Looking for a Job? Top 10 Online Platforms in the US
Looking for a job on the Internet can be a bit challenging if you don’t know what are the different platforms that are used in both the classified and job ads market.
Browsing classified ads sites like Shoppok may sound old-school, but don’t underestimate its power (if posted at the correct place). Not all free ad posting sites weigh the same authority.
While the Coronavirus pandemic is ongoing despite the Food and Drug Administration giving Pfizer an emergency vaccine approval, most people are still detained inside their homes leaving no option but to find whatever job they could get to augment their income.
In this article, we are going to give you the top 10 platforms that you can use to find work online. We have the top 5 job market and also the top 5 classified ads website. These two groups are different in function and the types of careers being posted. We are going to discuss below.
Top 5 Online Job Market in the US.
The jobs posted on these 5 websites are always from companies rather than individual people. This is different from the classified ad portals where posters are mostly individual people looking for short-term services. With these job market websites, you can look for long-term career opportunities.
1. Indeed
Indeed is an American worldwide employment website for employment listings launched in November 2004. It is a subsidiary of Japan’s Recruit Co. Ltd. and is co-headquartered in Austin, Texas, and Stamford, Connecticut with additional offices around the world. As a single-topic search engine, it is also an example of vertical search. Indeed is currently available in over 60 countries and 28 languages. In October 2010, Indeed.com passed Monster.com to become the highest-traffic job website in the United States.
Using Indeed, you can search for millions of careers online to find the next step in your career. With tools for job search, resumes, company reviews, and more, you can choose the career that best suited for your qualifications.
2. Linkedin
Linkedin is a social networking portal for businesses and professionals and is arguably the best place to look for online jobs. Although Linkedin rarely posts onsite jobs, it is full of jobs for people who love to work in the technology industry like marketing, programming, accounting and finance, and software development.
3. Glassdoor
Glassdoor is a fierce competitor of Indeed with almost the same business model. Glassdoor does not only provide jobs but also salary data and analysis. For people who are looking for jobs online, Glassdoor is one great option.
4. Monster
Monster.com used to be the biggest job marketplace but probably due to lack of innovation, it was taken over by the three above. Still, Monster has the biggest database of people’s resumes being online since 1999.
5. Google Jobs
Google not only dominates that online search market but it is also slowly gaining a bigger piece of the job market. The advantage of Google against the other 4 above is that anyone can post a job opening without having a registered company. Aside from the four above, other big job boards like Careerbuilder and Jobstreet (to name a few), require a registered company to post a job as an employer or as a recruiter. Having said this, Google Jobs is neither a job market nor a classified ad.
Top 5 Online Classified Ads Websites to Find a Job Online.
The following classified ads sites are your best choice if you are looking for jobs online for traditional and trade skills like plumber, helper, driver, delivery man, electrician, and others. These jobs may not be available on most of the job boards mentioned above.
1. Craigslist
Craigslist is arguably the biggest and most popular classified ad site not only in North America but also in the world. Although eBay could have a case, it does not offer jobs so it is not qualified to take Craigslist’s position as the number 1 all-around online marketplace. There’s a lot of things you can do with Craigslists. From selling and buying physical products, offering services, jobs, and even dating.
2. Gumtree
Gumtree.com, known as Gumtree, is a British online classified advertisement and community portal based at Hotham House, Richmond, London. Classified ads are either free or paid for depending on the product category and the geographical market. As of November 2010, it was the UK’s largest website for local community classifieds and was one of the top 30 websites in the UK, receiving 14.8 million monthly unique visitors according to a traffic audit in 2010. Although Gumtree is a British company, it has a significant market share in the US and one of the top classified ad platforms in North America, Australia, and the rest of the world.
3. Adpost
Adpost is another place for free classified ads. It is located in over 1000 cities in over 500 regions across the world including America, Australia, Malaysia, India, Canada, The United Kingdom, and Singapore.
4. OLX
Hosting free user-generated classified ads, OLX is an international company that provides spaces for ads from various categories such as cars, jobs, housing, pets, personals, and others.
On OLX, sellers can personalize ads with pictures and videos as well as display selling and buying ads on social media platforms.
OLX’s various Facebook accounts around the world have over 1 million followers with a massive Twitter presence as well.
Some of the regional OLX directories have been rebranded to meet the local demands and to compete with other local businesses. In the Philippines for instance, OLX has been rebranded as Carousell.
5. Shoppok
Shoppok is not as big as the other four mentioned above but the company is an emerging force in the US when it comes to buying and selling online.
Shoppok is a group of free, local, community classifieds websites in New York. Shoppok offers a convenient, fun, and easy way for people in the same city to meet, trade, share ideas, and help each other out in areas such as goods, cars, services, housing, jobs, and personals.
You see, looking for a job online is not that really hard if you know all of these platforms. There are many others but these top 10 websites can give you what you need.