Fast Hiring Jobs

The overall health of the job market typically dictates the speed at which companies hire new employees, but there are some industries that consistently have fast hiring jobs. The ideal of rapid recruiting has also spawned a niche category of quick-hire job search websites, although speedy recruitment is more of a branding tactic and marketing claim than a reality on these sites.

Popular Marketing Claim

Indeed, quick hiring is becoming a popular mantra among recruitment destinations online. Sites promising swift recruiting appear to be proliferating through affiliate programs run by larger job search portals such as Career Builder, Dice, Hot Jobs, Indeed, Job.com and Monster. There are also a growing number of basic job search engines that spider through job listings on the aforementioned portals, community boards like Craigslist and employer websites.

Fast Promises

Some of the job search websites playing up the theme of fast hiring jobs include:

• Easy High Paying Jobs: This site promotes an e-book on how to find what else but easy, high-paying jobs. There's a mirror version of this site called Small Jobs for Big Money.
• Fast Hiring Jobs: Here's a well-named blog full of advice on how to navigate the job market.
• Hot Resumes: This site has a slightly different spin on the quick hire phenomenon, asking job applicants to submit resumes for inclusion in bulk distributions to prospective employers.
• Instant Career Find: This site is a search engine that links to job postings on career portals and employer websites.
• Instant Job Listings: Advice on job hunting complements a search engine that links to listings across the Web.
• Job Spotter: This site redirects to a U.K.-based recruitment company that links to 9,000 recruiters and employers worldwide.
• Local Job HQ: Here's a very simply designed search engine for job listings, but you need to input basic information about yourself before you can see any search results.
• My Local Employment: Search for jobs by category, location or both sets of criteria on this site.
• New Job Search: Links to career-related books complement a standard job search engine.
• Now Hiring Locally: News about local employment conditions and advice for jobseekers accompany a job listings search engine.
• Perfect Local Jobs: Here's a basic job search engine that appears to be an affiliate of a career-related portal.
• Search Work Listings: This combination of jobseeking advice and listings also appears to be an affiliate of another career portal.

Bear in Mind

Sites with the quick recruitment theme have special appeal to people who've been unemployed for a long stretch of time. The number of people in this predicament has grown during the most recent downturn in the job market, so it's hardly a surprise that quick-hire promises are rising on the Internet.

Fast Hiring Jobs

While the websites promising swift recruitment may not always come through on their promises, there are a few trades and professions that tend to hire more quickly than others. Positions that pay hourly or are temporary in duration usually have quicker recruitment timeframes. Jobs that don't require college degrees also tend to get filled faster.

Quick Hire Categories

The types of positions benefiting from faster-than-average recruitment include:

• Carpentry and construction
• Cleaning and custodial work
• Customer service and call-center representatives
• Food service staff
• Retail sales

Manage Expectations

In any type of employment market, quick hiring is something that job seekers want most and that employers try to refrain from doing for the most part. When you need work, it seems like the offers never come fast enough. Employers, on the other hand, receive so many applications that it takes a long time to process them all. Jobseekers would do well to be scrupulous about any opportunity that promises to hire quickly. At least consider the possibility that a promised quick hire may be too good to be true.