Search Jobs in the Twenty Best Job Websites in the United States
September 15, 2007 5:02 am The AmericasHave you hit a dead end in your current job? Do you want to have a job that is both exciting and fulfilling? If you answered yes to both these questions, then, you are ready to switch careers. With the introduction of job websites, your dream job is just at the tip of your fingers. These job websites offers different products and services to make your job search efficient, as well as convenient. What’s more is that you can look for the right job either in your hometown, country, or abroad. This definitely beats the traditional way of job searching wherein you need to go to the employer’s office in person to drop off your comprehensive resume, keeping your fingers crossed and waiting for the employer to call you.
With the advent of job websites, here are twenty of the best job websites in the United States today:
Monster.com
Monster.com is one of the largest and most popular job hunting website in the United States for it boasts of over one hundred and seventy thousand job postings and more than thirty thousand employers who are eager to offer the right job to the most fit applicant.
Some of the services that Monster.com offers to jobseekers are tools to build his resume and deposit it in the enormous resume database of Monster.com, create alerts and agents in the job website to inform a job seeker of the possible job matches that fits his qualifications and track all the applications that the job seeker has submitted. On the other hand, employers, through Monster.com, can post job openings, screen potential candidates easily and get in touch with them directly.
Careerbuilder.com
Another popular job website in the United States is Careerbuilder.com that boasts of putting up over one and a half million jobs for job seekers anywhere and anytime they want. Careerbuilder.com offers online job centers for more than one thousand partners comprising newspapers, America Online and MSN. This is a joint venture between these different companies: Gannett Co., Inc., Tribune Company, The McClatchy Company and Microsoft Corp.
Some of the services that Careerbuilder.com offers to job seekers are job search through keywords, deposit resumes in the database and create agents or alerts that would notify the job seeker of certain job openings where his qualifications may be apt. As part of the keyword search facility, job seekers can compose a unique search string to let the job website display specific jobs, by company, by category and by industry.
Craiglist.org
http://california.craiglist.org
Craiglist is a website that provides classifieds information such as jobs, housing, services and much, much more. It has a huge Web presence worldwide such as in the United States where there are separate sites for each US state. For instance, if you want to view jobs that are specific to California, then, go to http://california.craiglist.org but if you want to go to the site for Georgia, then, key in http://georgia.craiglist.org.
What’s good about Craiglist is that job seekers are provided facilities like viewing jobs and other information by category, keyword search and depositing their resumes into the database. They could apply for a job either in their home region or elsewhere. As for employers, they can post any number of advertisements for reasonable prices and it is sure that they would get exposure from four hundred and fifty cities around the globe to over twenty five million users per month. Apart from classifieds, Craiglist also offers forums where users can meet and discuss different topics and issues.
Yahoo! Hot Jobs
Yahoo! Hot Jobs is a leading job website for online recruitment and has changed the means by which people monitor their careers and employers hire their employees. Also, Yahoo! Hot Jobs claims to provide a more seamless, easier, faster and more cost-effective means to recruit potential candidates.
In Yahoo! Hot Jobs, job seekers can do job searches by keyword, by city and state or zip code and by category. On the other hand, employers can post their job openings and even have a representative to create the appropriate hiring solution for the company.
CareerOneStop.org
CareerOneStop is a job website sponsored by the United States Department of Labor that provides employment information as well as inspiration to various people such as job seekers, students, businesses and business professionals in order to promote skill development in the worldwide economy.
Some of the services that CareerOneStop offers are career assessments, employment advice as well as job search.
Federal.gov
The Fedworld.gov website, manned by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), supplies information about the government including job openings in the United States federal government. It allows job searches through keywords and locations.
CampusCareerCenter.com
http://www.campuscareercenter.com
CampusCareerCenter.com is one of the leading campus recruitment companies. It was established in 1998 to render services to a targeted market, the undergraduates and graduate students who are looking for a job as well as employers who are searching for potential employees. Currently, CampusCareerCenter.com has over one hundred and twenty five thousand students in its database and a network of two thousand and two hundred career centers. In addition, CampusCareerCenter.com caters to top companies such as Wells Fargo, General Motors and Northwestern Mutual that have used its services over the years to get the crème dela crème students.
CareerMag.com
CareerMag.com is a website that offers a wealth of information regarding career opportunities to job seekers and resources for employers. In addition to that, this site offers an HR library to its customers.
CareerMag.com, which is owned by VertMarkets, offers services such as posting and viewing of job openings by category, depositing resume into the database, creation of a portfolios needed for occupations such as graphic designers and programmers, creation of alerts or agents to notify a job seeker of the openings that may fit his qualifications as well as vast information regarding the industry, professional rates and resume writing.
New York Times Job Market
http://jobmarket.nytimes.com/pages/jobs
Whether you are in New York or elsewhere, you can search for a job through the New York Times Job Market, which is claimed to be the premium place to look for a job. Furthermore, it boasts of over five hundred thousand high quality resumes in its database. Employers can get a hold of the best and the brightest candidates there are, through this site.
