JobServe.com is a UK-based website that delivers its content through three separate, regionally-based portals: JobServe.com, JobServe.us and JobServe.com.au. Within each of these sites, job seekers can search listings, post their resumes and search through a host of targeted career segments.

Recruiters can register and advertise their jobs on JobServe.com, and the site will email their listings to candidates, provide RSS feeds to job seekers, provide recruiters with candidate databases and more.

If all of this sounds a bit familiar, that’s because it is. While it’s true that JobServe provides up-to-date technology for its site visitors, and streamlines its job search capabilities through the use of a handy tool that remembers your last search, or a global map that shows what regions you’re searching, with the ability to choose larger or smaller regions - it’s hard to feel as though any of these gadgets are truly innovative anymore.

There’s a double-edged sword to being the Internet’s “first” of anything. That’s because, while it may be impressive to create an innovative online tool to search jobs, many others have done so since, and have created more and better user-friendly capabilities to do this exact same thing. It’s an unfortunate fact of traditional marketing that age and experience are not necessarily advantages on the Internet where the thing that’s getting the most traffic and serving the most people at any given time could very well be only 16 minutes old.

None of this is to say that JobServe.com isn’t a valuable site, because it certainly performs well and seems to deliver on its claims. The fact that the site segments its content across three different global regions and delivers job seeker information for millions of opportunities is a pretty significant feat and worthy of notice, especially for those recruiters and job seekers who are not limited by the traditional 50-States-and-no-more approach that restricts the capabilities of many other websites of this kind.

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For technology programmers, developers and enterprise managers, JavaWorld.com is the primary go-to destination for resources, forums, podcasts, newsletters and a whole lot more. And while the site’s career center boasts a great many online tools to assist Java-savvy IT professionals, there are also quite a few high-quality resources there for recruiters and internet sourcers interested in targeting the world of Java-based technology.

Clicking on the “Careers” link in the main site’s left navigational column sends you to the landing page of the JavaWorld.com Career Center. All of the usual functionality can be found here for job seekers including Quick Job Search, Featured Jobs and Companies, Post Your Resume and many other job seeker tools. Recruiters and sourcers have the option of job postings and resume database access. A quick search in their database on “Java” netted 96,000 resumes total‚ (see below):

The site also peels back resume “web results”‚ as well. “Java” netted 60,000 resumes here:

But I think that the hidden gem in the JavaWorld.com site are the capabilities that it provides for recruitment professionals to learn more about the Java developer mindset and the inherent advantage of understanding more about this valuable segment of the IT population.

In the JavaWorld.com Career Center, you can see at a glance what the top U.S. cities for IT jobs are, and then search those cities to learn what kinds of technology professionals are in demand regionally. Two other online tools that I found helpful were:

• The site’s capability to perform job-related searches using IT keywords, which is an excellent way to learn the basics of available technology job assignments if one isn’t immediately familiar with the terminology, and
• IT Job Descriptions, in which the site provides basic job descriptions - many of which include video support - for a number of career assignments. This struck me as a very valuable resource for recruiters seeking quickly-accessed, specific information about filling slots in the technology sector.

JavaWorld.com is a cleanly-designed, excellently-organized site - not surprising, considering its target audience - that really does include a great many decent resources for recruiters and job seekers alike.

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Let’s face it: a site called CollegeGrad.com is pretty much going to be aimed specifically at - you can probably guess this one - college grads, or soon-to-be college grads. In fact, this is exactly the case, and CollegeGrad.com does an excellent job of targeting its content to people who are only just entering the job market and seeking those precious first opportunities to get in on the ground level at the corporation of their dreams.

But does the site offer anything at all for recruiters or internet sourcers?

Fortunately, it does to some degree - but its resources are all more or less on the informational side, as opposed to content that can be easily leveraged to create leads right away. You can see what I mean by accessing the “Career Centers” link in the site’s left navigational column. Clicking this link will send you to a page where you can find:

• Occupational Outlook Handbook - this could be an excellent resource for recruiters, with research and information on 350 different careers, provided by the U.S. Department of Labor - and this section of the site is all keyword- and category-searchable.
• Employer and Candidate Interview Questions - a fairly basic resource, but handy to have for recruiters to coach interview-bound clients.
• Ask the Hiring Manager - an online career Q&A forum with Brian Krueger, author of the book College Grad Job Hunter. This section of the CollegeGrad.com website is a robust and interesting resource for advice about careers, interviewing, job searching and more.

Of course, CollegeGrad.com offers job posting and resume database search capabilities for employers, along with virtual job fairs.‚ The site also provides a great many of the standard tools for job seekers - posting resumes, searching jobs, interview preparation, salary negotiation tips - and organizes its content very well, clearly and directly. This is a good, deep site with plenty to recommend; its targeted content prevents it from being a top-tier destination for recruitment professionals, but it’s still worthy to note as an excellent resource for entry-level job seekers.

