List of Job and Career Websites
Job boards, aggregators, freelance marketplaces, recruitment agencies, career advice and vocational training: over 1.4 million career-related domains, labelled by type, country and popularity band.
How many job and career websites are there?
The careers web is bigger than the job boards people know. Every recruitment agency, staffing firm and training provider runs a site, and many employers run career sites of their own. In our database of over 120 million domains, there are two useful counts.
Broad: career content anywhere
1,458,120Domains tagged Job Search/Careers. Adds recruitment agencies, staffing firms, HR consultancies and other businesses whose sites carry job listings.
Strict: careers is the main subject
648,351Domains whose main IAB category is Careers. Job boards, career advice, vocational training and apprenticeships, without businesses that only recruit on the side.
Top 10 job and career websites
The ten best-known career domains in the list, ordered by popularity among real users. Professional social networks are counted under Social Networking, so they are left out here. Below the top ten come more national boards, aggregators and employer review sites.
| # | Domain | Type | Main market | Popularity band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | upwork.com | Freelance marketplace | Global | Top 1,000 |
| 2 | indeed.com | Job board and aggregator | Global, US-based | Top 1,000 |
| 3 | fiverr.com | Freelance marketplace | Global | Top 1,000 |
| 4 | naukri.com | Job board | India | Top 1,000 |
| 5 | glassdoor.com | Jobs and employer reviews | Global, US-based | 1,001 to 5,000 |
| 6 | ziprecruiter.com | Job board | United States | 1,001 to 5,000 |
| 7 | seek.com.au | Job board | Australia | 1,001 to 5,000 |
| 8 | catho.com.br | Job board | Brazil | 1,001 to 5,000 |
| 9 | infojobs.net | Job board | Spain | 1,001 to 5,000 |
| 10 | pracuj.pl | Job board | Poland | 1,001 to 5,000 |
Career website subcategories (IAB Tier 2)
99.4% of Careers domains carry one of six Tier 2 groups. Full-database counts, shown as shares of the whole category.
Job Search 325,254
Job boards, aggregators, freelance marketplaces, government job portals, resume writing and job fairs (Tier 3).
Vocational Training 211,860
Trade schools, professional courses, certification bodies and skills training for specific jobs.
Career Planning 54,779
Career guidance services, aptitude and personality tests, and study-to-work planning.
Career Advice 33,469
Career coaches, interview tips, salary advice and career blogs.
Apprenticeships 9,842
Apprenticeship programs, placement services and dual training schemes.
Remote Working 9,466
Remote job boards, remote work advice and communities for distributed workers.
Kinds of job and career websites
Two sites can both be "job sites" and still be completely different businesses. These are the types inside the list, and why each matters to a different buyer. A job board is an advertising channel, a recruitment agency is a customer for HR software, and a training provider is a partner for edtech.
Job boards
General and national job boards where employers post ads. The core of most lists and the main career ad inventory.
Aggregators
Sites that collect jobs from many sources into one search. High traffic and strong search intent.
Freelance marketplaces
Platforms for project work and gigs. Fast-growing and global, often with their own payment systems.
Recruitment agencies
Staffing firms, headhunters and temp agencies. Mostly in the broad view, with Business as a second category.
Public job portals
National employment services, public sector job sites and exam portals. Very popular in some markets.
Niche job boards
Boards for one profession or industry, such as nursing, engineering, academia or hospitality. Small, focused audiences.
Training providers
Vocational schools, course providers and certification bodies. Bought by edtech and training marketers.
Career advice and reviews
Career blogs, coaching, salary data and employer review sites. Good for employer branding campaigns.
Job websites by country
Job markets are national: language, labour law and salary norms all differ. These are the countries with the most popular career sites, counted among the 300,000 most popular domains with a known country. For a full national list, the long tail of regional boards and local agencies adds many thousands more domains per market.
| Market | What the career web looks like |
|---|---|
| India | Large private job boards plus very popular government recruitment and exam result portals. A unique pattern with huge daily traffic. |
| United States | Global job boards and aggregators, many niche boards per profession, and dense staffing agency networks. |
| United Kingdom | National job boards, many recruitment agencies, and public sector job sites. |
| Brazil | National job boards and many regional job sites for individual cities. |
| Germany and France | National job boards, public employment services and a strong vocational training and apprenticeship scene. |
| Japan | The .jp ending stands out with 36,864 domains tagged Job Search/Careers, including many recruitment and part-time job sites. |
Who buys a list of job and career websites
Recruitment is a large and fragmented market, and a reliable list of who is in it is worth a lot. These are the buyers we see most often. Some need the few hundred boards that carry most job traffic; others need every agency and training provider in a country.
HR tech vendors
Sell applicant tracking, job distribution and recruitment marketing tools to agencies and job boards.
Recruitment advertisers
Employers and agencies that buy job ad slots or programmatic recruitment campaigns.
Labour market researchers
Economists, consultancies and public bodies that study hiring activity and job platforms.
Training and edtech companies
Course providers and learning platforms that reach people changing or building careers.
Background check and payroll firms
Services sold to staffing agencies and employers that hire at volume.
Security and fraud teams
Fake job offers are a common fraud pattern. Teams use the list of real career sites as a reference set.
Example career segments
Segments buyers often build from this list, using only the columns on this page. Each can be delivered as a file of its own or as a tag in one combined file.
National job boards
Job Search in one country, top popularity bands only. A short list of the boards that matter in that market.
Staffing agencies
Broad view minus the strict view, filtered to one region. Mostly agencies and recruiters.
