Job Site Reviews
All of the career sites I describe below are completely free for job seekers. They make their money from advertising,
from fees employers pay to post job openings and search for your resume, and from additional services that many offer
to you.
These additional services often include help writing your resume and emailing, faxing, or mailing your resume to many potential employers. I have never used any of these services. My personal opinion is that it is less expensive to buy a good book on how to create a good resume, and that employers are probably not interested in being spammed with unsolicited resumes no matter what method of delivery is used.
The key differences between sites are:
These additional services often include help writing your resume and emailing, faxing, or mailing your resume to many potential employers. I have never used any of these services. My personal opinion is that it is less expensive to buy a good book on how to create a good resume, and that employers are probably not interested in being spammed with unsolicited resumes no matter what method of delivery is used.
The key differences between sites are:
- The types and quantities of jobs listed
- The number of different targeted resumes you can store
- How many of your resumes are searchable by employers
- The formatting of your resumes on the site
- The job search options
- The automatic notification options (job search agents for email or RSS)
| Beyond.com is also known as 4Jobs.com. Jobs: General site with over 200,000 jobs listed. Resume Quantity: One. Searchable Resumes: One. For your profile, you can only select a maximum of ten job titles in three industries and seven skills from lists that they provide. Resume Formatting: Text only, 20,000 characters each (without contact information). Officially. Unofficially, you can use HTML. For HTML, you can only use plain HTML (no CSS), you must only paste what is between the "BODY" tags, and you need to make the whole file into one long line to avoid having extra vertical space that you don't want. They do not provide any these instructions on their site – I had to figure them out the hard way. Cover Letters: One. Applications: Must be made through the site as employer contact information is not provided. Applications are tracked. Search Features: They support the richest set of keyword search operators of any site (including Boolean, proximity, and two types of wildcards). Unfortunately, they only allow 100 characters for the entire search string. You can filter on region, state, or up to three area codes and by up to two industries. You cannot filter by the date the jobs are posted. Agents: Several, based on searches. You cannot select the format or frequency of the email alerts. You can also set up RSS feeds, but these seem to support a much simpler set of search criteria. The email alerts contain the title, city, state, and salary for each match. Additional Features: They provide a web address that you can give out so people can see your resume. They also offer a free resume review, but I have not used that feature. The site offers a wide variety of information and miscellaneous features and is worthwhile to just browse around. Recommendations for you: A worthwhile place to post your resume, especially if you do not have your own web site, since they will provide a web address that you can give out to view your on-line profile. Searches are very good if you don't need to use many keywords. Note that you cannot hide your contact information unless you purchase one of their enhanced options. Recommendations for them: Support multiple searchable resumes (five would be nice). Allow all resumes to have the option of being searchable. Fully support HTML resumes, including CSS. Support many more characters for keywords in searches (750 would be nice). Support a separate cover letter for each resume. Verify with the user before submitting an application. Provide a way to cancel or withdraw an application. Provide a way to follow up with employers. |
BestJobs USA |
| Jobs: General career site. I did a search with no filtering and only found 7,713 jobs
(on 11/30/2005). Resume Quantity: One. Searchable Resumes: One. Resume Formatting: Text only. Search Features: Searches can be filtered by state and city (picked from a list). You can select a category from a list, and enter keywords that can only be treated as "all". Recommendations for you: You can probably safely overlook this one. Recommendations for them: Get serious or shut down. |
Career.com |
| Jobs: Submitting the registration form on this site results in a "Page not found"
error. A search for all types of jobs in all states in all categories resulted in only 400 or so matches.
