April 2007
Springing into Spring
By
President of Workforce Associates
and author of
NetWork: Maximizing Your Career Resources on the Internet
Available online and in print from Author House
April 2007
Springing into Spring
By
President of Workforce Associates
and author of
NetWork: Maximizing Your Career Resources on the Internet
Available online and in print from Author House
"Springing into Spring" is a new perspective on job boards that work!
This month we'll continue our list of online job boards that readers continually mention as having effectively helped them find new careers and positions. These websites are also notable for providing sage advice to job hunters about new and emerging careers in their particular industries or fields, professional associations in which to network, and valuable information about the companies who post positions on these sites.
AllRetailJobs.comKeep your resumes coming during the lovely month of April. I enjoy massaging them and helping you more ahead in your current career or a new one. Next month we'll finish our list of the best job boards in the industry. Stay tuned, and thank you!AllRetailJobs.com is one of the best known career and recruiting boards designed for retail. Although most laymen tend to think of retail as only providing low wage jobs with no benefits or career mobility, you'll find some pleasant surprises on this job board.
Dice
AllRetailJobs.com continues to attract top quality corporate / district / regional executives, store and assistant store managers, buyers, merchandisers, as well as sales and part-time associates. AllRetailJobs.com has many features that are job hunter-friendly and has one of the most advanced search engines on the Internet.
AllRetailJobs.com is the only retail job board selected by Peter Weddle in his list of best sites of the past four years. Mr. Weddle is a recognized expert on Internet recruiting sites. More than 8,000 employers and recruiters have registered for advertising and recruiting services on AllRetailJobs.com since its inception. You can check out their sample of impressive client companies online.
Job Seekers can search 36,000+ retail jobs using specific job categories, location, salary and keywords, and apply online. Set up a Job Dispatcher and receive e-mail notification of postings that match your saved job searches. HR Professionals at retail firms can search their extensive resume database of 303,000+ resumes that are supplemented by 4,000 to 5,000 fresh resumes each month.
AllRetailJobs.com's resume database includes a Saved Search feature to enable users to save, modify, copy or delete resume searches from one convenient list. There is also the ability to forward resumes directly to another colleague. The database is only accessible to registered subscribing employers and recruiters.
Dice is well known among the IT crowd. Whether you are a network engineer, software developer or aerospace expert, Dice has been around for nearly 10 years to help hundreds of thousands of job seekers find a permanent or contract position by keyword, job title, skills, state, city or area code.
You can create a personalized account and get a bundle of tools to help you find thousands of hot jobs in high tech. And, once you register, you'll have access to many powerful career-enhancing tools.
Dice's candidate database is also a great way to test the waters if you are willing to look at the right offer. Their confidential profile allows you to be contacted without revealing your contact information or resume. Just enter the job criteria you're looking for and receive daily e-mails when a new position is posted on Dice. And you can conveniently create up to 5 email search agents!
The Career Resources link at Dice is a great place to find relevant career-related information. You can learn how to spruce up your resume, join an association or user group, discover a new programming resource, learn about becoming a free agent, find projects that pay well, and much more.
Jobsinthemoney.com
Jobsinthemoney.com is a Dice company. It is a leading career site for jobs and career management in accounting, finance, retail banking and wealth management. This site provides accounting and finance professionals with many tools necessary to get ahead in their careers: premier job opportunities, a resume database to market their skills, and useful editorial content such as hiring news, industry trends and salary surveys.
Recruiters and employers can post positions with ease and search the targeted resume database for highly qualified and relevant accounting and finance professionals. Jobsinthemoney.com gives its customers' job postings exposure to experienced, uniquely skilled candidates not found on general job boards. Jobsinthemoney.com has partnerships with many of the leading industry websites used by accounting and finance professionals, including Big4.com, AuditNet and ACAMS. These partners are among the best well known publishers and data suppliers in the finance industry. Job seekers can access Jobsinthemoney.com jobs and career management services from these sites.
Candidates can search Jobsinthemoney's comprehensive jobs database for the latest opportunities in their field. They can set up job search agents to automatically send them jobs that match their search criteria and apply for jobs with ease. All applications go directly to the employer or recruiter to ensure complete confidentiality.
Jobsinthemoney's confidential resume database enables job seekers to profile and market their skills and experience to employers and recruiters anonymously - without revealing their names or personal contact details until they are ready to do so.
Editorial sections are specific to the accounting and finance sectors, covering relevant industry topics such as trends in the job market, workplace issues, salary surveys and career advice.
DiversityInc.com/careers
DiversityInc has been around since the late 1990s, providing more than 30,000 job opportunities to folks of all sizes, shapes, ages, races, and ethnic backgrounds. Diversity talks the talk with a majority of employees being female and having a significant mix of employees with a variety of ethnic and racial backgrounds.
