Values-Aligned Christian Recruiting: How Christian Companies Attract Christian Candidates
In the competitive job market, Christian companies and faith-driven organizations face a unique challenge: finding candidates whose values align with their mission. Christian recruiting is more than just filling open positions. It's about building teams of qualified believers who share your organization's commitment to biblical principles and faith-driven work culture.
Risen Hire is a free Christian job board connecting faith-aligned candidates with Bible-teaching churches and organizations seeking to hire values-aligned professionals. Whether you're a church, nonprofit, or for-profit business with Christian values, this guide walks you through proven strategies to attract Christian candidates using Christian job boards, LinkedIn communities, chambers of commerce, and faith-based recruiting agencies.
Who This Article Is For
This article is written for:
- Church hiring managers and pastors
- Nonprofit leaders and executive directors
- Christian company owners and HR professionals
- Businesses and organizations looking to hire faith-aligned talent
TL;DR Quick Steps to Attract Christian Candidates
- Post your job on Christian job boards like Risen Hire for free and reach faith-aligned candidates
- Leverage LinkedIn groups for Christian professionals to connect with qualified believers
- Join Christian Chambers of Commerce to network and post opportunities
- Search Slack and social media communities dedicated to Christian professionals
- Partner with faith-based recruiting agencies for specialized or executive-level roles
Use Christian Job Boards to Find Faith-Aligned Talent
We created Risen Hire to be the default place for Christians to find job opportunities that align with their faith and we hope that you and your company are among the many that choose to post those opportunities on our job board. Risen Hire will always offer free tier job posting for Christian churches and organizations. We feel that the cost of recruiting can dramatically decrease when platforms like ours make it easy to find and recruit talent quickly and effectively.
Other Christian job boards are also useful in widening the scope of finding your ideal candidate. These include the Gospel Coalition's job board and christianjobs.com.
Leverage Christian Chambers of Commerce for Recruiting
The Christian Chamber of Commerce is a faith-based Christian business community serving many Christian companies in the U.S. With a plethora of networking opportunities including exciting monthly events, the Christian Chamber also offers job postings on their USCCC jobs board, along with discount pricing to partner recruiting firms. To use Christian Chambers for recruiting, sign up for the chamber's membership and submit your job posting to their USCCC board and attend their networking events where you can personally connect with Christian business leaders and professionals actively seeking new opportunities.
Find Christian Talent in Slack and Social Media Communities
Faith Tech Slack
Faith Tech is a Christian technology group focused on creating a Jesus revival in the tech space. Among the many communities in cities and countries around the world, with in-person meetups to network in, they also have a community slack workspace with a #jobs channel that include many qualified and faith aligned talent looking for work.
To be accepted into the workspace, you must first apply via this form after reading and agreeing to their community guidelines.
Christian Professionals WorldWide on LinkedIn
This LinkedIn group with over 65,000 members exists for people who have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and want to reflect this in their professional environment as well. This pool of professional believers is a great place to find qualified values aligned candidates for Christian companies looking to bring and build faith driven products and services.
Bivocational Christian Ministry on LinkedIn
The majority of ministry leaders work a part-time or full-time role outside of their ministry to make ends meet or reinvest in their ministry work. This LinkedIn group exists to help these specific people network with each other and is a niche group to share specific ministry opportunities to.
Partner with Christian Recruiting Agencies for Specialized Roles
Fisher of Men
Fisher of Men is a custom search direct hire agency, founded upon the Rock of Jesus Christ. Standing true to Philippians 4:8. They specialize in finance, technology, creative marketing, and sales. Partnering with clients nationwide who are startup-medium in size. Their approach is collaborative, their process is streamlined, and their structure is personalized to each client.
Finding talent is hard, Fisher of Men makes it easy! They fish for your perfect hire, so you don't have to.
Mission Leadership
Mission Leadership is a faith-based executive recruiting firm serving nonprofit ministries, Kingdom-oriented businesses, churches and academic institutions. They offer data driven salary research and have worked with several large Christian organizations helping to further Christ's mission.
MinistryHub™
MinistryHub™ is a talent acquisition firm that finds talent for churches, nonprofits, and educational institutions looking to hire values-aligned candidates. With a high percentage of returning clients and glowing testimonials from across different clientele, MinistryHub™ seems to have gained the trust of many in the space of values-aligned hiring.
Start Your Christian Recruiting Strategy Today
Attracting Christian candidates and building teams of qualified believers doesn't have to be complicated. By combining multiple Christian recruiting channels—Christian job boards like Risen Hire, faith-based LinkedIn communities, Christian Chambers of Commerce, Slack communities, and specialized recruiting agencies—you can build a comprehensive recruitment strategy that reaches values-aligned professionals actively seeking faith-driven career opportunities.
The key to successful Christian recruiting is being intentional about where you post, clear about your organization's faith values in job descriptions, and committed to building relationships with candidates who share your mission-driven approach.
Ready to Start Hiring Faith-Aligned Talent?
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