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The Slashdotters are chattering about profession boards and profession web-sites currently. Lots of valid suggestions but also a lot of uninformed opinions. Since JobsBlogs readers seem to understand occupation hunting just a bit more than your average bear, I'll pose the Slashdot question to all of you: After reading some complaints about monster.com from both the perspectives of position seekers and employers it struck me as how, even in 2006, most job websites are incredibly poor at what they do. So I ask my fellow Slashdot readers, both occupation seekers and employers,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, what do you really want in a jobs net site? What features are totally lacking in the current crop? Also, what aspects of the current systems do you love/hate? It's a tough question because I think most employment board set-ups are inherently flawed - but,Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key, at the same time, they are a bare necessity for most work seekers and employers. What easier and faster way to make a match between an employer and task seeker? But the biggest lacking is the overall quality control factor on both sides. (That’s why I think The Ladders is an interesting concept.) Task boards and internal tracking systems are built on the principle of key word searches, which doesn’t necessarily correlate to the discovery of the suitable candidates. (That’s one reason I offer resume tips here … so you can learn how to play the resume database game.) I also get annoyed with what you can search on. In the early days, we couldn’t search on C#. .NET and C are still difficult. And don’t even get me started on how hard it is to search for someone who has worked at a specific company. Want to find someone who has worked at Microsoft? Try searching on the key word "Microsoft." You’ll pull back everyone who has ever used Microsoft Word. (That’s why you, as a job seeker, should always spell out your company's formal name.) And what else? The selection for location preference annoys me. Either set it up so employers in areas outside of the career seeker’s preferred area can’t access his/her resume and make the work seeker stick to that preference, or remove the field together. As a recruiter,Office 2007 Professional, I’d often contact profession seekers who didn’t select Seattle / Redmond as a preferred area, and 3 out of 4 times, the work seeker would still want to talk to me. But then that remaining 1 out of 4 would be angry I contacted him. Don’t I read the preferred locations section? You can’t win! All that said,Windows 7 Serial, I do still recommend work boards as a viable option for "public" career seekers; if you don’t care that others know you are looking for a new occupation, then go for it. (Just make sure you don’t include your everyday email address; you may receive a lot of spam.) If you don’t want to make it public knowledge that you are seeking a new task, DO NOT post your resume on a employment board. Don’t bother with confidential resumes or web pages that allow you to block your current employer. It’s not worth it, and if an organization wants to catch employees who are work seeking on the side, they can get around those barriers very easily. If you want to keep the process private and targeted,Microsoft Office 2007 Key, you are better off sticking with applying directly to a company or networking with your contacts. Your thoughts? gretchen