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The best Detroit Metropolitan area Jobs from The Detroit News plus job listings from career sites nationwide.  Please click on this link:  www.micareerbuilder.com

Monster.com is one of the largest employment websites in the world, owned and operated by Monster Worldwide, Inc. In 2006 Monster was one of the 20 most visited websites out of 100 million worldwide, according to comScore Media Metrics (November 2006). It was created in 1999 by the merger of The Monster Board (TMB) and Online Career Center (OCC), which were two of the first and most popular career web sites on the Internet. Monster is primarily used to help those seeking work to find job openings that match their skills and location. Today, Monster is the largest job search engine in the world.Monster has over a million job postings at any time and over 150 million resumes, in the database (2008) and over 63 million job seekers per month. The company employs approximately 5,000 employees in 36 countries. Yahoo! HotJobs, formerly known as hotjobs.com, was an online job search engine. Hotjobs.com provided tools and advice for job seekers, employers, and staffing firms. It was acquired by Yahoo! in 2002, but was then acquired by Monster Worldwide, owner of its major competitor Monster.com in 2010. HotJobs was later shut down and merged into Monster.com.  Please click on this link:  www.monster.com

Indeed.com is an employment-related metasearch engine for job listings launched in November 2004.  As a single-topic search engine, it is also an example of vertical search. Indeed is currently available in 53 countries. In 2010, Indeed surpassed Monster.com to become the most visited job site in the United States.Currently Indeed has 60 million unique visitors every month.  The site aggregates job listings from thousands of websites, including job boards, newspapers, associations, and company career pages. In 2011, Indeed began allowing job seekers to apply directly to jobs on Indeed’s site; also in 2011, Indeed began offering resume posting and storage.  Please click on this link:  www.indeed.com

Dice.com is a career website based in Urbandale, Iowa. It serves information technology and engineering professionals.  Dice.com is owned by Dice Holdings, Inc.  On any given day, Dice.com has approximately 60,000 tech job listings. The website claims to have 3 million registered technology professionals and approximately 2 million unique visitors each month.  Of those registered users, 75% have a bachelor’s degree or higher and 65% have 10 or more years of experience in their field.  Dice.com was rated as the best job site for technology fields by ConsumerSearch and by PC Magazine as one of the top ten sites to find a job in information technology.  It was ranked the #1 technology job site by Dynamic Logic and the #1 source for quality technology candidates by Harris Interactive.  In June 2009, Dice.com advertised 48,000 jobs.  Please click on this link:  www.dice.com

Simply Hired is a employment website for job listings (thus also an example of vertical search) and online recruitment advertising network. The company aggregates job listings from thousands of sites across the Web including job boards, newspaper and classified listings, associations, social networks, content sites and company career sites. It then distributes those jobs on its website as well as social network, blog, and other website partners. Advertisers can gain premium placement across its network through advertising in a pay-per-click (PPC) model. Job seekers search job listings on SimplyHired.com by keyword and location to find jobs of interest. Simply Hired currently operates job search engines in 17 countries: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Switzerland, China, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.  Please click on this link:  www.simplyhired.com

Craigslist (styled craigslist) is a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.  Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list of friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area, before becoming a web-based service in 1996 and expanding into other classified categories. It started expanding to other U.S. cities in 2000, and currently covers 50 countries.  There’s nothing fancy or significantly searchable about Craigslist.  Just a simple list of “real” jobs. Click on the city that interests you and review the list of job openings.  Please click on this link:  detroit.craigslist.org

USAJobs (styled USAJOBS) is the United States Government’s official website for listing civil service job opportunities with federal agencies. The site is operated by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM).  Please click on this link:  www.usajobs.gov