I am doing some hiring and my company is pretty narrowminded when it comes to sources. It’s a small company so I don’t have an HR recruiter to do the legwork for me (my prior experience had been with large companiess–I just wrote job descriptions and then waited for HR to deliver resumes). We had a Monster account but let it lapse, and my boss thinks we just need to post to Craigslist.
What are the most popular/effective sites for IT professionals who are job-hunting?
For what it’s worth, before I got this job (now 5 years ago) I had spent upwards of 6 months applying to everything on monster.com and dice.com that I qualified for.
I do UNIX system administration, network admin, etc. I had good qualifications and I didn’t get a single hit. Not one phone interview, nothing. I had never thought to look on Craigslist. I did, I found a job near my home that I was well qualified for. Got an interview right away and hired in a couple days.
Nowadays though, if I was looking for another job, I’d be more likely to look in the careers section on web sites of specific companies I was interested in.
It’s THE job board focused on IT jobs.
I’d start by asking friends. I’d send out about two dozen linked in “hey, I MIGHT be hiring for someone with this profile, if you know anyone…” I’d call user groups - even vendors - for the space I was interested in. If its entry level, I’d call a college or tech school and talk to professors/instructors.
Then I’d post to dice, monster, whereever.
For whatever it’s worth, I got my current IT job by posting my resume on Craigslist. Maybe you should look over the resumes that are currently posted.
Where are you located? I may know one or two people who are looking depending on the position and skill set.
ETA: I see from your profile that you’re in Northern Virginia, so I probably don’t know of anybody. Check Craigslist.
You could check Craiglist or try going to the State Employment office and checking there as well.
I’ve done IT and H/R and you really have to have a good idea of what you will need, otherwise you’re going to wind up with an overpaid, overqualified person or an underqualified person who will screw you up.
It might be worth hiring an IT person for a day or two to come in and inspect your IT needs and having him write it up so you know exactly what you will need for a small business.
Also don’t forget college campuses either.
I’ve been in IT for 30 years so I know exactly what I need. I just never had to do every step of hiring from soup to nuts, never had to actually place the ad myself, etc.
India.
Dice is it. I got my last three consulting positions from it including the current good one. There is still lots of activity there. I can renew my resume status at 10:00 pm and expect the 1st calls to come in early next day even in this job market. My current mega-corp hired me over the phone at 11 am after I renewed my resume at 3 am the night before. It is geared towards contractors of all sorts but they still do all of IT. Monster is big but I have never hit anything but brick walls with it. You can find people on the hiring side that way but Dice seems to be more efficient and faster moving for people in the know.
I’ve got lots of opinions on that one. India is cheap and umm… well they have inexpensive 3rd world workers with varying degrees of English proficiency. Plus they are cheap like K-Mart except not as quality in general. God bless them for trying though for trying. The good ones end up in the U.S. anyway.
There is still a place for on-shore IT work depending on the needs. I picked one that can’t be outsourced but most of my coworkers have. If the OP needs hands on support or lots of interaction with the business, don’t go for offshore work. It is a nightmare to manage.
I have two answers.
For IT - another vote for DICE
I found my current job via Dice.
Just post a sign outside saying “IT help wanted” and applicants’ll just stream through the door looking for a job.
I agree that Dice is the place to go, but they definitely charge companies to create accounts there. If your company doesn’t already have an account, it might be better to go through a recruiter. The last time I talked to our HR people about Dice they said the fee was 10K to create a business account there.
Here are a couple of candidates for you!
For entry level but not tape ape type stuff, I’ve had good luck with the local business and technical college career services offices.
For everything else, Dice first, Career Builder second.
How do you guys feel about Linkedin? Various people I know have gotten callbacks that way.
They already work for us. 
We did a career fair at UMBC last week, not bad results.
We just created a LinkIn page for our company, hadn’t thought of that as a place to seek candidates. Thanks.
