Something designers have to encounter at one point or another are the job boards.  One of the easiest ways, I’ve found, to find jobs is through these job boards – namely, by adding their feeds to Google Reader and responding to ads as they show up.

One of the things I’ve found most frustrating lately are the amounts of job boards that there are, and that many of my clients invite me to make an account on whatever job board they have.  This, to me, feels low – it is not only taking the users of one job board to pull them onto another, but means that I have to pay for yet another service.  And mind you – work has been sparse and far apart.  I know that the economy has impacted my own business of late, and I honestly do not appreciate being spammed with offers to join yet another job board that I’m going to have to pay X amount of dollars for.

So, I’ve compiled a list of the job services I use, and my general impression of them. Read more »