Are Online Employment Agencies Good For You? | Career

By DawsonZ.Hardy
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Looking for a new job? Feeling in a rut and need a change? Whatever your reason for changing jobs, it has never been easier than now. Online employment agencies have helped thousands if not millions of people from all walks of life find the jobs that they wanted. Like their non cyber counterparts, online employment agencies act as a liaison between prospective employers and you the job hunter.

Fire up your favorite search engine and search using the phrase "employment agencies" and you will find millions of links (9.8 million on Google at the time of writing). Just browse down the list and you will find many online employment agencies that offer purely local job searches or even offer the chance to search worldwide.

Check out jobsabroad.com. This employment agency is the number one site for job searching worldwide. Fancy being a volunteer helping orphans in Ghana? You'll find it here. Want to teach English in Japan? You'll find that here too. Virtually every country in the world from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. It also has details of paid internships for those of you from outside the United States and have always wanted to study there. You will also find information about the countries concerned together with advice on travelling documents needed such as work permits and visas.

Hot.jobs.yahoo.com is another useful online employment agency. You'll will need a Yahoo.com account in order to reap all its benefits but you can get one at no cost that includes an email account. The same account will also allow you to register with job searching related Yahoo user groups and forums

Then there is monster.com which as its name suggests is a monster of an employment agency. But don't worry, its a friendly monster! They offer job searches in many countries and also have sites that a specific to particular countries. For example Canada is covered by monster.ca and Britain by monster.co.uk

Submitting your resume to any of these sites is simple. Following approval they will place it in their database which is searchable by employers looking for employees. If your resume is chosen by an employer then the employment agency will then contact you.

Obviously you can apply directly for any job that is posted on the website. Just submit a resume and covering letter as well and the agency will do the rest.

Choose your employment agency wisely before submitting your details online. Recently in cases involving identity theft it was found that people's details were gathered from bogus sites posing as employment agencies.

About the Author

Dawson Z. Hardy has spent many years as a Human Resourses Manager. Check out his Employment Agencies Guide for more tips and articles.

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