| Good Job
Hunting: 12 Top Sites to Start Your Search
Features Comparison
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| If you're looking for a job | If you're trying to fill a position | |||||||||||||
| Site | Jobs listed
(4/28/98) |
Job search by | Résumé-building
template |
Job search agent
(e-mail) |
Online tips
and advice |
Forum/discussion
group |
Bulletin board
résumés |
Monthly cost per
single posting |
Cost to browse
résumé bank |
New candidate
notice (e-mail) |
Employer
information |
Links to employer
URLs |
Comments | |
| AfterCollege
www.aftercollege.com |
258,946 | |||||||||||||
| CareerBuilder*
www.careerbuilder.com |
6,000 | J, K, L, S | N | Y | Y | N | N | $150 | n/a | Y | Y | Y | Tons of career info, supereasy to navigate, résumé
posting
across affiliated network. |
|
| CareerMosaic
www.careermosaic.com |
70,000 | C, J, K, L | Y | N | Y | N | Y | $150 | free | N | N | Y | High-traffic site has tips on ASCII résumés, business
and
tech listings, helpful Career Center. |
|
| Cool Works
www.coolworks.com |
40,000 | J, L | N | N | N | N | N | $50 | n/a | N | Y | Y | Great source for fun, adventurous, and generally unconventional jobs. | |
| E.span
www.espan.com |
17,000 | C, J, L | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | $751 | $22502, 3 | Y | Y | Y | Heavy technical flavor in listings, limited career resources.
Résumé builder has editing capabilities. |
|
| Hot Jobs
www.hotjobs.com |
6000 | J, K, L | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | $80 | n/a | Y | Y | Y | Technically oriented job listings, easy-to-use search interface. | |
| JobBank USA
www.jobbankusa.com |
2000 | J, K, L | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | $641 | $19002 | N | Y | Y | Search capability for over 20 job sites. Helpful lists of Usenet
groups
and newspaper links. |
|
| JobCenter
www.jobcenter.com |
13,000 | K | Y | Y | Y | N | Y4 | $605 | free | Y | Y | Y | No bells and whistles, just basic job listings and résumé posting. | |
| Jobfinder.com
www.jobfinder.com |
200 | J, L | Y | N | N | Y | Y | free | free | N | N | N | Standard job and résumé postings. Very new at
time of
writing--not many listings. |
|
| JobWeb
www.jobweb.org |
3000 | K, L | N | N | Y | Y | N | $80 | n/a | N | Y | Y | National Association of Colleges and Employers' site has own
listings
plus links to useful sites. |
|
| The Monster Board*
www.monster.com |
50,000 | J, K, L | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | $88 | $49002 | Y | Y | Y | Has lots of listings and résumés. Job alert service
was
not working correctly at press time. |
|
| Online Career Center
www.occ.com |
81,000 | K, L | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | $150 | free | Y | Y | Y | Big site has tons of listings, especially for technical and finance positions. | |
| Yahoo Classifieds
www.classifieds.yahoo.com |
200,000 | K, L | N | N | N | N | Y | free | free | N | N | Y | Many job listings but hard to navigate. Résumé
posting is more of
a "position sought" classified ad. |
|
| *Recommended sites
C = Company; J = Job type; K = Keyword; L = Location; S = Salary 1Minimum two months. 2Per year. 3Varies according to subscription. 4$5 for six months. 5$30 for two-week minimum. |
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