Searching the WebUse Infoseek to find Recruiters, Employers or Jobs
March 1, 1996
Caveat Emptor
We got a mass email from the folks at A+ On-line Resumes. For $5/month, they will link to your resume and show it off to the "4,000" monthly visitors.
February 29, 1996
Sample Resumes
This one belongs in the hall of fame! Karen Whitehouse's Resume bears a close look as an example of how to do it. Karen has the advantage of being well experienced in the online world, so it was easier for her to embed lots of links. But, the use of frames (Netscape 2.0!) makes her credentials package a delightful tour. We bet she's not looking for work very long.
The subtitle of a Web Job Hunt should be: So many choices, so little time. We spend our days evaluating and improving Web services for job hunters and have been doing it for over a year now. We're the pros and even we find it overwhelming sometimes.
The first thing you must come to grips with is that it's impossible to see it all. With over 600,000 current job listings on the net (and it's growing rapidly), the odds of reading any more than a small percentage are very low. The passive approach (looking for the perfect job ad) is getting increasingly time consuming. It's a particularly desperate feeling to read hundreds of job descriptions, knowing that there are thousands more and always worrying about being behind.
We really believe in taking the offense. Successful Web job hunting is more like a personal marketing campaign than it is like a library research task. Find out where the people with jobs like the one you want "surf". Go there. Get known.
Develop an HTML Resume. Make it interesting and different. Get it listed everywhere. Make sure that your target employers trip over it everywhere they go.
February 26, 1996
Caveat Emptor
If it looks too good to be true, it often is. The net is uncivilized in a variety of ways. The Postal Service offers a look at common fraud schemes in the employment arena. Surprisingly, the site offers no direct information about jobs with the postal service.
In spite of what you might think, jobs on the web are hardly limited to high tech engineering. A great example of the incredible depth of offerings is Hands Interpreter Referral Service. They supply interpreters and interpreting services for the deaf to a wide variety of clients.
"Niche Job
Sites are more effective"- Forrester Research
study
Why not look for jobs in your specific area?