Hot List
Having conducted our own job searches we realized there was a strong need for an ample and consolidated list for all things job related including job boards, recruiters, and other job search/career resources. So we bring you the “hot list” a point of reference for all things job or career related.
If you see that something is missing, think we should add another category, or that something should be removed please contact Amy Zagroba at amy@connectworkchicago.com or 773-433-0849.
| Job Boards | Recruiters | Staffing Agencies | Career Insight |
| Networking | Job Search Services | State Resources | Books |
| JOB BOARDS | |
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| Beyond.com | Beyond is the world’s largest network of more than 15,000 general, local and niche web career communities. |
| Career Exposure | Career Exposure is a portal of the career network offering opportunities for college grads on up to the top c-levels executives. |
| Career Journal | Career Journal is a comprehensive job search site brought to you by the Wall Street Journal. In addition to being a great source for jobs, it also offers a rich wealth of career information on job seeking and employment. |
| CareerBuilder | CareerBuilder is the U.S.’s largest online job site, serving jobs in every industry, field, and job type. See Review |
| CareerOneStop | CareerOneStop is a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored Web site that offers career resources and workforce information to job seekers, students, businesses, and workforce professionals. |
| Career Jet | In one simple search, Careerjet gives the job seeker access to a massive selection of jobs that are compiled from various internet sources, saving the trouble of having to visit each site individually.. |
| CareerWomen | Career Women is a niche job site and the national leader in Women’s online Recruiting |
| Chicagojobs | Chicagojobs is a job board focused exclusively on Chicagoland’s 11 counties – including the city, suburbs, and surrounding areas. |
| Clearancejobs.com | Clearancejobs is a website dedicated to matching U.S. job seekers that hold an active Federal security clearance to top hiring companies. |
| Computerjobs | Computer jobs is a leading job board focused solely on the IT professional. |
| Craigslist | Craiglist is a web platform of local classifieds and forums for more than 550 cities in over 50 countries worldwide – community moderated, and largely free. See Review |
| Dice | Dice is leading career website and job board for technology and engineering professionals. See Review |
| DiversitySearch | Diversity search is a niche site and one of the leading job portals in the diversity space. |
| Efinancialcareers | Efinancialcareers is a job board specializing in the financial job sector, include banking and IT. |
| ExecuNet | ExecuNet is recognized as the Internet’s most comprehensive resource for effective career management, exclusively for executives and senior-level managers with salaries above $100,000. |
| Getthejob | Getthejob is the largest vertical job search engine and is for direct employer jobs only. |
| Gov Jobs | Gov Jobs is the foremost intelligent U.S. Government employment resource on the Internet. |
| Horizon Career | Horizon Career is a job portal that connects job seekers with employers. |
| Hotjobs.com | Yahoo Hot Jobs is one of the largest national job boards and features jobs from every industry from entry on up to senior level.See Review |
| Indeed | Indeed is a search engine for jobs, and gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from thousands of websites. |
| Job Bank USA | Job Bank is an online job portal and one of the largest and best-known online recruiting sites. |
| Jobcentral.com | Job Central National Labor Exchange is a service of Direct Employers Association (DEA), a nonprofit consortium of leading U.S. corporations. |
| Jobfox | Job fox, the founder of Career Builder’s brainchild, uses a proprietary system of matching to closely match the wants and needs of job seekers with those of the employer. |
| Jobs in Chicago | Jobsinchicago.com is the leading Chicago job board and resume search engine, focusing on jobs within 100 miles from Chicago. |
| Jobs in the Money | Jobsinthemoney is a leading career website for accounting and finance. |
| JobWarehouse | Job Warehouse is a job site that connects job seekers with recruiters and hiring managers. |
| Lat Pro | The largest Hispanic & bilingual jobs and diversity career board in the Americas |
| MBA Careers | MBA Careers is a niche site serving MBA recruits. |
| Metro Chicago Jobs | One of the very first online employment Web sites in Illinois. The Illinois Local Job Network is comprised of multiple employment Web sites focusing exclusively on local communities in the State of Illinois. |
| Monster | Monster is probably the largest and most well-known job board and features jobs from entry to senior level. See Review |
| National Job Bank | National Job Bank is a job site that connects job seekers with recruiters. |
| Oodle | Oodle is a website aggregator, and pulls together millions of listings from all over the Web. |
| Prohire.com | Prohire is a job site aggregator that provides job seekers with regular job matches against a profile. |
| Simply Hired | Simply Hired is a vertical search engine and one of the largest online databases of jobs. See Review |
| Snag a Job | The #1 source for hourly and part-time jobs |
| Street Smart Jobz | StreetSmartJobz.com makes job search easy for job seekers without a college degree |
| Telecommuting Jobs | The Telecommuting Jobs website has been serving TeleCommuters and their employers since 1996. |
| The Ladders | The Ladders is a job board and search engine geared toward senior-level job seekers looking for jobs paying over $100,000 in annual salary. |
