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Below are some reviews and links to websites that we hope you will find helpful when searching for jobs in Humboldt County, California. Humboldt County is a difficult place to find a job, especially if you want to live anywhere above the poverty line. There seems to be a much larger demand for jobs than there is supply. As a result, you will not find any paid advertising from most fast food restaurants or other places you would normally see advertising in bigger cities.
Local Classified Job Listings
Yahoo! Humboldt HotJobs - One of the most complete job listings you will find for Humboldt County. Local newspaper The Times-Standard uses this employment site for posting it’s own classified job listings. There are other paid job listings as well though. Relatively little spam to speak of and easy to navigate.
The Eureka Reporter Classifieds - One of Eureka’s two daily newspapers. You will occasionally find listings here that do not appear elsewhere. For a newspaper, the number of ads appearing here is fairly sparse though.
Tri-City Weekly - The Tri-City is one of those weekly free newspapers that only contain classified ads and no news. You will find very few legitimate job listings here, most of them being get-rich-quick schemes and such. The site uses “frames”, which makes it impossible to bookmark specific pages of interest and a pain to navigate in general. Poor design, layout and content. It is definitely a last resort type of place to look.
The Arcata Eye - The Arcata Eye is Arcata’s only (weekly) newspaper. I’m not sure if there are more listings in the print edition of the paper, but there sure aren’t many on their website. Most jobs listed here will probably be in the city of Arcata.
National Classified Job Listings
Humboldt CraigsList - Classified ads for jobs throughout Humboldt County. Most of the posts are spammed “job opportunities”, but there are still quite a few legitimate job listings as well. Probably the most annoying thing about the website (besides the huge amount of spam) is the fact that many employers make use of the anonymous nature of CraigsList in order to hide their identity. This makes it much more difficult to decide whether a job listing is actually legit, or is just a phishing scheme. You will find a lot of ads here that will appear nowhere else, but they are usually from employers with jobs that are too cheap to actually pay for advertising, so don’t expect to get paid much.
Monster.Com - One of the country’s largest job-seeker sites, it has quite a few listings for Humboldt County, along with a small sprinkling of “opportunity seeker” ads. Many of the jobs you can apply for directly from the website. The biggest drawback of this site is the fact that they lump all job listings for Humboldt County in with jobs in Chico, Ca, which is over 200 miles away. Jobs in places in-between the two areas (i.e. Redding) do NOT show-up though. Weird, but still useful.
Jobs.Com
- Much like Monster.Com, this website seems to want to lump all job offers for Humboldt County in with that of Chico, CA, which is not even close to being in the same area. I seemed to be able to find more listings using this website than with Monster, though I’m not sure if all the listings are relevant. You will likely suffer from information overload after visiting this site, so be prepared to spend awhile searching through it amid tons of ads.
JuJu - This is one of the more unique job finding sites you will come across. If it worked as well in practice as it did in theory, it would be the most useful job seeker site on the Internet. The idea is simple… JuJu is an independent “search engine” that scours the entire Internet to find classified job listings. In effect, it aggregates job listings from numerous sources and displays them in a very clean and straightforward manner. You will find job listings here from Internet sources that you probably never would have found on your own. There are a few spammed “business opportunity” job listings, but not enough to detract from its usefulness. Unfortunately, the site suffers from a single fault that seriously limits its value to job seekers. Simply put, JuJu does not seem to have any way to sort listings by date. Therefore, a large number of the jobs listed are weeks or even months old. It also occasionally produces some listings that are nowhere near the location you are seeking.
CareerBuilder.Com - Lots of good leads for jobs. You will have to sift through the “BizOp” posts to find the “real” job listings though. One annoying “feature” about this website is that it will often produce listings for jobs nowhere near the area you choose. So, even if you choose to only look for jobs that are within 10 miles of Zip Code 95501, you will most likely still see ads from companies in Arizona, or even further away. There aren’t many ads here that you will not find duplicated on monster.com, Yahoo! or at the EDD’s website.
Local Employment Agencies
Express Employment Services - A private employment agency franchise that has an office in Eureka. As with most employment agencies, you will find many listings from “great employers”, but don’t expect any specific information as to the name of the company, salary or anything that might tend to identify who their clients are. You will have to make an appointment with them if you want to get any real information. Since this is a nationwide website, it takes a few extra steps in order to narrow your search down to the appropriate location.
