Whenever anyone needs access to job markets across the world, Monster
is an obvious place to start. Monster has grown into the largest job
search site on the Internet, and serves just about every community
across the world.
What makes the
Monster of job search sites so useful is that
the "International Search" will net you a pretty nice catch of job
opportunities all across the globe. Of course, Monster also offers a
free "home page", a place for you to post your resume, and an entire
section of some pretty cool "career tools" to help you research every
step of the job hunting process.
I guess when it comes to finding a job, visiting a website like
Job.com makes sense. Like Monster, it is one of the few job search
websites that offers the ability to search Internationally.
Under "Additional Search Options", you can search from general areas
of the globe, such as Middle East, United Kingdom or Pacific Rim. The
site boasts over 700,000 listings, and they all seem fairly current. It
also has the ability to publish your resume so that employers can view
it.
Yahoo! Hotjobs is definitely Monster’s greatest competition. One of
the things that Yahoo is very good at is providing content, and job
seekers who visit Hotjobs are going to get exactly that.
The site itself has the same "look and feel" of other Yahoo pages,
and it has lots of articles and widgets from tools like Yahoo Answers.
Aside from all that bonus content, it offers a powerful job search
engine that includes many thousands of listings from all throughout the
world.
Net-Temps is primarily a website devoted to temporary workers who
were looking for the "next gig.". However, it is not a whole lot
difference than the rest of the job search websites, except for the fact
that it allows job hunters to filter search results by temp or
full-time work.
For most folks looking for a job, the difference is irrelevant – they
need a job to pay the bills. But for freelancers who work for
themselves, temp jobs give them the flexibility of a short term client
contract, so that afterwards the freelancer can move on to the next job
in their schedule.
This site is quite a job search engine indeed! Sick of sifting through dozens of individual job search sites?
Indeed is a job meta-search engine which means that employers don’t actually have to list jobs with Indeed. Much like how
Dogpile
provides results from multiple search engines like Google and Yahoo,
Indeed offers you job listings from not only sites like Hotjobs and
CareerBuilder, but even the individual employer websites – now that’s
cool.
There’s little question that CareerBuilder is one of the "big boys"
of the job search websites. Like Monster and Hotjobs, you’ll find a
resume posting section, the ability to find jobs by company or industry,
and a very cool "job alerts" feature. What sets CareerBuilder apart
from the others? Not a lot. But if you need another source that may have
job listings the others don’t – it’s best to check it out, as there are
quite a library of job listings stored there.
AllJobSearch’s claim to fame is it’s ability, like Indeed, to search
through multiple sources. The service covers the U.S., Canada and the
UK. It boasts the ability to search over 200 websites, over 500
newspapers and over 300 newsgroups. Impressive.
Unfortunately, you’re provided a list of links to outside sources
like an online newspaper or Monster, and if you click the link,
AllJobSearch will automatically search that engine with your job search
terms. While it probably saves time searching for the many job sources
around the Net, it doesn’t exactly provide the search results as you’d
normally expect.
I have to say, of all of the job listings sites that you’ll find on
the web, SimplyHired takes the cake simply for the sites "tools"
section, where you’ll find some of the coolest widgets, like email
alerts, trend research and salary information broken down by location
and occupation. If you haven’t yet decided what you want to be when you
grow up – this is the first site you should visit.
One of the world’s wealthiest countries in the world is also one of
the world’s largest employers. The U.S. Federal government has its own
giant online job database that you can search under whatever industry or
discipline you’re interested in.
These jobs are worldwide, and the U.S. government isn’t shy about
listing the actual salary ranges right there in the listing. Some of
those salaries aren’t too shabby either.
Over the years, employers got into the habit of going to college
career centers to advertise their entry level positions. In fact,
sometimes those are the
only places they’ll advertise those
openings. The CollegeRecruiter search engine is networked with 11,000
career sites around the country including college, university and
military offices. Yes, these are entry level positions, but when you
want to get your foot in the door, taking an entry level position is
often the best way to go.
Have you ever found a job through an online job search site? Do you
have other job hunting resources that you prefer? Share them in the
comments section below.