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The website Jobs4HR serves a number of useful purposes for a recruiter:

• You can find Recruiting or Human Resources candidates searching for new jobs
• You yourself can search for new Recruiting or HR jobs and post your resume
• You can read up on a variety of HR subjects including resumes, job searching, salary info, and continuing education

Recruiters sometimes do have to recruit other recruiters, so where better to find qualified candidates than a site such as this one?‚ Jobs4HR caters to HR professionals who are searching for new careers in their field.‚ Rather than searching on job boards that have all types of candidates, this site will give you a large amount and a wide variety of professionals in the HR related fields all in one place.‚ ‚ 

For employers, this site offers job posting services for 60 days, the ability to search posted resumes, and also a service where you have access to all of the other sites affiliated with Jobs4HR.‚ These other sites that are part of the “LocalCareers.com Network” include job boards for each state and a handful of other website that have “Jobs4″ in the title, such as Jobs4Sales, Jobs4Diversity, and Jobs4Engineering.‚ Once you sign up, your login and password works for every single website listed in this network.

For job seekers, you can search a large amount of jobs by keyword, category, or location. You can also post your resume so employers on the site can find you.‚ A few other things that I noticed while browsing: some of the jobs that are posted are linked from TheLadders.com (see previous blog post about this site), which are only jobs over $100k.‚ These jobs were listed as manager and director level positions, and Jobs4HR links you to TheLadders to apply for them.‚ Also, there is a link on the main page titled “Broadcast Resume”, which takes you to a sister website called ResumePoster.‚ Job seekers‚ can blast your resume to “thousands of recruiters” who are targeting job seekers in the industry you choose. Recruiters can sign-up for free to receive resumes.

The other info that is included on this website is helpful information and resources for job seekers, including tips on writing a great resume, articles about relocating and salary figures, and links to other career sites.‚ One neat feature that I found on this site is a Panic Button - if you’re browsing the site at work (looking for jobs for yourself instead of candidates!) and your boss is near, you can click on the Panic Button picture in the top left corner of most pages and you are taken to an article about effective time management.‚ Clever.

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From the i Six Sigma website comes this explanation of Six Sigma:

“¢‚¬¦a rigorous and disciplined methodology that uses data and statistical analysis to measure and improve a company’s operational performance by identifying and eliminating “defects” in manufacturing and service-related processes.”

If you’re already familiar with the Six Sigma methodology, the i Six Sigma website has a wealth of content for you, whether you’re a recruiter or job seeker. If you’re not a tenant of, or curious about, the Six Sigma process, there’s not much for you there, but it’s also not a website you’d likely stumble across if you weren’t interested, anyway.

i Six Sigma provides comprehensive resources to businesses at every level of the Six Sigma maturity. The site offers searchable job listings, a resume database with over 19,000 professionals, blog posts, newsletters (where job postings are promoted to over 38,000 subscribers), events and conferences, forums and more, all designed to assist readers in learning new skills, advancing their careers and contribute to the success of their companies through the use of Six Sigma.

Job recruiters focused on finding prospective clients or researching companies that subscribe to Six Sigma would certainly find a lot to do at i Six Sigma. Among the best resources on the site are the discussion forums, where hundreds of career- and company-related chat threads can be searched and surfed to find Six Sigma-related topics. One possible use for the forums would be to research specific companies that use the methodology, or to learn common concerns and themes in Six Sigma-prescribed employees who are seeking ways to advance their careers.

The site also has a fairly involved blogosphere area with multiple authors and plenty of topics and opinions on all things Six Sigma. While the i Six Sigma site can be a bit tricky in terms of navigation - due at least in part to its copious advertising banners that flash, blink and otherwise grapple for your attention - it must be said that anyone researching Six Sigma and its attendant capabilities would do well to make i Six Sigma their first stop.

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eQuest is a different kind of online tool for human resource professionals. There are no job listings there; no quick or advanced search involving career criteria such as job description, location or desired minimum salary; you won’t find e-newsletter sign-ups or message board forums there. In fact, eQuest has virtually none of the kinds of functionality that one tends to see at the most popular job board sites.

What it has, however, is the ability to use all of the other job board sites to your advantage.

Essentially what eQuest offers is the ability for human resource departments and recruitment professionals to post their company’s available job listings to multiple online job boards all at once, thereby eliminating the need to visit multiple sites re-enter information multiple times and pay multiple vendors for essentially the same service. According to the site, eQuest manages the flow of job-posting transactions to more than 1,000 unique job boards and reaches more than 200 countries and territories worldwide daily.

And eQuest offers additional tools besides simply posting your company’s job listings on multiple sites. eQuest will also track those sites for you, providing detailed analytics in terms of where candidates are finding your listings, where they’re clicking when they find them, and which job sites are working best to bring you serious, qualified job candidates.

Ultimately, eQuest provides a fairly specialized service for a specific clientele; but it’s simple to see how a large corporation with many open job assignments at any given time would be able to realize savings of time and money by taking advantage of eQuest’s services.

