1 - Resumes & Cover Letters
2 - Portfolios
3 - Job Boards: The Supersites
4 - Job Boards: Job Search Engines
5 - Job Boards: Regionals
6 - Job Boards: The Networked Sites
7 - Job Boards: College & Graduate Sites
8 - Job Boards: Niche/Trade/Specialty

9 - Job Boards: Diversity/Women/Disabled
10 - Job Boards: Government
11 - Job Boards: Contract & Temporary
12 - Job Boards: Executive
13 - Job Boards: International
14 - Job Boards: Links to Job Boards
15 - Job Boards: Articles About
16 - Volunteering

Indeed culls job listings from job boards, newspapers, company career pages and industry associations. In test searches using Indeed, I found listings from a variety of sources, including Monster, Careerbuilder (whose listings, remember, depend heavily on newspaper want ads), America’s Job Bank, Hotjobs, CareerMole, and craigslist Also, employers can put job listings on the site for no charge.

As with most search engines these days, the main page has a Google-ish format, where you input a job title and the geographic area in which to search. You may narrow your search further using a number of criteria; and you can have the site email you as new jobs come in.

In addition to performing job searches by keyword and location, WorkZoo also allows you to browse job listings by category and industry. WorkZoo claims its listings come from a variety of sources, but most of those I saw appeared to come from the Supersites. Employers may add listings for free, and the site does not allow employers to pay for favorable positioning in search results (the Internet is certainly a study in human nature).

Currency is an important criteria at WorkZoo. It doesn’t appear to show listings more than 7 days old, and you can narrow your search to the last 1, 2, 3, etc., days. By sheer numbers, their database appears smaller than other sites at first glance… but other sites do not place as much emphasis on current listings as WorkZoo does. Additionally, when an employer updates an existing listing, WorkZoo doesn’t call that a new listing; other search sites often do.

Last time that I checked, SimplyHired had a database of about five million job listings from various sources; compared to Indeed, their listings seemed somewhat less dependent on the Supersites, with more regional sources.

Through a partnership with LinkedIn, every job listing has a button you can push to see if anyone in your LinkedIn network works there (assuming that you are registered with LinkedIn, of course).

My test searches revealed a lower incidence of job ads (essentially, false job listings designed to draw you in to one commercial venture or another) than some of the other sites.

Wanted Jobs claims to search over 380 sites, resulting in access to over 3 million job listings in the U.S. They have a section specifically devoted to Canada.