Skilled trades
Vocational Training plus Apprenticeships. For tool brands, trade schools and trade unions.
Remote and freelance
Remote Working plus freelance marketplaces. For home office products, coworking and freelancer finance tools.
Segments that pair with careers
People looking for work also study, retrain and research employers. Buyers often add these neighbouring segments from the same database, kept as separate tags so results can be read per segment.
| Segment | Domains | Why buyers add it |
|---|---|---|
| Education > Online Education | 478,208 | Online courses and learning platforms used by people building new skills |
| Webinars/E-learning tag | 547,792 | Course, webinar and e-learning sites, often with certificates |
| Education > College Education | 598,424 | Universities and colleges with graduate careers services |
| Education > Adult Education | 43,108 | Evening classes and second-chance education for career changers |
What career list buyers ask first
Is every board in my market there?
Check the boards you already know with the domain checker. If the leaders are there with the right labels, the long tail usually is too.
Can I tell boards from agencies?
Yes, for most rows. Boards sit in the strict Careers view; agencies usually carry Business as their main category and Job Search/Careers as a tag.
Will it still be right next quarter?
The file is refreshed monthly and new domains are added every day, so closed boards drop out and new ones appear.
Columns in the job and career list
Each row is one domain with the same columns as the full database. Field definitions are on the taxonomy page.
| Column | Holds | Career example |
|---|---|---|
| Domain | The website | pracuj.pl |
| IAB 2 Tier 1 to 4 | Content Taxonomy 2 path | Careers > Job Search |
| IAB 3 Tier 1 to 4 | Content Taxonomy 3 path | Careers > Job Search (Tier 3 adds Resume Writing and Advice or Job Fairs where it applies) |
| Web filtering categories | One or more of 59 categories | Job Search/Careers, Business |
| Personas | Likely audience types | Career Changer, Recruitment Specialist |
| Country | Linked country where known | Poland |
| Global popularity band | Rank group among all sites | 1,001 to 5,000 |
| Country popularity band | Rank group in its country | Where available |
Keeping a career list accurate
Career sites come and go quickly, and job scams copy their look. These checks keep the list clean, so a campaign or a prospect list built on it does not waste budget on dead or fake sites.
Scam sites flagged
Phishing and fake job sites carry their own risk category, so they can be removed from any list.
Fresh new domains
About 300,000 new domains are categorized daily, each rechecked after a week and after a month.
Monthly refresh
All other domains are refreshed monthly, which catches boards that close or change focus.
Spot checks
Check any board or agency with the domain category checker.
Exam portals labelled
Exam result and admission sites that also post vacancies carry Education as well, so you can keep or drop them.
One brand, many countries
Global boards run a domain per country. Each appears as its own row with its own country and popularity band.
Parked "jobs" domains
Job-sounding domains with no content sit in the parked category and are not counted.
Content decides
A site is a career site because of what it publishes, not because "jobs" or "careers" is in its name.
How to get the full job and career list
Choose the view
Strict Careers list, broad Job Search/Careers list, or both as tags.
Pick groups
Job search, training, advice, apprenticeships or remote work.
Set markets
Country field and ending, plus popularity bands.
Download
CSV, Parquet or JSON, refreshed monthly, with a lookup API.
Job and career website list FAQ
How many job and career websites are there?
Our database holds 1,458,120 domains tagged with the Job Search/Careers web filtering category, and 648,351 domains whose main IAB category is Careers. The larger number includes recruitment agencies, staffing firms and employer career sites that also do other things.
How many job boards are in the list?
The IAB Tier 2 group Job Search holds 325,254 domains. It covers job boards, job aggregators, freelance marketplaces, government job portals and resume services.
Are recruitment agencies included?
Yes. Recruitment and staffing agencies carry the Job Search/Careers category, often together with Business. They make up much of the difference between the broad and the strict count.
Can I get job sites for one country?
Yes. Job markets are national, and most job sites use a country domain or carry a country field. Filter the list to one market or a region.
Are freelance marketplaces counted as job sites?
Yes. Freelance and gig marketplaces sit in Job Search, because their main purpose is matching people with paid work. You can keep them or remove them.
What is in Vocational Training?
Vocational Training holds 211,860 domains: trade schools, professional courses, certification providers and job-skills training. Apprenticeships adds 9,842 more.
Can I get remote work websites?
Yes. Remote Working is a Tier 2 group with 9,466 domains, covering remote job boards, remote work advice and distributed-team tools with a careers focus.
Which countries have the most popular job sites?
Among the 300,000 most popular domains with a known country, career sites are led by India (207), the United States (186), the United Kingdom (110), Brazil (97), Germany (83) and France (80).
Can I find niche job boards for one profession?
Yes. Niche boards sit in Job Search like general boards, and their persona and secondary category tags point to the profession, such as health care, engineering or hospitality. Combining those columns narrows the list to one field.
Are company career pages included?
Career pages that live on a company's main domain are counted under that company's main category. Separate career domains run by employers are included, usually with Job Search/Careers as a tag.
Can the list help detect fake job sites?
Yes. A list of real, categorized career sites is a useful reference. Lookalike and phishing domains carry a separate risk category, so they can be compared against the known-good set.
What format is the list delivered in?
A downloadable CSV file, with Parquet and JSON available, using the same columns as the full categorized database.
How do I buy the job and career website list?
Go to the pricing page, choose a database size, and tell us which career segments and countries you need. The career rows are part of the full database.
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Over 1.4 million career domains, with job boards, agencies, freelance marketplaces and training sites labelled by type, country and popularity. Part of a database of over 120 million categorized domains.
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