<p>For quite some time, I have been helping my son look for jobs, but without any luck. Of course, there are a ton of jobs listed in his field, finance, but are these jobs actually real??? The websites that always list jobs are:</p>
<p>Indeed
CareerBuilder
Monster.com
Craigslist
Experience</p>
<p>Yes, many of these jobs come from agencies, which again makes me feel suspicious. Are they actually listing a job, or do they just want another resume?</p>
<p>I’ve been sending my S1 links to jobs from those same sites as well. Seems that they all list the same jobs over and over again. And very few entry level. He says he has sent out many resumes from those links, but has not gotten a single interview out of it.</p>
<p>Try simplyhired.com
Also, look at websites for major corporations and go to their Career/job posting section.</p>
<p>Go to any college and check out their career services links. Here’s one from a college close to me: [Career</a> Services: Career Resources](<a href=“http://web1.desales.edu/default.aspx?pageid=1312]Career”>http://web1.desales.edu/default.aspx?pageid=1312)</p>
<p>Here’s a good one for jobs in Higher Education - not just teaching [HigherEdJobs</a> - Jobs in Higher Education](<a href=“http://www.higheredjobs.com/]HigherEdJobs”>http://www.higheredjobs.com/)</p>
<p>Check out indeed.com. It’s easy to use and is a metasearch engine so should capture most or all of the sites you are getting individually.</p>
<p>My son got a number of interviews (and second interviews) out of Indeed, Experience, Monster and Dice. He got his job through networking though.</p>
<p>Are there any professional organizations in his field that have websites with job listings? For example, biotech jobs are often advertised on BioSpace, Xconomy, websites of state bio organizations, etc., and some of these listings are not picked up by Indeed.</p>
<p>I got my job from indeed.com.</p>
<p>A lot of the jobs on the online sites are fake, in my experience especially on Monster. I made it a point to google company names “+scam” to see what I could find before I gave anybody the time of day, which made a big difference-- especially for “marketing” or “entry-level business” positions. Anything that sounds too good to be true probably is. Bearing all that in mind, it’s not a bad way to search for jobs. I was able to get quite a few interviews that way. My school’s job board actually turned out to be no better or worse in terms of scams or interview yield.</p>
<p>suzy, thanks. We do “use” indeed.com, but I just don’t know if these are “REAL” jobs. I have this feeling that these aren’t ‘real’ jobs, but instead free promotion somehow. Over and over, I see lots of appropriate jobs for my son, but even after all this time and effort, he has never gotten a response from these online listings.</p>
<p>I like Indeed. It’s basically able to gather jobs from everywhere, though, every listing, so it probably does include some non-real ones. I think craigslist is much worse for that, though.</p>
<p>I actually did find my permanent job through a temp agency. I’ve had some bad experiences with some agencies but one in particular that gave me a lot of work, checked in with me regularly, and found a job for me (temp with perm possibility that did lead to perm) that they knew meshed perfectly with my interests. I don’t know if your son has tried that route or if you have many in your area, but it could be worth giving them a try.</p>
<p>Indeed.com is a good site, but I also wonder how many of the jobs are ‘real’.</p>
<p>My best success is to go directly to the company website where a job is desired and find jobs. also to look at associations that represent certain job categories or industries. These are excellent resources of jobs.</p>
<p>lima, the company where I work won’t even accept direct applications. If you want a job at my company, you must go through an agency. It saves us time because the agency does all the work of pre-screening, testing for skills, checking references, drug testing, etc. When we have an opening, one phone call to the agency gets us multiple qualified candidates. </p>
<p>So that’s how I got my current job. And then, shortly after I was hired, I got an offer from a company who’d first seen my resume on Monster. IMO there’s nothing shady or dishonorable about either agencies or reputable job-posting sites. In fact, I think it’s the wave of the future.</p>
<p>As with anything on the internet, you want to deal with an established, reputable site. Monster and CareerBuilder have been around long enough that I think they meet that criteria. It sounds like Indeed has its fans among the CC parents too, which I’d consider to be a source to be trusted. I haven’t heard of Experience, and I’d stay away from Craiglist.</p>
<p>The reason your S hasn’t gotten much response is that many other candidates are seeing the same postings. I think that’s the big disadvantage of hunting for a job online – everyone else is too. </p>
<p>Is there an alumni organization he can tap into? Alumni are often willing to put in a good word for fresh graduates from their alma maters. “It’s who you know” got to be a job-hunting cliche for a good reason – it’s often true.</p>
<p>Tonight one of the kids mentioned he had gotten his job through linked in. Another, a teacher, said there is a professional website for educators.</p>
<p>I’m a parent, not someone looking for my first job, but I’ve had a number of interviews for reputable jobs through searching on CraigsList.</p>
<p>I sent in a resume to an agency and the website itself indicated that some of the job postings are samples of the types of jobs they may have. They are trying to build a bank of resumes, so it’s not necessarily such a bad thing to send one in anyway.</p>
<p>There are definitely scam postings, which the experienced eye can generally spot. It’s best to apply to recent postings (preferably posted within a week or less) and those which focus on job description and qualification. In general, stay away from any postings that focus on the benefits for the job seeker (ie , make $500 a day! or whatever).</p>
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<p>Son’s school used to use Experience as their jobs database - they had jobs specific to the school (I assume that they were located near the school). I didn’t know that Craigslist listed jobs until a while ago but I’ve heard that there’s shady stuff that goes on at Craigslist. I believe that companies have to pay for listings on Monster and Dice and I’d guess that the chance of a scam is lower if the companies have to pay for listings.</p>
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<p>I will provide some degree of access to a graduate but I can’t put a recommendation if I don’t know the person and that’s usually the case for graduates that contact alumni looking to network. I think that the most useful networking is where someone working in a company or someone in an industry association provides a strong personal recommendation to a hiring manager that is looking for employees. This means that that person is willing to put their own reputation on the line for the graduate.</p>
<p>Companies have to pay to post on CraigsList also.</p>
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<p>I didn’t know that.</p>
<p>I had a look on their site: $75 in SF, $25 everywhere else.</p>
<p>They also charge for commercial apartment listings in NYC.</p>
<p>I always wondered how they generated revenue.</p>