“Most job boards are a crap shoot. You post an ad and face an email deluge from unqualified applicants. If you like collecting resumes, that’s fine. If you actually want to hire someone, it sucks.”

This is how Jason Fried introduces 37signals’ job board which is placed alongside both the company’s hugely popular blog (73.000+ subscribers) and corporate website (1 million+ web apps sold).

The hipsters from 37signals are not the only ones doing this. Many of the most influential and popular international bloggers are also beginning to do this.

The idea behind this new bread of job boards is pretty simple: You need to hang out where the talents you’re looking for hang out … and that is not on traditional old school job boards - right?

I’ve been using some of the boards a few times - both for TraceWorks and Wulffmorgenthaler, and they’re so much more effective than traditional job boards.

Here’s are the best ones - I think:

- jobs.37signals.com
- www.crunchboard.com
- www.thinkvitamin.com/jobs
- www.authenticjobs.com
- www.krop.com

It seems this trend is not showing in Denmark? I don’t know any popular Danish bloggers who’s added a job board to his or her blog. It’s pretty easy to do so and potentially a better commercial deal than traditional ads like Adwords.

Get started? Well, you can be up-and-running in just 5 minutes using one of the just fine out-of-box job boards available: Job-a-matic, Job Thread, and Marketplaces.

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