The top five for vet techs and assistants
| Attribute | VeterinaryHires | Hound (Scout) | Indeed | NAVTA Career Center | Roo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Veterinary-only job board | Veterinary-only career network and app | General job site covering every industry | The veterinary technician association's career center | Relief and hiring platform for vet med |
| Vet tech and assistant jobs | Yes — dedicated veterinary technician and veterinary assistant role pages | Yes — technicians and assistants are named audiences, alongside vets, receptionists and managers | Yes — tech and assistant postings sit among listings for every industry | Yes — it is the technicians' association's own board | Yes — technicians and assistants take relief shifts; full-time jobs are listed too |
| Published cost for job seekers | Free to browse and apply, no account to create | Not published | Not published | Not published | Free to join |
| Relief and shift work | Yes — relief work is listed; the relief role page is for veterinarians | Yes — daily relief shifts and long-term relief | Not published | Not published | Yes — relief shifts and full-time jobs are both listed |
| How you apply | On the employer's own application link or original posting | Not published; chat with employers is offered | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Best for | A vet-only feed with no account and free applications | Full-time and relief work in one veterinary app | General listings across every industry | Techs who want to search their association's board | Relief techs who want shift-based work |
As of October 2026, checked on each company's own website.
How did we compare the job sites?
This page ranks sites by fit for a veterinary technician or assistant — not by audience size.
A huge general site can be the right second stop and still be the wrong first one, and the reverse is true depending on the role.
Every claim about another company was read from that company's own website in October 2026.
Where a site does not publish something, the comparison says "Not published" rather than estimating.
Figures a company reports about itself are labelled self-reported.
Which vet-focused job boards should a vet tech try first?
Vet-focused boards put clinic work at the center of the feed, so you are not scrolling past unrelated industries to find it.
Four are worth a tech's or assistant's time.
VeterinaryHires is free to browse and apply, with no account to create.
It has dedicated veterinary technician and veterinary assistant role pages alongside its other roles, and on collected jobs the Apply button points to the employer's original posting, so your application goes to the practice rather than to the board.
Hound is a veterinary career network covering "jobs and relief work for vets, technicians, assistants, receptionists, and managers," from full-time placements to daily relief shifts and long-term relief.
It offers chat with employers and a PayScore pay-transparency rating.
It says its network holds 7,000+ jobs and shifts across 10,000+ practices in all 50 states — self-reported figures.
iHireVeterinary is a veterinary-focused career platform where job seekers can search or browse jobs, receive job alerts and add a resume to a searchable database.
Its homepage counters show 19,294 jobs, 446,638 registered candidates and 3,644 employers — self-reported live counters.
My Veterinary Job Board is a veterinary job board that tells job seekers they can "post your resume and apply to these jobs absolutely free." It says it puts veterinarians, vet techs and veterinary assistants in contact with animal hospitals.
What do the general job sites offer vet techs?
Indeed is the generalist.
Its homepage is built around keyword-and-location search, with an account for personalized job recommendations and resume creation, company reviews and salary lookup alongside.
Vet tech and assistant postings appear there among listings for every other industry, and a general feed mixes non-veterinary results in with the clinic work — the sifting is yours.
What you get in exchange is one search across every industry at once, which is why it pairs well with a veterinary-only board.
LinkedIn is a professional network with a jobs section inside it — it says it has more than 1 billion members in more than 200 countries and territories, a self-reported figure.
For a clinic technician job, treat it as a supplement to a vet-only board or Indeed rather than a replacement.
It comes into its own when you target corporate, industry or leadership paths and want a professional profile working alongside your search.
Where should a relief vet tech look for shifts?
Roo is the better fit when relief is the plan.
It connects veterinarians and technicians with hospitals for relief work and matches you with hiring hospitals through its Relief-to-Hire process, and joining is free for veterinary professionals.
Vet techs and assistants use it for relief shifts and income boosting, with a map-view job search.
Veterinary students can also search externships there.
Hound is the second stop for relief: the same app that carries its full-time jobs also lists daily relief shifts and long-term relief, with chat to employers built in.
If relief is your main income, running both puts you in front of hospitals on both platforms.
What is the NAVTA Career Center?
The NAVTA Career Center is the job board of NAVTA, the North American Veterinary Technician Association.
NAVTA's own resources page points members there: "Ready for your next adventure, or looking for qualified candidates?
Visit the NAVTA Career Center.
Search open positions or post a job!"
For a technician who wants the professional association's board in the mix alongside the commercial sites, it is an obvious extra stop.
How should a vet tech use several job sites at once?
Start with the ones that cost nothing: VeterinaryHires is free to browse and apply with no account, My Veterinary Job Board is free for resumes and applications, and Roo is free to join.
