What websites do you use for job hunting?

I use CareerBuilder and a local one for my city Citynamejobs. com. I haven’t had much luck with Monster, but that’s just me. There is also a job site through our states unemployment office that I look at daily.

I use the newspaper site for the city I am looking in.

I use craigslist.

I use several sites specific to my industry.

I use www.seek.com.au and www.mycareer.com.au. I am in Australia.

However, I also regularly check the websites of organisations I am interested in AND subscribe to any job emails if they offer that service. Large organisations often do. The same with governments. My state government has a great job search element and you can pick the type of job, the location etc. and get sent emails for any new listings. I also am subscribed to specific job websites in my field.

If there are organisations that work within your field, see if they have an email list where they distribute jobs. There are a few in my field and I regularly get emails about jobs.

Make sure people you know who work in your field are aware you are looking (if you can do so without jeopardising your current position).

Don’t ignore newspapers either.

I really like the job aggregator indeed.com.

I like indeed.com also.

I’ve browsed on Craigslist before, but never actually applied for anything using it. Not that I wouldn’t if I found a job I wanted to apply for. I’ve also used edjoin.org. It’s for jobs in the education field or working with/at schools. I look at the job site for the local college (and my former university) also. It lists every single job available on campus from coaches to computer analysts to research assistants.

Edit: Oops, I guess edjoin is a site for California jobs. There might be one for your state too though.

careerbuilder.com
I’ve found several jobs over the past decade from their site.

Do people ever actually get hired off of websites? I used to use newspapers and I never got a single bite. Not one.

The only way I have ever gotten a job is through networking. Sometimes people know people and recommend me. Sometimes I have to build my own recommendation network. I think you get far better jobs when you network.

When you network, you are really building a job for yourself. When you use the websites, you are trying to fit a you-shaped peg into an employer-shaped hole. It is rarely perfect, and often so-so. But it is mostly a bad fit, I believe.

@wundayatta, in some fields the only way you can get a job is to apply officially. You can certainly network and let people know you are looking but you would still have to apply officially. I work in the university sector for instance and there is set protocol for how jobs are advertised. I would say most of the jobs I have got have come initially from a job advert and they have fitted me very well because I work in that field and have the skill set required.

monster.com is good.

@Mz_Lizzy I work at a university, too. I got the job before it was ever posted by networking. If I had gone through HR, my boss never would have seen my resume. HR thinks in certain ways. They aren’t very creative. I doubt if they have much clue what people really want. If I had to judge by the way they write job descriptions, I think I’d believe they were wax figurines, stamping out cookies on a broken conveyor belt.

Then again, who knows? Perhaps they should have found someone who fits a mold. I’m not everyone’s cup of tea. Well, ok. I’m no one’s cup of tea. That doesn’t mean I’m not good at what I do.

You wouldn’t get a job at my uni unless you applied officially. Certainly, people may be invited behind the scenes to go for jobs and they may be successful but the jobs have to be opened up for other applicants. Also, while I hear you on people being selected prior to the job interview, I have seen plenty of cases where people have been in the job, doing a good job, and have had to apply for the position because its status has changed (i.e. fixed term changing to a permanent position) and someone has come along with more experience gained at another university. Often the other people in the area are not happy, but it happens.

Our job ads aren’t written by HR. They are produced by the area seeking the staff (although that doesn’t mean they have any more of a clue looking at the selection criteria sometimes).

I am sure you are good at what you do? Not sure why you posted the last part of your comment?

dcwebwomen and dcpubs listservs, craigslist.

I am so behind the times and you all have no idea how much I appreciate this question! GQ and GA’s

I use craigslist. I like it so far. I’ve had a few interviews from there. Good luck!! :)

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A lot of tech people like Dice

The job I just started last week was on craigslist. The interview I had before this was from Craigslist as well. I found my previous job via that company’s website. (I was looking in a particular industry, so I went to sites of that specific kind of business.) The job before that was from an ad in a newspaper.

If you’re looking for a particular industry, then I recommend going to websites of those companies. Or, look at websites of companies that you think you might want to work for. Many times they will post openings on their sites before they go public.

Be careful on craigslist, lots of scam artists preying on job seekers these days. I’ve found the best, most accurate jobs are found on the hiring company’s website. If you’re looking for a great tool to help search those jobs, check out http://www.linkup.com

It is not just Craigslist that has scam jobs but any of those sites can!

—beware of “secret shopper” and “good grammar, good internet skills, post things to the internet—make back the cost of the $75 training manual in one day!” [the “manual just tells you to post a similar job notice on a site in another city and bump your price up to $80.

I actually bought this, knowing I was being scammed, just to see what the scam was. I am not good at playing with scammers. And even tho I alerted Paypal in advance they did not stop the transaction.

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