Today there are so many online job portals available that it is hard to decide which one to go through. All of them are mostly free for job seekers and they have excellent resume services as well. These sites allow job seekers to keep multiple versions of their resumes and send them off to whichever company they want. They have powerful search features that a job seeker can use to locate an opening that matches his profile.

Monster.com is one of these excellent job portals. Career Builder is another very lucrative site. Signing up with them is fairly simple as they have an online form which you can fill and they also have the option for uploading a resume and a cover letter. As soon as you find the jobs that you want, you can select them and send your details to the company very easily. Companies too have access to your resume through the portal's database which means if they are looking and they find you suitable they will contact you immediately.

Job portals work very well as famous sites like Monster and Career Builder have thousands of employers visiting every day. In fact job portals are found to be so helpful that there are a lot of programs which have been developed to perform comprehensive searches through all these portals at once. Programs like these have alert options which are can be tweaked by the user so that related fresh jobs are sent as reminders to the user by mail. People who make use of such programs spend less time on their job hunt and usually land good job quickly.