I randomly looked at several job postings and each one was from 2003. It seems safe to assume that this site
is dead, but no one has had the decency to bury it. Recommendations for you: You can safely overlook this one. Recommendations for them: Sell the domain name to someone that will actually use it. |
CareerBoard.com |
| Jobs: A general site supporting only nine metropolitan areas. Resume Quantity: Three. Searchable Resumes: All three, which is great if you are targeting different types of jobs. You may pick up to three categories and enter up to 500 characters for a description of your desired job. Resume Formatting: Text only. Officially. Unofficially, HTML works. No documented size limit. I was able to paste in all 59k of mine without a problem. For HTML, you can only use plain HTML (no CSS), you must only paste what is between the "BODY" tags, and you need to make the whole file into one long line to avoid having extra vertical space that you don't want. They do not provide any of these instructions on their site – I had to figure them out the hard way. Cover Letters: Five. Applications: Supported. Search Features: Searches are for one metropolitan area only and can be filtered by selecting a category from a list, and enter keywords for "any", "all", and "exact phrase matching". Agents: Several, based on searches. Email alerts can be text or HTML. Email frequency is daily only. Recommendations for you: A good place to post your resume if you are looking within the areas that they cover. For searches and alerts, you are better off using SimplyHired which includes the jobs from this site. Recommendations for them: Fully support HTML resumes, including CSS. Support many more characters for keywords in searches (750 would be nice) along with a full set of Boolean operators (or at least add a box for "not" entries). |
| Jobs: A general site featuring over 100,000 jobs posted in the most recent 30 days. Resume Quantity: More than five. Searchable Resumes: All, which is great if you are targeting different types of jobs. Each resume is part of a profile, which includes up to three job categories, your preferred commuting distance, and the locations to which you would consider relocating. Resume Formatting: Text only, either by pasting the text directly or uploading a word processing file (which the site automatically converts to plain text). Resumes are limited to 10,000 characters. Cover Letters: More than five text cover letters of up to 4,000 characters each. Applications: Supported, using your choice of resume and cover letter. Search Features: Filtering by location, up to three categories, and keywords combined with "all", "any", and "not" (use a "-" before a word). The keywords box holds 250 characters. Agents: Up to five, supporting all search features. HTML email alerts include the first ten matches, showing the location, title, and company for each position with a link to the full postings and to the full set of search results. No RSS feeds are available. Recommendations for you: A good place to post your resume and create search agents. Recommendations for them: Double the allowed size for each resume. Support HTML resumes, including CSS. Double the number of characters for keywords in searches. Add a specific check-box for "no relocation" in profiles. |
Career Magazine |
| Jobs: The software used by this site is the same as that used by
Beyond.com (4Jobs.com). See that review (above).
In fact, they seem to use the same resume and job databases and this may simply be another "brand name" for
the same company. The main differences seem to be the color scheme, the top banner, and the copyright notice. Recommendations for you: Use this or Beyond.com (4Jobs.com), but not both. Recommendations for them: Just redirect users to Beyond.com (4Jobs.com). |
Career Shop |
| Jobs: This site had less than 450 jobs in all categories in all locations with no
keywords specified when I checked on 12/3/05. Search Features: Few. Recommendations for you: You can safely overlook this one. Recommendations for them: Sell the domain name to someone that will actually use it. |
CareerJournal |
| Jobs: Run by The Wall Street Journal's CareerJournal,
this site uses the careercast.com platform, but all such sites have their own unique job databases. Resume Quantity: Several. Searchable Resumes: All, which is great if you are targeting different types of jobs. Each resume is part of a profile, which includes up to five job categories picked from their list, and a text box to enter locations to which you would consider relocating. Resume Formatting: Text and HTML (including inline style attributes) are supported and you can upload Word and Acrobat files. There is no documented maximum size. Cover Letters: More than five text or text cover letters with no documented maximum size. Applications: Supported, using your choice of resume and cover letter. Search Features: Supports "all", "any", and "not" (use a "-" before a word) keyword matching with over 500 characters allowed for the search string. You may pick only one category from their list. You can also enter one zip code or one state and choose a radius centered on that location. Agents: You can save multiple search agents that use all of the search features. Results can be emailed to you as text or HTML with several choices for frequency. The emails list the title, company, city, and state of the first ten job matches with links to the full postings and the rest of the search results. When you click in the email to see the full set of results, it does not remember the number of jobs per page or the time span of the search. Recommendations for you: A good place to post your resume if you are looking within the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area. For searches and alerts, this site is very good. Recommendations for them: Add at least a little bit of the job description and the salary (if available) for each job to the agent emails to avoid having to examine each agent result in detail. Have the link in the email for the full search results remember the number of jobs per page and the time span of the search. |
