Links
from e-Resumes
The
Big Six Career Hubs
There
are a few sites that deserve a listing here. These sites have
either been around for a while or are so large that they are
worth checking out first. They tend to have more jobs listed,
represent more companies, and have larger résumé
databases, which attract even more companies. As I mentioned
earlier, there has been an incredible amount of consolidation
of career sites over the past seven years since the first
edition of this book was printed. CareerMosaic merged with
Headhunter.net, which was purchased by CareerBuilder. com,
and the list goes on. The benefits to you of this consolidation
include more job listings, more résumés to attract
more employers, and value-added services like chat rooms,
company profiles, networking opportunities, career advice,
salary surveys, résumé help, samples, résumé
distribution, and access to career experts, to name just a
few.The following sites are a good place to start, but don’t
neglect posting your résumé to or looking for
jobs in the niche sites that you will find here.
America's Job Bank ........................................................................https://www.ajb.dni.us/
Even
though American's Job Bank was scheduled to be dismantled in
the summer of 2007, it still exists. A service of the United
States Department of Labor and more than 1,800 state Employment
Service offices, America’s Job Bank is one of the largest
career hubs on the Internet. The site is guided by the U.S.
Department of Labor’s vision for the American’s
Labor Market Information System, the CareerOneStop, a collection
of electronic tools managed as a federal-state partnership and
operated through grants and partnerships with state and private
sector organizations. Only a small percent of the jobs listed
on the site are in government. The rest are in the private sector.
There is no charge to either the employers who list their job
vacancies or to job seekers, because each state’s Employment
Service program is funded through unemployment insurance taxes
paid by employers. A companion site called America’s Career
InfoNet (www.acinet.org) offers wage and employment trends,
occupational requirements, state-by-state labor market conditions,
and an extensive career resource library. The site offers contacts
to millions of employers nationwide.
CareerBuilder...................................................................................https://www.careerbuilder.com
Founded in 1995 as NetStart,
CareerBuilder launched its Internet services in 2000, expanded
by purchasing Headhunter.net in 2001, and launched exclusive
alliances with AOL in 2004 and MSN in 2004. CareerBuilder has
surpassed its competitors in job search traffic and became one
of the leaders in the online recruitment industry. It now commands
about 45 percent of the market share for job postings, the highest
in the industry. CareerBuilder offers job seekers a Career Resource
Center, Résumé Distribution, Brainbench Skills
Certification, and Personal Salary Reports, among other services.
The Personal Search Agent feature allows you to track jobs that
match your skills and preferences precisely. You can also have
your Personal Search Agents e-mail to you the results of your
searches daily or weekly.
Yahoo!
HotJobs.com .........................................................................https://hotjobs.yahoo.com
HotJobs
was acquired by Yahoo! in early 2002 and has since grown to
one of the largest career hubs on the Internet. Job seekers
voted HobJobs the “Best General Purpose Job Board for
Job Seekers.” Yahoo! also purchased the Resumix applicant
tracking software and developed the Hiring Gateway to help
companies manage their human capital. Users of HotJobs can
search for jobs by keyword, job category, location, experience
level, or a combination of any of the above. Personal job
search agents match a job seeker’s criteria with the
latest job postings and send e-mail back to the job seeker.
If you want to keep your search confidential from your current
employer, HotJobs allows you to block some or all of its member
companies from viewing your résumé with the
“HotBlock” feature. To help you with online networking,
HotJobs gives you access to communities varying by industry
where you can chat and develop relationships with workers
in member companies.
Monster.com
....................................................................................https://www.monster.com
Everyone
has heard about the “monster”! The flagship brand
of TMP Worldwide, Monster.com has 20 sites worldwide and is
considered one of the world’s leading online career networks.
Job seekers can search Monster’s database of more than
800,000 job opportunities offered by 130,000+ employers and
set up job search agents to search postings by location, keyword,
job type, and job category. Results can be delivered via e-mail
as often as you choose. You can input your résumé
using Monster.com’s résumé builder form,
cut and paste an ASCII text résumé, or upload
an MS Word résumé. You can create and store different
versions of your résumé in your My Monster home
page to target different types of jobs or specific employers.
Monster.com has a three-tiered résumé privacy
technology that gives job seekers complete control over who
may access their personal information. In addition to the job
bank and résumé database, Monster.com has a unique
dynamic content delivery that lets you customize your My Monster
home page for a more personalized and meaningful online experience.
Job seekers can choose topics of interest, and Monster. com
will automatically pull articles and advice related to those
interests from its thousands of pages of content. The range
of topics includes career change, managing your boss, life/work
balance, time management, interviewing, work and health, self-assessment,
relocation, and much more. NationJob
Network ...........................................................................https://www.nationjob.com
NationJob
was initially formed as the National Employment Wire Service
Corporations in California in 1988. The original business
of the company was to advertise job openings on stand-alone
personal computers placed in college career centers. The company’s
network of sites grew with the purchase of competitors, and
the company began offering service via the Internet in January
1995. A November 1993 Wall Street Journal article recognized
NationJob’s privacy policy as one of the best in the
industry. In a study conducted by the World Privacy Forum,
NationJob was named as one of the top three companies best
at protecting private information. NationJob offers P.J. Scout,
a personal job search agent that sends job seekers a list
of openings that meet their keyword-defined requirements.
Even though NationJob was purchased by Resumix, which was
subsequently purchased by Yahoo! NationJob has continued to
maintain its separate identity.
USA
Jobs ........................................................................................https://www.USAjobs.opm.gov
Do
you want to work for the U.S. government? Then this is the
site for you. USAJobs is the official site of the United States
Office of Personnel Management. It is your one-stop source
for federal jobs and employment information. Many federal
agencies fill their jobs like private industry by allowing
applicants to contact the agency directly for job information
and application processing. Most federal agencies are responsible
for their own hiring actions. While the hiring process is
now very similar to that in private industry, there are still
significant differences due to the many laws, executive orders,
and regulations that govern federal employment. Even the résumé
requirements are different (see the Federal résumé
at the end of Chapter 6). The USAJobs Web site features an
online résumé builder that allows job seekers
to create online résumés specifically designed
for applying for federal jobs. Read each job’s application
requirements very closely. There are always additional documents
needed besides your résumé.
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