I heard about this on NPR and love the idea of it. It's a free network of websites to seek and post employment ads based on your area or city. Basically you can type in SanFrancisco.jobs (or whatever city you're in) or education.jobs (or whatever field you're in) or SanFranciscoeducation.jobs (city and field) to find work that might be relevant to your field, location or both! Brilllliant.

Here's the link to the NPR story: http://www.npr.org/2011/02/08/133583967/New-Network-Of-Websites-May-Help-Job-Seekers?ft=1&f=100

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K D. Nice idea, but still a bit sparse for Europe (not many listings, some well out of date). Worth watching.

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Spencer B. i concur with the above. lots of potential for this intuitive, straightforward and well-designed site.
definitely adding it to my list of job search sites. very good find, tran. i gotta start listening to npr more!

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wanted to add another review after being tipped off by tran. this is a very intuitive, ad-free, well-designed site that seems poised to take a lot of traffic from ad-driven, proprietary, pay-for-access and other commercial sites.
no resume-writing sales pitches, no personal career coach offers, and no frustrating dead ends.
so far, a lot the jobs i've seen posted there are also posted on other job boards, so i have confidence that they're legit, and, at least for my profession feature power employers (Google, HP, DLA Piper, etc.). I think as more employers and more job seekers learn about this very useful tool, it may become the de facto first-stop job search engine.
say goodbye to dubious sites promising superior access to exclusive job listings for a fee. say hello to universe.jobs!
thanks again tran. i can't wait to see how this site develops. i've already started recommending it to others.

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Spencer B. Caveat: since the site appears to publish postings directly from employer websites and postings submitted directly to it, there is not a lot of depth of employers. That is, small firms don't yet know about this tool, and larger firms tend to publish on their websites, so you may see local job listings for nationwide firms, but not for small employers. I hope this will improve over time as more people learn about it.

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T N. hey spencer, did you end up having any luck with this site?

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Spencer B. to tell you the truth, what i've found is that it's good if you're looking for employment with a major firm that publishes job availabilities on its own website, but not if you're looking for a job with a firm that doesn't necessarily maintain its own job postings, which, unfortunately, is where I am. plus, I haven't checked it in a while, so I don't know what it's looking like these days. i have a temp job now that might turn permanent, so i might not be checking in with it for a while. i'll come back and repost though if i do.

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T N. oh well i'm glad you have something going for you at the moment. good luck and i hope it becomes a permanent gig! thanks for the update!!

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