Most of the job sites I’ve used are UK-based so not much use for you, but Trovit always has a good selection of jobs.
You might think that all these hundreds of online jobs boards make it easier to find work – they don’t – actually there are still the same number of jobs available, just everyone knows about them because they’re online so you get loads of competition for every job. And if you don’t use these sites nowadays you’re at a disadvantage.
Make sure your CV is in order too, I found it pretty interesting being on the receiving end of a pile of CVs a few weeks ago for a job I was recruiting for (not something I’d ever done before) – some of them were really badly written with loads of spelling mistakes and irrelevant info and they just got binned straight away. When I was on the dole a year or so back the job centre sent me on a CV writing/interview techniques course run by a posh recruitment consultancy which I thought would be a waste of time, but it turned out to be really useful. A couple of points that stood out were: tailoring your CV to every job you apply for – make it relevant to the job description because the guy reading the CV will have a list of key attributes that he’s checking against every CV (and he might have 100 CVs to look through); and back everything up with evidence – if you say you have good communication skills it doesn’t mean a thing (everyone says it on their CV) unless you give an example that proves it. On my CV I’ve incorporated written references from past employers who were pleased with my work – it adds a lot of weight if you have a quote from your old boss saying how good you are at your job. Making these changes to my CV helped me to get a lot more interviews.
