In a past post, I compared several different job boards which I utilized in my daily life. I summarized the most effective job boards as those which cost a freelancer a very insignificant amount of money, did not spam the freelancer, were not overly intrusive to the normal business operations, were easy to sign up for, and did not compare freelancers to one another. Generally speaking the post was met with nods of approval; after all, why should my earnings on one site determine whether or not I was a decent web designer? For all that site knows, I could have already grossed double the amount reflected using a different service. And, additionally, why should I limit myself to one service when I know that job posters will be posting to different sites? And after educating myself and working towards certifications with W3C and Adobe, why should I pay for another web site to certify me?

Then, I recently noticed that CSS Mania had released their own job board. There is no subscription fee; the site is paid for by the advertisements on the main CSS. Read more »

So, I’ve recently begun to work in an office once again, as opposed from home.

I can’t complain. In many ways I prefer to work in an office; instead of having to shoot off emails, for the most part I can just lean over to the next office and say whatever I need, request whatever I need, et cetera, in addition to being able to see things as they happen or from the other person’s screen. Read more »

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 »