Sequoia Personnel Services - A local employment agency. Again, don’t expect to see any detailed information on specific jobs without making an appointment and signing some sort of contract. SPS has been around much longer than Express Employment Services has locally and tends to appeal more to local businesses.
Local Government Job Listings
Humboldt County Job Application System - Want to work for Humboldt County Government? This is the official website to go to. Most County jobs are not high-paying, but include full-benefits and a good retirement plan.
State of California - The Vacant Positions Database (VPOS) is a service provided by the California State Personnel Board (SPB). It lists openings for most vacant job positions working for the State of California.
City of Eureka - Lists job openings from city government. Sparse listings, limited details and horrible website design make this one of the more useless listings here.
Employment Development Department - This is the official site for the State of California’s Employment Development Department in Humboldt County. You will have to register as a “job seeker” in order to view the listings, which requires giving them your Social Security Number. Although it is one of the most complete job listings that you will find for Humboldt County, it is a huge pain to navigate through. Don’t forget your password, because the website will not save it for you as a “cookie”. Whoever designed this website should be fired.
Wiyot Tribe - Employment listings for the Wiyot tribe, near Loleta, CA.
Schools & School District Jobs
HSU Human Resources - Careers available at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California. HSU is one of the largest (and best paying) employers in the area. Includes listings for everything from janitors to college professors. Either way, the job application process is the same. Hint: if you want a job that requires ANY kind of skill, HSU expects you to have a college degree. Go figure.
Jobs at CR - If you are looking for a job with College of the Redwoods (just South of Eureka) this is the place to go. CR has jobs not only at its main campus, but in Eureka, Arcata, Mendocino, Klamath-Trinity and Del Norte Counties. As a community college, they do not pay as well as the local California State University (HSU), but definitely pay more than most private sector employers.
Humboldt County Office of Education - HCOE doesn’t advertise all of their job vacancies on other websites, so you will have a good chance of finding job opportunities here that you would not see elsewhere. Most vacancies are rather limited in scope though. Expect to mostly find positions for school principals, bus drivers, teachers in specialty subjects and lots of jobs that require you to speak languages in addition to English.
Eureka City Schools - There aren’t a ton of job listings here, but worth looking at if you need a job in the educational field. Don’t expect to find many teaching positions, unless they are in specialized areas. They always seem to be looking for part-time substitutes though.
Private Employer Websites in Humboldt County
St. Joseph Health Systems - St. Joseph’s Hospital is one of the largest private employers in the area. They have facilities in Eureka, Fortuna and elsewhere in the area. The portion of their website that lists available positions has been down for “repair” for the last 2 weeks as of this writing though.
Humboldt Merchant Bank - Another large, private employer in Humboldt County. HMB is a credit card processing company based in Eureka, CA. It is owned by First National Bank of Arizona, so you will also see job listings for other areas as well. Most jobs are in customer service, technical support, IT and other job positions that you would expect to find at a bank.
SuddenLink - The local cable company in most of Humboldt County. As you would expect, most of the jobs offered locally by SuddenLink involve customer service, sales and technical positions. Most classified ads that the company posts point to this nationwide website.
PG&E - The local utility company. Jobs here are few and far between, unless you plan on relocating.
Sun Valley Group - Website for Sun Valley Bulb Farms, which has locations throughout Humboldt County. The site does NOT include any actual job listings. It does include employment applications and HR contact info though. Se Habla Espanol!
KEET-TV - Job opportunities at the county’s only public television station.
Eureka Television Group - This company currently owns more than half of the broadcast television stations in Humboldt County. They include affiliates for CBS, Fox, Univision, My Network and the CW. The few jobs they have available are listed here.
KIEM-TV - You will need to navigate to the employment page yourself, as this site uses “frames”, which makes it problematic to bookmark specific pages. The few jobs available at the local NBC-TV affiliate are usually in sales.
KAEF-TV - The local ABC TV affiliate. Since it is merely a rebroadcast of an ABC station in Redding (KRCR), you will find few (if any) local jobs available here.
PALCO - aka: The Pacific Lumber Company. Only gives link to e-mail address for more information. They are responsible for more UNemployment in Humboldt County than any other company we can imagine. A morally (and literally) bankrupt organization.
Specific Industries
Dice.Com - If you are looking for a position in the computer or IT fields, this is one of the largest websites dedicated to advertising these jobs. You will occasionally find some local positions as well as a number of jobs that allow telecommuting.
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