Of late job search is made easy to some extend by different job portals, classifieds and third party consultancies. More people rely on online job portals than other alternatives. So career research can be done effectively on such online job portals. Classifieds and friends/colleagues network is also helpful in the career research process but only to limited extend also the success rate of this will be less when compared with online job portals. As the number of people depending on the online job portals increased the number of such portals also increased. Mushrooming of such portals eventually led to the origin of fraudulent portals. Such fraudulent portals exploit the candidates especially financially. This can be considered as a hindrance in the process. Online job portals offer wide job opportunities for the candidates as they have tie-ups with many employers. Such portals often have good professionals who provide ample support for the candidates to strengthen their resume and career growth. All this can be considered as the factors that ease the entire process