BehavioralHires and the NASW Career Center, side by side
| Attribute | BehavioralHires | NASW Career Center |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A job board built only for behavioral health: mental health, substance use treatment and ABA | The National Association of Social Workers' job board and career center (NASW JobLink) |
| Who runs it | Gabriel Meierotto, founder (no clinical license or training) | The National Association of Social Workers |
| Roles covered | 14 role pages across mental health, substance use and ABA — therapist, LCSW, counselor, MFT, case manager, peer specialist, BCBA, RBT and more | Social work roles |
| Pricing model | Pay per post (one-time), or a monthly slot plan | Per-post job packages priced by duration |
| Published pricing | $199 Standard or $399 Featured per post at launch pricing (regular $299 and $499); slot plans $899 a month (10 live posts) or $1,749 a month (25) | $440 Basic (30 days), $550 Enhanced (30 days), $725 Premium (60 days) |
| Contract | None — single posts are one-time payments that never renew; slot plans bill monthly with no minimum commitment | Not published |
| Cancellation | Nothing to cancel on a single post; slot plans can be canceled anytime, with posts staying live through the period already paid for | Not published |
| Where a listing appears | The matching role and city pages on BehavioralHires, and Google Jobs | On NASW JobLink, with partner-network distribution to sites like LinkedIn among the package features (self-reported) |
| How candidates apply | On the employer's own application page — no candidate profiles or resume database | Not published |
| Resume database | None | Unlimited access to the NASW Resume Database is listed among the package features (self-reported) |
| Reach | Not published — BehavioralHires does not publish audience or candidate numbers | Job Watch emails the job to over 107,000 NASW members and affiliates (self-reported) |
As of October 2026, checked on each company's own website.
What does the NASW Career Center offer employers?
The NASW Career Center (NASW JobLink) is the National Association of Social Workers' own job board, and its employer packages are priced by duration: Basic at $440 for a 30-day posting, Enhanced at $550 for 30 days and Premium at $725 for 60 days.
The feature list on its employer offers page includes a Featured Company logo on the career center homepage, a Spotlight Job at the top of search results, unlimited access to the NASW Resume Database, Job Watch — "Your job will be sent to over 107,000 NASW members and affiliates involved and engaged in social work" — and a Partner Network that the page says can "increase exposure by 10x by sending your job out to variety of sites like LinkedIn."
The reach figures are NASW's claims about itself, so treat them as self-reported.
Not every feature comes with every tier.
The page lays the features out as a comparison, but the tier-by-tier check marks did not render when we checked it, so confirm exactly what your chosen package includes before you buy.
What does BehavioralHires offer employers?
BehavioralHires is a job board built only for behavioral health — mental health, substance use treatment and ABA — so a social work posting sits next to the rest of a behavioral health team rather than inside a single-profession career center.
It has 14 role pages, including licensed clinical social worker, mental health counselor, marriage and family therapist, behavioral health technician, behavioral health case manager and RBT.
A Standard post is $199 and a Featured post is $399 at launch pricing, each live for 30 days from purchase.
A post is a one-time payment that never renews, and it goes live the moment Stripe confirms checkout.
Candidates who click Apply are sent to the hiring organization's own application page.
There is no resume database and no employer dashboard: support edits a live post or takes it down on request by email.
The pricing page has the details, and you can post a job directly.
What does each one cost to post a social work job?
For a single 30-day opening, the published prices are $440 for NASW's Basic package, $550 for Enhanced or $725 for the 60-day Premium, against $199 for a BehavioralHires Standard post or $399 for Featured at launch pricing.
The shapes differ: NASW sells packages by duration, while BehavioralHires sells one post at a time as a one-time payment that never renews.
If hiring is continuous, BehavioralHires also runs monthly slot plans: $899 a month for up to 10 posts live at once, or $1,749 a month for up to 25, with slots that swap between openings for free.
NASW does not publish an equivalent subscription on the page checked here.
What about contracts, cancellations and refunds?
On BehavioralHires, a single post is a one-time payment: it never renews and there is nothing to sign.
Slot plans bill monthly, can be canceled whenever you like, and posts stay visible through the billing period already paid for.
A duplicate or mistaken charge is refunded in full every time; other refund requests have a short window set out in the refund policy.
The NASW employer offers page checked for this comparison publishes package prices and features.
It does not publish contract, cancellation or refund terms, so ask NASW directly before you buy — the table above marks those rows "Not published."
Reach versus focus: whose audience do you need?
