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So ... California's #CalJobs versus New York's #Jobzone:
NY's sign-up process is complex and multi-step. You create a MY.NY.GOV account, then segue across to Department of Labor, answer a buggy and multi-page mandatory questionaire. (Most pages took 15-25 resubmits before the site accepted them and moved forward.) Then you click Jobzone and you're taken to a site where you have a number of career assessments before you can run a job search. They also have an alternative search through a 3rd party contractor. CalJobs was simple to sign up for.
NY Jobzone only searches New York and adjoining states, naturally. Except I don't live in or near New York, so most searches return zero results. Adding "willing to move" and "work from home / remote" adds loads of results from all over the country, but appears to shut off your search filters, so anything, anywhere that has a job in the system appears ... hundreds of irrelevant results. CalJobs, likewise, only searches California. Unless I specifically tell it to search only in my county, it finds irrelevant jobs from as far off as Newport Beach (about 3 hours each way in a car I don't have) and the San Francisco Bay Area (hundreds of miles away), and even worse if I turn on remote and relocation.
Jobzone appears to be written by state employees. CalJobs is contracted via #GSI (Geographical Solutions Inc). Not too long ago (1-2 years?), GSI suffered an attack that knocked the sites of several state and local employment agencies offline for a few days. Given the security level tha they'd demonstrated over the years, I'm not confident that there's anything the attackers didn't get.
Neither one is very good for me right now, so I use them because they are required, and then switch over to a handful of non-government job search sites.