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Career Site Review - http://www.operationIT.com

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If you're looking for a new site that focuses specifically on IT talent, consider OperationIT.com. The site competes directly with Dice.com and Techies.com but claims to have a larger database of qualified candidates and a more sophisticated search engine.

According to statistics from PC Data Online, the leading Internet traffic measuring service, the month of April saw OperationIT.com surge up in the ratings to the #12 most popular Employment web site in the world, and #5 most visited employment site during the last week of April. The report also shows that OperationIT.com was the second most trafficked site among the employment sites listed which focus exclusively on IT professional job seekers, during the month of April. 

Two major sections of the site exist:

A) The OperationIT.com Business Center brings together client's IT project needs with IT specialty firms - mainly independent contractors looking for their next IT project.

B) The OperationIT.com Career Center allows employers to manage their global IT job openings and also allows IT talent to find the right career.

Other features listed by this site include:

1) Sophisticated search engines that allow screening for such things as years of education and sponsorship
2) The ability to handle Boolean searches that bring up a full text resume with search terms in bright red letters
3) Statistics on the number of job views and job responses
4) HTML coding directly in job descriptions
5) The ability to work in real time
6) A resume search agent
7) 65,000 applicant profiles in the database with 3000+ additional profiles coming in each week
8) Applicant profiles are kept for 6 months and are purged on a daily basis after notices are sent to job seekers
9) Competitive pricing for postings and applicant profile searches

Operation IT, another alternative to add to your list of technology specific sites.

Visit the site for specific pricing and posting details.