+Jobs Canada
http://www.canada.plusjobs.com
This site is dedicated to Canadian jobs. You can
browse listings or search by keyword and province. To search for contract jobs,
include the word “contract” in the search keywords. When you click on a job
title, you jump to the offering company's home page.
Aquent
http://www.aquent.com
This site specializes in representing
freelancers in the creative and technical fields. The site also offers free
downloads including a Web Skill And Salary Guide. Aquent recently purchased IT
consulting firm Renaissance Worldwide.
BrassRing.com
http://www.BrassRing.com
In addition to searching for jobs, this site has
two useful tools. The Benefits tool helps you find out what your benefits mean
in terms of money and quality of life. The Salary wizard uses Salary.com's
proprietary compensation database to calculate salaries based on job title and
geographic location.
Broadcast Employment Sources Freelance Directory
http://www.tvjobs.com/freelance
This site provides a directory that contains
information on freelance television, radio, cable, film, print and
entertainment industry professionals from the United States and around the
world.
CareerBuilder
http://www.careerbuilder.com
This site has a large database of jobs. You can
narrow your search by keywords, state, city, and job type.
Computer Jobs Store
http://www.computerjobs.com
Easy to use job site for IT professionals. The
site includes both contract and permanent positions and ComputerJobs.com
conducts and posts yearly salary surveys.
Computerwork.com
http://www.Computerwork.com
Computerwork.com is an established IT job board
founded in 1995 and a Best of Best site for 2003 as named by CareerXroads.
Additionally, they were also named a Top 30 site by Weddles for 2004.
Computerwork.com has about 9,000 IT jobs on site.
Contract Job Hunter
http://www.cjhunter.com
A service of C.E. Weekly that provides
information about job openings for contractors and consultants in engineering,
IT/IS, and technical disciplines. For a small yearly fee, members enjoy
services such as online resume, email resume distribution, hot sheet listing,
message boards, online directory of contract staffing firms, articles,
editorials, and columns. One nice feature of their search engine is the fact
that the results highlight your search words.
cplusplusJobs.com
http://www.cplusplusjobs.com
This is an ultra-basic job site that focuses
exclusively on jobs for C++ programmers. There aren't a lot of jobs, but if
you’re a C++ programmer, it’s simple enough to scan the list of available jobs.
You can't select out contract jobs, but the listings provide the job types. If
C++ isn't your thing, the site provides links to similar sites for Delphi,
Lotus Notes, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, and others.
Craig’s List
http://www.craigslist.org
A job site that is recognized for its
simplicity. Originally started in the San Francisco area, they now have local
sites for many major cities.
Data Processing Independent Consultants Exchange (DICE)
http://www.dice.com
Originally designed primarily for independent
consultants in the IT industry, Dice now includes permanent as well as contract
jobs. Most listings are by agencies representing clients.
developers.net
http://www.developers.net
This site concentrates exclusively on developer
jobs such as those in Visual Basic, DBMS, Unix, Java, and Web development. The
search engine is fairly basic, but you can register to have jobs matching your
specifications e-mailed to you. When you find a listing you like, you send your
resume in text format to Developers.net. Developers.net then forwards your
resume on to the job contact. Resumes are not stored on the site.
DirectJobs.com
http://www.directjobs.com
This is a pretty straight-forward job search
website. The advanced search engine allows you to select contract jobs only and
any locations you want in the U.S. and Canada. It appears most of the postings
come from staffing agencies.
Elance.com
http://www.elance.com
For a monthly fee, this job site provides
billing and payment services that facilitate international transactions. You
can also bid on projects at this site.
Employ Max
http://www.employmax.com
In addition to a standard resume database,
EmployMax.com provides ExpertTease™, a multimedia version of your resume
designed in Macromedia Flash. Currently, ExpertTease is free. In addition, they
offer a service called e-Vita!™, a professionally designed interactive
multimedia portfolio that incorporates your accomplishments and work samples on
CD ROM. Currently e-Vita pricing starts at $199 for them to burn six CDs with
your presentation. To use this service, you download their e-Vita Development
Kit which guides you through a 6-step process that shows you how to collect
your work samples and prepare your information.
