The 10 Best Job Search Websites

LinkedIn
The Company Website
Glassdoor
Google Jobs
Indeed
ZipRecruiter
SimplyHired
Flexjobs
WeWorkRemotely
AngelList
Honorable mentions: ATS like Lever and Greenhouse

Based on a combination of internal data and anecdotal reports, we’ve found these to be the 10 best job search websites. We’ve outlined the advantages of the best of the best job search boards in this article. However, different job search websites cater to different roles and goals. For example, LinkedIn is terrific for networking with recruiters but is cluttered with stale listings that get hundreds of applicants in a few hours. Lever is a fantastic job board for software engineers and data scientists, but it doesn’t host many less technical roles like sales or marketing.

Candidates should not rely on just one job board. While you don’t need to use every board, you can find far more roles by searching multiple boards, especially if your target role is more niche. If you only search one job board, you may only find a handful of jobs that are a perfect fit. Once you’ve exhausted the list, you may end up applying to jobs that are just an “ok” fit because you don’t see any better options on that particular board. But you could have likely found many more “perfect fit” jobs on other boards. You don’t have to carefully comb every one of the best job search websites. At a bare minimum, just using a boolean search for keywords and using whatever job board appears with the best match is fine. But broadening your search to multiple job boards will help you find more opportunities and land a job faster.

The Best Job Search Websites By Role, Backed by Data

The best job search websites depend on the role. Lever is a fantastic job search website for software engineers, but it hosts very few sales jobs.

At Pathrise, we’ve helped 2,700+ job seekers land jobs over 6+ years. Every job seeker in our program tracks their job board used, interviews, and other key data. We analyzed all our data to break down the best job board by role.

Software Engineering (SWE): Company website, Greenhouse, Lever
Data Science: Lever, Company website, Simply Hired
Engineering: Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, LinkedIn
IT and Cybersecurity: SimplyHired, Glassdoor, Indeed, LinkedIn
Marketing: Glassdoor, Company website, Indeed, SimplyHired
Product, Strategy, and Operations (PSO): ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor, Company website
Sales: Glassdoor
The Best Overall: LinkedIn

LinkedIn is Undefeated (But Overcrowded)

If you could only use one job search website, it should be LinkedIn. While our data shows that LinkedIn does not have the highest conversion rates from applications to offer, LinkedIn’s popularity makes it essential for finding a job. 97% of HR and staffing professionals use LinkedIn for hiring. Even if you’re relying on in-person networking to find a job, LinkedIn will still be part of the hiring process. It’s simply unavoidable.

With over 49 million users and 15 million jobs, the other 4 best job search websites don’t even come close. If those numbers sound lopsided to you, you’re spot on. LinkedIn’s popularity makes it highly competitive and often overwhelming. There are far fewer jobs than job seekers trying to stand out, often with high-effort strategies like long posts or daily content. Companies also often use LinkedIn jobs as a promotional tool for roles, meaning the “recently posted” jobs might not be as recent as they say, crowding the platform with old posts. This makes LinkedIn understandably intimidating. But since LinkedIn will be used in the hiring process, job seekers still have no choice but to use it. Luckily, you don’t have to compose lengthy post essays or gain a thousand followers to get hired.

Glassdoor: The Best Job Search Website for Company Reviews

While less popular than LinkedIn, Glassdoor still hosts millions of jobs. What makes Glassdoor stand out is its valuable insight into interviews, job market trends, and company culture. Glassdoor users leave reviews of companies’ interview processes at top companies, which often include real interview questions asked in the interview. Users also post salaries, company work culture, and other invaluable information.

Some Glassdoor users report a slightly higher conversion rate than on LinkedIn, perhaps due to less competition. However, the difference is likely not very significant, especially when considering that jobs are often posted to LinkedIn and Glassdoor, as well as the much higher volume of jobs on LinkedIn.

Google Jobs: The Best Job Aggregator

Unlike typical job search websites like LinkedIn, Google Job is a job “Aggregator”. It gathers all of the job postings on the Internet and lists them under “Google Jobs” when you make a Google search. All you need to do is type in the name of the role you want into Google and roles will appear. Not only does this reduce job search time, but it allows you to make extremely specific job searches using Boolean search, or even just quotation marks around a specific job title. We highly recommend you supplement your LinkedIn job searches with Google Jobs.

However, Google Jobs automatically uses your current location as a factor in the job search. So you may want to turn off location sharing if you’re searching for a job outside of your current area.

Indeed: A Job Aggregator with Intuitive UI

Similar to LinkedIn and Glassdoor, Indeed is one of the largest job search websites with familiar interface. They gather postings from all across the Internet. While not extraordinary, it can still be a helpful supplement to LinkedIn.

