Looking to get your online resume up and running, but not sure the best websites to post to? Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. Here are the top 4 places to post your online resume for maximum results.
Monster.com
By far the most popular and fastest growing job board on the internet, Monster.com got their start back in 1999 and has grown to over 20 million visitors monthly.
What has made Monster such a huge success and a great place to put on an online resume is all of the additional benefits that they offer.
For example, you can also run queries for job opening. Some of the best employers in the nation post new openings daily, along with specific descriptions of what they are looking for in a candidate. There is usually over 1 million such job postings at any given time.
Craigslist.com
The best thing about using Craigslist is that it is completely free. There are separate sections for every major U.S. city and the largest international cities. This makes it easy to get your online resume in front of employers in the area you would like to work.
The downside is that Craigslist is usually plagued with spammers that will send you emails about bogus jobs (i.e. –work from home courses you have to buy). But the shear level of employers that visit Craigslist is more than enough reason to give it a go.
If you are to use Craigslist, I would highly suggest setting up a new email account just for the online resume you post there. This way you can protect your main account from being stuffed with emails, both legit and spam.
Careerbuilder.com
Very close in popularity to Monster.com, CareerBuilder has a monthly visitor count of around 12 million… and that number continues to grow.
There are some cool features in addition to simply posting your online resume. For instance, you can search for job opening by location and/or keyword.
You can also browse by category, which run from accounting to warehouse and everything in between. They even have an online resume builder which you can use to make crafting the perfect resume that much easier.
Posting your resume on CareerBuilder is free, which is a definite benefit in my book. Just submit your resume to the site and interested employers can contact you directly.
Hotjobs.yahoo.com
Yahoo, the second biggest search engine on the Internet, also offers a great online resume posting portal.
You can post up to 10 different versions of your resume, in order to appeal to as many different employers as possible. There is also an extensive education center to give you the advice you need to make your online resume and interview as successful as possible.
There are mountains of other smaller websites where you can post your online resume for free, and I would highly suggest posting to as many as possible.
Also, you can find plenty of websites that are catered to specific verticals (such as technology). Employers usually love these types of sites, since they don’t have to wade through irrelevant resumes to find the best possible candidate (read: you).
Here’s a tip: do a search in Google for “monster.com”. When the results come back, you will see a small blue link called “similar” below the listing for Monster. Click on that you you’ll have a list of other similar online resume websites you can post to. Repeat this process until you have a nice long list to post to. Good luck!
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