Jobs

Searching for a job online offers many great benefits: the ease with which you can narrow down your search, anonymous investigation in the middle of the night, direct application via email or forms. It also raises huge privacy issues, for example, many of the sites here allow you to upload your CV to the website for employers to view - you need to really trust these sites before you release that sort of information to them.

The quality of the sites is generally high, with their search facilities similar, and most offering the option to email you when a new job in your area comes up. Shortlisting of jobs for later review is also a useful feature, not included by many sites at the moment, but likely to spread.

JobTrack	www.jobtrack.co.uk   Rating: 5 Stars
JobTrack review: Run by the same company as JobMagic, with the same jobs and the same search mechanism. Good, effective searching, which narrows down jobs to a reasonable degree. Critically, the search results also list the key information such as location and salary. Details pages offer substantial information about the jobs and links to the recruitment company, and to apply online.
JobMagic	www.jobmagic.net   Rating: 5 Stars
JobMagic review: Run by the same company as JobTrack, with the same jobs and the same search mechanism. Still, at least its good, effective searching, which narrows down jobs to a reasonable degree. Critically, the search results also list the key information such as location and salary. Details pages offer substantial information about the jobs and links to the recruitment company, and to apply online.
Jobsite	www.jobsite.co.uk   Rating: 5 Stars
Jobsite review: Good power-searching facilities allow rapid narrowing down of your search. Search results provide the key pieces of information, and the search can be saved with new vacancies emailed to you.
Jobs	www.jobs.co.uk   Rating: 3 Stars
Jobs review: Summarises results from other sites, giving the total number of sites matching your keywords. However, since these jobs may be in any location, and at any level, this doesn't help very much, though it may allow you to eliminate some of the other job sites which have no vacanies at all. Nice URL, underused.
Gis-A-Job	www.gisajob.com   Rating: 4 Stars
Gis-A-Job review: Avoids the gloss of many of the big sites, instead providing straightforward links to vacancy information, mainly in the IT industry. Allows speculative posting of your CV.
Total Jobs	www.totaljobs.com   Rating: 5 Stars
Total Jobs review: A simple but effective searching mechanism leads to well presented search results, with information categorised uniformly across the site. Would like to see more comprehensive searching and 'shortlist' facility.
Guardian Jobs Unlimited	www.jobsunlimited.co.uk   Rating: 2 Stars
Guardian Jobs Unlimited review: Limited job opportunities, badly listed. Does include a salary range search, which is a big step forward, but otherwise duff search facilities. Poorly designed - multitudes of pop-up windows, and one fantastic 'Job Role' selection box, three lines high, from which you select one of 250 roles, not sorted.
Planet Recruit	www.planetrecruit.com   Rating: 4 Stars
Planet Recruit review: Searching facilities include a 'more like this' option which could be useful, although it simply seemed to produce 'more' results, leaving us to do the 'like this' bit. The listings are detailed and give a more personal impression than many of the poorly worded examples on other sites.
Monster	www.monster.co.uk   Rating: 3 Stars
Monster review: "You're just a click away from the job you deserve". Isn't it terrible how advertising slogans come back to haunt you. Arriving at this site full of aniticipation that there was a better job out there somewhere for me, I was disappointed to find that apparently I didn't deserve many of them. In my chosen field just one job was listed with plentiful blurb, but few details.
Fish 4 Jobs	www.fish4jobs.co.uk   Rating: 3 Stars
Fish 4 Jobs review: Any site that makes me confirm that when I typed 'London' I actually meant 'London' rather than 'London Gatwick Airport', 'London Colney, Herts', or even 'London Apprentice, Cornwall' has got some work to do. Still a good range of jobs, so we'll leave it in, hoping for improvement.
Top Jobs	www.topjobs.co.uk   Rating: 3 Stars
Top Jobs review: Adequate search facilities, but clicking on one of the results will take you directly to that companies web page, which is a little unusual. Useful in that you can find out more about the company, but we'd like to see an intermediary page listing all the job information in standard format.
Telegraph Jobs	www.jobs.telegraph.co.uk   Rating: 3 Stars
Telegraph Jobs review: From the Daily Telegraph. Too few search criteria mean too many jobs are listed, and inaccurately classified jobs mean that trying to narrow down the search (e.g. to the UK) means many jobs are incorrectly eliminated. Promises overseas facilities, but list few positions. 'Panic button' for use at work is a nice touch. Executive section includes jobs paying over £55k.
Reed	www.reed.co.uk   Rating: 4 Stars
Reed review: Long history in the recruiting marketplace. Finally have a good quality site online. Allows you to use sectors to focus your search; accurate job locations; looks good.