Big Job Boards Coordinate With Niche Lists/Sites

Niche industry websites, blogs and newsletters are increasingly common for ways to promote and find employment these days, and the big boards like Monster, Yahoo Hot Jobs, and Career Builder aren't going to be left too far out in the cold.

Already, major corporations are using the lists to "whisper" and effectively leak information about job postings as an officially unofficial part of the formal hiring process.

Computerworld reports that "Niche sites are part of the hiring strategy at Toyota Motor Corp., too. Spokesman Dan Sieger says the automaker uses a combination of sites, posting 95% of openings on Toyota.com and Monster, but a handful of positions on niche sites like Engineering.com and the American Society of Professional Engineers' site.

Larger career sites also are getting in on the trend. CareerBuilder.com coordinates with dozens of industry-specific sites... sharing listings and resources and driving traffic back and forth between the sites." (via Computerworld)

The article also predicts that the more common these lists become, the less impact they will have on the overall job search process.

In the end, I believe it's still all about who you know... and what you know about who you know, which is one reason I do like LinkedIn's Jobs tool.

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