Dice and computerjobs paid off for me very well. Indeed and simplyhired let me find new resources. Linkedin.com and TheLadders.com did pretty good for me. But I’ve found careerbuilder, yahoo, and monster have pretty much lost any usefulness for me.

I’m not talking about the profession, I’m talking about the practice of wanting to automate and mechanize so many things nowadays in the name of efficiency. It’s what’s happening to journalism in general as newspapers decay, there’s no time nor value in really investigating a topic.

If you really want to see a good list, have it written by people who’ve had to actually search for a job. Unless those writers have had to actually pound the pavement, they very likely only know the surface. This is especially true when so few people actually plan their careers and can tell you step by step just how they got to where they are today.

Incidentally, what would be my nominee for good sites to locate job postings? I’d opt for industry-specific ones, where people know and speak the nuts of bolts of their field. For instance, what about a Web site for mechanics?

– Eric

It’s simple to do – set up your search and look for the RSS feed button, usually near the bottom of the results page. If you’re using Firefox, it brings up a nice screen that asks if you want to read the feed in Google Reader. IE is a bit more complicated. I’ll write up the process for my blog some time this week if anybody needs instructions.