Career 2.0 Review

This is a guest blog post by Sally Lawton. Company: TheWorkReview.comSlogan: How does your job compare?Pros: Honest reviews, anonymous postingCons: Limited sample size, outliers affect results Tired of interviewing with a seemingly nice boss only to find out your first day that they micromanage? Whether you’re considering a career move or looking for a summer job that will not ruin your vacation, TheWorkReview can save you. Visitors to TheWorkReview search for jobs three ways: clicking on their state and browsing an alphabetical list, searching for a specific business, or searching by business name and address. It even refines by address, so that job seekers can see individual branches of stores. Disgruntled employees hoping to warn off job seekers will appreciate the anonymity of the reviews. Users do not even have to create an account. Your boss will never know. Moderators review content for profanity, discriminatory reviews, and real names. Over and above these limits, … [Read more...] about Research Companies at The Work Review

This is a guest blog post by Sally Lawton. Company: CareerVoyages.govSlogan: Good Jobs, Better Pay, Brighter FuturePros: Detailed information, statisticsCons: Dry content, out-dated data, unfocusedThe government cares about your career, especially if you are interested in a high-paying, high-growth industry. CareerVoyages.gov (a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education) points users in the direction of these industries by laying out specific career paths and providing hard numbers on hiring and salary.According to CareerVoyages, among the high-growth and emerging industries that users should consider are advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, construction, energy, financial services, healthcare, homeland security, hospitality, information technology, retail, transportation, biotechnology, geospatial technology, and nanotechnology. Clicking on each of the industry icons provides detailed overviews of each industry and how to get … [Read more...] about Research Careers With Government Website

This is a guest blog post by job hunter Sally Lawton.  Company: mployd.comSlogan: Where Hiring HappensPros: Slick resume templates Cons: Hard to use job search engine, limited sample size, you can get more from more traditional sitesIn Job Search 2.0, there are several key features that every career site should have: social networking, sophisticated marketing tools, and a robust job search engine. Unfortunately, having all of these components doesn't necessarily mean success.  Mployd, with its kicky name and sharp display, has all of these characteristics, but they won’t necessarily help you find a job.  Social networking on Mployd consists of a system where a user’s colleagues can vouch for them. Vouching is supposed to work like a recommendation; however, it is unclear how much value an employer will place on a user’s vouches. After all, there is no way of knowing if the vouches are valid data on a user’s employability. Because of this, it seems … [Read more...] about Nice Resume Templates With Mployd

This is a guest blog post by job hunter Sally Lawton.  Company: OneDayOneJob.comSlogan: One Day, One JobPros: Profiles of small, lesser-known companies; thoughtful contentCons: Limited contentThe title of One Day, One Job says it all. Each day, users are treated to a company profile. The companies that One Day, One Job chooses to cover are intentionally not always the most well known. Its creator, Willy Franzen, intends the site to introduce users to companies, and possibly careers, they might not have before considered. Given that their primary audience is college students just thinking about their first real job, this is an excellent choice. Even for those of us only a few years into our careers, One Day, One Job is an excellent opportunity to explore our options.While the very premise of One Day, One Job prevents a truly extensive list of companies, what they cover, they cover well. There are no dry talking points here; rather, the reviews read somewhat like those found here on … [Read more...] about Inside Look at Entry-Level Jobs

This is a guest blog post by job hunter Sally Lawton.Company: CareerTV.comSlogan: Careers brought to life!Pros: Advice for new grads and young professionals, video resumes, information on corporations and universities, interviews with professionalsCons: Cheesy production value, categories limited, many features not yet availableDo you ever wish you didn’t actually have to read all of the career advice floating around on the Internet? CareerTV gives you everything you could read elsewhere, but in video form. The videos offered include profiles of companies and universities, resumes, career advice, and interviews with professionals.The company profiles, presented in full evening-news style, cover mainly big corporations such as IBM and Google. While it is fun to visualize a prospective company, the information is not any great insight into the company’s culture. More interesting are the vlogs that give career advice. None of the advice is particularly groundbreaking, but all … [Read more...] about Career and Resume Videos on CareerTV

This is a guest blog post by job hunter Sally Lawton.   Company: Jobfox.comSlogan: Be the HuntedPros: Creates a professional Webpage; generates a skills list; automatically matches candidates to jobs; protects job-seeker’s informationCons: Limited sample size; limited job and skill categoriesDo you ever wish that the “I’m here for networking” option on MySpace could actually help your career? Jobfox.com takes the personal-page layout of MySpace, and gives it a professional edge, leaving job-hunters confident that employers will see them at their professional best, and not at their partying best.The professional Webpage generated by Jobfox can be a powerful marketing tool because it offers a centralized location for a candidate’s resume and portfolio. The page also offers a skills map, a list of what the candidate wants in a job, and an “about me” section. The skills map shows how a particular position generated a candidate’s … [Read more...] about Match Jobs With Your Skills at Jobfox

This is a guest blog post by job hunter Sally Lawton.  Company: Jiibe.comSlogan: Company culturePros: Empowers the job seeker; Learn more about what YOU want in a job  Cons: Limited sample size; Can't search geographically; Company write-ups a bit staleFinding the right job is a lot like finding the right partner. So what happens when you take a job classifieds site like Monster and smash it headfirst into a matchmaking site like eHarmony?  Jiibe.com is born.Jiibe.com’s defining characteristic is a lengthy personality quiz that examines 18 'critical factors' of employment. By asking questions that compare your current company’s culture to your ideal company’s culture, Jiibe promises to scientifically match you to your next employer. By the end of the compatibility quiz, users will know which cultural characteristics are important to them, and which companies value the same characteristics.  Once a 'match' is selected, users can then read more about … [Read more...] about Free Job Matchmaking With Jiibe