As the economic scene darkens, more people are going online to look for jobs.  As job cuts hit, domino style, industry after industry, job seekers need to get a little more creative and persistent in their search.

Sometimes, when flocking to the big boards, job seekers overlook the niche job listings which might be a perfect fit and have just the right job for you. Niche job boards focus on a specific industry or demographic. Careers.AdvancingWomen.com, our job board, for example, is a diversity job board where employers seek women and minorities, the disabled or other diverse groups.  But there are plenty of niche job sites out there, one of which may be right for you.

Interested in Anthropology / Archeology Jobs?  How about Dance Jobs, Environmental Jobs ,Equine Jobs (that’s horses)?  Yep, all of them have niche job boards.  Even Retirement Jobs, Winery Jobs ( sign me up!) and  Zoo Jobs have their own boards. How cool is that?

Want more niche job sites to pore over?  Look up Niche Job Sites Directory

Another source not to overlook is job aggregators like Indeed.com. Companies like Indeed.com scrape jobs from a variety of sources and describe themselves as “a search engine for jobs;  jobs that are listed on job boards, newspaper sites, and niche sites. In one simple search, you can find the very latest job listings throughout the web – one search. all jobs.”  Well, not quite.  Although job aggregators, like Indeed.com, are another tool in your job searching tool box, there are more.

Don’t forget the jobs sites of big corporations. Although they may be advertising in many job boards on the web and in news papers there, there’s a good chance they have three to ten times that many jobs advertised on their own corporate career site.

So, here’s the strategy.  Go to the big boards like Monster.  Go to the niche sites in your industry or your demographic. Identify some corporations you’d like to work for.  Then go to all of them, and, if you don’t see what you want on first visit, set up an rss feed or an alert so that you don’t go looking for the jobs, the jobs come to you.  And we invite you to go post your resume and get an alert from our diversity niche board, Careers.AdvancingWomen.com