to stay, I am keeping an eye out for other opportunities. But as someone who went straight from academia to the federal government, I realized I don’t know where to look beyond places like LinkedIn or Indeed. I’m sure many job categories have their own niche places to look for job announcements, but how do you find out about them? Maybe people who are looking could say their desired job category in the comments and others could give tips on where to look? For instance, I’m looking at data science, with a focus on data governance.

And the second:

Several years ago — in May of 2017 — you had a post where you asked your readers to share their favorite niche job boards in their various fields. Since the world has evolved a bit in the years since then, would you consider doing an update to that post and seeing what readers are recommending in various fields at this point?

Yes, let’s do it again! What niche job boards do you use and recommend that are specific to your field? (For example, you might recommend I Need a Library Job, if you’re in libraries, or TraverseJobs for political jobs in D.C., and so forth.) Please share in the comments.

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  2. Will*

    It’s very niche, but I love goinhouse.com for, well, in-house counsel jobs. (Like I said, niche.)

    (Which, it seems, is what CM said when they recommended it 8 years ago.)

    1. WithAnAxe*

      Do you have to subscribe to them to use? I just tried to peruse and got subscription-walled.

      1. Will "scifantasy" Frank*

        I think they toss a couple of “sign up here to get job alerts to your inbox” screens at you but I never had to pay money or anything.

        (Yes, it’s me.)

    2. CTT*

      I love when their emails come because sometimes there’s an extremely fancy and/or notorious company with a listing and I get a kick reading how they describe the company and the work (the GOOP one was so good).

      1. cori*

        I found my current job on The Mom Project. It started as a job board for moms seeking flexible work that wouldn’t penalize them for resume gaps & has transformed into an organization matching employees with jobs that have general flexibility & respect for work life balance (I don’t have kids but had a year long employment gap due to chronic illness). I took that 5 hour per week contract job & turned it into 20 hour a week employment, fully remote, and could be full time if I wanted that.

        1. I keep computers from breaking*

          Conferences can have a lot of jobs listed, because people from those fields post the open jobs from their team/company, and some conferences keep the conference Slack open year round. Two I know/have used:
          For privacy engineering, basically the only conference is PEPR
          SREcon for site reliability engineering and related fields

  3. Hazel*

    I use Idealist for nonprofit jobs. The filtering system isn’t great, but tons of organizations all over the world use it.

    1. Smithy*

      Within the nonprofit space – the job boards at the Council on Foundations and Peak Grantmaking are very often within operating nonprofits as well as jobs with donors, community foundations, etc.

      1. Ama*

        Highly recommend Peak Grantmaking if you are interested in the “running a grant funding program” type of job and not the “grant writing and applying to grants” type of job. That can be harder to filter out on a general nonprofit job board.

    2. Abby*

      In the UK, CharityJobs is great for this. As is w4mp.org, which is billed as “Work for an MP”, but has loads of government-adjacent roles like comms and policy in all kinds of charities and lobbying organisations (as well as, apparently, the Royal Household, which currently has a listing up!).

      1. LK*

        In Canada, CharityVillage is a source for nonprofit jobs. (Disclaimer that I haven’t used it personally since I haven’t job searched in a while, but I know my org posts jobs to it.)

    3. PenguinWrangler*

      Seeing a lot of love for Idealist, I’ll have to try that next time.

      Non profit talent dot com has been my go-to in my region, they do seem to have a national presence and post a broad range of roles though.

      1. LCKM*

        Back in the day for Spanish speaking nonprofit jobs from Latin American orgs, Idealistas.org was also super useful! I think they’re one company now but I interned for idealistas back in the day and it was great

  4. MarfisaTheLibrarian*

    As a librarian, I’ve use the ALA job board, the ACRL job list for my state (I’m in college libraries), and the job board of a local/regional organization (metro dot org, for those looking for library jobs in the new york metropolitan area).

    Some public library jobs will be listed on Civil Service job lists as well.

    1. Kindly Egg*

      The State Library in my state also has a job board for library jobs throughout the state, would recommend folks looking for library jobs check out their state library website too.

      (This is with the caveat that this was all in the Before Times – they just laid off a third of their staff bc of lost grant money, so we’ll see how that shakes out…)

    2. Library Girl*

      New Jersey library jobs are often posted through LibraryLinkNJ and updated I believe once a week (they sent out a robust list this morning!). They also have the NJLA job board, and I would imagine other states have job boards through their state library associations.

    3. Transbrarian*

      Your state library association will also have a job board, and in my experience, smaller public libraries ONLY post their jobs locally and on the state board.

      1. Librarian of Things*

        We definitely go for the state board first and only post to ALA if we’re not getting applications. https://floridalibraryjobs.org is free, after all, and ALA is not. Plus, we can’t afford to pay relocation costs, so national exposure only helps so far.

    6. Fleur-de-Lis*

      Some academic library jobs also post to specific membership organizations’ listservs. For leadership roles (dean/director/associate dean), they can show up on executive recruitment sites. I’m in California, and more and more dean-level gigs are appearing on websites for companies like Academic Search, Storbeck Search, and so on. I had a great experience with the recruiting team at Academic Search in two separate dean-level processes, though I applied for and landed my current position through seeing the posting in a listserv specific to current community college librarians. I spent a lot of time looking at job boards for specific institutions that were in the area where I wanted to work, focusing on places where I knew there was some turnover.
      Word-of-mouth is so critical in our field. Try to get into conferences and mentorship programs if you’re looking to break in, especially if you are trying to move from one area of the country to another, or from one specialization to another. I made the leap from public to academic and found the right place for me, though I miss my public library peeps so much!

    8. Holly*

      If you’re a cataloger / looking for cataloging & cataloging-adjacent work, highly recommend getting on the AUTOCAT listserv!

      1. FrozenInfoPerson*

        There’s also the Troublesome Catalogers and Magical Metadata Fairies group on Facebook. It’ll have job postings sometimes too.

    9. ella*

      Libraryjobline dot org is also great for library jobs, particularly in Colorado and the immediate area. It’s run by the Colorado State Library. (They do have job listings for other states, but I’m not sure whether the listings they have are all the positions that are actually available.)

      Generally speaking, public library jobs will get posted to city/county/state job boards (depending on how your local library districts are organized), which get updated regularly.

  5. Architect anagram*

    Archinect.com is the go-to for jobs in the Architecture field – and occasionally there are postings for related marketing/admin support as well

    1. Babbalou*

      Husband and I are both retired architects – and the AIA in our state has a job bank on their website. I justed confirmed that it’s still there. I’m in Minnesota, and the site here is aia-mn.org.

      1. PenguinWrangler*

        Cosign. In my region the local AIA chapter charges firms to post to the job board, and the job board is visible to anyone even if you don’t have a membership. So it’s a decent resource and it filters out all the things that aren’t actually architecture (“software architect”), but it does privilege larger firms, and firms that are more supportive of the AIA.

      2. VT Architecture Firms Postings*

        VT’s site is: aiavt.org/resources/jobs/
        Posting for members is free, for both employment opportunities and seeking employment. You don’t have to be a member to see the postings. And architecture firms post admin jobs there as well, so it’s not just for architects.

    2. Data Nerd*

      I’m a land use and community planner (Mark Brendanawitz on Parks and Rec, for reference, except better hygiene). I look frequently on the American Planning Association website (planning.org) and the state chapter pages. My department posts stuff on the state page, which is free, and ignores the national page, but if you’re looking to relocate, the chapter pages are all easy to access from the national site. I also like the job boards on the New York Planning Federation page (nypf.org) and Planetizen (planetizen.com). My main hat is demography and there are fewer public jobs available for that outside of the Census Bureau, but there are specialty-specific job boards and organizations for environmental planners, transportation planners, housing specialists, etc.

