The Best Career Opportunities are Online

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For tech professionals, the best opportunities are being posted on online job boards.

In a recent survey of 1,000 HR professionals and managers, conducted by Inavero Institute for Service Research, 72 percent of salaried employee recruiting involved online job boards.

Online job boards draw in more responses and cost a fraction of what traditional methods such as referrals and newspapers cost. For this reason you will find the most opportunities online.

To get the most out of online job boards:

Regularly check online boards to compare your current pay to what is being offered for similar skill sets and experience level.
Keep an eye out for opportunities at specific companies and start building your network with people that work with or at those companies.
Use 2 general job boards like Hot Jobs and Careerbuilder and then target 3 or more specific niche job sites like Dice, Tech Careers and Bytes.
Don't forget to visit the company's own job board. You might find more opportunities there.
If you don't have the skill sets for a particular job on paper, visit the contract and freelance site to pick up projects to help build up your resume.

Scouting the boards is good practice for evaluating your career. Knowing where the best opportunities are listed will come in handy the day you have to find another place to work.

Here is a list of well known sites where you can pick up your next tech job:

Big Companies

Microsoft
Google
Oracle
Cisco
IBM
Motorola
Intel
Apple
Hewlett Packard
Amazon.com
Research in Motion (BlackBerry)
AT&T
Accenture
Nintendo

General Jobs Boards

Hot Jobs
Monster
Career Builder
Jobs.com
Simply Hired

Tech Jobs Boards

Dice
Indeed / Computer Jobs
ITtoolbox
JustTechJobs
Joel on Software
Krop - Creative Tech Jobs
37signals Job Board
DevBistro
ComputerJobs
TechCareers
nPost - Startup Jobs in Tech
TheLadders - $100k+ Jobs, Great for techies with lots of market experience
OdinJobs - Tech Jobs search engine
Craigslist
Authentic Jobs - Full time job opps for designers and developers
Software Jobs
Vault Vault.com technology jobs board and salary comparison site

Freelance

oDesk
eLance
Guru.com
jobs.freelanceswitch.com
SoloGig.com
Project4Hire.com
iFreelance.com
RentaCoder

International

IT Jobs for Graduates - jobs for grads, interns, trainees in uk
PlanetRecruit - uk and london jobs
Naukri.com
TechSkills - Ireland Tech Jobs
Computing Careers - offers latest IT, computing and computer programmer vacancies, at all levels with leading UK employers.
CWJobs - UK IT Jobs and contract positions
ITJobBoard - International IT Jobs
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Reed

Jul 31 '08 #1

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You forgot Reed. It's not limited to IT, but the link is - to IT and Telecoms.

Aug 1 '08 #2

Niheel

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Thanks i'll add it to the collection.

Aug 1 '08 #3

Adefisan Tunde Adedeji

How can I get IT based professional job in Nigeria

Jan 29 '09 #4

freelance programmer

@Adefisan Tunde Adedeji
You can try working as a freelance programmer , check first post to find out few freelance jobs websites.

I also want to add 2 more freelance websites in the list.
http://scriptlance.com/
and
http://getafreelancer.com/

Aug 7 '09 #5

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