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March 15, 1996: Finding Opportunities
A Virtual Job Fair is the doorway to a wide array of job related services including over 10,000 listings and career advice.
March 14, 1996: Online Seminars
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Career Crafting, an electronic Job Counseling Service, promises to offer Live Internet Career Seminars on Tuesday evenings beginning in early April. Visit their website and use the instructions to configure your Netscape 2.0 browser to use Internet Relay Chat.
The site also includes more resume tips and career / job hunting advice. They're a San Francisco based Career Counseling Service.
March 13, 1996: Putting Your Results In Context
What does it mean when you get no response to a resume you've sent out? It feels like you've been rejected. Here's what actually happens.
The person on the receiving end of your resume, with very good intentions, adds it to the growing pile of incoming paper in his or her inbox. In a sophisticated company (and there aren't as many as you might think), he or she will send the growing pile down to the Resume center to be scanned into the database. In a less sophisticated firm, the pile grows until it starts to cascade from the inbasket onto the floor. At that point, they are neatly piled in a corner or on a table, again with all of the good intentions in the world.
Whether they end up in a pile in a corner or in a database is sort of irrelevant. In the database, being found depends on your ability to guess the keywords that a searcher might use. In the pile on the table, being seen depends on the envelope you use (11x14 Red envelopes have been known to work occaisionally).
So, not getting a response simply means that you got lost in the avalanche of data that buries hiring managers.. It has little bearing on whether or not your qualifications met the requirements for the job. It's certainly no reflection on you.
Assuming that that explanation helps you cope with feelings of rejection, what proactive steps should you take?
While the answer is simple, the work is hard. You are going to have to submit a ton of resumes. At least hundreds and probably thousands. And that's where using the net gives you a real advantage. You have to focus on increasing the likelihood that your resume will be seen. Assuming that you have crafted several variations and that they all pass muster, you have to send them everywhere that you can imagine and often.
We, obviously, reccommend that you send material to everyone in our Recruiter's Database. Clicking the IPA button will take you to an operation that shares resumes with another 1600 recruiters.
When you send a resume somewhere, send it by mail, email and fax (or at least email and fax). Assume that no response means that you ended up in the pile in the corner, not that they've rejected you. The objective is to increase the likelihood that your credentials will be seen.
If you've found this terribly depressing, check out the Student Center. Though it's targeted at recent graduates, the sense of humor pervading their career counseling will provide a boost to the weariest Job Hunter. Be sure to have them give you your ideal job.
March 12, 1996: Finding Opportunities
The Art DEADLINES List is a list of competitions, contests, call for entries/papers, grants, scholarships, fellowships, jobs, internships, etc, in the arts or related areas (painting, drawing, animation, poetry, writing, sculpture, multimedia, reporting/ journalism, cartooning, photography, video, film, music, dance, etc), some of which have prizes worth thousands of dollars. It is international in scope. Contests and competitions for students, K-12 and college aged, are included.
March 11, 1996: Searching The Web
We've added a comprehensive listing of search tools to our tools page. Use the search engines to track down jobs, opportunities, information about your targets and so on.
March 10, 1996: Researching Your Targets
BigBook is a solid directory of 11 Million US Businesses. It's great for tracking down the phone number of your targets. It even includes a map that you can download as you're preparing to run to your interview.
You can stay pretty well abreast of changes in the Web marketplace by reading the articles in Webreference.com

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