    3. Jenn*

      The Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) has a great job board for the marketing/BD roles in AEC firms; I’ve found most of my jobs that way. It’s more effective to search on the local chapter sites, but every firm wants someone with AEC experience so they go straight to the source.

  6. tiredfundraisergal*

    NPO.net and Idealist for nonprofit jobs broadly, but I’ve had great success using them for fundraising jobs specifically. WorkforGood is useful if you’re looking for mostly in-person fundraising jobs in the US South.

    2. online millenial*

      I was coming here to recommend that! Great resource for anything higher-ed related, with a pretty solid alert email system as well.

    4. ProfessorTeapots*

      It’s also super-important for teaching positions in higher ed to get on the relevant national society e-mail list (it’s still being done old-school in a lot of disciplines – the smaller colleges or departments in particular don’t always make it onto the wider sites like Higher Ed Jobs).

    5. Hermione*

      Yes. For those looking for jobs in collegiate registrar, enrollment, or admissions, AACRAO dot org also has job listings nationally that I’ve found useful.

    6. BadMitten*

      Yes, I use that often and my school posts there.

      Also your discipline probably has it’s own job board—for political science it’s APSA ejobs (but you need to be a member).

    8. Jam*

      For international education (e.g. study abroad), not a job board but Sara Dart posts a weekly round up of jobs on her LinkedIn page. For study abroad jobs in Europe, EUASA doesn’t operate a board itself but I think each national association (e.g. AASAP in the UK) has a job board on its website, and you would find all the members on EUSA’s website.

  8. Massive Dynamic*

    Wine industry – all facets: winejobs.com. Mainly CA, Napa/Sonoma based but I’ve seen many other wine regions featured there including WA, OR, NY, TX, VA. Covers production, hospitality, admin, finance, sales, etc.

    1. Wyndie*

      For medical coders I often recommend joining Facebook groups for the specialties they code. JFAMC (Jobs for American Medical Coders) is a popular one but specialty coding groups also allow job posts, also check with your local AAPC chapter and the main AAPC Facebook group. Niche options for a niche field!

      More broadly – when I’m job searching I also keep a list of companies I’d be interested in working for and will check their website or LinkedIn pages regularly for opportunities. All of the jobs I’ve accepted were found through that process.

        1. KB*

          Given the stress of working in medical fields, they probably appreciate a drink or two, so maybe not that far removed after all!

  10. Bumblebee*

    higheredjobs.com for Higher Education. Many universities pay for them to automatically sweep the job listings and post them. I think there will be many transferable skills from federal work, although we are not immune to politics (ha! of course you all know this!).

  11. WantonSeedStitch*

    Apra job board for prospect development, or NEDRA for New England-specific prospect development (though organizations from outside NE sometimes advertise there as well).

  12. Archivist*

    archivesgig.com for browsing archive jobs in the US. For the UK, it’s a good old fashioned jiscmail listserv called Archives-NRA. That is where all archive roles tend to be posted.

    1. ArchivesPony*

      ArchivesGig isn’t just the US (though a lot of jobs are on there for the US) though. She just doesn’t get as many international jobs.

      1. MCL*

        Archives Gig show runner here! I will post international positions if they’re sent to me. I used to curate those more actively but due to time constraints I focus on US based roles.

        1. stinky film defender*

          I love your site! I recommend it to all my interns, and I certainly took advantage of it during my early years.

        2. SarahBee*

          Oh my goodness, your site SAVED me during Covid. Thank you thank you thank you! I also recommend it to anyone looking for an archives job!

        3. i heart AG*

          adding +2 here, found a gig for myself during covid era and my husband found his gig a year later!

  14. Lunchtime Doubly So*

    American Statistical Association has a job board (Career Connect) that is good for stats-related jobs including data scientists.

  16. Bluenyx*

    techjobsforgood is what it says on the tin. (I would love to hear about similar boards in the same vein from others.) Stackoverflow’s job board is decent for general software engineer roles too.

  17. Beyond the sea*

    Not necessarily a site. But Facebook has a local “Woman’s Networking Group of XXX city”. I got a job from there once! Lots of support too. There are also several other networking groups too for everyone. Just search networking group in XXX city. There is also a Facebook group call WFH Baddies. Some of the jobs on there can be very entry level based, so keep that in mind. But it is generally a good group, with supportive people.

  18. Just a Pile of Oranges*

    Not exactly a specific website, but if you’re a person with some kind of certification, I find that the certifying groups often have job boards. For instance, the place where I tested to get my safety letters has a safety job board.

  19. Zee*

    Non-profit sector:
    – Idealist
    – National Council of Nonprofits
    – Chronicle of Philanthropy
    – Association of Fundraising Professionals
    – American Alliance of Museums

    I specifically do fundraising/communications, but most of these boards (especially Idealist) have a broader focus.

    1. PenguinWrangler*

      Adding: NonProfitTalent dot com. I work in real estate development and got my last 2 jobs off that site, but they do seem to have a broad focus including fund development.

      1. HigherEd Expat*

        Ayjay this is what I came here to say – my area is cool enough to have a city/county nonprofit wrangling organization with a job board, but a quick google brings me to things like coloradononprofits dot org or oano dot org – Ohio Association of Nonprofit Organizations.

    3. Grunge Elder*

      I will underline Association for Fundraising Professionals – they have chapters throughout the country and my chapter has updated job listings every day

    2. Red*

      My tactic for finding manufacturing jobs has always been go to the local temp agency job boards, copy the job description for a job I like, paste it into google for my area, and see what’s returned. I find that manufacturing companies like to post with the temp agencies and then also on their own website or other job boards where their name isn’t hidden. Then I just apply direct to the company once I know who they are.

      1. Rando*

        Thanks for the info! I’ve been at my company for over 15 years. They got bought a few years ago and there are definitely some ups and downs, so I want to update my job hunting skills. I got this job off Monster, but I know things have changed.

    3. Jo in OKC*

      The company I work for posts all our jobs on CareerBuilder. It’s also linked from our website.

      We’re a global manufacturer with plants in 6 US states.

    4. EngineeringFun*

      In Boston area indeed has them. Unfortunately a lot of manufacturing companies have been laying people off as of late. My company is trying to pick them up…..

  21. Strange the Librarian*

    HireCulture for Arts & Culture-focused jobs in MA (it’s affiliated with the Mass Cultural Council)
    MBLC for library jobs in MA (and to a lesser extent New England)

    1. Solidarity Forever*

      Love HireCulture, especially since (generally) postings must include the salary range.

    1. Strict Extension*

      There’s also a segment at Publishers Weekly, the PW Job Zone, that lists both publishing and related industries.

  23. Long time fed*

    Anyone have any recommendations for a pharmacy job search? Specifically clinical pharmacy (geriatrics, MTM, long term care chart reviews, etc.) rather that the typical retail world

    1. Techie Boss*

      I have looked at jobs in a lot of healthcare settings, and big health systems like Ascension, Kaiser, HCA Healthcare often have in-house pharmacists or jobs that require that license. Not sure if that’s what you’re looking for, specifically, but maybe could spark an idea

  24. Retired State Worker*

    For those looking to remain in a governmental role but not with the feds, your state very likely has a job site that can be a good resource. In my state, the job site (which is Wisc.Jobs) lists not only state agency positions but also city and county jobs, and it allows filtering based on the type of job (e.g. finance, policy, trades, etc.) and on the type of position (permanent, project, LTE).

    1. Charlotte Lucas*

      Seconding this. Our state also hires contractors, and I found my contract role on Indeed before applying for a state position.

