Best Executive Job Boards For Hiring Your Next CEO
It’s a common misconception that CEO Jobs are never publicly advertised. In fact, with the continual rise of the internet, more now than ever are you likely to find your next CEO candidate by posting your job online.
Gone are the days when these senior leadership roles could only be filled by commissioning an Executive Recruiter to conduct the search on your behalf. Whilst specialist recruiters do still play a role in finding and appointing hard-to-reach candidates, even Executive Recruiters themselves advertise on job boards to drive candidate traffic through a streamlined online application process. Except of course, if it is the hiring company’s wishes to keep the appointment confidential. In this instance, the employer would normally consult their little black book of potential CEO successors, or indeed, appoint an Executive Search company to conduct the search on their behalf.
Job boards attract 10,000s of candidates from across the web every day and are a great resource for publicising your vacancy. The skill though, is to make sure you are targeting your CEO vacancy at the right audience, and this is where executive job boards come in.
It might be tempting to post your CEO vacancy on a mainstream job board, as they have a high volume of traffic and are relatively low-cost versus commissioning an Executive Search company. Mainstream job boards can charge as little as £100 to advertise your role, but the key thing to remember, is you are looking to target an elite-level candidate and 90% of visitors to better-known job boards are likely to be unsuited to your advertised vacancy.
Because of the low cost of advertising on mainstream job boards, there is little financial risk at stake, but it can be time-consuming sieving through 100s of CVs from applicants who aren’t qualified for the role in the first place. This is the internet after-all, so it would be naïve to think that only relevant candidates will apply for your vacancy, when advertised to a vast online audience.
In order to utilise your time to best effect, it is wise to consider paying a higher cost by advertising on job boards who have a more relevant audience. This is where executive job boards come in.
In this post, we’ve listed the best executive job boards to use when hiring your next CEO. We’ve included the job advertising fee and the duration, correct at the time of writing, to assist you in your job board selection.