I realized that with all the time I’ve spent job hunting, I can probably do a lot more than I am to help out other job hunters.  Here’s a start:

So, if you’re a job hunter, particularly in the Portland area, this could be of some help to you.

Here’s my entire list of bookmarked sites for online job hunting:

I hit many of these daily, but if you’re job hunting the ones you can’t afford to miss are:

Craigslist for the regions you’re looking at.  Take the time to browse all job listings in addition to the types you’re looking for.  Many jobs are poorly categorized or could be in multiple categories but only listed in one.

Linkedin Advanced search.  I run two searches: one for all new positions in the Portland area, and one for entry-level experience positions across the country.

Indeed.com aggregates nearly all of the major job boards including Monster and Careerbuilder.  Powerful search tools.

And the newest and often most interesting: Twitter Job Search allows you to search all tweets for location and job title.  It’s as open-ended as Twitter itself.

Additionally, look for other Twitter sources.  I follow @pdxjobs and several of the subcategories such as @pdxmarketingjob.

Next up, I have a list of Portland companies whose corporate websites I check at least once a week.  It grows as I find more companies in Portland I’d like to work for.  Many companies I’m a fan of I’ve stumbled across and never realized they were Portland-based until I checked their contact info.

And along those same lines, I have another list of other companies I’d like to work for spread across the country.  I check their corporate sites for new postings as I have time, which usually ends up being every other week or so.  This list is probably a hundred companies long at this point, so I check a few at a time.

Keeping lists such as this has been invaluable since many companies are skipping posting their positions on job boards completely in favor of only posting on their website and having people come looking for them.

All this, and (depending on your field) you can expect to find a couple quality postings to apply for per day.