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JOB BOARDS FROM AROUND THE WEB


If you are interested in augmenting your job search, you can use websites geared to specific careers.


ATTORNEYS

  • EmplawyerNet.com - in addition to traditional lawyer jobs, this site offers postings for a range of  other positions that require legal backgrounds.  About 500 new positions are added daily to its database of approximately 4,000 jobs.  Membership is $14.95 a month for lawyers and $7.95 a month for law students.  Discounts are available to alumni and students of more than 100 law schools.  Members can network with one another through the site and start specialty e-mail lists.  About 200 jobs a day are accessible to nonmembers. Another perk is a list of recruiters who specialize in lawyer placement and contact information.
  • Lawyersweeklyjobs.com - might be a good source when you are on the move.  This site combines job ads from legal newspapers in Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Rhode Island, as well as a national paper.  An average of 500 new jobs from entry to senior level is listed every Friday.  Advertisers are executive recruiters, law firms, corporations, nonprofits, educational institutions, and other employers.
  • HeadHunt.com - postings by The Counsel Network, a Vancouver-based search firm, are for jobs in both Canada and the United States.  Five to 10 new positions are added weekly, ranging in annual salary from $75K to $100K for junior associates and more than $1M for senior partners.  
  • Corporate Legal Times - a monthly news magazine based in Chicago, targets senior-level corporate law jobs.  It posts 2 new jobs a month and about 25 total postings.


MBAs

  • MBAGlobalnet.com  - offers mostly senior-level contract positions paying between $85 and $200 an hour.  If you fill out a member profile, you will receive a monthly e-newsletter listing 3-10 jobs, including full-time positions from this online career services provider from New York.  You will also be notified immediately by e-mail of job openings that closely match your background.  Most jobs are in the U.S., despite the sites name.
  • MBACareers.com - you can search for entry to senior level jobs, including those that do not require MBAs.  From 50 to 1,000 new positions are added weekly.  Between 500 and 1000 jobs are listed at any given time in more that 25 industries and 40 career fields.  You can store up to 5 resumes and cover letters and save jobs that interest you in an online folder.
  • MBA-Exchange.com - about 80% of the jobs posted on this site are for jobs outside of the United States.  This is a Geneva-based Internet company site.  About 500 new jobs are posted a month and at any given time around 1,500 jobs are listed ranging in annual salary from $80K to $200K.  Some job postings are only accessible by job hunters who identify themselves as students or alumni of business schools from which employers choose to accept applications.  You can store up to 5 resumes and read profiles describing several of more than 800 employers that post their jobs.


GENERAL ONLINE SOURCES FOR HIGH PAYING JOBS
- postings for jobs with annual base salaries of $100K or more

  • TheLadders.com - this site requires a $30 a month membership and includes weekly e-newsletters on job hunting.  About 5,000 new positions are listed every Monday, and there are about 40,000 total jobs posted.  Postings are removed after 8 weeks.  For a preview, the site provides free access to 2,000 job postings that are 2 weeks old.
  • Netshare.com - membership is $40 a month or $360 annually.  Members also have access to networking forums, in which job leads and other tips are swapped via list serve.  The site adds about 75 to 100 new positions daily.
  • ExecutNet.com - another executive networking organization with online and offline forums that has a job site.  Membership starts at $39 a month.
  • 6figurejobs.com - Membership is free but you must complete an application that shows that you have previously earned at least $100K and have 6 or more years of professional work experience.  About half of the employers posting on this site prefer candidates who have had their credentials verified by a background check company.  Verifications Inc., a partner of 6FigureJobs.com offers background certification starting at $70.  If your résumé is certified by Verifications, when you apply for positions through the site, it will be marked with a gold seal, alerting employers that your background has been checked.  Employers will also see the seal in the list of search results they get when they search the site's resume database. Job hunters using other background check services can refer employers to their background check results on their resume, but won't have a gold seal.
  • RiteSite - created and owned by John Lucht, the author of Rites of Passage at $100,000.  Recruiters are permitted to search your resume for free; other employers are allowed to view an identity-concealed resume of you for free, and e-mail you.  Recruiters and employers can list positions for free.  Membership costs $94 per year.  It is still small with only 10,000 members, and gets significantly less activity than other sites.  The site has two advantages.  It has a list of Rites Honored Recruiters who do 100% retained search (some firms listed on the Kennedy Information list do some contingency as well).  Members can download this list of 600 firms, or have their resume e-mailed to these firms as part of the membership package.  The other advantage is the Reconnaissance feature.  It searches all of the free job boards, including Monster and CareerBuilder, but also Craig's List, major newspaper job boards, and obscure specialty boards for executive jobs, and posts them on the site.  These can also be e-mailed to you, if you set up an agent with keywords.  Rite Site lists about 15,000 executive jobs.


SARBANES-OXLEY EXPERTS

  •  insideSarbanesOxley.com - a year-old site published in Portland, Oregon in which employers and executive search firms post 5-10 new jobs a week at its discussion board.  You will also find links to ads for other jobs at other job boards.  Most of the jobs posted are from entry to senior level with pay annual ranges from $50K - $100K.
  • Eastman Consulting Group - a recruiting firm out of Houston's site posts jobs primarily for the Houston, Texas area.  More than half of the postings are for mid to senior level positions requiring SOX experience and paying $40K - $225K annually.  About 5-7 new jobs are posted weekly, and about 18 jobs are currently listed. Job hunters are invited to complete a candidate profile at the site.  The firm's recruiters will contact you if your background matches a search assignment.
  • AuditProfessional.com and AccountantAuditor.net - these sites are among the 87 accounting and finance job boards in the 4jobs.com Network in Philadelphia, a partner of Yahoo, which supplies some of the postings. About 300 new jobs, from entry to senior level are added daily to each site.  Combined, the site lists about 25,000 jobs.  Post your resume at either site free - no need to post twice since it will go into a resume database for the whole network that employers search all at once.  For a fee, you can have your resume highlighted for 60 days and listed among the top documents in the virtual pile (Pay $10, $20, or $30.  The more you pay, the higher yours will be listed).


GOVERNMENT JOBS

  • USAJOBS - a website from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C., posts about 500 to 800 new openings daily, advertising about 15,000 total.  All federal agencies are required to advertise vacancies there, although some are excluded for securities purposes.  Be prepared to read -- a lot.  The postings, which include salary ranges and application deadlines, are detailed and lengthy, and many have special instructions that must be followed.  For example, you may be required to complete a questionnaire or write an essay to test for what's known in government speak as "KSAs (knowledge, skills, and abilities). Though the volume of information in the ads can be intimidating, the site has the same search-by-category functions and free e-mail alerts as other job boards.
  • federaljobsearch.com - a subscription service that has abridged listings of those posted on USAJobs that make it simple to find a match  The site lets visitors view job listings without their application instructions.  Web surfers familiar with federal job postings can use the teaser to learn about new jobs, them visit most agencies' Web sites to find the application instructions on their own.  It is also free to receive daily e-mail notifications. Subscriptions run from $39.95 for a year to $12.95 for a month.  
  • federaljobs.net - if you know for which government agency you want to work, this site provides a list of links to 142 agency Web sites.  It is published by Dennis Damp, the author of "The Book of U.S. Government Jobs" (Bookhaven Press, 2005).

 


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