So you've started to scale your startup and need talent, fast. Not just anyone, you need a team of hardworking, results-producing generalists to divide and conquer the market.
How will you find and attract this amazing talent? The simple solution is through job boards, but which of these actually work? Most of them are willing to take a sizeable sum of cash from you without any guarantee that you'll get a single good candidate.
Fortunately at Applied, we have visibility over which job boards sent which candidates to our platform to apply for jobs. And fortunately for everyone else, we don't like to keep secrets. Here's our (data-driven) top five job board picks when it comes to hiring for roles in startups:
UK Startup Jobs
UK Startup Jobs, as you may have guessed, help talented people find jobs at top UK startups and have been doing so since 2011.
So how does this job board rank?
Candidate Quality Score: 66 / 100
Gender Diversity Performance
Ethnic Diversity Performance
Unicorn Hunt
Unicorn Hunt is there to help match (mostly) UK start-ups with users looking for start-up specific jobs.
So how does this job board rank?
Candidate Quality Score: 62 / 100
Gender Diversity Performance
Ethnic Diversity Performance
Guardian Jobs
jobs.theguardian.com is the recruitment site of the Guardian News and Media group. It lists vacancies in sectors that include Media, Education, NHS, Government, Graduate, Secretarial, Charities, Marketing, Social Care and Arts among others.
So how does this job board rank?
Candidate Quality Score: 60 / 100
Gender Diversity Performance
Ethnic Diversity Performance
Escape The City
Escape The City sells tired city workers the dream of finding a fulfilling and exciting role, new career path or opportunity to set up a business.
So how does this job board rank?
Candidate Quality Score: 58 / 100
Gender Diversity Performance
Ethnic Diversity Performance
Target Jobs
Target Jobs is an early careers job board featuring internships, grad schemes and opportunities, postgraduate roles and more.
So how does this job board rank?
Candidate Quality Score: 56 / 100
Gender Diversity Performance
Ethnic Diversity Performance
Applied is a data-driven end-to-end recruitment platform focused on quality and diversity of hire. By tracking which job boards your top performers come from, you can source applicants from a diverse talent pool of highly-skilled candidates.
We decided to democratise this data to start helping teams make hiring decisions based purely on ability. Please treat it as indicative at the moment, but we’ve written a bit more about what the data is, where it comes from and what it is not, here.
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