Diversity's target audience is line executives at larger corporations and organizations and is appropriate for line management, owners/partners of women-and minority-owned businesses, and educators and students. Their audience is diverse in race, gender, orientation, ability and age. It includes senior executives, community leaders, educators and professionals who are highly educated, key influencers and decision makers, all of whom are passionate about diversity in their professional and personal lives.
Diversity magazine comes out monthly and is read by a strong mix of women, African-Americans plus top managers and HR heads. More than 75% of readers hold bachelor's degrees, their incomes are in six figures, and they are involved in volunteering at least four hours/week.
There are excellent articles about finding companies that value diversity, including the 50 Top Companies who are already hiring women and minorities.
EmploymentGuide.com
This print and online guide can be found in more than sixty cities across the country. Employment Guide's particular area of emphasis is helping job seekers who are looking for part-time jobs or searching for work-at-home business opportunities. The Work at Home Center allows job seekers to search for jobs that enable them to work from home, as well as advice to help them start their own home-based business. The Work at Home Center offers nontraditional work opportunities for job seekers that want the flexibility to work from home or entrepreneurs who want to start their own businesses.
There are also industry related EmploymentGuides if you're specifically looking for jobs in office administration, healthcare, construction, trucking, maritime, law enforcement, skilled trades, customer service, logistics, marketing, airports, and entertainment. Local job fairs are also noted. Online links to universities and community colleges where you can upgrade your skills is another strength of this comprehensive site. Videos will give you thumbnail sketches of jobs in industries that you may not have considered before.
ExecuNet
The Internet's resource for effective executive career management, ExecuNet is a community of senior level executives. It has served more than 230,000 executives and 25,000 companies and executive recruiters by posting, on average, 25,000 executive positions annually since 1995, according to its website.
ExecuNet jobs come directly from executive recruiters and corporate decision makers who regularly recruit top candidates from membership in ExecuNet. Members can access jobs through an internal search engine to receive job listings that fit their parameters. Members can save their search criteria for future use and they can use the automatic CareerAlert feature alerting them by e-mail of new jobs that fit their criteria.
ExecuNet's team of experts support members with career guidance, trends and recommendations for career management resources. Three unique newsletters provide feedback from members in job search, thought provoking ideas and resources to support job search and expert advice for career advancement.
Members can access The ExecuNet Knowledge Centers seeking guidance to support job search and career advancement. The Knowledge Centers include eight unique destinations including Research, Compensation, Networking, Job Search, Resume-Cover Letter, Interviewing, Career Advancement and Executive Effectiveness. Each Center provides articles, resources and tools, access to content through the Topic Explorer, the Career Management Bookshelf, and expert advice from our network of career coaches and resume writers.
ExecuNet also produces market trend indices and salary statistics for its members and executive recruiters. In-depth, timely knowledge is provided in the annual ExecuNet survey of trends in executive job search and the job market, its Recruiter Confidence Index and the Executive Employment Outlook are recognized benchmarks for the state of the job market, and in their salary statistics.
Experience HRJobs
The Society for Human Resource Management is one of the most active and numerous professional associations in the United States. Membership in SHRM qualifies HR professionals for annual conferences, weekly online newsletters, and access to the HR community through local and state associations.
Because SHRM is so well regarded, companies of all descriptions choose their career section to post human resource positions there. From the job hunter's perspective, the SHRM career site makes it easy to target your job search by job description or geography.
There are excellent career resources for HR professionals to access and sound advice about getting the valued SHRM professional designations to boost your credibility and professionalism in the HR community.
Indeed
Indeed is a search engine for jobs - with a radically different approach to job search. In one simple search, Indeed gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from thousands of websites. Indeed.com includes all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages - and they continue to add new sites every day.
Indeed was founded in 2004 with the aim of radically improving online job search. The company pioneered the application of a sophisticated search engine methodology to jobs and immediately became one of the most comprehensive job search services on the Internet.
The company was quickly recognized as an industry leader both in trade and business media. Indeed.com was selected by Time magazine as one of the "50 Coolest Web Sites" for 2005. The company and its impact on online job search have also been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, and Money Magazine.
Notable Indeed milestones during 2006 include:
*A 300% increase in job searches over the past year - Indeed.com now has over one million unique users and 25 million searches every month.
*New job search tools and Web site enhancements - Indeed.com has continued to enhance the relevance and comprehensiveness of its job search results and has added new tools to help job seekers find the most appropriate and current job opportunities. Indeed's suite of tools includes email job alerts, jobs by Instant Messenger, Firefox and Google job search plug-ins, advanced search refinement, job search management and job trends and salary research.
I can always be reached at jlommel@WorkforceAssociates.com
Jane M. Lommel, Ph.D.
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