Job sites are the online means for today’s job seeker to look for employment. If you are in the USA, in Europe or in the UK, and even South Africa and Australia. Using a job site requires that you have CV which you need to upload, and for time spent to register (normally about 10 minutes) you open your CV up to hirers and recruitment agents. They have the ability to filter through the jobsite’s CV database trawling for the employees that match their criteria. The filters used by the these job sites are pretty impressive, where the user is able to job search against industry sector, years experience, location, salary range etc, etc. Though no matter what job site you use, they are always dependant on the job seeker being honest in with their information supplied and the job seeker takes the time to complete the registration process. With the former, this is a doomed strategy as you will be caught out quick enough, while the later I would encourage you to invest the time taken to get things done properly. Remember, the more job seeker information you offer, the better chance you have of being picked up by hirers searching the job board’s database. In addition to the straight job seeker / employer market place that job sites offer, they also supply a lot of career related information for job seekers to and employers to use, including career advice, CV writing, interview training and psychometric testing and all other career related services and professionals that today’s job seeker can utilize. Additionally job sites in the UK offer a wide range of training course tailored to your discipline. Again the job site does the hard work for you. Typically these jobs sites partner with a number of training or education houses, thereby ensuring that you get the best courses suited to your requirements emailed to your account!
One of the greatest things I love about job sites is this thing called job alerts. When you have registered with the site, you are able to set up email alerts bespoke to what I am looking for. So I live in London and there only interested in jobs in London. No problem, simply set the location criteria so that you only receive jobs in London coming through to your email inbox. While jobs in London is more useful than getting all the jobs they get through in a day, the next thing to do is to specify the types of jobs you want to receive, so going from jobs in London , you can narrow your requirements down from jobs in London to say marketing manager jobs in London earning over £50k…and so on and so on. Again this yet another nifty tool that job sites offer to job seekers who take the time to register with these sites. There are lots of great job sites in the UK to use including totaljobs, reed, monster uk, jobsite, careersandjobsuk, to mention the bigger ones , but there are stacks of smaller niches ones who focus on specialist industry sectors.