As someone who is navigating around the social media world, I find the number of new sites cropping up to be intimidating. The same is true of online resume posting sites. Which ones do you target? Your time is valuable and your online reputation invaluable.
Monster.com deserves credit for helping to create the medium of online job searching but the site has thousands of smaller competitors nipping away at its virtual market share. Monster has just gobbled up Yahoo’s HotJobs placing it back on top of the job market. 600 newspapers nationwide are associated with HotJobs.
While LinkedIn is preferred by the executive market, MyWorkster has grabbed the college graduate social media jobs market. All the social media tools are provided – video, messenger, a Facebook connection and even personal blogs. By leveraging the College Networks you can remain true to your alma mater and work those alumni contacts.
To narrow your search, a good start is About.com’s exhaustive list of online job search engines and sites further broken down by geography and career field.
As always, keep checking back with us for updates. The short history of the online job market has taught us that the hotspot today may be replaced by an even hotter spot tomorrow.