Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Internet Job Search Sites - Relax, Let the job find you while you do nothing


Are you suffering from depression or a recession? There are a lot of job sites with supposed jobs to apply for aren't there? How come you can't find a job? Is there something wrong with you? It's not you that's the problem it's the fact that you're using the wrong technology to find the job. What job site is the best to use now adays? Have you tried applying to jobs all day and nobody is hiring you? What a waste of your time. Why not use the best job site on the web that has the technology designed to work for you not against you? Everyone is looking for jobs. Don't be like everyone else. Do you want to be the needle in the needle stack or the needle in the haystack? It's time to have the job find you not find the job. Searching all day for jobs on the interweb was the old way of doing things. Review Before you Buy will show you how to best harness the power of the internet to land your dream job without even looking. Without even looking? That's right. Through using the right web technology your next job will actually find you.

Our Economic Climate
Job analysts get paid. Job analysts have jobs as job analysts. They refer to our current economic climate with pretty words that inspire hope like; recession. Doesn't sound so bad when it is put that way does it? Like when someone calls a fat person big-boned. It just sounds nice and doesn't make anyone uncomfortable.

Job analysts have fancy projections that help to explain stuff that's going on in our economy and reasons why people don't have jobs now. Can they help you find a job? No. But they do have charts and are full of numbers that calculate intelligent projections that aim to predict when people can expect to find jobs. The outlook is always recessing.. never depressing.

If these same analysts didn't have jobs I bet they would use different words to explain what is going on. They might even say things like, "Man, we are in a depression right now." or ...

"It is really awful out there. I can't find a job to save my life." or..

"Mom and Dad can I borrow some money."

Billion dollar bailouts, financial crisis meltdowns, Obama's hope.. where are we to turn to to find jobs that pay us money? On the internet there are jobs right? Where? Which job site is best?

Review Before you buy has looked around for work enough on the internet to be able to help you out. Read our review below for the best jobsites that will put you to work quickly with the least amount of spam and clicks.

The Top 10 general job sites in regards to traffic and popularity are as follows:

1. Monster.com
I don't know why this mess of a site still is number 1, but it is. Monster.com is still the biggest and the most popular. If you've been on monster.com lately you might notice that it's more of an advertising site then a site for a person out of work. You might also notice that the load time for pages is ridiculously slow. That's probably due to the fact that these days they pack more advertisements in each page and between pages then they do jobs. With over 800,000 jobs, 130,000 employers and literally millions of resumes this is a big mess. They have associated sites in more than 20 countries around the world and everytime you submit yourself for a job you are faced with advertisements from companies that want to spam your email with their services. We don't recommend Monster.com to anyone looking for a job, but it is great if you like to fill your mailbox up with junk mail.

2. Careerbuilder.com
CareerBuilder is #2 in popularity and owned by several newspapers (Knight Ridder, Tribune and Gannett). Careerbuilder includes print want ads from more than 200 different markets in electronic format. In addition to the website carreerbuilder.com it's connections with the newspapers makes it the #1 print recruitment services provider for the major metropolitan newspapers throughout the U.S. A lot of the crap you see on this website is just copied and pasted from the newspapers themselves. Might as well pickup a newspaper. They acquired CareerPath in the year 2000 and Headhunter in 2002. They will bombard your inbox with emails everyday for jobs you are not qualified for. If you try to get off their email distribution list you will understand the frustration we have for this site.

3. HotJobs.com
HotJobs.com is a subsidiary of Yahoo! which means more advertisements, less content and less relevant jobs in more time invested by you. When's the last time you used yahoo.com for your search engine? You probably use google.com because it doesn't bombard you with advertisements. Same applies here. Watch out for 3rd party employers on this website. 3rd party employers are a major headache and many of the jobs are scam jobs. It's frustrating that Yahoo Hotjobs would allow companies to advertise jobs that recieve so many complaints from the better business bureau, but there is a lot of money made in scamming people and these scam companies are able to pay Yahoo/Hotjobs lots of money to advertise their job postings.. so they remain. You can get around 3rd party job listing results on Hotjobs by searching for the type of firm (direct employer or staffing firm--make sure you specify that you don't want to see results from third-parties) You can also search by location, job category and experience level. When you limit down your search criteria to better match your skills and qualifications you are finally faced with relevant search results. I would recommend using a fake email to signup for Hotjobs because you will get spammed quite a bit with this one too.

4. Guru.com
Guru.com takes a very different approach from many other job boards in that it caters to freelance talent. If you are open to considering a contract, consulting or freelance work, this site may be just the right thing you need.

5. indeed.com
We love Indeed.com. Indeed.com is much like google.com in that it is a search engine for jobs that are posted on different job boards. Indeed.com is a job aggregator. You can have jobs delivered to you by e-mail alerts and connect job listing results to many common RSS feed readers.

6. Jobing.com
Jobing.com is limited geographically but does provide good local employment opportunities in Arizona, Colorado, South Florida, New Mexico and is growing in other areas.

7. Job.com
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8. Vault.com
Provides information on more than 3,000 companies and 70 industries. The Vault Career Library is Vault's best-selling collection of more than 60 career guides and employer profiles, including well-known titles such as the Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms, Vault Guide to Finance Interviews, and Vault Guide to the Top 50 Consulting Firms.

9. Jobster
Jobster is a job networking and aggregator site just like indeed.com and is growing in popularity.

10. simplyhired.com
simplyhired.com is a job aggregator similar to Indeed.com

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