Careers on InfoWorld |
| Jobs: It has links to ITcareers.com for actual
job hunting and resume posting. Additional Features: This site seems to offer good resources for job seekers in the IT field such as salary and state job outlook information, but all of it is quite old. I didn't see anything newer than 1999. Recommendations for you: You can safely overlook this one. Recommendations for them: Update the data or take down the pages. |
ColumbusJobs.com |
| Jobs: Contains the job listings from the classifieds section of The Columbus Dispatch,
our local daily paper. It uses the careercast.com platform, but all such sites have their own unique job databases. Resume Quantity: Several. Searchable Resumes: All, which is great if you are targeting different types of jobs. Each resume is part of a profile, which includes up to five job categories picked from their list, and a text box to enter locations to which you would consider relocating. Resume Formatting: Text and HTML (including inline style attributes) are supported and you can upload Word and Acrobat files. There is no documented maximum size. Cover Letters: More than five text or text cover letters with no documented maximum size. Applications: Supported, using your choice of resume and cover letter. Search Features: Supports "all", "any", and "not" (use a "-" before a word) keyword matching with over 500 characters allowed for the search string. You may pick only one category from their list. You can also enter one zip code or one state and choose a radius centered on that location. Unlike other careercast sites, there is no option to pick job types: direct, contract, or both. You can choose whether or not to include jobs from the national database (this includes ads from papers across the country). Agents: You can save multiple search agents that use all of the search features. Results can be emailed to you as text or HTML with several choices for frequency. The emails list the title, company, city, and state of the first ten job matches with links to the full postings and the rest of the search results. When you click in the email to see the full set of results, it does not remember the number of jobs per page or the time span of the search. Recommendations for you: A good place to post your resume if you are looking within the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area. For searches and alerts, this site is very good. Recommendations for them: Allow selection of multiple categories in one search. Add at least a little bit of the job description and the salary (if available) for each job to the agent emails to avoid having to examine each agent result in detail. Have the link in the email for the full search results remember the number of jobs per page and the time span of the search. |
ComputerWork.com |
| Jobs: Over 5,500 High Tech jobs. Resume Quantity: One. Searchable Resumes: One. Resume Formatting: Text only. They specifically state that you should not use HTML, however most HTML seems to work. For HTML, you can only use plain HTML (no CSS), you must only paste what is between the "BODY" tags, and you need to make the whole file into one long line to avoid having extra vertical space that you don't want. "CENTER" tags and "ALIGN=center" attributes are ignored, but heading tags seem to be centered whether you like it or not. They do not provide any these instructions on their site – I had to figure them out the hard way. Search Features: Searches can include only nine keywords, which are joined by your choice of "or" or "and". The only other filtering offered is by state, metropolitan area, or area code and by job type (full time, etc.). Agents: The email from the agent only provides a link to the site, where you must go to see the new positions. Each is placed in a personalized section of the site, and you need to manually delete each one individually one wait six days for them to be automatically removed from your list. Recommendations for you: A good place to post your resume, but I recommend using Indeed.com to find listings from this site. SimplyHired does not yet include this site's database as of 12/5/05. Recommendations for them: Fully support HTML resumes, including CSS. Allow multiple searchable resumes. Totally overhaul the user interface for keyword matching to support full Boolean expressions. Get more job listings. |
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| Jobs: Over 81,000 jobs for technology professionals. Resume Quantity: Several. Searchable Resumes: One. Resume Formatting: Text, HTML, or a link to a web page. Search Features: Support all Boolean operators and parenthesis, however they only allow a 120 character string. Filtering by state or area code is supported, but not filtering by category. Agents: You can save up to five search agents. The matches are emailed to you as your choice of text or HTML and with your choice of daily or weekly frequency. Recommendations for you: A good place to post your resume, as it has some great job listings that I didn't find anywhere else. For searches and alerts, you are better off using SimplyHired which includes the jobs from this site. Recommendations for them: Add an option for each resume to make it searchable or not. Support much longer keyword strings (750 characters at a minimum). |
Employment 911 |
| This site has very, very few jobs and seems to exist mainly to sell their Resume Writing and "Resume Blasting" service. In my opinion, this one is a waste of time. |
