As someone who specializes in WordPress for quite some time now, I am biased but I will recommend WordPress in this case.
The problem with hosted solutions is the lack of flexibility when your project starts growing. Setting up a basic job board on top of WordPress is fairly straight-forward if you utilize a plugin such as WP Job Manager . Hosting the WordPress site itself will be under $100 for a basic shop (or about 2 months worth of subscription for your alternative).
Obviously, growing your business will require a lot of work in over to maximize your brand awareness, potential, and revenue opportunities. You would need design and dev work but this wouldn’t be a major problem until you start generating over, say, 5K visitors a month (or even more).
A WordPress website may provide you with additional opportunities for monetizing your job board as well, such as:
- Flexible options for pricing (both for employers, and prospects)
- Different lead generation capabilities within your website
- Offering premium content (or copy behind a paywall which may even be social media shares for additional exposure)
- Monetizing through paid case studies or interviews with employees
- Offering ebooks or other components that are shared with your paid users in a different plan
- Creating a membership program
- Adding a hiring/getting hired course program for paid members
- Including eCommerce for books or other resources that would help employees