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Hcareers is a site that is focused toward candidates in the Hospitality industries, such as Hotel, Resort, Restaurant/Bar, Casino, Travel, and Foodservice.‚ The types of candidates that you will find on this site range from everything from cooks to hotel managers to travel agents.‚ ‚ Hcareers offers employers advanced search functions so they can find exactly the types of candidates they are looking for by narrowing down experience level, industry, location, skills and more.‚ 

Employers can also post jobs for a fee for job seekers to search and apply to through the Hcareers website.‚ Many large employers in this industry use this site for finding candidates for their open positions; a list of all employers registered is available from a link on the main homepage.‚ 

Another feature of this site is an area called “Resource Center”, where job seekers can get advice and tips on searching for a new job, acing interviews, and putting together a resume.‚ There are also newsletters that both employers and job seekers can sign up for; the employer newsletter focuses on recruitment strategies and opportunities for training, and the job seeker newsletter highlights new job opportunities or companies and strategies for job searching.

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JobsInLogistics.com serves about as niche a market as you can find in career websites, but in terms of addressing the needs of that targeted audience, the site really delivers. That was a logistics industry joke. A bad one, perhaps, but if you understood it enough to groan at its poor humor, JobsInLogistics.com probably has something for you. That’s because this is a site that specifically focuses on career opportunities in logistics, supply chain, transportation, freight forwarding, 3PL, distribution, purchasing and manufacturing. The site offers quite a bit of content for both job seekers and recruiters alike, with a clearly-organized and user-friendly interface that encourages web browsing.

Registration on JobsInLogistics.com is free for recruiters, although there is a rate structure in place for posting job openings. Still, recruiters can take advantage of Job Cloning and Candidate Tracker, online tools that the site boasts “reduce time in posting jobs and in reviewing and managing applicants’ resume responses”. Candidate Tracker is free to use, and stores resumes submitted for the recruiter’s jobs for 90 days. Recruiters can also organize their candidates using a number of criteria for quick and easy access when contacted from an employer for more information.

Job seekers can take advantage of most of the site’s tools without registration, or for free with registration; the only difference seems to be that a job seeker can post their resume to the JobsInLogistics.com database when they register. The site also provides resume writing advice and plenty of off-site links to industry-specific employers.

JobsInLogistics.com isn’t the most up-to-date site you’ll find; there are no e-newsletters to subscribe to; no RSS capabilities or blogs or forums. But for the audience it’s serving and the industries it covers, the extra bells and whistles likely aren’t necessary. This is a site that understands its purpose and knows how to drive its point home. And yes, that’s another awful logistics joke. Sorry about that.

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With robust content more or less evenly targeted to job seekers and recruitment professionals alike, Medzilla provides employment information, news and discussion forums covering the biotech, pharmaceutical, healthcare and science industries.

When you first arrive on the Medzilla homepage, you’ll notice that the site’s primary navigation is split between “Job Seekers” and “Employers & Recruiters”. Very quickly it’s clear that the site is designed and created first and foremost to appeal to its users’ needs, which of course is always a good thing.

Clicking on the “Job Seekers” tab provides a keyword-based job search, an interface to create an online account and submit a resume, develop a job search agent, access articles and forums and more. For recruitment professionals, the “Employers & Recruiters” navigational tab results in quick access to the site’s resume database, where site visitors can search via keywords or location radius. Employers can, of course, also create an account with which to post available job opportunities.

Medzilla also supplies a helpful means for both recruitment personnel as well as job seekers to search open assignments via company. The site displays about 70 corporate logos, each of which navigates to a job search result page when clicked. To be sure, it’s a great way for job seekers to find available openings at a given company, but recruiters can also discover value here in seeing at a glance what kinds of openings are currently available at a company-wide level. The search results are grouped according to location, which is also very helpful in terms of targeting recruitment opportunities. In terms of strongly serving a niche market, Medzilla more than fits the bill.

As a content-rich destination for web-based resources and information for the life sciences industry, BioSpace includes a vast and varied set of career tools for recruiters as well as job seekers.

The site certainly is a comprehensive resource for job career news and information, but it also provides recruitment professionals with an impressive array of tools to target opportunities in the life sciences segment. Clicking the site’s Career Fairs tab at the top of the page provides upcoming events truly geared toward‚ the life sciences industry to include‚ pharmaceutical and biotechnology. Likewise, the site provides highly organized and widespread company profiles that include available jobs, related news items and contact information. These profiles can also be searched via industry, location, services and more.

And here’s a helpful piece of functionality that the site offers to further target its content: clicking on the main navigational tabs at the top of the page provides segmented versions of the site’s content for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry (BioSpace); medical device and diagnostics interests (DeviceSpace); and a clinical research channel (ClinicaSpace). See the screenshot and note the arrow:

Each tab provides some similar site content, but with a number of key differences so that site visitors can appropriately segment their search for news, events and job search opportunities.‚ There is an “Employers” section to each site, where there are options for job posting and resume search packages. With extensive access to newsletters, featured stories, blogs and more, all three of these interconnected resource websites provide a wealth of content for job seekers and recruiters alike.