Your favorite job-searching site?

[frugalone]

What is your favorite job-searching site?

I'm very frustrated with indeed.com and flipdog.com at the moment. It's like NOTHING ever turns up on there. And when I put certain words in (such as "editor") I get results totally unrelated to editing jobs!

[redfox]

For the non-profit sector, idealist.org.

[treehugger]

Craigslist. That's how I found my current job, and my company still posts jobs there (almost 6 years later).

Kara

[frugalone]

Craigslist. That's how I found my current job, and my company still posts jobs there (almost 6 years later).



I have a friend who finds freelance writing jobs on Craiglist, but I swear, all I ever see are things that look terribly suspicious. Work from Home! No Investment Needed! You know the kind...

[catherine]

LinkedIn. I get job notices targeted to my field, which makes looking really easy.

[frugalone]

LinkedIn. I get job notices targeted to my field, which makes looking really easy.

Do you need one of the Pro memberships for that?

[redfox]

Do you need one of the Pro memberships for that?

Nope. I get these notices too.

[Lainey]

The large international company I work for does not post jobs online in the typical monster.com, etc. sites. They post first internally, and if it's not filled, they'll post externally for a brief time, about 2-3 weeks max. Employees are also encouraged to recommend candidates, so honestly, I think the best bet is if you have a targeted company or agency, try to find someone already working there who can let you know when there are openings. LinkedIn can be good for that too.

Second best is to join an association which posts job openings on a webpage available to members only.

(I once asked our recruiter whether the company ever posted openings in the local newspaper, and her response was a quick No! Not quite sure why it drew that reaction, especially because I think local candidates are best and most likely hires for low-to-medium range positions.)

[fidgiegirl]

I like local, profession-specific sites for education. There are 2 or 3 go-to sites for Minnesota education professionals and that's the place to spot all the jobs. I haven't job hunted in a long time but I keep my eye on them just to see what's up. So I guess I'd use a variation of what Lainey said - if you don't know someone at a specific company but you do have an idea of a field you might like to get into, ask where that profession tends to post their jobs locally.

Good luck!!!

[SteveinMN]

Originally Posted by treehugger
Craigslist. That's how I found my current job, and my company still posts jobs there (almost 6 years later)
I have a friend who finds freelance writing jobs on Craiglist, but I swear, all I ever see are things that look terribly suspicious. Work from Home! No Investment Needed! You know the kind...
Yeah, there's a lot of spam on craigslist. That's what one gets for offering a free, essentially-unmoderated advertising resource. In my line of work, I see many people offering photo shoots for "the exposure" ("exposure" and 50 cents buy you a chocolate bar) and budding "fine-art photographers" looking for women willing to pose nude ("exposure" of a different kind >8) ). That said, I did get my first client (a building contractor) from a craigslist ad. So the careful ad reviewer might find something worthwhile there.

[Gardenarian]

jobstar.org (http://jobstar.org/) is great for California.

[Miss Cellane]

Craigslist is good for lower-echelon jobs, at least in my area. Admin assistants and office managers and factory workers and retail jobs. A lot of temp agencies also advertise jobs there. There's clearly some scams and a lot of work from home jobs, but we aren't near a large metropolitan area, so Craigslist fills a niche.

There is a small local daily paper and they have a job board that gets jobs other job boards don't.

Then the state has a job board that pulls jobs from a lot of places and puts them all in one place. Plus the state has its own job board for state government jobs.

I have discovered that once I find a company that I would like to work at if a good job opens up, it's best to check their job postings directly, every week or so. Frequently, jobs are posted there before they are announced on a public job board, and some never make it to Monster or Career Builder. I'm currently job hunting like mad, and I have one day a week where I just check on all the companies where I'd like to work and see what new openings they have.