Industry- or Profession-Specific Job Boards. These so-called niche sites
have been growing in popularity, at least among career experts. Recruiters
claim they get better results going to
a marketing job site than when posting the same job on a general job board.
Career columnist Joyce Lain Kennedy notes that the
heavy volume of resumes on the mega boards
“is one reason why recruiters and job seekers are
turning their attention to specialty boutiques rather than big-box
marketplaces." These "specialty boutiques" are the online job boards
that cater to one particular occupation, industry, or type of
job-seeker (such as new college grads, MBA grads, minority
candidates, or freelancers). Just about every
industry and profession, from white to blue collar, has at least one job board.
Niche boards are not without their problems as job-seeker
Tim Johnston wrote in an
insightful
article on CareerJournal.com.
Johnston noted that many niche sites
have minimal or outdated job listings or listings from a very limited
pool of employers, prompting him to advise, "Avoid sites with no jobs
and those where the information you provide about yourself is too
brief to be of use to an employer. Review the list of companies that
use the site before you bother to register, look for jobs, or add it
to your daily list of sites to check."
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some job sites with minimal job
listings, knowing that few job-seekers will visit sites with sparse
postings, actually recycle old listings or fabricate jobs.
Company Career Centers. More and more employers are expanding their corporate Web sites
to include job listings and the capability to accept resumes from job-seekers. These sites
often have other great information about the employer, such as articles on its corporate
culture, benefits, career tracks, and more. So, if you have a short list of employers (for
example, from Fortune's Best Companies to Work For), check out this section of Quintessential
Careers: The Quintessential Directory
of Company Career Centers. See next chapter.
Job Boards that Have Won Awards for Usability: One tactic
is to frequent the boards with which other job-seekers
have had positive experiences.
Weddle's
User's Choice Awards, for example, are helpful because they are voted
on by job-seekers. One User’s Choice winner is the Job Portal we use at Quintessential Careers,
which is powered by Beyond.com. Or check out the Forbes roundup of the
Best
Sites for Job Hunting, broken down into these categories:
Job Hunting - Executives
Job Hunting - General
Job Hunting - Headhunters
Job Hunting - Second Careers
Job Hunting - Specialty (Quintessential Careers leads the list in
this category)
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