Top-flight marketing jobs aren't limited to the bicoastal white-collar confines of Boston, New York or San Francisco.
This Midwest-focused job board provides a search engine that lets you target by job level, regional location and even how
long the job has been posted (1 week to 1.5 months).
We like this service because its search engine saves you time with its pull-down menus and because this editor knows people
who have gotten hired through the site.
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group. Big Shoes focuses on advertising, marketing, PR and web services.
Owned by Tribune Company, Gannett and Knight Ridder, CareerBuilder.com features jobs from the classifieds sections of more than 130 newspapers. It houses over 9 million resumes and more than 400,000 jobs from over 25,000 of the nation's most sought after employers. All those numbers have paid off - in January 2004, site traffic increased by 117 percent and total job postings by 33 percent (as compared to January 2003). Need more convincing? According to recruitment tracking firm Corzen, CareerBuilder.com lists the most jobs in the top 100 US markets.
The Wall Street Journal's high-profile career site covers every base for landing an executive, managerial or professional job. Job seekers can create their own personalized home page, which will show articles and job postings matching their interests. There are articles on every topic related to the job search, from resumes and cover letters to negotiation tips and what to expect when changing careers. Job seekers should also check out the salary table to get the skinny on compensation for hundreds of positions.
Whither goes the marketing job? If glorious dreams of yesterday's six figure cushy job are getting in the way of your job search, you may want to clear the decks and rethink your career strategy. Many career coaches and outplacement firms offer costly career assessment tools. If you'd like to take advantage of these tools, but would rather spend $19.95(US) for the Web-enabled version, this state-of-theart profiling technology might be just the ticket.
CareerMaze is based on Omnia Profile technology, which has been used by thousands of companies as a hiring/managing/retention tool. After completing an online questionnaire you will receive a detailed 10- to 12-page report focused on your work life - your strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for growth. Are you ready for self-employment? Or is a full-time job more your speed? Would a new twist on your previous career prove more successful? CareerMaze will help you find out.
It's not the most attractive website we've ever seen, but this niche job site could be one of the most useful because it focuses on Internet Marketing positions.
When you create a job seeker's account, you get a dashboard that allows you to post a resume anonymously, search for jobs by title or location, manage your job applications and
receive alerts that match your interests or skills. Job levels range from entry-level to CMO, but most appear to be in middle management.
The site is free for job hunters. Employers or recruiters posting jobs pay fees when applicants contact them through the site. It had thousands of listings at time of writing.
After opening an account, you have access to a Content Library with career advice, coaching, resume help and an "Ask the Experts" section.
This business-focused social network gives you several resources to help make you as attractive as possible to potential employers.:
Profile-completion reminders. LinkedIn automatically scans your profile data and suggests ways to make yourself more visible or to complete your profile with data recruiters
are looking for, such as a complete employment history, recommendations, group memberships, etc.
The "Jobs" tab in the top navigation bar on your profile. This tab leads you to a page on which LinkedIn lists potential jobs where your profile data matches job listings
posted by recruiters or employers. Use this page to manage your job search, too.
The "Job Seeker Premium." This is a paid service which features your
application for a job ahead of other LinkedIn applicants and allows you to contact potential employers who are not on your connection list.
Group job boards. The SEO SEM Social Media group has one of the most active job boards among Internet Marketing groups with
prospective employers such as Adobe, Ask and Vocus (at time of writing). It's open only to group members, but membership requests are granted quickly.
MarketingJobs.com is an employment site specializing in sales, marketing and advertising jobs nationwide. Upon creation of your profile, you can post your resume/career needs, save your job searches, receive a free resume critique and search employer profiles. An active affiliate program with marketing-related sites - whereby they offer MarketingJobs.com-powered career resources on their sites - is a successful tactic that has extended the reach of this company. Affiliates include local chapters of the American Marketing Association as well as marketing industry organizations.
If you are in the market to recruit for or land a $100K+ marketing job, MktgLadder is the place to be. The brainchild of Marc Cenedella, a former HotJobs.com SVP, MktgLadder flips the standard online job search scenario on its head -- there is no cost to post a job on the site; instead, job seekers are asked to pony up a monthly subscription fee to get complete access to all that MktgLadder has to offer.
Subscribe to the weekly no-cost newsletter (at the time of writing, 115,000 marketers do), and you will receive a chatty, informative round up of job search-related news and successes plus links to 500+ marketing jobs around the globe. However, not all of the links are active -- the majority are accessible only to MktgLadder members. Membership has its privileges -- in addition to full access to all job leads, members get the weekly listings several days earlier than mere wanna-be's. They also receive more details on the hiring companies plus other premium site features, including a complimentary resume makeover. Membership runs $180(US) for a year or $35 for one month. Cenedella also runs sister sites FinanceLadder, SalesLadder, RecruitLadder and UpLadder (which is targeted to those in HR, operations, law and technology).
Founded in 1994, Monster is certainly one of the leading career websites, if not the most highly recognized. Job seekers - to the tune 41.6 million visits during the month of December 2003 - flock to the site for its global reach, ease of use and innovative tools. Post your resume (or have one written for you), search thousands of pages of career advice, resumes and salary stats to arm yourself with the latest information, and then network with millions of Monster members to find your next gig. Or have the latest jobs delivered to your IN box every day. If nothing else, the site offers a great way to see who's hiring where and for how much.
Do your work talents take you to the leading edge of communication technology, such as mobile web or app development?
You might find what you're looking for at this digital-only job board.
We like this recruitment agency because it had a broad range of positions around the United States, a number of "hot
now" jobs that didn't appear on other boards, and a high-quality email newsletter that includes career tips and advice along with a list of newly
posted positions. Follow @onwardsearch on Twitter, too, to see job postings as soon as they go live.