Add Indeed to search every industry's listings at once, turn on job alerts where they exist, and keep your resume current on whichever boards hold it.
If you work relief, add Roo and use Hound's relief side.
Pay attention to where an application actually goes.
On VeterinaryHires, Apply points to the employer's own application link or original posting, so your details land with the practice.
Elsewhere you may be applying through the board's own form instead, which changes who sees your information first.
VeterinaryHires' own facts are on the fact sheet.
For the employer's side of this decision, see the best sites to post veterinary jobs, and for head-to-heads see VeterinaryHires vs Hound, VeterinaryHires vs Indeed and VeterinaryHires vs iHireVeterinary.
Which one should you choose?
Choose VeterinaryHires if…
- You want a veterinary-only feed where browsing and applying are free and there is no account to create
- You want your application to go to the employer's own posting rather than through a board's form
- You want technician and assistant roles filtered to real veterinary practice jobs
Choose Hound (Scout) if…
- You want full-time jobs and relief shifts together in one veterinary-only app
- You want to chat directly with employers and see a pay-transparency rating (PayScore) before you commit
- You are a technician, assistant, receptionist or manager — the network names all of them
Choose Indeed if…
- You want one search across every industry's listings, with resume tools, company reviews and salary lookup alongside
- You are open to non-clinic roles that use your tech skills at the same time
- You are happy to sift non-veterinary results in a general feed
Choose NAVTA Career Center if…
- You want to search the veterinary technicians' association's own board
- You are a NAVTA member keeping your job search inside your professional association
Choose Roo if…
- You work relief and want to fill specific gaps in your schedule
- You want shift-based relief work matched with hiring hospitals
- You are a student looking for an externship
Choose LinkedIn if…
- You are targeting corporate, industry or leadership roles and want a professional profile and network in your search
- You want to keep a professional profile visible while you apply elsewhere
Frequently asked questions
What is the best job site for vet techs?
There is no single winner, so start with a veterinary-only feed: VeterinaryHires is free to browse with no account and sends your application to the employer's own application link or original posting, and Hound mixes full-time jobs with relief shifts in one app.
Add Indeed to search listings across every industry in one place, the NAVTA Career Center for the technicians' association's board, and Roo if you work relief shifts.
Which vet tech job boards are free for job seekers?
VeterinaryHires is free to browse and apply, with no account to create.
My Veterinary Job Board says you can post a resume and apply absolutely free.
Roo's join button for veterinary professionals says Join for Free. iHireVeterinary lets you search, get job alerts and add a resume to its database.
Hound's homepage does not publish job-seeker pricing, so check in the app before you rely on it.
Is Indeed good for vet tech jobs?
Yes — as the generalist option.
Indeed searches listings across every industry, so vet tech and vet assistant postings sit alongside everything else: you search by keyword and location, can create an account for personalized recommendations, and can build a resume, read company reviews and look up salaries on the site.
The trade is that a general feed includes non-veterinary results, so it pairs well with one veterinary-only board.
How do I find relief vet tech shifts?
Roo is built for this: it connects technicians with hospitals for relief work, joining is free, and you get matched with hiring hospitals.
Hound is the second stop — the veterinary app lists daily relief shifts and long-term relief alongside full-time jobs, and lets you chat with employers in the app.
Set up both if relief is your main income.
Do I need an account to apply for jobs on VeterinaryHires?
No. Browsing and applying on VeterinaryHires are free and there is no account to create.
When you click Apply on a collected job, you go to the employer's original posting, so your application lands with the practice rather than with the job board.
Only employers pay to use VeterinaryHires — posting is their side of the site, not yours.
Is LinkedIn worth using for a veterinary technician job search?
Treat it as a supplement for clinic roles.
LinkedIn is a professional network — it says it has more than 1 billion members, a self-reported figure — and its jobs section sits inside that network.
Clinic postings appear there, but for a typical technician search it works best alongside a vet-only board or Indeed rather than instead of one.
It comes into its own for corporate, industry and leadership paths.
What is the NAVTA Career Center?
It is the career center of NAVTA, the North American Veterinary Technician Association.
NAVTA's resources page points members there to search open positions, and employers use it to post jobs.
For a technician who wants the professional association's own board alongside the commercial sites, it is an obvious extra stop; the career center itself sits at careers.navta.net.
Where these facts come from
- Hound (Scout): hound.vet (checked October 5, 2026)
- Indeed: indeed.com (checked October 5, 2026)
- NAVTA Career Center: navta.net/resources (checked October 5, 2026)
- Roo: roo.vet (checked October 5, 2026)
- iHireVeterinary: ihireveterinary.com (checked October 5, 2026)
- My Veterinary Job Board: myveterinaryjobboard.com (checked October 5, 2026)
- LinkedIn: about.linkedin.com (checked October 5, 2026)