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Monster.com
Monster.com is one of the largest, most well known employment websites. It offers not only a job search feature, but an abundance of articles and information to guide your job search. It also allows you to post your personal resume to be viewed by employers, which is a useful feature.
Monster.com is far more than online want-ads. From the home page, you can navigate through jobs by keyword, job category, and location. At one time, Monster.com did not offer many jobs in rural areas, but as the site further expands, it has an abundance of listings in many areas across the U.S. One of the great things about being able to search nationwide is the ability to scope out the job market in any given area, perhaps to secure employment before moving or just to see how your job measures up. This aspect of Monster is probably the most popular and well known.
Another area of Monster that is very beneficial is the Career Advice section, which offers advice on job hunting, the interview process, and resume tips. When you are in the market for a new job, there is no such thing as being too knowledgeable or overly fine-tuning your skills. This is an area that can always use more work. There are general articles as well as articles focused on specific fields of employment. This section of Monster also has a salary center where you can investigate salaries in other areas of the country or compare your current salary to others in your field. However, this is not as valuable for people in rural areas, as they are often based on salaries of larger, more metropolitan areas which may not be accurate for different parts of the same state. On the other hand, if you are in a metropolitan area, it will be more on target.
With Monster.com, you can also communicate with others about your job search in the Network Now section of the website. However, to do this, you must create an account with Monster. This is a free service which allows you to receive all kinds of emails to aid in your job search. The inevitable downside is once you find a job, you may not want those emails anymore. However, during your search, they are very useful and informative. You can simply opt-out of receiving them if you no longer need the service.
One of the benefits of utilizing a service such as Monster is that it takes the guesswork out of job searching. You get expert advice without hiring a personal employment consultant and are able to access the information at your own pace and in whatever order you want. You may be more interested in interview tips than perfecting your resume; if this is the case, you can skip to those articles that interest you.
Monster.com also reminds you that you are not alone in the job market. There are many others just like you out there struggling with what to say and how to dress in an interview, or how to structure your resume to increase your chances of getting a call-back. These are issues that most job searchers face; Monster puts these issues on the table and gives useful, realistic advice on how to solve them.
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