| Jobs: Over 81,000 jobs for technology professionals. Resume Quantity: One. Searchable Resumes: One. You can only select two categories and two metropolitan areas for your profile. Resume Formatting: Text only. No documented maximum size. Cover Letters: One, text only. Search Features: Only supports three keywords joined by "and". You can filters by one metropolitan area, one category, one job type, and one salary range. In other words, pretty sad. Agents: None. Recommendations for you: It wouldn't hurt to post your resume as they claim over 1,000 employers and recruiters search them. There don't seem to be very many jobs posted, so I doubt you miss much by not searching it. Given that there are no agents and the search is so pathetic, don't bother. Recommendations for them: Add the ability to post multiple searchable resumes. Support HTML resumes, including CSS. Provide a way for job seekers to preview how their resume will look to employers. Support a much richer set of search features and agents. |
| Jobs: Indeed is a search engine for jobs. In
one search, you get free access to millions of employment opportunities from thousands of websites. They include
the job listings from over 1,000 major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages. They
do not publish a list of their sources, so you have to figure out on your own which individual job board agents
you can get rid of once you set up an alert here. Indeed has a de-duplication system that collapses multiple
jobs under one result. Where this occurs, duplicate jobs can be viewed by clicking on a link beneath the result. Resume Quantity: None. Search Features: Searches support "AND", "OR", "-" (for "NOT"), and parenthesis but only allow about 250 characters for the entire string. You can also filter by a city, state, or zip code. In advanced search, you can also enter keywords for "at least one", "all", "exact phrase", "none", "title", or "company" filter by the age of the posting, and choose a radius from your chosen location. Since every job board categorizes jobs differently, there is no option to filter jobs that way. Therefore you may want to think twice about using this instead of the individual job board agents, depending on your particular needs. Agents: Searches can be saved as email alerts or as an RSS feed. Emails are sent daily in HTML format and contain the title, company, city, state, originating job board name, posting date and time, and the first bit of the description for the first 20 positions and a link to the full set of matches. Recommendations for you: An excellent search engine covering many job sites. You should consider using this instead of a site's own agents if you see results from that site in the Indeed results. That cuts down on the number of emails you'll get, and much of the duplication of jobs between sites. Recommendations for them: Allow for at least 750 characters in the search string. Publish a list of the sources being searched or allow a search for whether a particular site is included. |
Internet Job Source |
| Very few job listings, but a great source of links to state and city specific job sites. |
IT Careers |
| Jobs: This is a partnership of The Wall Street Journal's
CareerJournal and ComputerWorld.
It uses the careercast.com platform, but all such sites have their own unique job databases. Resume Quantity: Several. Searchable Resumes: All, which is great if you are targeting different types of jobs. Each resume is part of a profile, which includes up to five job categories picked from their list, and a text box to enter locations to which you would consider relocating. Resume Formatting: Text and HTML (including inline style attributes) are supported and you can upload Word and Acrobat files. There is no documented maximum size. Cover Letters: More than five text or text cover letters with no documented maximum size. Applications: Supported, using your choice of resume and cover letter. Search Features: Supports "all", "any", and "not" (use a "-" before a word) keyword matching with over 500 characters allowed for the search string. Unlike the other CareerCast sites, this one does not provide filtering by job category. You can also enter one zip code or one state and choose a radius centered on that location. Agents: You can save multiple search agents that use all of the search features. Results can be emailed to you as text or HTML with several choices for frequency. The emails list the title, company, city, and state of the first ten job matches with links to the full postings and the rest of the search results. When you click in the email to see the full set of results, it does not remember the number of jobs per page or the time span of the search. Recommendations for you: A good place to post your resume and for searches and alerts. Recommendations for them: Add filtering searches by job category. Add at least a little bit of the job description and the salary (if available) for each job to the agent emails to avoid having to examine each agent result in detail. Have the link in the email for the full search results remember the number of jobs per page and the time span of the search. |
ITClassifieds.com |
| Jobs: A division of CareerEngine.com, this is a
career site for IT professionals, with 621 jobs listed as of 12/6/05. A test
search for "Oracle" anywhere in the US only returned 91 jobs. They claim 100,000 unique visitors per month,
but I can't imagine why so many people would bother with this site. I wonder how many visit more than once
or twice. CareerEngine.com has other sites specifically for Accounting,
