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

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Through 07-06-96

July 5, 1996: Searching Newsgroups
Many of the jobs on the web can be found in Usenet Newsgroups. Reference.com is the latest entrant into the newsgroup search competition. They've even provided a Job Search Template that will shorten your learning curve.
July 4, 1996: Everyone Needs an Informant
Take a look at Informant (your personal search agent on the Internet). The service is a product of the Dartmouth labs and performs some functions similar to URL Minder. The Informant allows you to input 3 sets of keywords that you like to search for, and 5 favorite URLs. Then, the service checks, at an interval that you specify, and notifies you of changes by email. Enter the URLs of your favorite job search sites and let Informant notify you when they've changed.
July 3, 1996: Guest Column:
As a new feature, we will be showcasing "columns" by guest writers on subjects of interest to Job hunters. The first in the series is called:
NETWORKING - THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO CONDUCT A JOB SEARCH
by Paul T. Forde
We'll be featuring columns from Paul for the next several weks.
July 2, 1996: Where Have You Gone Joe DiMaggio?
We've added a fairly heavy travel schedule to our summer plans so the "daily" might get a bit more erratic. Rest assured that we'll keep the material coming.
July 1, 1996: Recruiting Links Galore
Check out Recruiting-links.com, a database of employment links on the Web. The site allows for specific searching by the searchers interests, abilities, and qualifications. Individuals seeking employment opportunities use the site free of charge. www.recruiting-links.com
June 30, 1996: Document Viruses
If you send your resume as an email attachment, be prepared to have it trashed without being read. Document transfers are becoming suspect on the net.
Our break was severely interrupted by an attack of the Microsoft Word Document Virus. Assuming that you use Microsoft Word, download and install the virus protection patch (IBM or Mac). The tool lets you scan your hard drive for the virus but works so slowly that we eventually turned it off. The IBM machines in our office were easily protected with Mcafee (a shareware version is a part of Shareware.com's IBM Survival Kit). The Mac machines have been more problematic. We have found no decent anti-viral protection that watches incoming Mac Files for the Word Virus. The Microsoft provided scanner read about 300 documents in 90 minutes. To scan our drives completely would have taken days. And, the Microsoft tools are dated in early May. We're reasonably sure that some of the variations of the virus we experienced were brand new and not covered by the Microsoft tools. Sheesh.
The reason for all of this description? We caught the virus through email attachments. Essentially, the virus is a macro that saves a copy of the document's text in an invisible form. So your documents double in size when you save them. We noticed it as a 3 page word document that was over 2.5 Megabytes. It destroyed our email accounts and the accounts of some of our clients and partners (Eudora accounts sort of choke on large attachments). Needless to say, our clients and partners all had the great pleasure of learning about viral protection at the expense of work. It'd be fairly easy to let the virus grow a number of your files and rob you of all your hard disk space. Yuck.

Not all is bleak by any stretch on the Microsoft front. We continue to be impressed with Internet Assistant for Word (IBM or Mac versions) and its great online tutorial. Rather than attaching a document to your notes, why not save it as a web page, using Internet Assistant for Word and mail the URL?
June 26-29, 1996: We're taking a three day break to celebrate one solid year of publishing. We'll be back on the 30th.
June 25, 1996: Foolish Advice
Advice, job listings, company research and scams, and lots of each...that's what's available to you on the net. If you're going to seriously hunker down to a job hunt, we'd strongly suggest that you visit The Fool's School. Though we wonder about the choice of title, author Nick Corcodilos manages to provide hard-hitting and concise advice about the hunt in spite of what the site's called.
From the site:

So how do you hunt for a job? With the only skills that matter -- your work skills. Identify employers that need YOUR work skills. Find out WHO, EXACTLY: the specific industry, then the exact companies, and finally the specific managers. If you're good at your work, talking to the relevant people will be easy. You have everything in common with them. Find out WHAT, EXACTLY are the problems, challenges and opportunities these employers are facing. Follow these steps, and you'll be talking with the right people about the right job.
If you're good at your work, you can be good at interviewing. Interviews where people get HIRED are interviews that are about the one thing you are already very good at: your work. What you need to bone up on is the problems and challenges the employer is facing. Then you can appropriately apply your work skills to demonstrate how you're going to handle them. That's what I call THE NEW INTERVIEW.
June 24, 1996: New and Changed Sites
We've added 112 New and Significantly changed sites to our recruiting listings. We always suggest that you check these sites first since their job offerings are "fresher" and the opportunity to build relationships is usually more straightforward.
June 23, 1996: Become a Webmaster
Take a look at the Web Engineer's Toolbox, a modest yet comprehensive destination for technical professionals involved in Website Design and Construction. The latest feature on Web Engineer's Toolbox is a Web Career Center for HTML authors and webmasters. It's both a great resource for recruiting web savvy professionals and a a set of solid pointers to the basics if you want to join the fun.
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