If your dream telecommuting job is out there, whydowork.com claims that they can find it for you. The site is working hard, and doing a great job, at successfully promoting themselves in Google and on social networks, but do they live up to the hype?
When first navigating to the site it looks slightly disorganized with a muddle of text and ads but the most important part, the job search, is easy to find and use. Job seekers can search through job postings with specific keywords or by popular job categories. The search can then be filtered by job listing sites (certain sites offer different types of jobs).
Employers are able to post job listings for free and the site claims to review each posting thoroughly to ensure high quality. The site also aggregates job listings by pulling them from other sites, which means users must apply on these outside sites, not on whydowork.com. When reviewed, the majority of the open positions were from the latter source.
There are some full-time, hourly pay positions but the majority of the open job listings are freelance or pay by project. Unfortunately, many of these jobs are low paying when compared to other job search sites. Whydowork.com does pull jobs postings from a few respected sites such as problogger.net and many of the open positions look genuine. However, there is no way to research most of the companies that are posting jobs (due to the sites where the job listings are being pulled from) to verify the legitimacy of the positions.
Users can subscribe to weekly job alert emails that are filtered by the specific job title they’re searching for. Keywords work here as well. This subscription and the ability to create a profile on the site are both free services. Once an individual creates a profile they can use it to promote themselves (blog, website) on the network through reviewing others’ sites. It’s important to keep in mind that many of these people are job seekers as well, not employers.
The site sounds as though it was better laid out back in 2007 when it hit its peak, but has since fallen through the cracks due to an unorganized redesign and feeds from lower quality job search sites.