I wanted to add that you could have a special folder in your browser's Favorites section called JobSites where you keep links to the job websites you use.
Like Moonpi, I find Hotjobs - also CareerLink - to be full of scam artists and also people inviting you to interview - for their sales jobs. Often they don't even want to tell you what product you'd be selling, and salary isn't a feature. You either work on commission or you pay for a "starter kit" and then work on commission. IGNORE THESE.
Unlike Moonpi, Monster has always been a major source of job leads for me. My resume is on there (with my contact info set to Confidential, so interested employers and agencies have to email Monster and Monster redirects their emails to me. I can then weed out the junk ones, of which there are few.
How helpful it is for you may depend on your field. I'm in IT, and IT employers are very used to posting jobs and searching for candidates this way. That probably isn't as true for some of the more traditional industries. (Now, having said that, I've gone for months seeing no job posts at all and getting no responses at all when I've sent out feelers. It's been almost 2 years that I've been unemployed.)
Sorry to see you're in Michigan, where things are so hard. You and MollieSue both. What kind of work do you ladies do? And Maride & anyone else?
By the way, carrieg, it may feel overwhelming right now, but once you set up your job hunting system, doing the recordkeeping actually makes things easier.