Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Top Ranked Job Search Sites by Dept. of Labor

It's official: The list of top job search tools on the web, according to the US Department of Labor's Tools for America’s Job Seekers Challenge.

Divided into six major categories, here are the results in alphabetical order:

Career Exploration Tools

ASVAB Career Exploration Program
Career Coach
CareerNoodle
CareerOneStop
FastWeb
Great Job!
JobTitled
Kuder Journey
Monster Career Advice
Monster Career Benchmarking

Career Planning Tools

50+ Career Coach
Career Ready 101
CareerScribe
GadBall.com
Monster's Making It Count Program
National Career Readiness Certificate
Optimal Resume
ResuWe
Susan Ireland's Resume Site
The Riley Guide

General Job Boards, Listing Sites, and Aggregators

America's Virtual OneStop
CareerBuilder.com
Careerstallion.com
Indeed.com
JobSearchUsa.org
LinkUp.com
Monster Newspaper Partnerships(PDF)
Monster.com
Simplyhired.com
USAjobs.gov

Niche Job Boards

Specific Occupations:
Excelle
HR Guru
Inside Tech
Media Buzz
Sales HQ

State/Local Job Tools:
Employ Florida Marketplace - Florida's Online Career Resource
IHaveAPlanIowa - Everyone Needs a Plan To Succeed
Illinois workNet
WECAN- Wisconsin Education Career Access Network
Workforce Central Florida

Military/State/Local Government:
Fire Link
Military.com
Police Link
Transition Assistance Online
VetJobs

40 and Older Worker/Senior:
AARP Job Board
OurExperienceCounts
Retired Brains

Diverse Populations:
Diversity & Inclusion Networks
MarylandDiversity.com
TexasDiversity.com

Ex-Offender:
GoodWill services for Ex-Offender
HIRE Network
The Next Step/WOTC Solutions

Students:
AfterCollege
Monster College, a Monster Community
OSU-OKC Job Postings

Social Media Job Search

Door64.com
GreenJOBS.pro
JibberJobber.com
JobHunt.org Twitter
Jobs-Assistant
LinkedIn
Linkedin Jobs Group
Susan Ireland's YouTube Playlists
Susan P. Joyce's Linkedin Group
TweetMyJOBS.com

Other Job Matching and Career Advancement Tools

Alison.com
Career Directors International
Department of Education- Training Grants
Human Capital Institute
Monster Evolutions
Monster Real-Time Labor Intelligence
Monster’s Keep America Working Tour
SkillUP
Step 9: Apply for a Job Using Shortcuts
WaggleForce

I'm delighted to see that many of the job search tools I recommended are on this list. My thanks to all of you who participated in the voting!

1 comment:

Ronnie Ann said...

Great news, Susan! Congratulations!! And congratulations to everyone else on this list. Hopefully this will offer a terrific resource for countless job seekers who just don't know where to turn for good advice. Nice going!