Dis­claimer: Donanza is a client of my firm, Blonde 2.0, a one-stop-shop for all your social media needs.

People don’t look for jobs in the news­pa­per clas­si­fieds any­more. Instead, job post­ings are dis­persed through a vari­ety of niche net­works, from groups on LinkedIn, tweets on Twit­ter, and wid­gets and search engines on a vari­ety of sites.

While increas­ing the abil­ity to net­work — one of the most impor­tant fac­tors in find­ing a job — the growth of niche job sites can some­times make it hard to find time to search for jobs. One often has to go to mul­ti­ple sites just to find social media jobs, for example.

How­ever, a new wid­get and ser­vice on SocialMedia.biz should make it eas­ier to find social media jobs from just one web­site. You may have seen on the side­bar, a new wid­get called social media jobs. It looks like this:

This wid­get dis­plays the lat­est jobs aggre­gated by Donanza. Donanza is a ser­vice that aggre­gates free­lance jobs from all across the web — sites like oDesk, eLance, RentA­Coder — and makes them search­able from one cen­tral place in addi­tion to giv­ing you var­i­ous fil­ter­ing tools that really help make the process of look­ing for a job much less agonizing. SocialMedia.biz uses this wid­get  so that its read­ers will have one cen­tral place to find free­lance social media jobs. Other sites can also use Donanza’s wid­get to post jobs in their tar­geted niche.

In addi­tion, Donanza has a white-label ser­vice that SocialMedia.biz uses. In the top nav­i­ga­tion, there is a link to Jobs and the site http://jobs.socialmedia.biz. When you click through, you’ll find a search field that allows you to enter key­words rel­e­vant to your job search.

This pow­er­ful search tool also shows you related searches using key­words that you may have oth­er­wise for­got­ten, lets you sort by bud­get, rate, and whether it will grant you expo­sure, or whether your com­pen­sa­tion is based on rev­enue sharing. With thou­sands of jobs avail­able, it’s extremely use­ful to ensure that you can tar­get your search to show only the posi­tions that meet your needs.

Hope­fully, this tool will be use­ful to read­ers of SocialMedia.biz and it can also be imple­mented on other sites to help peo­ple find jobs in dif­fer­ent ver­ti­cals. It’s always great to see social media tools be used for good pur­poses. I think that dur­ing this time of eco­nomic down­turn, help­ing peo­ple find a job in the spe­cific field that inter­ests them is a good pur­pose indeed.

Ayelet Noff is founder and CEO of Blonde 2.0, a con­sul­tancy spe­cial­iz­ing in help­ing brands use social media tools such as social net­works, the blo­gos­phere and social soft­ware to cre­ate brand aware­ness, recruit employ­ees or achieve any other goal. See her busi­ness pro­file, con­tact Ayelet, fol­low her on Twit­ter or leave a com­ment below.