GMA: Tiffany Shlain on Job Hunting

— -- Many Good Morning America viewers have written in requesting guidance to the best sites for job hunting on the Internet.

Specifically, many of you want to know the best sites to search for a job and post your resume. In most cases, we’re talking about “Job Boards” when we talk about job hunting on the Internet — places where job seekers can post their resumes and find job opportunities, and where employers can find resumes and post job opportunities. Essentially, job boards are communities on the Internet. They allow people to communicate a common need, and they depend almost entirely on the people who use them. So, like many Internet communities, their strength depends on the size of the community. Simply put, the more people who are aware of it, the better it becomes.

Bigger Is Better

So it shouldn’t be a big surprise to learn that two of the best job boards on the Internet are sites you may already know about: HotJobs.com, and Monster.com. Both sites are very well advertised. Perhaps you recall Monster.com’s Super Bowl commercial featuring children saying things like “I wanna get paid less for the same job.” The advertising effort has made both sites a common destination for job hunters and employers and it’s created a strong community. Of course, this has happened because both sites have great features to keep visitors happy and returning. They feature career tips, relocation information, newsletter services, and of course, thousands upon thousands of opportunities. However, lesser-known sites can be helpful, too. At CareerShop.com, for example, you can enter your job criteria and then have it search more than 30 different job boards (including Monster.com and HotJobs.com) to find many more opportunities than you’ll find at just one site. It too offers complimentary services and advice while saving you the trouble of typing the same job search information into each separate job board. The downside is that when you post a resume here it’s not accessible at the 30 sites on which you can search for jobs, though it is available to employers that receive information from CareerShop.com.