Engineering, Financial, and Sales. All have the same poor software and relatively few job listings. Resume Quantity: Five. Searchable Resumes: One. Resume Formatting: Text only. Cover Letters: None. Search Features: Searches provide one keywords box with your choice of "any", "all", and "exact phrase" modes. You can filter on up to five states or area codes and there are checkboxes for "full time", "part time", and "consulting". Agents: You can have more than nine agents. They have a different set of search criteria than regular searches. For agents there is simply a keywords box with no clue as to whether they are combined using "any" or "all". You can filter on just one state or area code, and there are no checkboxes for job type. You can optionally paste in a different resume for each agent and have that resume sent automatically in response to any job that agent discovers. Given the poor search features, I think that is a very bad idea. Recommendations for you: With so few jobs and such poor search agents, I'd skip this one in favor of better IT job sites listed on this page. Recommendations for them: Look at the features offered by your competitors and then decide if you want to improve or just find another line of work. |
| Jobs: General site with over 61,000 jobs as of 12/6/05. Resume Quantity: Several. Each resume is part of a profile that includes one job category, salary, and up to five locations. Up to seven business skills, ten software skills, and ten foreign languages are stored and apply to all resumes. Searchable Resumes: One. Resume Formatting: Text only. Cover Letters: One per resume. Search Features: The keywords field can use full Boolean expressions but only allows 150 characters. You can use multiple selections for categories and cities. You can filter on salary and choose whether to include listings with no salary information. Agents: Weekly e-mail containing current jobs that match the industry and state from your account registration. No way to turn a search into an agent. Recommendations for you: When you register, you are automatically signed up for a bunch of newsletters, but you can opt out of them by using their Newsletter Subscription Manager choice on the menus. It wouldn't hurt to post a resume here, as they claim to have over 1,000 employers and recruiters searching the site. With no agents, you must return to the site every time you want to do a search and life is just too short for that. Recommendations for them: Allow all resumes to be active. Support HTML resumes, including CSS. Associate a set of business, software, and language skills with each resume. Support more characters for keyword searches (at least 750 characters) and enable the creation of search agents or RSS feeds from a search. |
Job-Hunt.org |
| A job search guide and resource directory with links to many useful job sites that are for specific states or industries. |
| Formerly ComputerJobs.com. Jobs: Over 32,000 U.S. listings the last time I looked. Jobs are only listed for seven days, so the listings are always fresh.
There are also listings for other regions worldwide. Resume Quantity: Ten. Searchable Resumes: Five. Resume Formatting: The maximum file size for uploading your Resume is 200k and file types ‘doc’, ‘txt’, ‘rtf’ and ‘pdf’ are all supported. Search Features: Supports full Boolean criteria as well as narrowing results by annual salary, hourly rate, industry, state and city. Slightly confusing interface. Agents: You can only save multiple search agents. Results can be emailed to you either daily or made available as an RSS feed. Recommendations for you: A good place to post your resume and create search agents. Recommendations for them: Allow multiple searchable resumes. |
JobWeb.com |
| A good selection of articles, all geared to new graduates. No job search. |
| Jobs: Lee Hecht Harrison is a major outplacement
firm and part of the Adecco family of companies, so they have a huge
number of listings. It uses the careercast.com platform, but all such sites have their own unique job databases.
I have gotten more calls from recruiters who say they found my resume here than from any other site. Resume Quantity: Several. Searchable Resumes: All, which is great if you are targeting different types of jobs. Each resume is part of a profile, which includes up to five job categories picked from their list, and a text box to enter locations to which you would consider relocating. Resume Formatting: Text and HTML (including inline style attributes) are supported and you can upload Word and Acrobat files. There is no documented maximum size. Cover Letters: More than five text or text cover letters with no documented maximum size. Applications: Supported, using your choice of resume and cover letter. Search Features: Supports "all", "any", and "not" (use a "-" before a word) keyword matching with over 500 characters allowed for the search string. Unlike the other CareerCast sites, this one does not provide filtering by job category. You can also enter one zip code or one state and choose a radius centered on that location. Agents: You can save multiple search agents that use all of the search features. Results can be emailed to you as text or HTML with several choices for frequency. The emails list the title, company, city, and state of the first ten job matches with links to the full postings and the rest of the search results. When you click in the email to see the full set of results, it does not remember the number of jobs per page or the time span of the search. Recommendations for you: A good place to post your resume and for searches and alerts. Recommendations for them: Add filtering searches by job category. Add at least a little bit of the job description and the salary (if available) for each job to the agent emails to avoid having to examine each agent result in detail. Have the link in the email for the full search results remember the number of jobs per page and the time span of the search. |
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| Jobs: General site with over 465,000 jobs listed as of 12/6/05. The "800 pound gorilla"
