career.com: should you bother with this job site?

Described as the "World's First Recruitment Site", career.com has been updated with a new look and feel (the old site was very dated and unattractive in comparison with other job sites).

The search criteria offered are fairly standard: you can search by job category and keywords on the home page and also by company name, internship, location and hot job on the Advanced Search page. You can specify the fields you want searched for the keyword, but beyond that, the scope for refinement is actually very limited.

At the time of writing, career.com wasn't particularly easy to use and didn't seem to work 100% - giving runtime errors when using Microsoft Internet Explorer (it didn't fair much better using Mozilla's Firefox). One major flaw is that you have to enter some keywords - so you can't just ask to see all the jobs in a particular profession at a particular location. Until this flaw is fixed you would be much better off using one of the other job sites such as Monster.

URL for job seekers	http://www.career.com
Type of site	Generalist job site
Specific job sectors covered	Accounting Administration Advertising Aerospace Engineering Agriculture, Forestry, & Fishing Airline Industry Analog Engineer Analyst & Project Management Applications Engineering Architectural Services Arts, Entertainment, and Media Banking BioTech Business Development Business Planning CAD Chemical Engineering Chemist Civil Engineering Client/Server SW Consulting Communications Community, Social Services, and Nonprofit Computer Programming Construction Industry Consulting Contract Management Co-op/Internship Customer / Technical Support Database Administration Defense Industry Design Engineering Documentation Education / Training Electrical Engineering Electronics Commerce Employment Placement Agencies Engineering Engineering - Management Environmental Engineering Executive Management Facilities/Safety Field Operations Field Support Finance Financial Services Firmware Engineering Food Industry Government and Policy Graphic Art Health Care Industry Healthcare, Practitioner and Technician Hotel Industry HR HW Engineering Information Technology Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Insurance Industry International Trade Internet/E-Commerce Investment/Portfolio Management Law Enforcement, and Security Legal Management Manufacturing Marketing Materials Management Mechanical Engineering Military Network Administration Network Engineering Other Personal Care and Service Process Engineering Product Development Product Engineering Product Management Professional Services Project Management Public Relations Publishing Purchasing QA / Software Testing Real Estate Industry Research & Development Restaurant and Food Service Retail Sales Risk Management Sales / Sales Management SAP Business Consulting Science Security Sports and Recreation SW Engineering System Administration Technical Writer Technician Telecommunications Test Engineering Training Transportation and Warehousing Travel Web / Multimedia Windows - Mac Development
Geographical coverage	US
Number of jobs on the site	Not stated
Jobs by email	Yes
Can you upload your CV	Yes (you can make it private or let employers view it)

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