The site also
provides tools and resources for career self assessment, training, and
education.
FedBizOpps
http://www.fedbizopps.gov/
FedBizOpps provides a single government
point-of-entry for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000.
With this site, government buyers can publicize their business opportunities by
posting information directly to FedBizOpps via the Internet. Through one
portal, commercial vendors seeking Federal markets for their products and
services can search, monitor, and retrieve opportunities solicited by the
entire Federal contracting community.
FreeAgent.com
http://FreeAgent.com
This site provides an employment service called Yurcor
where the contractor works for an Yurcor as an umbrella employer providing
benefits and business tax deductions.
FreelanceWriters.com
http://www.freelancewriters.com
This site maintains a database of freelance
writers worldwide. To join, you pay a $39/yr fee that entitles you to a 300
word biography, a link to your website, and an email address. The registration
includes an extensive list of categories to which you can associate your
writing skills.
HireAbility.com
http://www.hireability.com
This site is unusual in that it serves three
audiences: job seekers, job posters, and what it calls “independent agents.”
Independent agents are independent recruiters or salespersons who place
contract talent at hiring companies. Through its partnership with
sharedprofessional.com, HireAbility provides independent agents access to tools
and services normally only available to recruiters working in staffing firms or
HR departments. HireAbilty and Shared Professional Services, Inc. act as the
Employer and Vendor of Record for contractors, providing payroll services for
all W2s and independent contractors the independent agent places.
On contract placements the gross margin [$Billed – ($paid + fringes + costs)]
is divided with 50% going to the Independent Agent, 25% to Shared Professional
Services to cover back office support, and 25% to HireAbility. If you are an
independent agent, this service lets you devote your time to managing projects,
finding new candidates, and booking new business. If you are a contractor,
study the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for the independent agent program.
It provides an insight into how agencies and placement companies compute their
overhead.
Home Job Stop
http://homejobstop.com
This site’s job bank includes a diverse database
of telecommuting (work-at-home) jobs in a variety of disciplines available
locally, nationally, and worldwide. They charge a one-time fee (currently $18)
to access its job database. For a one-time fee (currently $24) you can post
your resume on their site. They also offer a yearly subscription (currently
$12), to their job updates in which you get bi-weekly reports of the newest
listings to the database mailed directly to your e-mail.
Hot Jobs
http://www.hotjobs.com
This is one of the “biggies” among general
job-search web sites. You can search for jobs by keyword, location, company, and
category. Some nice features about their search engine is the ability to filter
out recruiters and staffing firms by selecting “Direct Employers”. Also, the
search engine highlights your keywords in the text of any job results. This
makes it easy to see the context in which the job listing uses your keywords.
If you register with the web site, you can submit your resume and create a
personalized “My HotJobs” home page. The “My HotJobs” page includes automatic
e-mail notification of relevant job openings, statistics on how many times your
resume has been accessed, and a “lockout” function to prevent specified
companies (such as your current employer) from accessing your information.
Job Circle
http://www.jobcircle.com
This is an award-winning job site directed at
technology professionals in the northeastern United States. The site provides
resume submission, articles on career development, monthly columns, technology
news, discussion databases, regional career events, and much, much more to a
community of technology, telecom, and engineering professionals.
Job Options
http://www.joboptions.com
Site includes salary comparisons and job alerts
where they email about jobs your looking for. The site tends to focus on non-IT
professional jobs.
Job Safari
http://www.jobsafari.com
The unusual angle of this web site is that it is
a massive index of links to the employment pages on company Web sites. You can
search their index alphabetically or by location. Although some of the links
are out-of-date because companies may re-design their pages, it’s a good place
to search for specific companies you may want to approach for work.
