I am currently looking for a part time job. The first place I looked was, naturally, Craigslist. I thought briefly about using an alternative site but was pretty quickly discouraged. Craigslist is famous for it's minimalist interface- categories and entries. Nothing more. You can barely search. Some of the websites google turns up in a search for "student work part time" have much snazzier interfaces, which immediately betray their uselessness.
Take for example, Groove Job, the 2nd search result. The site feels quite pyramid schemey- like one of the tech bubble ad farms. 2 Huge panels of google ads, and thats just the beginning. Further investigation reveals that half of the job postings are pyramid schemes, and the other half are postings by large retail chains which are not actually hiring right now, but would still like you to fill out a 100 question personality survey. Furthermore, if you'd like to apply to any of the listed jobs, the site has the audacity to ask you to register an account with them. Lastly, if youd like to post a job, that will be $75. Sort of explains the content.
It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside to know that Craigslist, a completely open and honest site which does not take advantage of its users, lets you post most jobs for free, and does not even have ADS, probably has 100x the revenue of Groove Jobs. It makes me feel even better that it has 100x the revenue because it does those things.
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