Need a job?

When the time comes each week for me to create a new topic to blog on, sometimes it takes a bit more research to come up with something worthwhile. However, while contemplating this week's blog, I realized that I was completely overlooking the obvious: job sites. As Southern grandmas tend to say, "If it had been a snake it woulda bitten me!"

As a senior about to graduate college, I am scanning the job market daily looking for employment as a journalist in the next month. There are two main sites that I use regularly and have been beneficial in the past when I was in search of an internship or summer job.

The first site is http://www.craigslist.org. Essentially, Craig's list is the Internet version of the classified pages of a newspaper. Anything and everything you could want are listed on CL, including jobs. Whether you are looking for a job in advertising, writing, television, public relations or a myriad of other fields, CL has a section of jobs for you to comb through. Employers form all over the globe post openings on the site on a daily basis. From Madrid to China to Ft. Lauderdale or New York City, there is an individual page for each city.

In addition to having jobs broken down by industry, they are also listed by part-time and full-time. Plus, if you happen to find a job that requires you to relocate, then you can also use CL to find a new home. There is an entire section devoted to apartments, flat-shares, house swaps and roommate searches.

I have used CL for both of these reasons and been very successful on both accounts.

More recently, I was introduced to MediaBistro (http://www.mediabistro.com/joblistings/). This is THE site for the media industry. Book publishing, PR, television, magazines, newspapers, etc, MediaBistro has it.

Just like CL, the site has new job listings every day. You can even customize your search by city, industry, date of post, full-time, part-time, freelance and internship. Plus, once you sign up for a free membership (which is required to few multiple job postings) you can customize your email settings so that you receive the latest job postings for the industry and location of your choice.

After many hours of combing the web in search of the most valuable media job sites, these two have proved themselves to not only be easiest to use, but also the most relevant.