The site presents free access to the single largest scientific employment database, containing over 11,000 research, academic, and non-traditional jobs from 350 different nonprofit and industrial organizations. Pre-defined searches and advice for popular jobs are also available. Users can browse the employer information, register for automatic e-mail alerting when jobs that match their interests are added to the database, and submit their resume to the Resume Bank for distribution to a network of employers and placement agencies. For employers, scijobs.org has a full-featured job database management system, access to the Resume Bank, and a variety of advertising and publicity opportunities. The database behind scijobs.org is continually regenerated using proprietary web-crawling and indexing software.
Incoming jobs are hand-curated, ensuring that only relevant jobs are included in the database.
This approach is popular with employers since the jobs are indexed with no cost or effort to them, and the links on scijobs.org point directly to the employers' web sites. Alternately, new or small employers without a web site of their own are able to host the jobs on the scijobs.org site. By keeping the site free for users and employers, scijobs.org strives to help scientists find their ideal job as easily as possible.