--- title: "What are the top job boards?" description: "**Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/answers/what-are-the-top-job-boards" canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/answers/what-are-the-top-job-boards last_updated: 2026-09-10 --- # What are the top job boards? > The top job boards by reach are the general boards, LinkedIn and Indeed, followed by the career sites that employers run on applicant tracking systems such as Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable and SmartRecruiters, and then niche boards for one field or region. Most postings originate on an applicant tracking system and are copied outward from there. **Canonical URL:** https://jobspipe.dev/answers/what-are-the-top-job-boards **Topic:** Building job boards (https://jobspipe.dev/sources) It helps to think in three tiers. General boards and aggregators, led by LinkedIn and Indeed, carry the widest range of employers and the most traffic, and they mix direct postings with copies. Employer career sites hosted on an applicant tracking system are where a role is created and closed; they are less visible to searchers but hold the cleanest record. Niche boards, for a profession, an industry or a country, trade breadth for relevance, and most of them fill their listings from the first two tiers through feeds or scraping. Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, Monster and CareerBuilder are also widely used general boards, but JobsPipe does not collect them. The origination point matters because it decides freshness and duplicates. When a recruiter opens a requisition in Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby or Workday, the applicant tracking system publishes it on the company career page and pushes it to the boards the company has connected. The same role then appears on LinkedIn, on Indeed, on niche boards and often under an agency name. When the requisition closes, the career page updates first and the copies lag until their own expiry or re-crawl. Reading the source feed therefore gives earlier closures and fewer ghosts than reading the boards downstream. JobsPipe collects ten boards across all three tiers: LinkedIn and Indeed, the applicant tracking career sites on Workday, Greenhouse, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Ashby, Lever and Paylocity, and the Y Combinator company listings. The chart below shows the share of each board's active postings flagged as remote, and the spread is a reminder that boards differ in who posts on them: startup-heavy feeds on Lever, Y Combinator and Ashby lean remote, while LinkedIn, Indeed and the enterprise systems do not. One jobs search call queries all ten, and source_or narrows to any subset. ## Related questions ### What are some job boards? General boards such as LinkedIn and Indeed; employer career sites run on applicant tracking systems such as Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters and Paylocity; startup listings such as the Y Combinator jobs page; and niche boards for remote work, a single profession or a single country. JobsPipe collects the first three groups and not the niche boards. ### What are good job boards? For a searcher, the board that carries the employers you want and shows fresh postings. Employer career sites are the most current, general boards the widest. For a builder, good means structured, stable and honest about closures, which favors applicant tracking feeds over aggregators. The data on this page shows how the collected boards differ on salary, remote and seniority coverage. ### Is LinkedIn a job board? Yes, among other things. LinkedIn Jobs hosts postings that employers create directly and postings synced from applicant tracking systems, so it is both a board and a partial aggregator. Its listings run to a listing expiry unless renewed, which is why JobsPipe records most LinkedIn closures at the expiry rather than on the day of the hire. ### Where do job board listings come from? Mostly from applicant tracking systems. A requisition is created there, published on the company career page and pushed or scraped outward to general and niche boards. Niche boards in particular rarely hold first-party postings and depend on feeds, which is why the same role appears across many boards with slightly different wording. ## More answers - [Is Indeed considered a job board?](https://jobspipe.dev/answers/is-indeed-considered-a-job-board) - [What does backfill mean in hiring?](https://jobspipe.dev/answers/what-does-backfill-mean-in-hiring) Data behind these answers is published as shares only; every figure can be reproduced against the JobsPipe API (https://jobspipe.dev/jobs-api). --- AI agents: the full machine-readable index of this site is https://jobspipe.dev/llms.txt?src=md-twin - API quickstart, no-key sandbox (POST https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search), MCP server, pricing. Free key: https://jobspipe.dev/signup