Are Online Employment Agencies Good For You?
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.
Just make a search for “employment agencies” in Google, Yahoo or any search engine you like and you will find thousands if not millions of links pointing to sites where you can search for jobs abroad. In this brief article I will mention just three of them.
Look for jobsabroad.com. This employment agency specializes in job searching on a worldwide basis. Just check out some of the countries listed. Virtually every country in the world from Andorra to Zambia. Their list of vacancies include volunteer work, long term contracts and short term assignments. They also include 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.
You can also apply for any job that is posted on the employment agency’s website. Again, you will have to submit a resume and normally a covering letter as well. The agency would pass these onto the advertiser and contact you accordingly.
Before submitting your details online check that the employment agency is a legitimate one. Several cases of identity theft have been reported involving websites purporting to be employment agencies but were in reality frauds.
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