There are more than 45,000 online job boards.
The sheer scope of coverage is overwhelming, from the local jobs level to the regional jobs level, all the way to the USA jobs level, you can work full time for months and not search them all.
The secret of a good online job search is to narrow the search for the best, especially for non-executive positions.
As a hiring manager, this is the order in which I’ll post jobs online – it’s therefore the order in which you should spend your online job search time:
- The Company Web Site
- Newspaper Online Help Wanted Ads
- Online Job Posting Sites
As a hiring manager, I’ve asked my Human Resources Department to use many of the large, well known online job sites and I know they can deliver a large number of qualified applicants quickly.
So naturally, as a job seeker you should be sure that in your job search online, and send your application to a chosen few.
One thing to bear in mind is that you’re going to find a certain amount of redundancy in the jobs you’ll find online.
Many search engines work the same jobs, and then we will work on more than one location.
This is simply part of conducting an online job search and one reason why it’s so necessary to be organized and keep good records on the jobs for which you’ve applied.
Remember, as a personal chef, I do not normally take into account applicants who apply twice.
If you can’t keep track of jobs you apply for, how will you keep track of your work if I hire you? Yep, we hiring managers are tough!
A Word About Web Site Traffic Rankings for Online Job Sites
There are approximately 56 Million active sites on the Web.
To make your job search on-line as efficiently as possible, you should be the job boards with more traffic measured by Alexa Traffic Ranking certificates (if you download the Alexa toolbar on their website, it shows the ranking of each site visited).
This number represents where each site ranks in traffic, out of all those 56 million sites.
The lower the number of Alexa rating, the most popular site.
For example, an Alexa rating of 10 means that site is the tenth most visited site on the web.
Thus, a site that ranks to 560,000 (or lower) is among the top 1% of all sites.
Many of the online job sites will have an Alexa ranking in the millions, which means they are not getting any appreciable traffic.
You want to focus on job search online job boards that focus at least rank in the top 1% or better.
The lower the Alexa rating number, the more popular the site.
Those with the most traffic, of course, is probably more jobs.
An Alexa rating of 10,000 or lower is particularly outstanding and means that site is getting serious traffic.
Good luck with the job you are looking for, whether online or offline!.
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