This is where the two differ most, and it is worth being fair about it.
NASW's audience is the association's own: Job Watch is described as sending your job to over 107,000 members and affiliates, and the Partner Network is described as increasing exposure by 10x through sites like LinkedIn.
Both are self-reported figures, but they are real reasons to post there when the people you need are NASW members.
BehavioralHires publishes no audience or candidate numbers at all, so it cannot match those claims on paper — the honest comparison is reach against focus.
A behavioral-health-only board puts an LCSW opening beside counselors, MFTs, behavioral health technicians, RBTs, case managers and peer specialists, which helps when a role could be filled by more than one license or you are hiring several kinds of staff at once.
On BehavioralHires, candidates apply on your own page.
See NASW Career Center alternatives for options beyond these two.
What results does each board publish?
Neither board publishes hiring outcomes.
The NASW offers page lists package prices and features, and its reach figures are self-reported; it does not publish hire rates or placement statistics.
BehavioralHires publishes even less: no candidate counts, no reach numbers, no results and no testimonials.
Said plainly, on published evidence the gap favors NASW, which can at least point to a membership figure for its Job Watch emails.
On either board, what you are buying is placement, not a hire — BehavioralHires does not guarantee that a listing will result in a hire, and the fact sheet lists everything it does and does not publish.
Which one should you choose?
Stay with the NASW Career Center if…
- The opening is strictly a social work role and you want it in front of the association's own members and affiliates.
- You want resume sourcing — unlimited access to the NASW Resume Database is listed among the package features.
- A 60-day posting window matters, and the Premium package's longer run is worth $725 to you.
- Posting on the professional association's own career center matters to your organization.
Choose BehavioralHires if…
- You hire the whole behavioral health team — LCSWs plus counselors, MFTs, behavioral health technicians, RBTs, case managers and peer specialists — not only social workers.
- You want a published one-time price: $199 for a 30-day Standard post or $399 for Featured at launch pricing, with nothing to sign and nothing that renews.
- You want candidates applying on your own application page, with no candidate profiles to manage.
- You keep openings live year-round and want a flat monthly slot plan — $899 for 10 posts or $1,749 for 25 — with no contract.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to post a job on NASW JobLink?
Three employer packages are listed on the NASW Career Center offers page: Basic at $440 for a 30-day posting, Enhanced at $550 for 30 days and Premium at $725 for 60 days.
The feature list includes Job Watch emails to NASW members and affiliates, resume database access and partner-network distribution, though not every feature comes with every tier, and the reach figures are NASW's own (self-reported).
Is BehavioralHires cheaper than the NASW Career Center?
On published single-post prices, yes: a BehavioralHires Standard post is $199 for 30 days and Featured is $399 at launch pricing, against NASW's Basic package at $440 for the same 30 days.
Price is not the whole comparison, though.
NASW's packages include features BehavioralHires does not offer, such as resume database access and Job Watch emails to its membership, and its Premium package runs 60 days rather than 30.
Does the NASW Career Center offer a resume database?
Yes.
The package feature list on the NASW Career Center offers page includes unlimited access to the NASW Resume Database, described there as thousands of resumes.
BehavioralHires has no resume database and no candidate profiles: a candidate who clicks Apply goes straight to the hiring organization's own application page.
If sourcing and screening resumes yourself is part of your process, that is a real reason to choose NASW.
Where should I post an LCSW job?
BehavioralHires has a dedicated licensed clinical social worker role page among its 14 role pages, and a Standard post there is $199 for 30 days at launch pricing.
The NASW Career Center is the better pick if the role is strictly social work and you want it in front of the association's members and affiliates.
When an opening is hard to fill, you can run both at once.
Does BehavioralHires reach as many social workers as NASW?
There is no published comparison.
NASW self-reports that Job Watch emails jobs to over 107,000 members and affiliates, while BehavioralHires publishes no audience or candidate numbers at all, so on published reach claims the gap favors NASW.
What BehavioralHires offers instead is focus: a board that carries only mental health, substance use and ABA roles, so a social work posting sits beside the rest of a behavioral health team.
Can I post a job on both boards?
Yes.
A common mix is a BehavioralHires post for behavioral-health-focused visibility alongside an NASW Career Center package when the opening is strictly a social work role.
Each BehavioralHires post is a one-time payment that never renews, so there is nothing to cancel between postings, and the same opening can run in several places at once as long as each board's own terms allow it.
Where these facts come from
- NASW Career Center: joblink.socialworkers.org/employer-offers (checked October 5, 2026)