| USJobNetwork.com | USJobNetwork.com is a job site aggregator. It is not affiliated, related or otherwise connected with any type of Federal, State or Local governmental agency or entity. |
| RECRUITERS | |
| Advanced Search Group | ASG has evolved into a professional search firm that places high quality engineers, chemists, mid-level management, and executive-level management personnel in the chemical, plastic, pharmaceutical, and utility industries. |
| Austin Vale | Austin Vale is an Information Technology, IT, Search Recruiting Firm specializing in the Chicagoland market. |
| Accord Inc. | Accord offers technical recruiting for Chicago’s high tech industries |
| Accountemps | Account Temps specializes in temporary professional accounting and finance positions. |
| Aerotek | Aerotek is a provider of technical, professional and industrial recruiting and staffing services |
| Aquent | Aquent is the world’s largest marketing staffing firm. They help firms on a freelance and direct hire basis, and in helping marketing professionals find the rewarding assignments they want. |
| Artisan | Artisan is an interim staffing company specializing in the graphic arts and new media. |
| BCI Staffing | BCI Staffing is a full service, team-based staffing firm with over 35 years of combined recruiting experience in fields including financial services, healthcare and information technology |
| Chicago Financial Search | Chicago Financial Search connects financial professionals with employers in need of expertise. |
| Chicago Legal Search, Ltd. | Chicago Legal Search focus solely on attorney placement in the Chicago legal market. |
| CCB Services, Inc | CCB Services is a Chicago-based firm specializing in administrative, financial, executive, marketing, sales, management and human resources. |
| Creative Talent Source | Creative Talent Source is the recruitment agency specializing in freelance and full time placement of Chicago-area creative talent. |
| Cyber Coders | Cyber Coders is the premier recruiting firm in the nation. Specializing in sales, executive, technical, financial, accounting, engineering, scientific, mortgage, construction and operational positions. |
| Digital Staffing | Digital Staffing specializes in IT and offers a vast array of contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement opportunities. |
| Electronic Search, Inc. | As the world’s longest-standing Wireless Staffing & Recruiting Firm, Electronic Serach provides retained, contingency and staff augmentation services to organizations mobile and wireless industries. |
| Harmer Associates | Chiacago-based recruiters specializing in management and executive recruiting in the technical, engineering, human resources, financial, and information systems employment. |
| HCM-Solutions | HCM-Solutions provides recruiting and placement services spanning from entry level to executive level throughout all facets of Information Technology. |
| H Careers | Hcareers, the leading online hospitality job board in North America |
| Heidrick & Struggles | Heidrick & Struggles is a worldwide executive search firm, specializing in chief executive, board of directors and senior level management assignments. |
| Hudson | Hudson is a global provider of permanent recruitment, contract professionals and talent management solutions. |
| Judge Group | National and International search firm with offices across the US. Placing candidates in a variety of industries. Large, searchable job bank on website. |
| Lakeshore Staffing, Inc | Lakeshore Staffing provides specialized staffing to small and medium sized businesses in Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Louisville, and Phoenix. |
| Lucas Group | Lucas Group recruits executives across a broad spectrum of industries for clients ranging from multi-national corporations, to mid-size public and privately owned businesses. |
| Manpower Professional | One of the world’s top five professional staffing firms. |
| Melinda Holm and Associates | Melinda Holm & Associates of Chicago places professionals in marketing, promotions, public relations, and advertising positions. |
| Modis | Modis specializes in Technology staffing and offers contract, contract-to-hire, direct, project management, and consulting placement opportunities. |
| Paladin | Palidian is a Marketing & Advertising staffing agency specializing the placement of interim, contract-to-hire, and direct-hire positions. |
| Red Circle | The Red Circle is a Chicago-based recruiting firm placing candidates in IT positions. |
| STAFFING AGENCIES | |
| Advanced Group | Advanced Personnel Inc. specializes in staffing for administrative, clinical, accounting, and financial positions. |
| Beco Inc. | The BECO Group specializes in staffing Temporary Technical Personnel. Its skilled Recruiting Specialists place Temporary Engineering, Technical, Manufacturing & Architectural Personnel. |
| Interviewing Consultants Inc. | Interview Consultants provides Permanent and Temporary staffing to a wide variety of Chicago’s most desirable companies. |
| Paige Personal Services | Paige places thousands of people in direct hire, temporary, temp-to-hire and contract positions within organizations of all types and sizes throughout Chicago and the suburbs. |
| Randstad | Randstad fulfills all aspects of commercial and professional staffing for local and global customers. |
| Robert Half International Inc. | Robert Half International provides Permanent and Temporary staffing for professionals in accounting and finance; technology; office administration; law; and the creative, marketing and design fields. |
| Sapphire Technologies | As the 4th largest IT staffing company in the United States, Sapphire provides customized solutions for both public and private corporations. |