of career sites. Resume Quantity: Five. Searchable Resumes: One. Resume Formatting: Plain text only, even if you upload a Word document. If you copy and paste a text resume, you only get 20,000 characters. If you upload a Word resume and then edit the resulting text (or paste over it), the size limit is far higher. You can also add each job and school in your history in individual entries. Cover Letters: Five text cover letters with no documented maximum size. Search Features: Supports filtering by location, up to five categories, up to ten industries, and full Boolean keyword searches (although that is undocumented). The keywords field is limited to 200 characters. Agents: You can create up to 5 search agents. HTML email alerts show the location, title, and company for the top ten matches with a link to the full set of current search results. Recommendations for you: Definitely post your resume here. It is also a good place for searches and alerts. Recommendations for them: Support HTML resumes (including CSS). Remove the 20,000 character limit for pasted resumes. Allow many more characters for the keywords field in searches. Add at least a little bit of the job description and the salary (if available) for each job to the agent emails to avoid having to examine each agent result in detail. |
| Jobs: General site. Resume Quantity: One per account, but you can set up as many accounts for the same email address as you like. Searchable Resumes: One per account. Resume Formatting: You can upload your resume in text, HTML, or Word format. To modify it, you need to delete your account and then recreate it. Search Features: The search criteria includes category, salary range, and city. Filtering by keyword supports "all", "any", "not", and parenthesis, but only allows 94 characters for the entire string. Agents: One per account. Making any change to the criteria means starting over from scratch. Emails are sent weekly. Recommendations for you: A decent place to post your resume and for searches and alerts, but it is a pain to use. Recommendations for them: Allow at least 750 characters for the keywords field in searches. Update the user interface to enable editing of existing searches and resumes. |
Net-Temps |
| Jobs: Despite the name, this site is not just for temp/contract positions, but for
temporary, temp-to-perm and full time employment through a staffing agency. The site only had about 28,000
job listings on 12/8/05, but claimed over 270,000 resumes and over 5,000 recruiters participating. Resume Quantity: Three. Searchable Resumes: All. Resume Formatting: You can upload a Word resume, build one from a choice of 8 templates, or paste an ASCII resume (up to 15,000 characters). Although they tell you not to, you can use HTML (including CSS blocks or inline style attributes) if you only paste what is between the "BODY" tags. You will probably need to tinker with it. For example, any tables that you use must have their width set to 630 or less. If you leave out the width for any table, everything will display so wide that you have to see it to believe it. Putting <style>table {width:630px;}</style> at the beginning is one way to avoid the problem. There is also an 800 character text "Message to Recruiters" associated with each. Some limited HTML can be used in these, but not tables. Cover Letters: Three. Search Features: Filtering by up to five states or metropolitan area, only one category, and keywords combined with "all" or "any", with "not" (use a "-" before a word) being supported either way. The keywords box holds well over 500 characters. Agents: You can select the email frequency and either text or HTML format. The emails contain the job title, location, duration (if it is a temporary position) and employer, with a link to the full job listing for each position. Recommendations for you: A good place to post your resume and for searches and alerts. Recommendations for them: Fully support HTML resumes. Remove the 15,000 character limit for pasted resumes. Add at least a little bit of the job description and the salary (if available) for each job to the agent emails to avoid having to examine each agent result in detail. |
Operation IT |
| Jobs: Information Technology only. Resume Quantity: Multiple. Searchable Resumes: All. Resume Formatting: Text only. Officially. Unofficially, HTML works. No documented size limit. I was able to paste in all 59k of mine without a problem. For HTML, you can use style attributes, you must only paste what is between the "BODY" tags, and you need to make the whole file into one long line to avoid having extra vertical space that you don't want. They do not provide any these instructions on their site – I had to figure them out the hard way. Search Features: None. This site is for posting resumes only. Recommendations for you: A good place to post your resume. Recommendations for them: Add searches and agents for jobs. |
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| SimplyHired indexes more than 4.5 million jobs
from thousands of sources and provides filtered searches, ratings and other services for job hunters. They
do not publish a list of their sources, so you have to figure out on your own which individual job board agents
you can get rid of once you set up an alert here. SimplyHired has a de-duplication system that shows each
position only once and provides links to all of the sources in which the job was found. They are partnered
with LinkedIn, Google Maps,
PayScale, and others to add value. For example, you can just click
a button to see data about the salaries for that job title in your state and the surrounding areas. A click
on another button brings up a map with the job's location marked. Another button shows you all of the people
in your LinkedIn network that work at the company that is offering the position. Click an icon next to the