ZipRecruiter: Efficient Job Matching

Powered by AI job matching, ZipRecruiter connects job seekers with hiring companies. The company partners with many of the other best job search websites, putting their posts on multiple boards. However, the “Phil” emails and AI support do not have very high reviews. Like Indeed, it can be a useful supplement.

Simply Hired: An Effective Aggregator

Another aggregator of job postings on the web, Simply Hired hosts thousands of US jobs. Like LinkedIn, SimplyHired offers a “Simply Apply” option that allows job seekers to apply with just one click. However, we do not recommend using simply apply by itself. You should always apply on the company website as well.

Best Job Search Websites for Remote Jobs

On LinkedIn, more than one in five job posts were remote (8.4%) or hybrid (13.5%). All of the other best job search websites like Indeed and Glassdoor also allow you to filter for remote jobs.
We Work Remotely This job search website hosts is the largest community online for remote jobs
FlexJobs: This job board hosts remote, flexible, and freelance positions. FlexJobs hand screens all of the positions on the site to ensure they are high quality and genuine. This can be an especially good fit for job seekers looking for flexible schedules.
Remote.co: Remote.co is a resource for companies that are looking to hire remote workers. They also offer a newsletter for job seekers hunting for remote jobs.
Working Nomads: Another job search board focused on remote roles that offer flexibility for professionals.

Best Job Search Websites for Startup Jobs

AngelList: A job board full of startups, candidates make a profile and then they can review positions at hiring start-up companies. Candidates “like” openings they are interested in and sometimes send a message to the hiring manager. Hiring managers can also “like” candidates.
Builtin: This job board shows you hiring companies in your area, focused on tech startups. They also offer helpful resources like salary averages.
Crunchbase: On Crunchbase, you can find promising startups seeking talent.
VentureLoop: VentureLoop is a leading job board focused on venture-backed startups.
Hacker News: If you’re interested in startups that have been part of Y Combinator, their job board is a good place to look.
Crunchboard: CrunchBoard’s goal is to “build the ultimate web insider’s network”, catering to experienced talent.

Best Job Search Websites for Software Engineers

Our internal data showed that our software engineering fellows had the highest conversion rates from jobs posted with Lever, although it is more commonly used by recruiters and not easily searchable by job seekers. Our software engineers were also successful on Glassdoor.
GitHub: While software engineers will already know how to use GitHub for their portfolios, they may not know that GithHub also hosts one of the best search websites for software engineers. Plenty of great full-time and remote jobs are posted on the board.
Stack Overflow: Best known for its helpful syntax pages and community, Stack Overflow also offers a job board. Users can browse by company, salary, remote, international, sponsorship, or date of posting. The board also has useful information about culture, benefits, and team projects.
HackerLife: HackerLife is an advanced job search engine for software engineers. They focus on providing job-seekers with a better understanding of the culture and experience at the tech companies before applying.
A Happy Job: An interactive platform, A Happy Job allows candidates to filter engineering teams by their preferences, like location or remote, amount of people, technology, team culture, and industry.

Best Job Search Websites for Data Scientists

Our internal data shows that data scientists had the highest conversion rates from Lever, though this is not a searchable board. SimplyHired also had a high response rate, as well as the company website itself. LinkedIn is also an excellent resource for aspiring data scientists and analysts.
Kaggle: The world’s largest community of data scientists, Kaggle’s job board hosts curated job openings.
IcrunchData: One of the best job search websites for tech and data-related roles, this board offers a clean UI with over 10,000 job posts.
KDNuggets: A leading site for jobs in AI, analytics, big data, data mining, data science, and machine learning, KDNuggets and its editorial team have received many awards and mentions. For data scientists looking for interesting positions and to keep up with the constantly changing industry, KDNuggets is a good place to go.
DataJobs: This job search website lists two types of jobs: data science/analytics and data technology (business intelligence, warehousing, big data, and SQL).
MLConf job board: This conference also hosts a free job board. However, the jobs listed can sometimes be a bit old.

Best Job Search Websites for IT and Cybersecurity

Our internal data shows that LinkedIn, Indeed, SimplyHired, and Glassdoor are the best job search websites for IT and Cybersecurity job seekers.
Otta: One of the best job search websites for IT and cybersecurity professionals seeking jobs at startups.
CybsecurityJobs.com: Hosts over 2,000 cybersecurity and IT jobs at top companies all over the world.

Best Job Search Websites for Product Managers

Glassdoor and ZipRecruiter had the highest conversion rate for our fellows. The other best job search websites like LinkedIn, Google Jobs, and Indeed also have plenty of PM jobs.
Product Hired: 11,000+ openings in 70 countries.
Product Manager HQ: Job listings as well as resources for learning how to break into product management.
Mind the Product: The world’s largest product community, Mind the Product started in London and has now grown to include over 150,000 members.
Ken Norton: Ken is a Senior Operating Partner at Google Ventures where he leads. He has a newsletter sent to more than 15,000 product leaders. Ken also has a job board, which pulls PM jobs mainly from VentureLoop.
ProductManagerCrossing: The team of 100+ researchers behind ProductManagerCrossing finds jobs from every source they can find and puts them on their private site for their members.

