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Top Job Boards Survey

Phil Rosenberberg, the president of reCareered, catches the latest Weddle's Survey of Top Job Boards and gives us the top 30.  This is the top 30 out of more than 50,000, which suggests that your use of job boards should be broader than one password for one site.  The explosion of local and niche boards is daunting, but if you had the right software to collect job board resumes, it might not be so bad.  The results are below the fold.

As for Phil, his site focuses on the  job boards from the point of view of the candidate.  Check out his site, reCareered.

Job Boards Make The World Go Round

Job boards get a lot of grief online. Candidates, recruiters, and software vendors spend a lot of digital ink tearing into job boards for real and imagined grievances, primarily because they're easy to attack. Afdter all, if you're catching flak, you're usually over the target.

What we know is this - the employment section of the classified ads is still the most profitable division of a newspaper.  Monster, Careerbuilder, Dice, HotJobs and all of the new Web2.0 job boards represent a multi-billion dollar industry.  And for all the complaints, recruiters inside and outside of corporations use job boards every day to fill positions in just about every profession.

So while trashing a job board may be a great way to get some publicity, the truth is that job boards work better than anything else we have.  And while social networks and blogs and podcasts may knock on the door of the hiring manager looking for elite talent, most people are better off with their names visible to recruiters, and that means more postings, more resumes, and more hiring.

So what's our place in all of this?  That's the mystery. What do you think the videos are for?

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