Using Employflorida to find work in Jacksonville

This website is one of the major state-funded resources for finding work in Florida. While it has a long way to go when it comes to user-friendliness and ease of applying for jobs, it has been worse. The site underwent a minor facelift earlier this year and became a little more up to date. Up until that point it had been a throwback to the year 2000, with clunky, inefficient methods of doing everything while handling slowly. It still makes applying for a job far more complicated than necessary when compared to a site like Monster.com.

The key to working with Employflorida is to set aside about two hours if this is your first time. The rewards may be worth it.

Benefits of EF:

• Mostly legitimate local job offers. While an applicant may not get a callback, they will find that most of the jobs posted are from familiar local businesses and institutions, not spambots as on craigslist or with misleading location information as happens all too often on monster.
   

• Actually applying to a job once your resume and profile information have been entered is simple in most cases. Usually, it can be done in one to two clicks.
   

• Searching is pretty good too as the applicant can search by county as well as by zip code and city.
   

• First crack at some Florida jobs. In many cases jobs show up on EF before showing up on Monster or Careerbuilder.com.
   

• The ability to track resume views and to maintain multiple resumes and cover letters.

Drawbacks to EF:

• Many time-consuming steps to getting your information entered. Far more than the average employment site.

• It cannot open pages in more than than one tab or window. For those who like to browse in multiple tabs, sorry, surfers are restricted to one open page at a time.