idiotprogrammer writes “While the major job sites like
href=”http://www.monster.com”>Monster.com command hefty fees from employers who want to list their ads, there are relatively few free public forums for employers to list ads and for job seekers to learn about them. Google allows access to employment newsgroups, but these have been spammed so much to be very virtually useless….
In the age of cost-free web publishing, shouldn’t a better cost-free job-posting system have emerged by now? It is becoming harder and harder for job seekers to apply directly to the companies themselves (ask yourself: how many “job postings” are just recruiters trolling for resumes?). Gosh, in the good old days, job seekers who mailed resumes could feel relatively confident that a real live person would actually throw the resume away. But nowadays, who knows? And do queries to resume databases still produce meaningful results for employers? (Hint: an hr person who types in C++, unix, java or asp as keywords is NOT going to narrow the field much!)”