Jobble Network
http://www.jobble.net
Jobble Network: Focused entirely on contract
positions. Employers may post at no
charge. Job seekers may search thousands of jobs for free, and (for a nominal
monthly fee), submit proposals to employers with those positions of interest.
JobExpo.com
http://www.jobexpo.com
This site provides information about more than
240 career events they produce annually for professional sales, marketing,
management, finance, telecommunication, healthcare, customer service,
information technology and administration. They also provide job matching
services for employers and job seekers. Job seekers can also use the site to
learn everything from simple job search tips to negotiating a job offer.
Jobs for Programmers
http://www.prgjobs.com
Build specifically for programmers, this site
offers fairly standard job search capabilities. One interesting aspect of the search engine is
the ability to specify telecommuting (work-at-home) positions only. You can
submit a text version of your resume by filling out a detailed form.
Job-Search Engine
http://www.jobsearchengine.com
Job-Search-Engine is not a Job Board, but rather
a job search engine. It searches the top 250 American, 60 British and 110
English and French Canadian job boards simultaneously and in real time. This
service can save you hours of individually searching through multiple job
boards and career sites.
MacTalent
http://www.mactalent.com
One of the few job sites that specialize in IT
professionals with a background in Macintosh computers.
MedSearch
http://www.medsearch.com
A part of Monster.com specializing in medical
professionals.
Monster Contract & Temporary Community
http://talentmarket.monster.com
This part of the Monster board is built
specifically for contractors and free agents. You can submit your resume to be
part of the Monster database. The C&T Community website includes a search
function customized for contract and temporary workers as well as articles,
message boards, and a chat area.
My Career Guide
http://www.mycareerguide.com
My Career Guide helps you build the right career
of your choice. The site includes useful utilities like salary tools, resume
tools, and valuable tips on how to give an Interview.
MyBizOffice
http://www.mybizoffice.com
MyBizOffice, the leading “portable employer of
record” service, helps professional contractors and consultants achieve greater
success by providing a convenient and comprehensive business infrastructure
through which they can work. This includes group benefits, a lucrative 401(k)
plan, free General Liability insurance, automatic tax withholdings, and
complete back-office administration services.
NAACP High Tech and Diversity Job Fairs
http://www.naacpjobfair.com
Sponsored by the NAACP, this site provides
listings of diversity career fairs across the US.
Operation IT
http://www.operationit.com/
This site focuses on IT jobs. You can search by
company or location or use their advanced search. The advanced search allows
you to select location (including telecommuting/work at home), category, job
type (including part-time or consulting), salary range, and keywords. The site
also sponsors several “centers”. The Career Center provides resume-posting
capabilities for job applicants and corporate-to-corporate IT professionals,
and recruiting services for employers. The Campus Center helps college students
reach potential employers by listing their education, skills, and expertise in
a profile. The Staffing Exchange facilitates placements between corporate
clients and staffing companies, as well as split placements between two
staffing companies.
The Business Center is directed to IT specialty Firms, Independent Contractors,
or Corp To Corp professionals looking for projects. The site explains that
Business Center members can advertise, promote, and grow their businesses for a
fee. The current fee for Business Center membership, based on term of
membership from 30 days to one year, ranges from $50 to $450. Members can
create a company profile; view statistics that report how many times browsers
viewed their profile; search a project database and contact client prospects
directly; contact other firms to form partnerships, and hire additional staff
through Operation IT’s Career Center at a discount.
Resume Rabbit
http://www.resumerabbit.com/
Rather than expend the time and effort to submit
your resume to each job site individually, you can let Resume Rabbit do it for
you. For a one-time fee, you complete one resume form and Resume Rabbit submits
your information to over 79 job sites. They say it takes about 15 minutes to
complete the form. They complete posting to the third party websites within 72
hours after you sign up and submit your resume. They send you a posting
confirmation report with instructions on how to access the job sites and any
available log-on information to access your postings on those sites. Their list
includes all the major sites like Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, Dice, Hot
Jobs, and more. Through this combined effort, they claim as many as 1.5 million
employers can see your resume daily. Keep in mind this is a one-shot process;
if you need to change your information, you have to do it on each of the
third-party job sites.