    4. Left Turn at Albuquerque*

      And for local government jobs, look for the state’s municipal and/or county association/league website. Not all of them do, but many have good job boards.

    5. Ms. Municipal*

      Chiming in with some more non-federal government and public sector sites –

      ICMA (International City/County Managers Association) has a robust Job Board that is free to all, and some great filters around seniority/compensation/location. Municipal governments, municipal airports, regional utilities, and more all post there.

      A number of states also have ICMA partner orgs with job boards. I can tell you that for Maryland and parts of Virginia, jobs get posted more to the Maryland Municipal League board than to the MCCMA board.

      SGR/Government Resource is a firm that handles a number of high level recruitments for municipalities.

      Baker Tilly has a Public Sector Executive Recruitment arm that has a public job board.

      Prothman is another recruitment firm in the public sector with a public job board.

      Raftelis is another consulting and recruitment firm with a public job board. I’ve had several colleagues use this firm on the hiring side.

  25. AVP*

    Mandy.com has been the stalwart for jobs in film and entertainment, and focuses on more long-term and staff jobs. StaffMeUp is better for short-term contract jobs on film crews.

    I’ve never had good luck with communications job boards, very curious to see if there’s something out there that I’ve missed.

    1. Anon 4 this*

      Are there any good places to look for work as an extra? I’m in Toronto and I know there’s a LOT of filming that goes on around here. But when I’ve searched I’ve only found things like modeling agencies. The 90s kid in me is VERY leery of those… too many trashy teen novels about people with Bad Intentions… and I’m no model.

      1. AVP*

        ooh, good question! In the US this would mostly go through the acting union, SAG, for big movies and tv shows. For non-union (or union-eligible but non-essential) it’s a mixed bag of BackStage and Central Casting for real stuff, and CraigsList for less official casting calls. I’d google all of them to see which are active in Toronto, I’m not sure how it works for Canada but those brands are big enough that I bet they have some presence.

        1. Coffee Snob*

          Extras in movies ..
          if you go to imdb and look at
          crew — casting directors– local casting .. then google that person or company.

          It’s Canadian Equity in Canada, right? I don’t know if extras are unionized or not.
          Does Canada have a Backstage?

    2. LarryforPM*

      You have to pay for Mandy if you want to apply via the site, and/or see the name of the employer. It’s gone downhill for theatre jobs since they took over StageJobsPro, and in the UK side has a lot of low pay/no pay.
      For backstage jobs (UK) I use ArtsJobs, The Stage, the Stage Management Association (members- only jobs board), and the Backstage Theatre Jobs FB group.

    3. K8inHR*

      Mandy and Staffmeup are great for on set roles but if you want an office job in entertainment, your best bet is Entertainmentcareers.net

    3. fat scientist*

      Science, Nature, and Cell all have job boards which could all have relevant postings. If you’re interested in an academic lab, I would just look at the job boards of whatever university you’d like to work at instead of a field specific board.

  27. Pink Flamingo*

    Biotech person here! R&D, to be specific.

    – BioSpace

    – WorkInBiotech for positions at smaller start-ups/biotechs

    – Don’t bother with Indeed; it’s all outdated, or spam, or phishing

    1. Golden*

      Hi fellow biotech person!

      This isn’t a job board, but I’ve looked at BioPharmGuy for his lists of companies sorted by region, and then look on the careers page of individual companies. I’ve never used it to find a job for myself, but find it particularly insightful for people not located in Boston or the Bay Area and want to know what opportunities might be local to them.

  29. SequinPantaloons*

    national council of university research administrators (NCURA) for research administration jobs.

    1. Seamyst*

      Seconded! Also SRAI, Society for Research Administrators International, although I think you have to be a paid member.

      The research administrators’ listserv, RESADM, is free to join and use and has loads of job postings.

  30. KTbrd*

    Super niche, but the Minnesota Book Publishers Roundtable has a job board.

    When I was first starting in publishing I also used bookjobs.com, but I found that the net was too wide for me (this was pre-remote-as-norm days). I ended up looking for publishers in the area where I wanted to move and just bookmarking all their hiring pages. Many will post openings on social media as well.

    1. Wednesday*

      They must be effective because I recruit for a school district on the east coast of the US and I’m amazed how many people have Alaskan teaching experience on their resumes.

        1. AF Vet*

          It takes a certain level of crazy to like living there. :) I’ve found it’s a very LOVE it or LOATHE it place. There’s not a lot of in between.

        2. BlueberryGirl*

          Retention is a huge issue in Alaska with teaching gigs. (Partly because of some really really rural places and partly due to pay and benefits issues.)

        3. Sam I Am*

          I think many of the postings are quite rural and isolated, and can be very unsafe for women living alone.

          1. AnonyNurse*

            Please don’t. Rural, isolated, challenging weather to say the least. But keep the racist stigmatization out of it.

            Source: lived and worked in northwest Alaska doing village travel

    1. LadyVet*

      I’ve found (and been found) a few times on there.

      I volunteer for a veteran-focused career service, because when I was a client I realized they just didn’t have a lot of volunteers with media experience (even though every branch of the military has media jobs), and send a lot of veterans to Journalism Jobs and Media Bistro.

      And here, of course.

  37. werewolf*

    For graphic design, I am signed up to the AIGA job newsletter. You can also use the job board itself, but you need to be an AIGA member to apply through the board — I’m not currently a member because it doesn’t add value for me at this time, but with the email newsletter I can often go directly to company’s websites and find the same job listing.

  38. Human Embodiment of the 100 Emoji*

    The listserv MuseWeekly through the University of Delaware is one of the best job boards for museum jobs.

    Shovelbums.org for mostly entry-level but sometimes higher-level archaeology jobs (there was a rumor the site was shutting down a few years ago, but it looks like jobs are still being posted?).

    1. Disaster Magnet*

      Shovelbums is still going strong – they moved to billing employers to post the positions so were able to keep things going. It is also a niche place for architectural historians and occasionally GIS positions as well though it is overwhelmingly archaeology postings.

  40. Touchofthe'Tism*

    jobsthatareleft/gainpower for progressive political jobs, or the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits job board

  41. KB*

    archivesgig.com for archivists and other information/heritage professionals, also the National Council on Public History job board, American Alliance of Museums job board, and American Library Association job board

  42. Boy Crazy Stacey*

    Entertainment Industry – entertainment careers.net, staffmeup.com, tracking-board.com, The Anonymous Production Assistant substack
    Sports – teamworkonline
    Startups (tech/finance/ai) – Nextplay substack newsletter
    Climate space – greenjobsboard.us

    2. MommaCat*

      More entertainment jobs: playbill dot com is good for general theatrical jobs around the US, mostly technical theatrical jobs.

  44. Former Public Media Weirdo*

    The Current for jobs in public media – I don’t know that the entry-level stuff gets posted here, but it’s a good place to find anything slightly higher up in the hierarchy

    https://jobs.current.org/

    1. Former Public Media Weirdo*

      (This includes journalism jobs, too – a lot of stations post reporting positions on the Current.)

      1. "Current" Public Media Weirdo (and punster)*

        It’s been mentioned elsewhere in different contexts, but most public radio stations post their jobs at http://www.higheredjobs.com as well, since so many of them are based at colleges and the station employees are college employees, too. But even stations that AREN’T at colleges can and should post on higheredjobs – that’s where a lot of searchers are.

  45. Hello Sunshine*

    US Government (state/local focus)
    Public Sector Job Board: publicsectorjobboard.substack.com
    Browse the GovTech100 list to find companies that look interesting http://www.govtech.com/100
    Volunteer opps: Alliance of Civic Technologists; US Digital Service

    Climate: workonclimate.org

    Tech for Good: alltechishuman.org

    1. Slightly Less Evil Bunny*

      Pretty sure that US Digital Service got DOGE’ified in the past couple of months. I remember seeing something about staff members resigning in protest of all the DOGE stuff.

