Help Wanted

Looking for a job? The web is filled with tools to help you get one, whether it’s matchmaking services, job boards or search engines like Monster. Here are a few resources to help you out. This list focuses pretty heavily on design, development, marketing, advertising and “Social Media” jobs but there is something here for everyone.

Creative Hot List

Creative Hot List is a job search for creative professionals, useful if you are interested in jobs in graphic and web design, writing, photography or illustration.

Coloflot

Coloflot helps you create a portfolio and get it in front of people who may want to hire you. It’s geared primarily towards designers and has a pretty active job board.

Krop

Krop is a simple job board with a clean design and a dew dozen updates a day. It’s really well put together and it doesn’t seem to have the regional focus that many of these boards do. It focuses heavily on design jobs, but other tech jobs are available.

The Creative Group

The Creative Group matches marketing and advertising professionals with job providers. They allow you to submit your resume and portfolio and pair you with companies looking for talent.

AIGA

AIGA is another design-centric job community, they allow designers to connect, post their portfolio and search their job board. Actually posting a job is a little expensive, but you get $100 knocked off of the price if you’re a member.

Aquent

Aquent is a staffing agency for marketers and designers, they also have a robust job search.

Authentic Jobs

Authentic Jobs is a clean and simple job board, there are jobs available for both freelance and full time job seekers. The jobs are also vetted for quality.

Smashing Magazine Jobs

Smashing Magazines job board for designers and developers. Fairly active and diverse for a “blog” based job board. The only problem is that you need to click through to see when a particular job was posted.

Talent Zoo

TalentZoo is a site with articles and insights for advertising, marketing and media professionals. They have a substantial number of recent listings as well as the ability to upload your resume.

Craigslist

I am not going to promise you miracles, but Craigslist is still a great way to find a job if you can filter through the noise.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is also useful for those willing to do the legwork. It works a lot better as a networking tool than a traditional “job board.” If you keep your eyes open though, opportunities do exist.

Indeed

Indeed is a job search engine, and works best if you already know the type of job you are looking for. It searches through dozens of other job boards for available positions. What’s interesting about the site is that it also has search available for salaries and a tool that allows you to plot job trends based on keywords.

CareerBuilder

CareerBuilder is great for its breadth but not so good for its depth, especially if you are looking for a “New Media” job. There are definitely listings to be had in more traditional professions, but you might be better off going to a more tailored job board.

Monster

The granddaddy of them all, Monster has a huge selection, robust search, email alerts and RSS feeds. It’s a fantastic resource all around even though it does suffer from the same problem that CareerBuilder and all non-specific job search sites do.

SimplyHired

I can’t say enough good things about SimplyHired. They have a fantastic, broad job search but it doesn’t stop there. They have widgets, feeds, and even hosted solutions for publishers who want to have their own job boards. Great starting point for job seekers and job publishers alike.

eRecruiting

eRecuriting is a job recruiting site geared towards college students. It looks like it could be interesting, but unfortunately you have to register before you can even look at their listings. Worth a look if you fit their target demographic.

JobFox

JobFox is a really interesting take on the classic job board. They setup introductions for job seekers with employers. It uses a profile you create upon registration to match you with companies you might be interested in working for and then sets up the introduction.

Jobster

Another large, non-specific job search property. I will say that along with a clean design and “classic” interface, Jobster has a pretty impressive selection of “Social Media” and “Web 2.0″ style jobs.

MediaBistro

MediaBisto is a community for media professionals that offer jobs, education and events. The interface is a little complex and there are a few hurdles to pass through to get to the jobs, but if you’re looking for more than just a listing this is a great jumping off point.

Healthjobs

Healthjobs is just what the URL says, job for health professionals. Clean and intuitive interface organized by city.

Glassdoor

Think of Glassdoor as a Yelp or Get Satisfaction for employees. You can search for information on salaries and even look at reviews for companies before you ever step in the door for the interview. This is a great site to research future professions.

Vault

Vault is another great job research tool, this one focused on surveys, education and video.

Startuply

Startuply is devoted to listing jobs from startups. They have a decent selection and really nice design, worth a look.

Hot Startup Jobs

Hot Startup Jobs is an aggregator of lots and lots of startup jobs.

Startupagents

Startupagents is a job matching service, it requires registration to use but it looks pretty interesting. If anyone has had any success with it, send me an email.

Startupers

Startupers doesn’t have a huge number of jobs, but I am a big fan of the way they arrange them, check out the site — it says a lot about their theory on job hunting.

Freelance Blogger

Freelance Blogger is a forum devoted to blogging jobs. It doesn’t have a feed or any other fancy new web dodads, but it does have a solid list of freelance writing gigs for bloggers.

Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop has a section on jobs. It is a really solid aggregator of tech jobs, worth checking out if you’re in the market.

Blog Boards

A lot of large web publishers have job boards, most of them are hosted from third parties but each has a few gems. Here are several of my favorites.

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