Job searching while female presents its own special set of challenges to standing out from the crowd. Because women are the uterus-having segment of the population, gaps in ones resume or rescheduled moments with education delays due to creating the next generation of humanity, might be inappropriately dinged in comparison with their male counterparts. Also, not all job descriptions are written to appeal to them. As such, it is nice to find job boards where employers go in knowing they are going to connect with these issues and proactively reaching out to get past that. Below you will find summaries and details about 5 job boards that specifically reach out to the professional woman.
Women For Hire – It advertises itself as the largest job board for women on earth. It’s got some pretty nifty partners from AT&T, to Wells Fargo, Staples, and Arise. It gets about 200,000 visitors a month, so it gets updated with some frequency. They also offer some online events to help train the next generation of work from home folks and have updated some links for working with Chat GPT.
The Mom Project – a job board with an excellent cause. It advocates for moms, dads and allies. It’s no secret that the time off that women take to create the next generation of society doesn’t often earn them a medal professionally, but instead a career demotion. This job board pits itself head on against that unfortunate societal flaw, seeking to empower anyone who falls into that category. It’s pretty user friendly and also quite fresh. Cost nothing for job seekers, and has a unique hiring niche on its style. All sorts of roles are advertised here so it is not career specific, just demographic specific.
Career Contessa – A hiring platform that really an advice and coaching platform with a job board as an ad-on. Kind of like having a female mentor from a leadership position, this is an extremely active platform. Creative, logistic, techie and more jobs available. It also offers coaching, webinars, podcasts and just general soul food for the feminine job seeker. The job board isn’t the most intuitive but it’s pretty solid and comes from a reliable place.
Tech ladies – As the title indicates this website promotes and advocates for ladies in all aspect of tech including engineering, design, product management and more. Its an extremely active job board, with over 120,000 ladies counted as members according to the site and postings updated almost every hour. Many big companies such as Zapier, Slack, Etsy, Buzzfeed and more find themselves posting here. They also offer networking and professional development on this site which again, ads to its value.
AFWA – Accounting and Financial Women’s Alliance – A job board specifically advocating for women in the fields of accounting and finance. It was founded in 1938 and is one of the largest groups of its kind for women in accounting, auditing, credit analysts and the like. They also offer scholarships and events to showcase the skillsets of their members.
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