    2. Keyboard Jockey*

      I believe Hello Sunshine meant US Digital Response (USDR and USDS get confused a lot).

  46. zebydeb*

    These are all UK-specific:
    jobs.thebookseller.com for the publishing industry
    le.ac.uk/museum-studies/jobs for museums and heritage jobs and volunteering
    civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk is, obviously, for the civil service
    (apologies if this double posts)

  48. Tiggy Skibbles*

    SUPER niche, but if anyone works in higher ed with Technolutions’ Slate product, their job board on the Ask The Community help site is top notch.

  49. Ama*

    If you are interested in working in the craft industry (as in sewing, knitting, etc.), the Craft Industry Alliance has a weekly newsletter where they will share jobs. The newsletter is free to subscribe to (and very informative if you’re at all interested in the craft industry — they had some great stuff around the Joann’s bankruptcy), I believe the job listings on their own site you have to be an Alliance member to read but most of the listings in the newsletter link to external employers.

    Jobs are pretty varied because it is industry and not job specific — I’d say it’s mostly social media/sales rep jobs but I’ve seen just about everything, including tech jobs.

    1. Strict Extension*

      ARTSEARCH, which is part of Theatre Communications Group

      The Job Board at National Guild for Community Arts Education

      Backstage

    3. OrangeCup*

      There are also art headhunters:

      sophiemacpherson.com
      murkandco.com

      and the MuseumPros subreddit has a large list of jobs board that are location specific to US regions

      1. GLAMGal*

        x2 to the MuseumPros subreddit!! I got my current role (which was a move I wanted and a 15% salary increase) off of one of the smaller museum job boards listed on there, which I would’ve never known about prior to that subreddit

  52. I'm just here for the cats!!*

    For higher ed (not just faculty but other professionals I think my university uses insider higher ed

  54. The Other Evil HR Lady*

    SHRM for HR jobs (although, personally, I’ve always *been found* by recruiters).

    SER.org (Society for Ecological Restoration) has its own job board, if you’re an environmental scientist or biologist. Disney and Universal sometimes post their jobs there.

    FANN.org (Florida Association of Native Nurseries) if you’re in Florida – or would like to move here – and have a degree in agriculture or love growing plants.

    AmeriCorpsAlums.org for anyone who served. My company found several ecologists through their job boards.

      2. Selway*

        I second TAMU, Ecolog, and Conservation Job Board! I’ve gotten ecology positions from all of those sites. I think Ecolog often has positions outside the U.S., also (though as others have pointed out, the non-entry level positions on this list serve skew toward academic jobs) I recommended all of these sites to the undergrads I worked with in grad school, as all three post a decent amount of entry level jobs.

        For more regional job boards, if you are looking for work west of the Cascades in the US (and I think Canada?) the Cascadia Prairie Oak Partnership usually has a few jobs on their list serve. The California Native Plant Society also has a job board for botany and ecology positions in the Western US.

        I think it’s also worth checking state agency’s job postings directly-the one I work for is always looking for folks (though mostly wildland fire fighters, lol).

        The other place I check directly when I’m job hunting is CEMML (Center for Ecological Management of Military Lands) at Colorado State University-they appear in tonhave great pay and benefits (relative to other ecology jobs) and have positions throughout the U.S.

    2. H*

      Ooh, I haven’t heard of some of these. Thanks for the recs!

      My additional one is the email listserv ECOLOG-L, now administered by the Ecological Society of America. In my experience it skews towards academia (lots of grad position/post-doc/professor postings) and field technicians postings, but I’ve seen some other types of jobs on there as well, so it’s a good one for the ecology realm.

  56. Red*

    For people looking to go into Agriculture: joeproduce.com
    Primarily for American agricultural production but it does have listings for all over the world. I personally like them cause it’s a lot easier to find a California job here then on indeed (since CA is an agricultural powerhouse). Also, food tends to be a fairly safe industry since people always need to eat.

    Has listings for more than field work too: Accounting and Finance Jobs, Administrative Jobs, Ag Technology Jobs, Agronomy Jobs, Analyst Jobs, Auditing Jobs, Bio Science Jobs, Broker Jobs, Business Development Jobs, Buyer and Procurement Jobs, Category Management Jobs, Controlled Environment Jobs, Customer Service Jobs, Distribution Jobs, Driver Jobs, Engineer Jobs, Entry Level Jobs, Farm Management Jobs, Floral Jobs, Food Safety and QA QC Jobs, Foodservice Jobs, Fresh Cut Jobs, Grower Jobs, Grower Relations Jobs, H.R. and Recruiting Jobs, Harvesting Jobs, Internships, IT, MIS, Software Jobs, Legal, Logistics Jobs, Maintenance Jobs, Management Jobs, Management, Senior Jobs, Management, Executive Jobs, Manufacturing Jobs, Marketing Jobs, Materials and Packaging Jobs, Mechanic and Repair Jobs, Merchandising Jobs, Operations Jobs, Packing, Re-Packing Jobs, Pest Management Jobs, Product Development Jobs, Production Jobs, Quality QC QA, Research and Development Jobs, Retail Jobs, Ripening Jobs, Safety (Non Food), Sales Jobs, Training Jobs, Transplanting Jobs, Transportation Jobs, Warehouse Jobs

  57. LinesInTheSand*

    I’ve never gotten much value out of job boards.

    When I was switching industries to video games, I made a list of every studio attending GDC that year (industry conference). I methodically went down the list, visited every website, looked at openings, and wrote custom cover letters to the ones I was interested in.

    I had no experience in video games, but based on that approach, combined with a strong cover letter and a weapons-grade resume, I got same-day interviews from studios that weren’t even hiring, and I got a job in 2 months.

    1. Last tiger of Tasmania*

      This is very luck-based and not a realistic approach for most. Equivalent to the “walk in with your resume and a firm handshake” advice IMO.

      1. Marz*

        Ehh, I disagree – this is just looking at where the jobs are and applying directly for them. More like walking down the street, looking for “hiring immediately” signs, and going in and asking for an application/filling out the form/doing whatever they say their process is.

        Getting a job always has an element of luck, but I agree that I’ve had success looking at where I want to work and seeing what they have posted and applying directly via their website. So maybe go to job boards, and then follow it down to the company, or maybe look at industry conference like that and look up company-specific job boards.

        I think it’s a realistic approach when either/and/or : you have a small-ish, niche-ish industry that you have some experience with, when you care about who you’re doing the work with (non-profits, gov’t, etc), when you don’t have a ton of options in your area and aren’t willing to move.

        I’ve definitely found it can surface jobs I’m interested in but aren’t exactly my experience, but I could grow into using related/industry experience, or at a company I know to be good, etc.

        1. Melicious*

          I’ve done this when the companies available in the field and location are limited. There were only 20ish biotech companies within my acceptable commuting distance, so i went to each company to see what was available. This won’t work well if your speciality is broad and/or used across many industries though.

    2. Glazed Donut*

      I did this with my last search! Had about 20 job pages (mostly individual orgs but some were job boards) and each day I refreshed all pages. It was one way to weed through where I knew I wanted to work vs applying to random places via Linkedin (I did that too, but didn’t get excited about many of them).

    3. JB (not in Houston)*

      Ok, but the call was specifically for niche job boards. I think most people know they can look up the website for every company or organization in their field, but not everybody wants to take that approach, and you might miss organizations that are hiring with this approach. Do you know of any job boards that post jobs in the video game industry?