Best Job Search Websites for Engineers

LinkedIn: For networking with top companies and recruiters, engineers may have the most success on LinkedIn, where technical recruiters are most active.
Government Websites: US Government job boards often post engineering jobs and contracts.

Best Job Search Websites for Sales

LinkedIn is full of sales jobs, with many recruiters actively reaching out to candidates for SDR roles. But our data shows that Glassdoor actually had the highest conversion rate for sales jobs.
American Association of Inside Sales Professionals (AA-ISP): This association hosts a board that focuses on inside sales and SDR jobs. Their roles vary in experience level and feature companies all around the US, including top tech companies like Dell.
SalesHeads: A job board specifically focused on sales positions, SalesHeads hosts thousands of sales jobs.
SalesJobs: You can filter positions based on salary, location, keywords, and industry on SalesJobs.com, which can help make sure you are only looking through openings that make sense for you. This is especially helpful since the site boasts over 1 million sales jobs. Narrowing down your search will be especially important when there are so many opportunities.

Best Job Search Websites for Marketing

While our internal data shows that Glassdoor offered the highest conversion rates, LinkedIn is generally a perfect fit for marketers. They can apply marketing outreach to networking with recruiters and optimize their profile as they would a landing page.
Growth Hackers: More optimized for networking than job searching, Growth Hackers is a community of high-level marketing professionals. They also have a small job board with mostly growth marketing positions.
American Marketing Association: The AMA hosts thousands of marketing jobs and offers excellent networking opportunities.
Marketing Hire: This job board allows for niche filtering by marketing skills and fields such as advertising, PR, research, social media, CRM, SEM, creative, media, copy, and more. Some of the specific roles on their site are not found on the big job boards.
Marketing Career Network: The Marketing Career Network (MCN) is an online recruitment resource that matches employers with professional marketing membership organizations. Users create an account to manage their resumes and applications. They can also sign up for job alerts and save jobs.
eMarketing Silo: Another marketing-focused job search website with thousands of openings.

The Company Website: Better than The Best Job Search Websites

While job search websites may be convenient, our data suggests that applying directly on the company website may have the highest conversation rate of all. We recommend applying directly on the company website whenever possible.

While Job boards like LinkedIn and Glassdoor usually include links to the company website, these job boards are still incentivized to keep you on their platform. Options like “LinkedIn easy apply” may be tempting as they take less than a few minutes. However, applying directly on the company website will usually give your application a better chance of being seen. Company websites will also offer the option to be notified of new job postings relevant to roles you’ve applied to in the past. These post notifications are often sent out before the job post goes live on LinkedIn, allowing you to apply before the competition. This can also let you stay up to date on roles at your dream company.

But like all the best job search websites, company career websites host plenty of outdated job postings, often many months old. Just because a job posting is on a company website, does not mean it is active. We recommend to only apply to job postings no more than 1-2 weeks old. The fresher the better. Job search websites give you the ability to filter for recent posts, making them more convenient than using job search websites for sourcing. But we still recommend always applying on the company website whenever possible.

The Best Job Search Website for Networking: LinkedIn

While it may be harder to stand out to jobs with thousands of applicants, LinkedIn allows you to stand out to recruiters. Hiring managers and recruiters use LinkedIn to search for talent by keywords. You can use optimized keywords in your LinkedIn bio, title, and headline (like your skills and desired role) to appear in recruiters’ searches.

Posting on LinkedIn can be equally effective. Just one simple (but strategically written) LinkedIn post can help you stand out to recruiters and get hired. We’ve found that the most effective LinkedIn post to get you a job quickly is not professional educational content. While educational content builds your authority and following long-term, it’s not a viable strategy for professionals seeking a new job now.

A simple post outlining your skills and professional status is most effective. Sometimes referred to as a “layoff post” or “open to work post”, we recommend you make a LinkedIn post outlining your career status, experiences, and goals that gives recruiters a reason to check out your profile. This post can work just like a resume, giving the recruiter everything they need to make a decision.

When recruiters search for a specific role like “Marketing data analyst in tech”, your post explaining that you were laid off from a marketing data analyst role and are now seeking a new role may appear in their search results and feed. This simple post style can be even more than getting your resume in front of a recruiter.

LinkedIn’s algorithm is also more likely to show your profile if you post actively. While a detailed personal story or professional content can have the most impact, your posts don’t have to be long to boost you in the algorithm. Posting simple comments, likes, or reposts with a short caption a few times a week is enough to get far more profile views.

Optimizing your job search on at least some of the best job search websites will help you land a great job faster. But it can be overwhelming on your own.

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The 10 Best Job Search Websites