In lockstep with the burgeoning number of websites and Internet users is the ever increasing number of job boards. Some are broad and well established: Monster, Careerbuilder. Others are new, niche boards such as WorkforceHRjobs.com and 37 Signals Gig Board for project work. There are also job listing rollups. One to check out: DirectEmployers Association has developed the JobCentral National Labor Exchange to replace America’s Job Bank.

As the author of one of the very first publications cataloguing job boards, The Jobseekers Guide to Online Resources in 1994—a very slim book at that—I was fascinated to see this latest offering: the AIRS 2007 Job Board & Recruiting Technology Directory. It’s 106 pages, organized by industry and specialty, full of ads, and available as a free pdf download.

I’m sure there are now even more job boards than made this listing. It’s a low barrier-to-entry, highly fluid market. That’s why I stopped publishing job board directories in 1995! But don’t get confused by the quantity. Use the directory as one of your reference sources. Focus on executing a results-driven sourcing strategy linked directly to your talent management system and its source reporting and analytics.