      1. hello*

        there are a few, but in this field specifically they have very few companies and almost always only the really big ones. perhaps a better option is going to gamedevmap.com, which has links to the websites of games related companies by city, and checking the careers section of each one individually

      1. AlaskaSLP*

        Yes! InformedJobs is still pretty new but growing quickly. Only jobs that meet their minimum criteria are posted, and they make it easy to compare 1099 vs W2 jobs

  58. Donkey Option*

    Very niche for industrial hygiene/health and safety would be AIHA (American Industrial Hygiene Association) or ASSP (American Society of Safety Professionals.) Of course, if you write Safety Data Sheets and do that kind of compliance work, SCHC (Society for Chemical Hazard Communication.) For SCHC, you can also email the Member Engagement committee and the chair will often let you know if they know of anything, even if it isn’t posted.

  59. NYFA [dot] org*

    NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts): nyfa.org/jobs is _the_ website to look for art (including dance, visual, architecture) jobs — both nonprofit and profit. While the majority of opportunities are NYC-based, they do have listings from other major markets and some listings for remote work, too. For example, a museum in California might post on NYFA because they know it’s where people look for museum jobs. No membership required to look at the classifieds.

  60. Cascadia*

    For jobs in the outdoor industry (outdoor guides, outdoor education, conservation, or jobs working for outdoor brands) check out the facebook group Basecamp: Outdoor Jobs and more. They also have a free and premium weekly newsletter with job listings as well.

  61. Lauren*

    I work in tech and I’ve found Otta great for finding jobs at smaller tech companies and startups! They post a lot of details about funding, how many people advance in this company, minority leadership, etc.

    1. hello*

      for anyone who may be confused when google-searching this, as I was, it’s changed its name to “Welcome To The Jungle”

  62. Lifelong student*

    A state association for your field will have a job board but you may have to be a member to access.

  64. Julia*

    If you are looking in Wisconsin, Jobs That Help is an awesome nonprofit job board. I found my last couple of positions there.

    1. Devo Forevo*

      In Chicago, the League of Chicago Theaters has a great job board for a wide range of performing arts related jobs.

  66. Orange Cat Energy*

    For underrepresented people in Tech looking for US or remote jobs, I recommend diversifytech.com. The founder (and I believe maintainer) does a lot of research into the companies that post on the job board. If a company has practices or does an action that isn’t great for the employees (or even does a public action that makes you say “yikes”, then the company’s job listings might be removed from the Diversify Tech website. The founder also shares the job postings through her network, so jobs aren’t just left waiting to be found. I found my current job this way (the founder shared the Diversify Tech listing on other platforms).

  67. fishofdeath*

    This isn’t a job board, per se, but https://www.restartevents.com/ has virtual job fairs for people with security clearances, all the way from public trust to TS/SCI with poly. I also second the person who said to look to your certification body. I know both ISC2 (for cybersecurity) and IEEE (for all engineering) have job boards for members.

  70. CoffeeCoffeeCoffee*

    NonProfitTalent.com for non-profit jobs; it’s heavily East Coast/ New England focused.

    HigherEdJobs for universities, college and private school careers.

  72. Je ne sais what*

    For New York City Arts-related jobs: nyfa.org

    Other major cities with vibrant arts communities usually have some sort of arts coalition or foundation where arts jobs are posted.

    On the Idealist bandwagon: There’s an organization search function that can be really helpful in finding places to keep an eye on. I like to filter by location, then select a few cause areas of interest to narrow down the organization list. Then once you find a few nonprofits you like, check their website periodically, they may not be posting openings on other sites unless it’s hard-to-fill.

  74. La di daaaa*

    Covering Climate Now has a Slack channel with a job board for climate and energy journalism.

    For general climate/energy jobs, Climatebase is the big one, but some others: Lowercarbon Capital, CTVC, Terra.do. And Work on Climate also has a Slack channel and I think a job board too.

    1. Ally McBeal*

      Energy Jobline also has lots of general energy jobs across industry verticals – I’ve seen entry-level engineering roles at aerospace companies, service techs at oil companies, etc.

  76. Balanceofthemis*

    For zoos and aquariums aza.org.
    For museums, there is the AAM job board, also there are museum job boards for every region in the US, and most states have one of their own. Some are defunct though.

    There is also the NEMPN job group on Facebook. That group requires postings to list the salary.

  77. Karen Hamrick*

    For economist jobs, the American Economic Association has a job board (called JOE, job openings for economists), and runs a job market at their annual meeting in January.
    https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/
    The listing are mostly North America, but overseas jobs too.

  78. mreasy*

    And for music industry job – job boards of the Music Business Association, and the other trade organizations all usually have them (localized & specific to their sector).

      2. Anonymous Canadian Fed*

        As a current Canadian federal employee, all public and many internal jobs are posted on that jobs page. jobs.gc.ca is the direct link to the job listings.

        If you specifically want to work for Parks Canada – national parks, national historic sites, and national marine conservation areas – they also have a specific jobs page now: https://parks.canada.ca/agence-agency/emplois-jobs
        It has a specific portal for summer jobs as well as trades jobs.

  80. lil falafel wrap*

    If you’re CA based (and especially in southern California) and interested in nonprofit work, SoCal Grantmakers has a job board I like. I’ll post link below

  81. taylor*

    anyone have suggestions for software QA boards? most of the QA jobs that get posted on sites are labwork-based, and regrettably i do not have a chemistry degree to do them

    1. Corvus Corvidae*

      I don’t have any advice, just commiseration from the other side. I work in pharmaceutical quality, but when I poke around job sites all I get are software QA postings!

  82. Magnus Archivist*

    Not a job board and very niche, but I see a lot of library tech/dev jobs come over the Code4Lib listserv for academic libraries, nonprofits, and occasionally corporate institutions. Hiring for the middle of the librarians, archivists, developers, and IT types Venn diagram.

  84. Katrine Fonsmark*

    associationjobs.org for, well, association jobs :) It’s how I found my current job!

    1. The Unspeakable Queen Lisa*

      What does that mean though? What types of associations? All of them? The Association of X, Y, Z, and all states? That’s huge.

      1. hotg0ss*

        I just looked and narrowed down to my state, and it had the same jobs as what FlynnProvenza listed above for American Society of Association Executives/ASAE, so turns out yeah, all of them and for all states. I had no idea this was even a thing!

  85. TraceMark*

    Not a job board, but another tactic if you are looking for companies in a specific field and/or geographic area: check to see if your library provides access to a database called Reference Solutions. You can search and find information about all of the businesses in a geographic area. This can be helpful for knowing who is out there to target, and it is also helpful for doing research on those companies as well. We had a customer report to us that she used it successfully to find a niche job in a particular geographic area.

  86. Antigone*

    If you’re considering academia again, my recent job search was well served by the Chronicle of Higher Ed job boards. In research administration, the resadmin-l mailing list also has a lot of job postings.

    I also, to my great annoyance, genuinely found LinkedIn helpful for finding jobs. (Which I then applied to through the actual job portal, NOT whatever LinkedIn’s stupid process is for that.)

    1. Academic Physics*

      haha yeah I have also found LinkedIn useful, and keep an eye on it for me and my friends in this field. I have found Chronicle of Higher Ed job good for just professor jobs, so if you’re staff then you have to go a little more specific.

      In academia I also find there are a lot of hyper specific job boards. In my field, for examples, the American Association of Physics Teachers has a good job board, and PER (Physics education research) has an excellent blog about potential jobs.

      When talking to physics majors about jobs I also point them to the Society of Physics Students (SPS) jobs as that is very helpful for someone starting out in physics. It also has jobs students might not find intuitive for physics, such as Machine Learning specialist, and helps give a sense of what a PhD can be useful for outside of academia.