ResumeMailman
http://www.resumemailman.com/
The theory behind ResumeMailman is that there's
still millions of great jobs out there but that many of the best ones never
make their way to the classifieds because their snapped up by experienced
recruiters who know about them before they're ever advertised. So, the people
at ResumeMailman maintain a list of thousands of experienced recruiters to whom
you can send your resume.
Their basic plan is $49 and includes distribution of your resume and cover
letter to their list of 600 general recruiters who want to receive all resumes.
This includes your choice of three industry/discipline selections and up to
three geographic filter selections so you can narrow the search to where you
live. Their form takes ten minutes to fill out and they provide a free
confidential email address and a contact list of all the recruiters who
received your resume. Additional cost options help you increase your exposure
with additional industry/discipline selections.
SoftwareDeveloper.com
http://www.softwaredeveloper.com
As its name states, this site focuses on
software developers. You can browse or search industry jobs, create an online
resume, view company profiles, or use their career alert feature to automatic
search for matching jobs that will be emailed to you when they become
available.
Sologig.com
http://www.sologig.com
This site specializes in marketing freelancers,
consultants and independent professionals to a nationwide audience of
employers. They claim that they “actively market to thousands of employers,”
but other than providing a searchable database of members, the site doesn’t
explain exactly how they do the marketing. You have to pay a fee to become a
member with current fees ranging from $60 to $110 per month. The higher the
fee, the higher you are placed in their listings. Members also get free
business cards and discounted DSL service.
techies.com
http://www.techies.com
This site focuses on IT professionals. You can
search for jobs and/or research companies. The site also includes articles and
links for IT training and certification programs. One nice feature of this site
is the city-specific pages. You can view pages and narrow your search to major
cities like Chicago, New York, Boston, Dallas, etc. These pages include
regional data, featured companies from the area, and articles.
Telecommute Jobs
http://www.telecommute-jobs.com
This site specializes in telecommuting
(work-at-home) jobs. The site focuses only on IT type jobs. The site provides a
rudimentary search engine and you can post your text resume for others to
search.
Top Echelon
http://www.topechelon.com/contracting/
Top Echelon is a network of recruiters. Like
HireaAbility (see http://www.hireability.com),
it serves three audiences: job seekers, employers, and recruiters. The search capabilities are
fairly standard, but, as a contractor, if you want to learn many of the issues
facing recruiters, browse through the recruiters part of the site. They have
articles about issues such as W2 vs. 1099 and H1B Visas. Also, to see how the
Top Echelon recruiters mark-up your contracting rate, check out the free rate
calculator (http://www.topechelon.com/recruiters/contracting/eordetails.htm).
The calculator lets you enter your state and the rate you want to receive and
the calculator calculates the company bill rate. If you make Top Echelon your
employer of record, they handle the taxes, insurance, benefits, worker’s
compensation, and other payroll-related issues.
Vault
http://www.vault.com/
In addition to standard job and project search
capabilities, this site offers industry reports, Vault’s Career Guides, message
boards, and career tools. You can register to receive job openings e-mailed to
you. In addition to a salary calculator, the career tools include some unusual
items worth noting. The “Day in the Life” page of the career tools, provides
articles profiling actual days in the lives of professionals in top careers.
Another interesting career tool feature is the “How’s My Resume?” page. Using
this feature you can post your resume and/or cover letter and get advice from
other Vault members. This page also includes sample resumes and cover letters.
Web Jobs USA
http://www.webjobsusa.com
Although the search capabilities for this site
are rather Spartan, this site includes links to many specialized sites
maintained by Web Jobs USA. This includes sites for advertising, accountants,
loan officers, etc.
Wisconsin Jobs
http://www.wijobs.com
This site focuses on jobs in the state of
Wisconsin. It offers an on-line jobs database and a personal career agent. You
can register a profile card and receive jobs via email that match your
specifications.
