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earliest boards were NetStart Inc. and The Monster Board (TMP), both<br />

launched in 1994. NetStart Inc. changed its name to CareerBuilder in<br />

1998, and TMP changed to Monster.​com in 1999. Thousands of jobboards<br />

have sprung up, since then. If you want to use any of them, or many<br />

of them, your “go-to” website for a complete listing of them should be<br />

Randall and Katharine Hansen’s www.​livecareer.​com/​quintessential.<br />

Job-boards can be broken down into the following categories:<br />

1. Search engines that hunt for nothing but job vacancies—they scrub<br />

job-boards, companies, newspapers, or wherever, to find these.<br />

Indeed is the most famous. See www.​livecareer.​com/​quintessential/​<br />

mega-meta-jobs-sites.<br />

2. Mega job-boards, such as the two I mentioned previously. See www.​<br />

livecareer.​com/​quintessential/​general-resources.<br />

3. Niche job-boards, for job vacancies in particular fields or industries.<br />

Comprehensive lists are at www.​livecareer.​com/​quintessential/​<br />

indres. Or if you want just 100 of them, try: www.​good.​co/​blog/​listof-100-niche-job-boards.<br />

4. Company job-boards, that run right on a company’s website. Handy,<br />

if you know what companies you are particularly interested in. A<br />

sampling of these can be found at www.​livecareer.​com/​<br />

quintessential/​career-centers.<br />

5. Job-boards for particular ages. Let us say you are a teen. There are<br />

job-boards just for you, such as http://readyjob.​org/​companieshire-teens.<br />

Or say you are over fifty. There are sites such as www.​<br />

seniorjobbank.​org.<br />

Job-boards, of course, aren’t the only online sites useful to job-hunters<br />

or career-changers. As social media and other sites have become more and<br />

more popular—LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest,<br />

<strong>What</strong>sApp, email, Skype, YouTube, etc.—job-hunters and employers alike<br />

have figured out how to use them in the job-hunt. Now, ever-larger<br />

portions of the job-hunt can be done online. And on all kinds of devices.<br />

From computers to laptops to tablets to smartphones to “wearables” such<br />

as watches. It’s all going increasingly mobile.<br />

So, if you are out of work for any length of time, and you do not yet<br />

have the skills of knowing how to use a computer or how to access the

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