There's no time to waste on your job search. While you might become frustrated by time-consuming tactics, the quality of those strategies are much more likely to get you somewhere. According to The Wall Street Journal [1] and several human resource experts, today's job search has to go beyond the job boards.

Traffic on sites like Monster.com, Careerbuilder and Yahoo’s HotJobs is up 37 percent from last year, which is great for those websites, but it makes those boards much more crowded for job seekers and hiring managers scouting quality talent. Mark Stelzner, a human resources consultant, explains, "Companies are asking, 'now that we are overwhelmed with talent, how do we attract the right talent?'"

In response to the flooded job boards, more employers are relying on their own websites to find premier candidates. They're making their own career pages more attractive to prospective employees by including videos and employee profiles, and they're syncing with sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. It's not that big job boards should be ignored altogether, but it's clearer than ever that job hunters need to use all of the tools available [2] to them.