by LwEEs
The Best Job-Search Tip You Will Ever Get
I’ve been looking for a job for the last 4 months now, it’s crazy out there, there is way too much people looking for a job and the opportunities are scarce. To add to the frustration, the most popular places to look for a job are full of annoying ads that makes 
the job search a nightmare. I check everyday these sites looking for a job, jumping through a lot of junk on websites that are suppose to help in your job search, I’m just trying to warn you if you are starting to look at these websites.
The most popular job search website is CareerBuilder.com (Forbes, May 2009) which provides job seekers with great free job seeking tools but at a price. I’m not saying that you should not have advertising on your site, but these guys annoy you at a new level of annoyance. There are ads on every page, when you are creating or updating your profile every other page is an advertising page, the whole page.
I have advertising on my website, look around you can see it, but I don’t consider my ads to be intrusive or of bad taste, also I don’t bait you to click on anything or make you see a whole page ad before reading my content. I don’t split my post in several pages to keep you hanging around, that’s just not my style, I like to serve you with whatever you want an that’s it, you can go. I do have a script for asking people to subscribe to my RSS feed or you can subscribe to my newsletter, or even subscribe to my posts by email, but I don’t remind you every two seconds.
The last example is how these other sites fail, another annoying site is Monster.com, oh boy, you give them your email and you are guarantee to want to get rid of it. You get spam after spam, it is so unprofessional that I had to block them from emailing me, and these guys are number tree in popularity. On the other hand Yahoo HotJobs is not that bad, they do send you some stuff your way but noting as intrusive as the other guys mentioned before.
Yahoo HotJobs is second in popularity and SimplyHired.com and Indeed.com are fourth and fifth in popularity respectively but I haven’t had any experience with the last two. I have learned a lot from these sites and from recruiters too, if you are in an interview with an agency like Kelly or Randstad make sure to ask your recruiter for his/her opinion about your resume. They see hundreds of resume each week and they can tell you what’s good and what’s not.
To conclude I want to give you the best recommendation you can get for searching for a job on any of the above-mentioned sites, create a temporary email account that you can scrap when you are done searching. Trust me, you don’t want the whole wide web to know what your email address is and as soon as you are done searching, wait at least a month and delete the account. The wait time is recommended because you never now if a better option becomes available or if your employer is not what you really want for an employer.
Here is a link to the most popular sites for getting a free email account, and the link to Forbes article about the most popular job seeking sites. If you have any questions, please contact me using the contact form in the “About Me” page on this website. If you enjoyed this article forward it to a friend, subscribe to my blog and if you want, follow me on twitter.
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Not sure what the ironic piece is in your post but the post as a whole is informative. I enjoy reading from a job seeker’s perspective. You may want to reconsider scrapping the email account used for a job search. Companies that use applicant tracking systems index your information in a database and it remains there. I recommend keeping the email account and checking it once a week. They might hire someone that turns out to not be a good fit and call you a few months down the road.