company name and you get a brief profile of the employer. Another major feature of SimplyHired is that you can rate a position as "Not Interested", or on a scale of one to five stars. Only you can see the ratings, and rating a job saves the job posting to a "My Jobs" area. You can check a box to filter out the "Not Interested" jobs from that view. Once saved, the site lets you add comments next to the job posting. You can use these comments to track your applications, why you do or don't like the position, or whatever else you like. The comments are also only seen by you. Rating positions also provides another benefit. The site uses them to give you a page of "Suggestions" of other positions that are similar to ones you rated highly, just like your Tivo does for TV shows. Since every job board categorized jobs differently, there is no option to filter jobs based on category, so you may want to think twice about using this instead of the individual job board agents, depending on your particular needs. Advanced searches provide text boxes for "all", "exact phrase", "at least one", "without", "job title", and "company name". You can also filter by distance from a city, state, or zip code and by the age of the posting. There are also filters I haven't seen anywhere else: you can filter by the number of employees or annual revenues of the company and by whether the company is on a particular list, such as the "Fortune 500" or the "Working Mother 100 Best". Searches can be saved as email alerts or as an RSS feed. Emails are sent daily in HTML format and contain the title, company, city, state, originating job board name, posting date and time, and the first bit of the description for the first 20 positions and a link to the full set of matches. They do not save any profile information or resumes. |
Ohio Hiring Management System |
| Jobs with state government. You can store your profile and short (3600 character) ASCII resume. No search agents, but you can sign up to be notified whenever a job in a broad category becomes available. |
tech-centric.net |
| Jobs: Information Technology only. Resume Quantity: None. You can store one profile, which includes your preferred state(s), type(s) of job (direct, contract, etc.), one job function selected from a list, and checkboxes for specific skills, but no resume. Search Features: There are two types of search. 1) You can filter by state(s), type(s) of job (direct, contract, etc.), and using checkboxes for specific skills. 2) You have full Boolean searching for keywords, but no ability to filter by location or type of job. Agents: One. You cannot save a search as an agent. The agent goes strictly by your profile with no support for any type of keyword search. The daily emails are HTML containing the city, state, company, and title of each job with links to the full posting. Recommendations for you: This is not one of my favorites, but I do occasionally see jobs not on other sites. Recommendations for them: Add keyword searches for agents and support filtering down to the metropolitan area level, not just by state. Allow selection of multiple job functions in the profiles. |
| Jobs: Over 22,000 jobs listed as of 12/8/05. Run by the Allegis Group, parent company
to some of the world's largest staffing companies including Aerotek, TEKsystems, and Mentor 4, Inc. Resume Quantity: One. Searchable Resumes: One. Resume Formatting: Text only, formatted to be 65 characters wide or the line wrapping will be really ugly. No documented size limit. Search Features: You can filter only by country (US or Canada), state, and keywords. Keywords are automatically joined by "and" and the field only allows 128 characters. Agents: Any search can be saved as an agent. Email alerts only tell you that you have new matches, but you have to go to the site to find out what they are, or even how many there are. Recommendations for you: It is worth posting a resume here, as you'll probably be considered before resumes that they find on other job boards, but any job posted here is probably also posted on other job boards. Since the searching is so weak, I wouldn't bother setting up an agent here. Recommendations for them: Add full Boolean keyword searches, allow at least 750 characters for the keywords field, and support filtering down to the metropolitan area level, not just by state. |
WetFeet.com |
| You can set up search agents for jobs. Each agent ANDs keywords, allows only one job category, only one city/state combination (with optional proximity modifier), and no salary criteria. However, you can set up many agents. |
| You can store up to ten text or HTML resumes, but only one can be searchable. You can see how often your resume is viewed and the status of your various job applications and set up multiple search agents for jobs. Each agent supports entries for "and", "exact phrase", "any", and "not" keywords (but only 80 characters for each), a selection of up to three categories, and up to two city/state or zip code preferences. The daily email alerts provide the job locations, titles, employer names, and links to the individual postings for the first ten matches and a link to the full search results. |
International Relocation Salary Calculator |
| The cost of living data is assembled by the Center for Mobility Resources. The formulas are
based for the most part on those adopted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The five major categories for
U.S. and Canadian data are housing costs (33%), utilities (8%), consumables (16%), transportation (10%), and
other services (33%). Outside of North America, we do not include housing cost. In the U.S. and Canada, we have a reliable network of real estate agents supplying us with current housing information. We do not have a comparable network overseas. |
Cost of Living Analysis |
| Tell it your current location, salary, and where you might want to live. It tells you how much money you need to earn in the new location to maintain your current standard of living. |
