Top Five Job Sites
Dateline: 10/11/99
100hot Ranking
100hot ranks sites based on the number of page views each receives. To determine
the number of page views, 100hot collects data from sources they prefer to keep
confidential. They sample about 100,000 surfers: 60% from North America and 40%
from the rest of the world. But no need to worry about your privacy. 100hot
doesn't track exact demographic
information.
Audience: All
Types of Jobs: Various
Job Searching: By location, category and keyword. Includes tips
International Jobs: Yes
Résumé Services: Complete management including post, view, edit,
delete, statistics, and minimal privacy options
Cover Letter: Yes
Chat: Yes
Message Board: Yes
Other Services: Job agents, company research and career centers, with lots
of links to tools, advice and other resources
Cost: All free
Comments: Monster.com absorbed Online
Career Center, AboutWork and Student
Center. While Monster.com still offers several of its own, many of the great
services provided by these sites were lost.
Audience: All
Types of Jobs: Various
Job Searching: By keyword, category, degree, location and salary.
Includes tips
International Jobs: Yes
Résumé Services: Post, view, edit, delete and privacy
Cover Letter: No
Chat: No
Message Board: No
Other Services: Company profiles, upgraded résumé visibility, and a
Candidate Resource Center with links to résumé services and other fee-based,
commercial resources
Cost: Free, except for upgraded résumé visibility
Comments: They mix recruiter, employer and candidate options,
which can be a little confusing. They're also very commercial and hype numbers a
lot, tending to cater more to recruiters and employers than candidates. With so
many job sites accepting résumés for free, the upgraded résumé option is a
disappointing gimmick. In other words, you have to pay $10 to $40 every 30 days
to have your résumé show up in searches more often.
Audience: All
Types of Jobs: Various
Job Searching: By job title, keyword, company name, location and Usenet.
Includes tips
International Jobs: Yes
Résumé Services: Post, tips, view, edit and delete. No privacy options
Cover Letter: No
Chat: No
Message Board: No
Other Services: Job agents, online job fairs, career and student
resources, communities and more
Cost: All free
Comments: One of the oldest and most comprehensive job sites on
the Web. But they tend to lag behind on the latest and greatest features offered
by other job sites, such as résumé privacy options. They were a little slow at
adding job agents, too.
Audience: All
Types of Jobs: Various
Job Searching: Choice of searching employment sections of local
newspapers or Web job postings
International Jobs: USA and UK only.
Résumé Services: Post, view, edit, delete and privacy. See Comments
below.
Cover Letter: No
Chat: Yes
Message Board: Yes
Other Services: Career resources, company profiles, articles, news,
industry info, job fairs, email accounts, and more
Cost: All free
Comments: Résumé posting is complex, and extracts information
from your résumé. The extraction process is not very accurate for complex résumés,
so you might have to make changes.
Audience: All
Types of Jobs: Various
Job Searching: Browsing by location, job type or company, or searching by
keyword, job type and location
International Jobs: Yes
Résumé Services: Complete management including post, view, edit,
delete, statistics and privacy. See Comments below.
Cover Letter: Yes. You may add comments when you email your résumé
from HotJobs
Chat: No
Message Board: No
Other Services: Company profiles, job agents, career fairs, email
accounts, e-zine with various resources, and Career Channels for start-ups,
healthcare, HR and more
Cost: All free
Comments: The Delete Your Résumé option is
sort of buried. To delete your résumé, select e-mail/password
in the Profile menu, on the My Hot Jobs page.
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