1st Steps In The Hunt: Daily News For Job Hunters and Recruiters

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Through 05-04-96

May 4, 1996

Comprehensive Search Resources
Take some time to poke around the Jobsite on Your Personal Network. This comprehensive job resource includes Resume-O-Matic and a very nice selection of pointers and tips to help with your job hunt. The layout is clean and easy to navigate. They've found a way (apparently) to integrate Compuserve and AOL resources into their site. This is one of the best career services on the Web.

May 3, 1996

Figuring Out What You Want
Sometimes, the job hunting process induces a powerful paralysis. Depending on your circumstances, it can come from an abrupt career transition, a planned change or the simple consequences of entering the labor force for the first time. Though the term transition doesn't do justice to the emotional roller coaster that change brings into your life. Make no mistake; a job hunt is a tough transition.

In general, the paralyzing moments are not great opportunities to decide where you're headed. Rather, they're best use as moments of reflection and introspection. When you hit one of these spots, you might want to browse through Dictionary of Occupational Titles or Occupational Outlook Handbook. While it's not a great time for decision making, it's a near perfect opportunity to consider all of your possibilities.

May 2, 1996

Human Resources
If you're in the market for a job in a medium to large company, you must know how Human Resource professionals think. While they rarely make hiring decisions, they can often be of real help in the process. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is a treasure trove of material for job hunters.

We particularly enjoyed HR News Online a well organized daily news service that will help you keep your eye on the emerging trends in the HR business. With a little work, you should be able to prepare yourself to talk briefly with the HR people you meet about their work and interests. This will differentiate you from the rest of your competition.

SHRM has also launched a job advertising section (for jobs in HR) that includes a weekly mailing list.

May 1, 1996

Executive Job Searches
Managers who try to use the web as a job search tool are often overwhelmed by the current imbalances in overall job listings. Partly because the web has a technical bias and partly because we're all going through a rethinking of the managerial role, there seems to be a shortage of tools for managers looking for career changes.

Enter Execu-Net, a membership organization for senior executives and professionals. According to their materials, they:
provide info and access to 250-300+ new and unadvertised executive level job opportunities every two weeks across all industries and in the functional areas of:

General Management

Operations Management

Consulting

Sales & Marketing

Engineering Management

Research & Development

Finance

Human Resources

MIS and Information Technology

April 30, 1996

Resume Development
Your Resume is going to be read by a computer. (Is this starting to sound familiar?) It's fairly likely that the database will be a Resumix product. Resumix is a leading producer of resume management systems for Human Resource Departments.

Their site includes a section called Creating Your Resume which features an article on the ideal scannable resume and an online tool to help you create one. If you're going to take resume advice, this is a great place to get it.

April 29, 1996

Resume Development
Your Resume is going to be read by a computer. Period. If you want to surface in a Resume Database, you absolutely must include a Keywords section at the top or the bottom of your final product. Keywords are nouns that describe your skills and experience. Use somewhere between 30 and 40.

April 28, 1996

Search Strategy

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.

"Niche Job Sites are more effective" - Forrester Research study
Why not look for jobs in your specific area?

Use these top Niche Job Sites and get results: