With the world economic climate still painfully low, more folks are losing their jobs than ever before. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. unemployment rate hit over 9 percent in May 2009. France unemployment jumped to 8.2 percent, Germany was at 7.6 percent in January, and the UK was at 6.77 percent in March. It’s imperative that job seekers have all of the tools at their disposal to find new work. High unemployment rates don’t necessarily mean that there’s no work, it often means that the fields where there are available jobs are changing. For this reason, I’d like to offer a list of the top 10 most effective job search websites to help MakeUseOf readers land that new dream job as quickly as possible.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Top 10 Most Effective Job Search Websites
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With the world economic climate still painfully low, more folks are losing their jobs than ever before. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. unemployment rate hit over 9 percent in May 2009. France unemployment jumped to 8.2 percent, Germany was at 7.6 percent in January, and the UK was at 6.77 percent in March. It’s imperative that job seekers have all of the tools at their disposal to find new work. High unemployment rates don’t necessarily mean that there’s no work, it often means that the fields where there are available jobs are changing. For this reason, I’d like to offer a list of the top 10 most effective job search websites to help MakeUseOf readers land that new dream job as quickly as possible.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Have
you ever found a job through an online job search website? Do you have
other job hunting resources that you prefer? Share them in the comments
section below.
With the world economic climate still painfully low, more folks are losing their jobs than ever before. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. unemployment rate hit over 9 percent in May 2009. France unemployment jumped to 8.2 percent, Germany was at 7.6 percent in January, and the UK was at 6.77 percent in March. It’s imperative that job seekers have all of the tools at their disposal to find new work. High unemployment rates don’t necessarily mean that there’s no work, it often means that the fields where there are available jobs are changing. For this reason, I’d like to offer a list of the top 10 most effective job search websites to help MakeUseOf readers land that new dream job as quickly as possible.