WEB 2.0 AWARDS – EMPLOYMENT and JOBS (Thing 19)

The Web 2.0 Awards site is pretty awesome.  It is a site to which people can go and find a good website in their subject category. I picked “Employment and jobs” as that is an area in which many library users are interested. I looked at the top three sites, Standoutjobs.com, careerbuilder.com, and monster.com. You can check out each site to see what it has to offer, but to apply for jobs, you must get a user name and password.  I did not do that, since my goal was not to apply for a job, but only to check out the site.  Both careerbuilder and monster gave quite a bit of career guidance information without signing up. Both of these sites also have the capability of searching for a job and limiting it to a location without signing up. I liked careerbuilder the best because it had the most limiters on the search page. The search could be limited by industries, location, job-categories, salary range, etc. To me this site also gave the most helpful job search information and career guidance help. For libraries, these sites are ones to be aware of, as there are so many people searching for employment and job information.