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The Top Ten Job Search Engines on the Web

From Wendy Boswell,
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Find a Job with Job Search Engines

If you're in the market for a new job, you'll want to check out my list of the top job search engines out there. All of these job search engines offer unique features and can streamline your job search efforts.

1. Monster.com-Job Search Engine with Lots of Extras

I've been using Monster.com for several years now and have always found it to be one of the best job search engines out there. You can narrow your search by location, keywords, and employer; plus, Monster has plenty of job search extras: networking boards, job search alerts, and online resume posting.

2. Indeed.com- A Meta Search Job Engine

Indeed.com is a very solid job search engine. Unlike Monster, you cannot submit your resume from Indeed.com, but the job search engine more than makes up for that by being a meta search engine of many of the major job search engines and job search boards out there. I've found that Indeed uncovers a lot of jobs that you wouldn't normally find on most job search sites, and they do a good job of making their job search features as easy to use as possible.

3. FedWorld-Find a Federal Government Job

Think of FedWorld as your gateway into the huge world of US government jobs. You can do a detailed federal job search here, and FedWorld also offers the serious federal job searcher the opportunity to search FirstGov, search and view Supreme Court decisions, and view GS pay rate schedules.

4. CareerBuilder- One of the Largest Job Search Engines

CareerBuilder offers job searchers the ability to find a job, post a resume, create job alerts, get job advice and job resources, look up job fairs, and much more. This is a truly massive job search engine that offers a lot of good resources to the job searcher; I especially appreciate the list of job search communities.

5. Dice.com-Technology Job Search Engine

Dice.com is a job search engine dedicated to only finding technology jobs. Dice also offers those job searchers with a security clearance the ability to search on ClearanceJobs.com, "premier Internet job board focused exclusively on candidates with active or current security clearances."

6. America's Job Bank-A Mammoth Job Search Engine

America's Job Bank is one of the largest job search engines on the Web today. With almost two million jobs in its sizable database at the time of this writing and more than fifteen thousand new jobs being posted almost every day, America's Job Bank is a must-have job search engine. Search by job title, keyword, military, or job number.

7. Yahoo Hot Jobs-A Personalized Job Search Engine

Yahoo Hot Jobs is linked to your Yahoo ID (if you have one), so once you're signed into Yahoo, you're signed into Hot Jobs. You can search by location with Hot Jobs, my personal favorite, and you'll be able to see all the jobs in your general area in the column to the left. Any job search can be subscribed to via RSS; you can add it to "My Yahoo" or a personalized RSS reader (such as Bloglines).

8. SimplyHired - Simple Job Search Engine

SimplyHired has been one of my favorite job search engines now for a while; mostly because of their SimplyFired contest. SimplyHired also offers a very unique job search experience; the user "trains" the job search engine by rating jobs he or she is interested in. SimplyHired also gives you the ability to research salaries, add jobs to a job map, and view pretty detailed profiles of various companies. I highly recommend SimplyHired.

9. LinkedIn.com-A Social Networking Job Search Engine

LinkedIn.com combines the best of two worlds: the ability to scour the Internet for jobs with its job search engine, and the opportunity to network with like-minded friends and individuals to deepen your job search. From the site: "With LinkedIn, you find the people, jobs and services you need through the people you know and trust, while you strengthen and extend your existing network." Finding a job all too often is about who you know, and LinkedIn.com does a great job of addressing this.

10. Craigslist - Community Classifieds Job Search

Technically, craigslist.com is not a job search engine, but I would be extremely remiss if I did not include it in my list of Top Ten job search sites. Find your community and find jobs - and the jobs posted on Craigslist tend to be some of the most eclectic, truly interesting jobs around on the Web.
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