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Do websites like Career Builder, Monster, or Yahoo HotJobs actually find you a "real" professional job?

I just graduated from college with a B.B.A. in General Business and I'm looking to find a "real" professional job. I know it's gonna be tough with the bad job market right now, but I was told that websites like Yahoo Hot Jobs, Career Builder, and Monster really are not that great to find a professional job. Is this true? I was told that from these kind of websites, you'll get phone calls from companies that'll offer you sales jobs with a high turnover rate or from lame temp agencies that'll find you jobs making $13 or $14 an hour. the reason why I posted this question in R&S is because I got no replies from the career section. So I thought maybe some religious people can help me out here, lol.

Public Comments

1. Job websites are ok, but do your best to make contacts through friends and family to find a good job.
2. What happened to the career days at school?
3. Especially not where I live... Pensacola, FL... small town and very slim pickings for jobs... most of the crap on CareerBuilder or Monster are really a bunch of get-rich-quick b.s. jobs that you have to pay in to start, how to get rich by sitting on your bum and playing on the internet... or telemarketing crap
4. Well, I can tell you that along with "real" jobs you will probably also be sent an array of "work for yourself" programs, (as well as some scams) that you'll have to weed through and file in the delete box, but yes there are legitimate employers that seek legitimate employees through those venues. What does this have to do with R & S though?
5. Pretty much. These sites are really only good to get a job that will barely pay the bills for a while. Any real job will be found through your own personal connections or by applying directly to whatever company you want to work for.
6. Look all those places. Look on craigslist.org. Use indeed.com. You have to wade through a lot of crap, but they are there. Professional websites that have a career section are better. But use every source you can. Stay away from the temp agencies unless you look at it as a temporary job. Headhunters occasionally find you a real job, but put them lower than anything that you are doing yourself. Do not let anything with either of them get in the way of looking or going to interviews. But they do pay the bills for a short while.
7. They can but depends on your profession and experience.
8. Try the good old newspaper classified in your area. I can guarantee it would work better.
9. You didn't graduate in internet savvy then? (this is religion and spirituality section ... wink)
10. Worked for me and I'm a 125-150K senior management type. Last 2-3 jobs came from them. Trick with them is knowing how to search to exclude the silly secret shopper jobs. Hotjobs is worst and I use it rarely. Careerbuilder just use quotes for specific searches or you'll get thousands. Monster use boolean operators - mainly AND and AND NOT. After you spend some time searching you get the hang of it pretty quickly. People will preach networking et al, but Monster especially is pretty much standard for companies large and small these days. Yes you'll get spam especially if you post your CV ( I've never got anything out of that or heard of anyone who has so may just want to not bother) but just set up a new yahoo account for job search only and use the spam button a lot. By the way I've also hired a bunch of people from these sources and do yourself a favor and make sure that job search email address is a neutral one. I have honestly had professional mid-career applicants send CV's from addresses like "BigRod69" etc.
11. Do NOT go to career builder.I saw a thing about job scams on Oprah,and they talked about websites like that and they had a professional who said do no go to Careerbuilder or Monster