      * AAPT: https://careers.aapt.org

      * PER Jobs: https://perjobs.blogspot.com

      * SPS Jobs: https://spsjobs.aip.org

  89. Did you know the Chesapeake By is North America’s Largest Estuary?*

    Extremely niche, but that’s the prompt. If you live in the Chesapeake Bay region, especially Maryland, and are interested in any kind of environmental job, including education, restoration, green engineering, research, horticulture, and more, ChesapeakeNetwork.org has a very active job board. Most posts are Maryland-based, but stuff from VA and PA is posted regularly, and the Eastern Shore, Baltimore area, DC area, and southern MD are all well represented. I’ve seen postings for everything from educator at a nature pre-school to oyster researcher positions with UMd’s CES to manager of a native plant nursery to positions managing stormwater for county governments posted there.

  90. Margaret Cavendish*

    Municipal government:
    AMCTO: Association of Municipal Managers, Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario
    FCM: Federation of Canadian Municipalities

    I imagine there are similar associations in other provinces/ states/ jurisdictions as well!

  91. catcat*

    Your certifying board or professional organization sometimes have job banks, postings that may not be visible elsewhere. So if you’re in a professional organization or hold certifications, check there.

  95. RadioGal*

    Super niche – Sports broadcasting!

    staatalent.com

    If you’re looking for jobs in general electronic media, you can search [state] broadcasters association. Many states have a job board there.

  96. Yes And*

    I’ve spent most of my career in the arts, but my skill set at this point is more nonprofit than arts specific. My arts boards have already been posted above. For jobs in the Jewish world (education, synagogues, advocacy, etc.), jewishjobs.com.

  97. Yet another username*

    Does anyone know any for aviation? I’m looking to at a career change in a few years

    1. Cool idea*

      I’m not in aviation, but my partner is.

      JSfirm.com
      Justhelicopters.com

      In the helicopter world, the turnaround time for new jobs can be WILDLY fast. Like, interview today, offer tomorrow, can you start in 2 days please? That was a big surprise when I first heard about it, especially since I came from academia / nonprofits where things are planned a semester ahead.

      Good luck with your possible career change!

      1. Yet another username*

        Thank you! I’ve been following the industry for years but haven’t actually delved too much into actual careers until now. I haven’t even given the helicopter world any thought!

  98. CowWhisperer*

    K-12 education including itinerant staff like PT/OT: Search the county of interest plus “Intermediate School District” or “Educational Service Area”.

    This should being up a website for the county level intermediate school district or educational service area. There’s a link to employment by district – but be sure to search for postings in the ISD or ESA itself. In Michigan, I’ve earned $2-3 dollars per hour more at ISD paraprofessional positions with substantial benefits than at local districts.

    1. Teacher Lady*

      This is a good tip for states that organize schools this way. For areas that don’t have ISDs or ESAs, schoolspring.com is often a good place to look. (I can speak to it being fairly widely used in U.S. New England, not sure about other parts of the country.)

  99. Working on Pacific Time*

    The Association of University Presses has a job board (jobs. up. hcommons. org) with academic publishing jobs. Mostly as university presses (unsurprisingly), but there are also jobs at places like museum presses.

    1. Vroom*

      +1 – great jobs board and great organization

      Also, the National Museum Publishing Seminar list-serv includes job postings, it is free and a great resource if you’re in the museum publishing world

  100. SweetCider*

    For non profit positions: npconnect.org

    for museum work: astc.org and childrensmuseums.org both have job boards

    In addition to the specific program work all of these include things like development, volunteer management, grant writing etc.

  101. Political Data Girl*

    I’m a big fan of “Tech Jobs for Good”, which has all kinds of tech jobs (software engineering, data, IT etc.) for non-profits/government/political organizations/civic tech firms.

  104. VoPo*

    I’m in education technology, and we have pretty good luck with hiring from job posts on EdSurge so if that’s an area you’re interested in, I would check that one out.

  105. Higher-ed Jessica*

    For faculty jobs in US higher ed: we list ours in the Chronicle of Higher Education (for visa/immigration reasons, in case we hire a foreign national) and Inside Higher Ed, sometimes also HERC (because our U has contracts with both).
    Beyond that, as someone said above, get on whatever free listserv is out there for the specific field. That’s where we really expect to connect with relevant job-seekers. And although we definitely also advertise our good permanent jobs there, when we’re hiring for a temp position and have no recruitment budget, we’re really leaning on the free listservs.

    1. Last tiger of Tasmania*

      Is this group active? When I clicked through, I recalled applying to join their Slack a long time ago, but don’t think I ever received a response. I also note that their site appears to be rather dated (no AI-related guidelines in their Code of Conduct/Posting Guidelines, “Resources” database contains nothing later than 2019).

  107. Busybee*

    Schoolspring.com for preK-12 education jobs (mostly public/some private) and AISNE.org for preK-12 private school jobs, if you’re in the New England area

  108. RedinSC*

    HERC – Higher Education Recruitment Consortium for higher ed jobs

    Philanthropy New Digest for fundraising jobs.

  111. orchivist*

    in Massachusetts , I love massterlist . com ‘s job board for public policy/non-profit jobs. City of Boston also has a pretty wide-ranging job site.

    1. Elizabeth West*

      Built In Boston’s job board too. Tech and startup jobs.

      I also got a subscription to the Boston Globe when I decided this was where I wanted to move, and they put out a list every year of the best employers in the city. I leaned pretty heavily on that as a resource. If you are targeting a specific city, you can often get a short-term sub to a local newspaper and use that list if they have one, or it may even be online somewhere. It’s a good place to start.

    1. ESL teacher*

      About which, and about so many other great links people have added… these jobs are under threat too in the US right now.

  115. Luisa*

    Professional society job boards — not just “American Society of ” but also, e.g., “Professional Women in ” or “Hispanics in ”
    Examples:
    American Astronomical Society https://aas.org/jobregister
    Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science. https://www.sacnas.org/find-or-post-a-job
    National Society of Black Physicists https://nsbp.org/networking/

    But as long as I’m here, you should also look at specific institutes. I’m an astronomer, and we hire a lot of people who don’t have PhDs (like programmers, managers, writers, animators) because they are crucial to accomplishing our goals. My office is a great place to work! Our job postings are here: https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/opportunities

  116. Bitsy*

    Academic librarian:

    I set up a calendar reminder for every Saturday morning, with links to the boards I check. Then I’m able to open each one in a new tab, scan them for postings from the last week, and won’t be likely to miss a new one that’s interesting.

    I check the ALA job list, the state library association job lists for states I’m interested in, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Higher Ed Jobs.

    Higher Ed Jobs regularly shows jobs that haven’t been posted elsewhere.

  117. H.C.*

    For #1: My state (California) and its municipalities (cities/counties/special districts) use GovernmentJobs.com, as well as a lot of other state/local governments, if you’re looking to stay in public sector work.

  118. ADHD Gal*

    If folks can identify Canadian niche sites too, that’d be fantastic! I’ll do some investigating on my end too.
    Thanks!

    1. The Great A'tuin*

      Depending on what kind of engineering, the Northeast Public Power Association (NEPPA) or American Public Power Association (APPA) for jobs in the electric utility sector.

  120. Somewhere in Texas*

    The American Camp Association has an email list for year-round camp jobs, listed by state and specialty.

    1. L&D Consultant*

      Seconded! I use linkedin or search company job boards directly, but curious if there’s a more efficient way :)

      1. TiredEyes*

        td.org – Association for Talent Development

        and I recently found edskip.com – remote jobs, and all include salary info, 60k+

  123. You can call me flower*

    Public Relations Society of America has a job board for PR and communications professionals. The American Marketing Association has one for marketers.

