Yahoo! HotJobs is backed by the well-known Yahoo! Inc. and offers far-reaching job and resume services. Employers can post job listings within minutes and job seekers can easily search through thousands of potential jobs for the one best-suited to their needs. The site offers a wide variety of job listings, but between poor support and spam postings, the site is somewhat less than it could be.
For employers, posting a job requires a company account be set up. Pricing is dependent largely on location, though we have seen 30-day quotes as low as a couple hundred dollars a listing up to several hundred. Surprisingly few features are geared toward employers, though traditional services like resume browsing are available for an added fee.
Relying on its parent site Yahoo! search engine, Yahoo! HotJobs is easy to navigate and allows users to search for jobs based on keywords, location, job category, salary and posting date. Job listings are easy to navigate, and individual postings easy to read. On the downside, the site lists a large number of “spam” or scam listings that offer unrealistic wages and promise a world of wealth through a part-time job. These clutter up the interface and make locating legit jobs difficult depending on the category or industry.
Salary Report
This feature provides typical hourly rate ranges depending on job category and region. This range also includes high and low ends of the spectrum and can be influenced by years of experience, certifications, and company status. The forms to create this report are rather lengthy and ask questions that appear irrelevant to the necessary results, though many such questions can be skipped without a response.
Advice and Tips
The site offers an archive of advice articles on career tips, resume writing and networking, among other article topics. All articles are written by two HR and internet media writers who offer a heavy background in the employment industry.
A reasonable number of features is available to job seekers and employers. However, support is rather lacking and is only available through FAQs and email support. Emails can sometimes take upwards of several hours to receive a response and tend between short, but personalized responses, or boilerplate responses.
Yahoo! HotJobs is like any other job service and provides a straightforward process for users. A negative of the interface is the number of ads, links in bright colors and boxes of information spread throughout the page. However, in comparison to many job service sites, they operate on one of the best interfaces by far.
This website has the potential to rival top competitors, but does not because of a number of oversights. They offer a reasonable listing of employment opportunities and are familiar to many users because of their parent company. Few capabilities are offered to employers or job seekers and support was designed for a site that was assumed to be maintenance-free. As no job service site has all the listings in the United States, Yahoo! HotJobs is still one of the best resources to cover all of your employment needs.
