Literally every job
by Liz on Sep.14, 2009, under Web Development
Literally, ever job I’ve ever held involves Craigslist in some way.
I have been reading article after article regarding job situations, and many of them have practical advice for any other job searcher.
But I’ve given up. I now know I have only but to post my resume on Craigslist, and jobs will come to me. I don’t even bother applying for the ones that are up there- for I know the deluge of responses they get from staffing companies, Nigerian scammers and overseas developers looking to sell outsourcing.
Craigslist is the only free resume repository of any meaningful size- it does not cost to put your resume out there and there is still a higher legit-to-scam ratio that you can perform a keyword search without having to wade through too many unqualified or irrelevant responses.
I can do a search on my competitors for free, post for free, and recieve responses for free. They want nothing in return, except your continued patronage to other parts of the site.
If Craigslist were to start charging for resume search, I know I wouldn’t bother putting it anywhere but monster.com- which is the second-cheapest resume search.
But now that you know, just go ahead and post it there. Unless you’re a mid-to-senior level web developer. Then it’s no good. Stay away.
