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The Usenet Newsgroups have had an Internet presence much longer than
the Web and continue to provide a forum for focused discussion and postings.
Several of the newsgroups are job and career related. However, while there used to be a "purity" involved in posting
to Usenet, that purity is long gone. Now there is a great deal of "noise" and clutter you will have to cut through in
order to find those who are truly posting on context to the category. Far too many "make money fast" postings. But it
may be worth your time to browse the subject lines for the possible nugget of truth, since these are all free postings.
There might be a company that is too cheap to post to a Web job site which posts its jobs for free on Usenet.
Google recently took over maintaining the Usenet Newsgroups (which are now called "Google Groups") and can be found at:
Following are the best Usenet Jobs Newsgroups to utilize in your job search:
biz.jobs.offered -
The best Usenet newsgroups are also the most popular and contain mountains of useless data you will need to sift through.
Biz was originally intended to include only "business" oriented jobs, but as you can now see, pretty much anything
goes. Use the "Search only in..." feature to narrow your results.
misc.jobs.offered -
misc was designed to be the great "catch-all" jobs category. Well, it catches all and then some. Many of the
postings aren't even really jobs. Again, use the "Search only in..." feature to narrow your search results.
misc.jobs.offered.entry -
So we're finally to the entry level jobs category? Yes, we're in the category, yet the results are still extremely
cluttered. But if you're going to take time searching through the haystack for your needle, this is the category to do so.
misc.jobs.resumes -
This is the original "resume database" of the Internet. Even though it appears cluttered (like most categories), note that
this category is most frequently used by third-party recruiters who want free access to resumes. So if you don't mind them
finding your resume, go ahead and post your resume. But one caution: there are a number of programs which routinely scan
Usenet groups for e-mail addresses, putting you at risk of being put on an e-mail spam list.
geo.jobs newsgroups - No, that's not an Internet newsgroup location. The geo.jobs tag is short for geographical
jobs newsgroups, of which there are quite a few, covering a diverse area nationally and internationally. They work well
for those who are geographically focused on a particular city, state, or country. Following is an incomplete listing of
what is available (no Net listing is ever fully complete):
Cities:
- Atlanta, GA (atl.jobs)
- Austin, TX (austin.jobs)
- Baltimore, MD (balt.jobs)
- Chicago, IL (chi.jobs)
- Columbus, OH (cmh.jobs)
- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (dfw.jobs)
- Houston, TX (houston.jobs.offered)
- Huntsville, AL (hsv.jobs)
- Ithaca, NY (ithaca.jobs)
- Kansas City, MO (kc.jobs)
- Las Vegas, NV (vegas.jobs)
- Los Angeles, CA (la.jobs)
- Long Island, NY (li.jobs)
- Memphis, TN (memphis.employment)
- Milwaukee, WI (milw.jobs)
- New York, NY (nyc.jobs.offered)
- Orange County, CA (oc.jobs)
- Pittsburgh, PA (pgh.jobs.offered)
- Philadelphia, PA (phl.jobs.offered)
- Raleigh/Research Triangle, NC (triangle.jobs)
- Portland, OR (portland.jobs)
- St. Louis, MO (stl.jobs)
- San Diego, CA (sdnet.jobs)
- San Francisco Bay Area (ba.jobs)
- Seattle, WA (seattle.jobs)
- Washington, DC (dc.jobs)
States:
Canada:
International:
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