| Select Staffing | Select Staffing offers office support, accounting, IT and industrial services. |
| Spherion Corp | Spherion provides temporary, temp-to-hire and direct-hire positions, as either full or part time jobs. |
| Staffing Network LLC | The Staffing Network is a Chicago-based staffing firm offering light Industrial, clerical, and permanent and professional staffing. |
| CAREER INSIGHT | |
| Career Cruising | Career Cruising is a leading developer of online career guidance resources for the North American marketplace. |
| Career Mole | Connect with real employees and find out what it’s really like to work at a company, before you apply. |
| Career Path | A Careerbuilder site that offers Self-Assessment Testing,Career Guidance Resources, Professional Development Resources and Perspectives on Work/Life Balance. |
| Career Planner | Career Planner provides online career testing, as well as free career and “Right Path” information to help individuals discover their true purpose in life and their ideal career. |
| Career TV | CareerTV is the first and only global television programmer and interactive website designed to help college students and young professionals develop long-lasting, successful careers. |
| Careers.org | Careers.org is a great starting point for researching occupations, improving your job hunt and enhancing your career. |
| Changing Course | The Changing Course mission: To provide the tools, information, ideas, and support you need to create a more satisfying and balanced life doing work you really love… on your own terms. |
| Jiibe | Where monster.com meets eHarmony |
| Job Burner | JobBurner is a new site dedicated to finding the best tech job candidates and matching them up with the best companies. |
| National Career Development Association | NCDA provides service to the public and professionals involved with or interested in career development, including professional development activities, publications and research. |
| Pay Scale | PayScale is a market leader in global online compensation data. With the world’s largest database of individual employee compensation profiles, PayScale provides an immediate and precise snapshot of the job market. |
| Quint Careers | Quintessential Careers is the ultimate career, job, and college site, offering comprehensive free expert career and job-hunting advice (through articles, tools, tips, samples, and tutorials), as well as links to all the best job sites. |
| Salary Scout | SalaryScout is a network of users seeking fairness in compensation and benefits. |
| Standout Jobs | Using social media tools and principles, Standout Jobs brings the latest Web consumer experience – easy, personal and dynamic – to the recruiting process. |
| The Work Review | Talk about work anonymously |
| Vault | Vault will be the indispensable provider of information and solutions for professionals and students who are pursuing and managing high-potential careers. |
| Wet Feet | Wet Feet provides insightful profiles of companies, careers, and industries to guides job seekers toward finding the right career, the right industry, the right company, and the right job for them. |
| NETWORKING | |
| Ecademy | Ecademy is a social network for business people. Use it to build a network of business professionals, share contacts and knowledge, find jobs, connect with potential clients, attend networking events, and more. |
| Linked In | LinkedIn is an online network of more than 30 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. |
| Networking For Professionals | Networking For Professionals combines online business networking with real life events. |
| Networking Monkey | Networking Monkey is committed to helping business professionals locate and attend the best networking events that Chicagoland has to offer. |
| Ryze | Ryze is a business networking site that helps you grow your business contacts, find a job, make sales, keep in touch with friends and colleagues, and more. |
| Venture Street | VentureStreet is a community of experienced business professionals. It is where 1) professionals develop new leads to business, 2) members become part of a unique community of entrepreneurial professionals, and 3) members develop lasting relationships with other professionals in related fields. |
| Xing (formerly the Open Business Club) is a business networking site where users can grow their network of professional contacts. | |
| Yorz | Yorz is a business networking site that allowsyou to network with other professionals in your field, find and post jobs within the community, join alumni groups for your schools and companies, and more. |
| JOB SEARCH SERVICES | |
| Executive Career Services | Executive Career Services is an accomplished resume writing and career coaching service in the Chicagoland area. |
| Job Bound | Job Bound is a Chicago-based resume, interviewing and job prep service lead by Brad Karsh, a nationally recognized recruiting expert. |
| Timbre Executive Coaching | Timbre Executive Coaching provides one-on-one leadership coaching to senior executives, many of them CEO’s- who are operating in a diverse range of companies across the nation. |
| Weeks Resume Service | Weeks Resume Service provides company research and expert resume writing to the Chicagoland area. |
| STATE RESOURCES | |
| Dept. of Employment Security | IDES is the direct link to Illinois workforce services: job placement and referrals, unemployment insurance, employment and training programs, career and labor market information, payroll tax filing, and more! |
| Illinois Skills Match | ISM connects job seekers, at every skill level in hundreds of industries and occupations, with employers in Illinois. |
| Work 4 Illinois | The official job board for the state of Illinois |