  124. Coffee Snob*

    Coolworks.com
    Jobs in resorts, ski areas, etc.
    Some year round, some seasonal.
    Some even have housing.
    Free to search

  126. Milo*

    careersinfood.com for, well, you guessed it (food and beverage manufacturing professionals)

    Their filters and auto emails are really good. Got my last job and several good interviews through there.

  128. desdemona*

    Non-acting theatre:
    Offstages Jobs (you need staging.offstagejobs in the URL)
    Playbill – jobs listings page
    USITT – jobs listings page, more edu-focused
    Backstage is more actor/film focused, but *very* occasionally there’s a non-acting theatre job listed. Worth having a login & an email alert on for keywords, so you don’t have to check.

  130. Hannerina*

    I work in local government, and we have statewide listservs (managed by a state university) with all kinds of questions about the field, how one municipality handles common (or not so common) situations. It’s always a first stop shop for local governments posting jobs.

  132. Musicbrarian*

    Professional Societies in your given discipline will have job lists.
    The Music Library Association has a robust, free, service (the login info on the right is for MLA members’ access to various parts of the site – the job lists themselves are not part of that login area).

    https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/page/JobsAndCareers

    Some require you to be a member to access the job lists, others don’t. If it’s your specific discipline you should probably be a member and lots of them have reduced rates for students and ‘new to the profession’ grads.

  133. Maria R.*

    Grackle is the one I know of for the games industry. It’s gracklehq.com (because just searching would make you think it’s just birds).

    I haven’t used it but colleagues have.

  134. I'm the Phoebe in Any Group*

    If anyone has good job boards for grants manager/grant writer types of jobs, please share.
    I work remotely so anywhere in the country is fine.

  135. extra coffee*

    For history related jobs (museums, archives, historical societies) see the American Association of State and Local History or AASLH.

  137. Xeniati*

    WorkInNonProfits.ca for social service-related jobs in Canada. (Probably also good for other jobs at non-profits, but social services is my field.) My brother has also recommended me CivicJobs.ca for jobs with municipal governments across the country.

  138. The Great A'tuin*

    The American Public Power Association (APPA) for jobs at municipal light departments and other types of not-for-profit community utilities. They post listings for both technical roles (line workers, engineers) and non-technical office staff. Also regional/state industry groups like the Northeast Public Power Association (NEPPA), which has electric utility jobs in New England.

    I believe the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) also maintains a job board of union positions nationwide, but you might need to be a member to access it. Buy, hey, they’re a big enough union to have their own monthly newspaper, so there’s a lot of members out there! Could be good for someone already in the industry looking to relocate.

  139. NYCARTSADMIN*

    Probably not what OP is looking for, but if anybody in the non-profit/arts world is looking for a job in theatre, particularly NYC theatre, Playbill.com/jobs is the way to go.

  140. Definitely not me*

    State governments have career opportunity websites. I work in state govt, and while some or all of our job openings will show up on the aggregators like Indeed.com, I can tell you that our HR system shows the source of someone’s application and often those coming from an Indeed.com listing are crap and get rejected immediately by hiring managers. I’ve had several where the applicant apparently has an automated application that gets submitted, never with the correct information, never with a current cover letter, and never with any requested work samples or attachments. They don’t even get considered. One guy must have applied for hundreds of positions in our state because even the few managers in my tiny agency have seen the same guy apply for every job, from senior level positions to the lowest paid administrative positions. His cover letter was written in 2017, and his writing sample was a bad copy of an email he also wrote in 2017. No joke. I wouldn’t interview that guy if my life depended on it. Federal employees probably already look on state govt websites for open jobs, and that’s great, but please make sure you’re reading the postings carefully and not (essentially) spamming the online app system with generic resumes and other materials that don’t reflect why you’re interested in THAT job and why your experience is relevant to THAT job.

    1. Its all sarcasm*

      And because I’m an expert at commenting here (and never accidentally submit a comment before I’m ready), here are the rest!
      https://www.amplifyhorseracing.org/careers
      https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/careers/
      https://www.horseracingofficials.com/employment/jobs/available
      https://www.yardandgroom.com/
      https://www.hri.ie/corporate/work-with-hri/jobs
      and finally, not a job board, for for those wondering what jobs are available in the racing world: https://rtip.arizona.edu/student-support/careers

  143. Arglebarglor*

    What about video game/movie industry special effects/character design?
    (I know this is super specific but my daughter just graduated from a special effects program and is looking for work)

  144. V*

    AIGA (graphic design professional org) membership gets you access to a good job board, it also used to come with an Apple Store discount which pays for itself. Find Your Ohio/JobsOhio is specific to… you guessed it, Ohio.

  146. Friends Not Food*

    Not an industry-specific need, but if anyone has a lead on a weekends only job board, I would love to hear about that! Mostly I get told to do Uber/Doordash, and I gotta be honest – I don’t want randos and/or their food in my car.

  148. Hopefully Hiring*

    Where do people look for jobs in the construction industry? Trying to find a PM.

  149. Tabby Baltimore*

    Anyone got a suggestion for boards that post ads for geospatial analysis jobs (not sure what that involves)? Asking for a federal friend. Thanks.

  150. Festively Dressed Earl*

    Does anyone know any good JD preferred/advantage boards? Looking for something that doesn’t require Bar membership but still uses my degree, for when my spouse’s government contract job inevitably disappears.

  152. jess e*

    If you open to higher education and are interested in roles such as:
    – IT systems/storage admin
    – cloud architect
    – HPC admin
    – data manager
    – leadership in research IT
    …then the People Network mailing list in the CARCC (Campus Research Computing Consortium) group posts a lot of higher ed roles (though you also have to deal with other chatter). I think you can just follow the google group rather than getting the emails.

    Go to https://members.carcc.org/, click Join, and then sign up for the People Network group…. then you will have access to the People Network Google Group history (https://groups.google.com/a/carcc.org/d/msg/people-network/topic-id/message-id)

  154. Free Meerkats*

    Water and wastewater jobs, NACWA (National Association of Clean Water Agencies) and WEF Water Environment Federation.) Also not specific to water/wastewater, but to public agencies, governmentjobs. com.

  158. RandoNerd*

    For PhDs in ecology, evolution, related fields, https://ecoevojobs.net/ for faculty or other PhD-level jobs (government, NGO, industry), and postdoc positions. Also a place for job searching advice, links to other job boards, and gossip.

    Is that niche enough?

    1. BirdNerd*

      That’s where I found my faculty position! I obsessed over that job board for months while I was job searching— got a little unhealthy

  160. TGIF*

    I don’t know any but if anyone knows of websites that care to remote telecom jobs, just in case I ever need to look again, that would be lovely.

  161. Cool idea*

    Jobs in US National Parks!

    Many have entirely separate postings from the National Park Service (usajobs.gov), the concessions that operate the hotels & restaurants (such as Xanterra Aramark, Delaware North, etc), a nonprofit park association, and the businesses in tourist towns just outside the park. Some of these you get to live in gorgeous places inside the parks. The bigger parks have whole mini cities with all sorts of jobs.

  162. RPOhno*

    I work in Radiation Safety, so Nuclear Regulatory Commission compliance and worker, environmental, and public health and safety stuff. Super-niche field, but (at least in the US) the Health Physics Society maintains a job board specific to the industry. Rarely is there anything there that isn’t also on Indeed or LinkedIn, but it can help to reduce the overwhelming number of non-applicable listings that pop up on big sites. Long story short, if there is a professional society for your profession, they probably have a job board.

