by Olha Romaniuk

Created on: May 27, 2009

Looking for a job in this economy can be like searching for a needle in a hay stack. For every job opportunity out there, there are hundreds, sometimes thousands, of applicants, all of whom are too eager to showcase their talents to their prospective employers. More ver, what may often be even more daunting, is the search for a solid web site that can provide reliable opportunities for jobs, instead of just teasing with elusive promises or disappointing, time and time again, with spam bots.

Craigslist is often the first go-to web site for many job seekers but it is also a very dangerous place to rely on, in terms of banking everything and dedicating all of the time on finding a job just on this web site alone. So many people have been led to believe that they are applying for a legitimate job, when in reality, they are replying to a cleverly-worded spam ad. So interlaced have the real job opportunities become with the fake ads that many people spend months applying for jobs that do not actually exist or receiving promotional links, asking them to pay a fee for a service, in a reply to a job inquiry.

Monster.com is another alternative for getting a resume out for the viewing of the potential employers and is somewhat successful for many career fields in getting the applicants jobs. The competition level can be quite overwhelming, with employers browsing profiles and resumes of hundreds of people every day. It can often be hard to even get noticed, let alone, recognized for an outstanding work history or set of skills.

A good way to start searching for more specific jobs in the state of Ohio, like in many other states, is to start going to the state-specific web sites and checking their Jobs sections. Ohio.gov, the Ohio government web site, has parts of the web site dedicated specifically to job seekers. If an applicant is looking for a job in the Ohio National Guard, he or she can go to http://www.ong.ohio.gov/jobs/ to browse through an extensive list of open positions. Similarly, civil service and government jobs can be found at http://careers.ohio.gov/.

To search for job opportunities by an Ohio city, an applicant can go to www.jobfairohio.com and pick any city from an extensive list posted online. From Cingular Wireless (now AT&T) to the University of Cincinnati, a array of jobs is made available for viewing at a mere click of a mouse. Clicking on a company or an institution name takes an applicant directly to the web site, where an application can

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