By now the vast majority of the recruiting industry has taken notice of Craigslist. Craigslist originally was a small website set-up for the San Francisco area as a way for the local community to sell items (before eBay became a household name), find local services‚ and advertise available apartments and houses for rent. Job seekers and Recruiters were not frequenting the site. Now, Craigslist dominates what we call the “classifieds” space with a few other online companies nipping at it’s heals. I will talk about others in future posts.

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Craigslist is a very good alternative to the major job boards such as Monster and Careerbuilder in that there are options for posting positions here, and searching across resumes posted‚ to the site‚ as well. Posting is free in most of the‚ cities, with small fees in some of the major cities including NY, Los Angeles and Washington, DC. More than 1.5 million jobs are posted to the site every month. In terms of traffic, the site gets 8 billion page views per month - so you are guaranteed to have alot of people see your postings. I did a quick search in their resumes section and found 75 “Software Developers” in the San Francisco area. Here is a screen shot of the resume searcing capabilities:

Craigslist has expanded well beyond it’s northern California roots to encompass every major city in the U.S. as well as Canada and many other countries overseas. The site covers 450 cities worldwide.‚ I have heard many success stories from using Craigslist as a strong alternative to other career sites that have forced employers’ hands with huge fees.‚