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 MICHELE'S PICKS FOR E-BIZ JOB & RECRUITING RESOURCES
Following is a list of my favorite web sites and resources for recruiting and job
search for e-business professionals. (A continuación se encuentra mi lista de
recursos preferidos sobre el empleo en el comercio electrónico.)
 Please help
me grow this list by sending your suggested e-business and web resources to me at mjb@webpractices.com. (Por favor, ayúdeme a
aumentar esta lista de recursos sobre el negocio por Internet, y envíeme sus recursos
sugeridos por correo electrónico a mjb@webpractices.com.)
I reserve the right to edit or refuse submissions.
GENERAL JOB AND RECRUITING WEB SITES
- The Vault at http://www.vault.com/index.html
gives useful career advice and, very important in this "post
bubble" period, an insider track about the companies you are thinking
about joining.
- Top 100 Electronic Recruiters at http://www.interbiznet.com/eeri/. Absolutely
invaluable site for job hunters, HR managers, employers and third party recruiters alike.
WEB JOB SITES The Best Job Hunting Sites on the Web are listed at http://www.interbiznet.com/eeri/ovrvw/besthunt.html.
I have also marked the sites with which I have personally had the most success
posting my resume with a blue ribbon award icon  .
 Job
sites where you can shine like the star that you are!
Caution: Be prepared to spend a lot of time cutting and pasting
your resume into the different formats for each of the different web sites.
Also, if you:
- don't want your personal e-mail flooded with unrelated spam,
- you want to stop getting offers for years after you have your new job
because your resume has been forward all over the world,
- you don't want your employer discovering and/ or intercepting your in and
outbound emails to recruiters, and
- you want email from any web-connected computer anywhere in the world,
you may want to set up an anonymous separate e-mail account at
the big portals like Yahoo! orExcite,
or at one of your favorite vertical portal sites with separate Internet email,
like iVillage.
SENIOR-LEVEL JOBS
For those 6-figure, senior-level e-business jobs, here are a combination of
FREE and FEE sites:
- Free-
6figurejobs.com at www.6figurejobs.com
is for the $100k + jobs only, mostly for the senior executives out
there. I've had great success with them
The following three were mentioned to me, but I have no personal experience.
Anyone have an opinion of them?
- Free- FutureStep: This site, www.futurestep.com,
requires an exhaustive survey to allow recruiters to find you. Be careful
with all the choices so the computer database doesn't misplace you!
- $Fee- Searchbase: www.searchbase.com
requires another 2-hour survey to create a personal profile and let the
database send you perfect jobs.
- $Fee- Execunet: This one charges candidates! www.execunet.com
gives other services besides job search like free resume consultation and
access to a salary database, but costs $135 for 90 days.
ALL LEVEL JOBS
For everyone, including senior level jobs, the following are some of the best
national (US) job sites
for job candidates (and recruiters):
- Headhunter.net at www.headhunter.net
is great because they give a 7-day headstart to paying recruiters. You do
need to log on every week to resave it so it refreshes and goes to the top.
This is the cheapest of the best sites for recruiters to use, so they love
it if they find you there, plus they can find you before others do.
- HotJobs at www.hotjobs.com. These
were the folks that advertised on the SuperBowl. Worked terrific for me :-)
!
- MonsterBoard: www.monster.com
Still the biggest! Employers can set up accounts for multiple, constant
listings as well as post individual jobs, while job seekers can use their superb
intelligent agent software to automate the matching of your criteria with job
announcements. Now offers confidential postings but not as flexibly as
headhunter.net. This is the most expensive for recruiters to use, so it is
tending to lose out to some of the upstarts like HotJobs and Headhunter.net.
- CareerMosaic at www.careermosaic.com
had quality jobs nationwide, but was difficult to sort through. Also,
beware! Unless you save the number they generate, you cannot remove your
resume.
The remaining sites are for more narrow searches:
- U.S. Government Federal Jobs at http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/a.htm. Yes,
Virginia, government does have some web jobs, and with the new OMB (Office of Management
and Budget) guidelines to web enable the entire government by 2004, federal agencies will
be looking for more. Just be sure to fill out ALL the forms and information they look for;
shortcuts don't work.
- Good Sample E-Job Descriptions: Organic Online describes e-jobs well at
www.organic.com/jobs/ as does
America Online's (AOL) Career Site at http://corp.aol.com/careers/2/
where you can get descriptions of every type of e-job from technical to
content to creative to marketing to sales and so on... When you're as big as
they are, you have more than one of everything and a lot of turnover. These
are handy descriptions to know how to plan to be BIG!
Note from the WebMistress: Please send good generic (no company
names, please) job announcements or job descriptions in RTF or HTML format to me at mjb@webpractices.com. I plan to post a generic bank
of job descriptions for downloading.
E-BUSINESS RECRUITERS
If you are looking for a recruiting firm to either help you find a job or help you find
the right candidate for jobs you are filling, visit the following resources.
- Books:
- Kennedy Information's "Directory of Executive Recruiters".
Updated every year it has the most exhaustive list I have seen of both retainer and
contingency recruiters in business. You can order it on their website at www.kennedyinfo.com or call 1-800-531-1026
(International, +1-603-585-6544 Fax: +1-603-585-9555).
- Software:
- Kennedy Information's SearchSelect© software. While somewhat
complicated to install (you must first buy the "Directory of Executive
Recruiters" and install the software from the included CD-ROM, before connecting to
their web site to pay to decode it) and rather expensive (at least US$150 + price of the
book at last look, or $195 as a single issue), it provides a built-in intelligent search
engine with detailed info on the various recruiting firms, along with a sophisticated mail
merge program that helps you create and track hundreds of potential mailings. Or, better
yet, you can narrow your search quickly to just those recruiters that handle your field,
salary range and geographical area. You can also go to their web site and perform a
limited search, paying for only the recruiters' names you download at http://www.kennedyinfo.com/db/db_der_bas.html.
Again, you can find out about this software and tools on their website at www.kennedyinfo.com.
- Specific Recruiting Firms/ Headhunters:
- Management Recruiters International is one of the largest, with franchises all over the
country, particularly in high-tech havens. Look for MRI in your local or virtual Yellow
Pages.
- Scour the Technology Employment sections of your paper for names of recruiting firms
operating in your target area. Particularly watch for the employment fairs (this works for
junior to mid-range job placement only.)
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