As designers and developers, it’s hard for us to find long term work. Most companies that need to have design or development related work done will just hire for that short time period to get what they need done and then move on rather than hire a full time designer or developer.

Doing that makes it cost effective for the company and in the current economy, that’s very important. Although this works great for the company, it’s not ideal for us designers and developers because we have to constantly looking for work.

Lucky for us there are quite a few design and development related job boards out on the web to help us easily find work. Below we’ve compiled a list of job boards that can help you in your search for employment in the design and development related fields.

Perhaps one of the most popular websites for designers, dribbble also has a job board that gets a good number of postings.

Another popular portfolio website for designers, behance also has a pretty large job board that covers a variety of design and development related job fields.

Smashing Magazine (which we featured in our top 15 web and graphic design blogs) has a great job board with job postings from top companies like MTV, Activision, EA, Garmin, and Rockstar.

The well known blog Mashable has a good job board that covers not only design and development jobs postings, but marketing, social media, and advertising jobs as well.

The popular freelance designer community Freelance Switch has a large job board for designers and developers with postings from well known companies like Audi, Sony, Getty Images, and Adobe.

Established in 2005, Authentic Jobs in one of the larger job posting sites for creatives boasting listings from companies like Facebook, Apple, Skype, ESPN, MSNBC, and HBO.

Krop is another big and well known job board for designers that has been around since 2000. Krop has listings from major companies like Facebook, The New York Times, Nike, Forbes, MTV, Apple, Adobe and more.

Established in 1997, Coroflot covers every major design related field from 3D Modeling to Interior Design to Web Development. They have a large selection of job listings from a variety of different companies.

Since 2004, AIGA Design Jobs has successfully matched talented designers with over 10,000 jobs from companies across the United States, including Amazon, Bloomberg, Facebook, Herman Miller, IDEO, Interbrand, MTV Networks and Nokia.

Similar to behance and dribbble, design:related is a community site with designer portfolios, inspiration, and news. They have a creatives job board, although small, that is a useful site in finding work.

Since 2006, industry leaders like Apple, The New York Times, Facebook, and American Express have used the 37 Signals Job Board to find designers and developers. 37 Signals covers a wide range of design and tech related jobs and has a large number of postings.