Vault
Vault is the premier job search destination in the Web today. It provides various tools for both job seekers and employers such as company profiles, message boards, and job boards, career advice and a whole lot more. In fact, it has even been nicknamed as the “granddaddy of worker sites” by the US News and World Report.
JobsInTheUS.com
http://www.jobsintheus.com/jobsintheus
JobsInTheUS.com was established in 1999 and since then, it has been labeled as one of the progressive job websites in the United States in terms of job posting and visits. Its specialty is job openings across the US and in fact, it has separate websites for jobs depending on what state the job is located. For instance, if you want to look for a job based in the Rhode Island, then, go to http://www.JobsInRI.com or if you want to do a job search in Louisiana, then, visit http://www.JobsInLouisiana.com.
JobsInTheUS.com offers services such as resume posting in the database, job search by category, city and keyword search, alerts and agents for job notification and vast information regarding local job fairs. As for employers, they can perform a resume search so that they can pick the most qualified candidates that there are and contact them directly, as well post job openings.
JobOpenings.net
JobOpenings.net, established by Ace Web Hosting in 1998, is marked as one of the fastest growing premium career sites on the Internet with over one million, two hundred and ninety thousand job openings with employer information advertised on the job website. Once, only catering to Virginia-based job seekers and employers, JobOpenings.net became nationwide and it is now recognized as the one of the most renowned job websites on the Internet.
In this website, you can search for jobs by state, by industry and by using four different search engines. What’s more is that you can use the provided sample of resumes in the website as your reference in order to make one that would stand out from the rest.
Recruiter Networks LLC
http://www.recruiternetworks.com
Recruiter Networks LLC has major presence in over twenty seven major areas in the United States. Each website contains a wealth of job postings, comprehensive resume database, employment resources and much more. The reason why Recruiter Networks LLC is the best is because the site is user-friendly and it offers numerous free tools and data. In addition, it has a package that employers may avail at the cost of only $149 a month. When an employer uses this package, it is entitled to unlimited number of job postings and a resume search package.
Careers2000.Net
Careers2000.Net is one of the popular job websites that boasts of over ten million satisfied customers. It offers job seekers tools for creating a resume, distributing their resume to hundreds and even thousands of employers, job search facilities and a course in resume writing. On the other hand, employers who avail of the services of Careers2000.net get to enjoy unlimited job postings and resume search of over fifty thousand resumes when they procure the package offered at $145.
Career Surf
Career Surf is an online career center that enables job seekers to attain their dream job. Employers will be able to get the right candidates through this job website. In addition, Career Surf is connected to four major search engines so that you will have the widest choice to get the job that you want.
It offers typical services such as job search, resume posting, career advice and job posting.
Career Path Opportunities
Career Path Opportunities is a job website that connects employers and job seekers in local areas as well as nationwide. It caters to both startup companies as well as fortune 100 business organizations and top employees who seek a fulfilling career.
The only thing that is needed before a job seeker or an employer can use the services of Career Path Opportunities is that they register in this job website.
LocalCareers.com
LocalCareers.com is a local job website that caters to both job seekers as well as employers. For jobseekers, LocalCareers.com offers the following:
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Job Database
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Career Email notifiers
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Resume Database and Distribution Services
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Calendar of Career Events
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Continuing Education Guide
As for employers, they may avail these services:
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Job posting, which would expire after sixty days
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Job Distribution Service to its Career Network
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Resume Database Access
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Banner Advertising for Branding
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Career Event and Open House Listing
Career.com
Career.com is a job website that has been founded in 1993 and it is claimed that this is the first ever career site on the Internet that caters to job seekers and employers. It is the first website to offer services such as interactive recruitment, Hot Jobs that show vital jobs , Job Hosting, and Job Digger. CyberFair is an online career event where job seekers and employers can meet.
CareerShop, Inc.
CareerShop, which was founded by CareerShop, Inc. in 1996, offers a wealth of services that help people oversee their career and employers find suitable candidates.
Through the years, CareerShop has won numerous awards such as Forbe’s magazine “Best of the Web Award”.
CollegeJobBoard.com
http://www.collegejobboard.com
CollegeJobBoard.com, a leading career website on the Internet, has been slated as one of the ten best sites for job seekers according to Quintessential Careers. Other than that, Business Week has voted CollegeJobBoard.com as the highest rated jobboard in the Business Week/Home Office List.
What’s good about CollegeJobBoard.com is that there are over three million job seekers who visit the website, which means a huge exposure for employers. At the same time, CollegeJobBoard.com has over millions of resumes in its database that employers can access instantly. Lastly, CollegeJobBoard.com posts the job openings to over sixty thousand websites for free.
Now that you know more about the most popular job websites in the United States, you can try them out and see if you get lucky in finding your dream job. Happy job hunting!
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