  164. werkin*

    I’m surprised no one has said Work For Good for both fundraising and non-profit program jobs! workforgood.org

  165. L*

    I’d use a different approach of just looking for companies that have office locations in your area and checking each of their company websites. This won’t work for super small companies without websites or who don’t post jobs there, but most do. It’s somewhat rare that positions are on a job board but not on the company website. Also, Indeed is like a web crawler that looks for company website listings (rather than requiring employers to post listings there), so it really does catch most postings anyway.

  166. Anonymoose*

    Also very niche. For anyone in Norfolk, VA or in Europe search for NATO Vacancies, though note that they pay for relocation (and salaries are tax-free).

  167. Art3mis*

    If anyone knows of job boards for the insurance industry, I would be interested. Thanks. :)

  168. Ben Gadsby*

    UK politics and public affairs – w4mp
    Global “effective altruist” sphere stuff (lots of research and policy in AI, warfare, cutting edge science stuff) – 80000 hours

    1. Noni Csogor*

      Somehow never expected to see you in the comments of AAM Ben – but perhaps I should have given you’re clearly a vg manager!

  169. stinky film defender*

    I recommend signing up for the VRA Visual Resources Association Jobs Digest for weekly emails of jobs relating to “image and media management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments.” https://www.vraweb.org/jobs-digest

  170. Travel bug*

    I want a job in travel. But I have no experience or qualifications. I see ads for a company that “hires” you or trains you, but it looks like an MLM or similar.

    Any tips on how to break into this field? Ideally a part-time position. Honestly, I just want to be able to travel at low cost. I would either retire and do that part time, or I could do it now during my free time (weekends and evenings).

    I can already retire from a federal job, but would still need to have some income until I pay off some debts. My retirement benefits as they are won’t cover all of my needs for a while.
    Thanks!

    1. Leira*

      Also the AVMA (national organization) and specialist organization websites (e.g. ACVIM) if appropriate–although if you’re a specialist you probably already know about their job boards.

  173. Niche Environmental Research*

    Well, I *had* an idea of where to look for jobs before, but with DOGE happening and the EPA on the chopping block….
    Does anyone know where to get superfund-like jobs? I was hoping to get back into superfund work after completing my degree in a few weeks but now that the EPA is being unraveled, I am not so sure that is a career path for me anymore…
    What other careers involve dedicated public research into a specific location? Or even just, what career fields rely on historical research? I spent all my days in archives and elbows deep in public records and I am not even sure if my job could be considered a “researching” job or an “archivist” job (even though I am not an archivist! I just do all my work at archives!)

    1. State Gov Worker*

      For the regulatory side of superfund, I’d look into state environmental agencies (e.g., [state] Dept. of Environmental Conservation/ Preservation, [state] Dept. of Natural Resources). My agency has an environmental remediation division, and jobs, in general, in our capital city office seem to have more policy & research focus.

  174. Selkie*

    JewishJobs.com is free for job seekers and has listings for fully remote, part-time, and other specific niches; mostly nonprofit jobs, but also education, cantorial, regular admin jobs that don’t require religion-specific knowledge, and lots of executive-level listings. You don’t have to be Jewish to look for a job!

  175. Actuary*

    Actuary jobs are often found through recruiters. Recruiting companies like DW Simpson, Ezra Penland or actuarycareers maintain good sortable listings (and annual salary surveys) but you need to check with several recruiting companies because they have listings from different companies.

    Keep in mind of course that they aren’t “your” recruiter trying to find a job for you, instead they are trying to fill spots at contracted companies and keep your info available in case it fits one of their openings.

  178. Moiraine Damodred*

    Psych jobs wiki if you’re looking for academic jobs in psychology (TT, visiting, lecturer, postdoc positions, etc.). It categorizes by subfield. Also, sign up for the APA division 7 listserv and cognitive development society listserv. There’s usually a lot of overlap, but they include RA positions, lab manager positions, grad student positions, and more postdocs.

  181. Elena*

    I follow the Democracy Notes Substack by Gabriel Lerner for Democracy Jobs! If you’re a designer or looking for creative or nonprofit jobs: Rachel Meade Smith’s “Words of Mouth” list is a good one.

  184. Nashville K*

    Field and area niche: Around Nashville, the Center for Nonprofit Excellence (Middle Tennessee) posts jobs from area nonprofits, including some non-faculty higher education (my field; though not all schools use it and those that do don’t post all their jobs). https://www.cnm.org/job-board/

    Tennessee Nonprofit Network also post jobs from all four major city-areas of the state. Not filterable except for metro area, but it was still helpful to look at when I was job hunting. https://tnnonprofits.org/resources/job-board/

  185. windrunner*

    The Texas A&M job board for wildlife, forestry, environmental, and other natural resource-type jobs. A lot of organizations and agencies post and cross post here. It’s the main job board in this field that I’m aware of, although there are a plethora of other job boards for conservation work.

    1. Lorax*

      Agreed! Seconding Texas A&M for forestry and natural resources conservation, as well as prescribed burn operations.

  186. Lorax*

    Some of the most successful job boards I’ve used in the past are regionally based. In St. Louis, I used a job board called the Rome Group, which targets the nonprofit sector (https://www.theromegroup.com/job-listings/). In Vermont, Front Porch Forum (which is basically statewide, community-scale social media) has been my go-to.

    Newspaper listings actually are still the most successful in some areas, particularly when the newspaper has a good online job board in addition to their print copies. (This is true for a lot of rural communities I’ve worked in in the Midwest, as well as broadly true in Vermont).

    For the natural resources/environmental sector, the Green Jobs Board has been great. (https://www.greenjobsboard.us/)

  187. RaginMiner*

    ATMAE Career Center is a good one for the engineers/engineering technologists. They also have a fun tool on each listing that tells you a little bit about the job location cost of living. Careermine and the Miningjobs section of the Society for Mining, Minerals, and Exploration for the folks working in mining

    1. Noisette*

      Careermine’s categories are also usually pretty good! Much better than places like LinkedIn – I’m able to just look at environmental jobs, for instance.

      I will caution on the due dates though, on a few instances the ones they have listed are incorrect and the dates on the company’s website is sooner.

  189. joephi*

    For jobs at university presses (and a few other academic presses not based in universities), the Association of University Presses jobs board: https://jobs.up.hcommons.org. I don’t think anything has replaced the Bookbuilders of Boston jobs board, which is a shame because it was great to have one specific to Boston publishers since so many publishing jobs are in NYC.

  193. EAW*

    For government affairs/communications/policy type roles mostly in DC: https://publicaffairsjobs.blogspot.com/.

    If you want to work in Congress, there are a bunch of different places to look:
    – https://www.senate.gov/employment/po/positions.htm (Senate job board).
    – https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USCAOHOUSE/signup/42852 (House job board – you have to sign up with an email address, and it emails you a weekly list) .
    – https://democraticwhip.house.gov/jobs (job board for House Dems).
    – Many of the specific caucuses (like the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, & others) run their own job boards; google those to find them.
    – If you’re trying to get in as an intern, your best bet is to contact your own Senator/Representative’s office directly, as they all run internship programs.

    For Democratic-aligned political jobs: https://careercenter.gainpower.org/

    For jobs at pension plans (mostly public/govt pensions, I think): https://www.nasra.org/jobs_search.asp

    Good luck to all the job seekers out there (myself included)!!

  194. KnitterBooknerd*

    ArchivesGig https://archivesgig.com/ for GLAM – galleries/libraries/archives/museums jobs.

    Found current and prior role on Indeed, but this is far more relevant.

    Indeed lists far too many results that are not related to GLAM or have no salary range

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