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Two Weeks Ending August 03, 1996
Review the job descriptions in the Usenet newsgroups and be sure to use the relevant terms as Key words in your resumes. The trick to surfacing in a database is having the right Key Words available for matching. The very best way to search the newsgroups for this type of insight is to do a search on AltaVista. Do two searches. First, simply enter the title of the position you are seeking. Scan the results. Then, place that same title in quotes (like "Web Development Program Manager"). Check the results of that search. Compare your two sets of answers and adjust your resume to make it fit the categories that you'd like to emerge in if someone was searching for the perfect job for you.
It must be love. We are so impressed with JobSmart, that we wanted to reemphasize the power of this new website. If you have the slightest bit of technophobia or are simply starting out in your job hunt, put JobSmart at the top of your bookmark list.
Why? The site is particularly well written, easy to understand and completely focused on making your job hunt successful. Though its emphasis is employment in Northern California, JobSmart offers tremendously clear information on:
If you bookmark one Job Hunting site (after ours, of course) make it JobSmart.
Not Your Momma's Job Hunt
It's a different time and a different place. The sage advice you're bound to get is liable not to work in the 90s. MacCareers, short projects and a different attitude are the characteristics of hunting in a supposedly full-emloyment economy. Put Extreme Resume Drop at the head of your list of tools. The service will do two things for yoU:
HotMail joins the list of companies who build an advertising client base by delivering free services. Like Tripod and others (who offer free Web Pages and the tools to build them) HotMail builds a list of return clients who can then be delivered advertising information. We like the idea of paying customers to read ads and this is a splendid example.
The HotMail scheme is to give email accounts to people without full internet access. For example, many job hunters use the net from public terminals and kiosks. HotMail gives them the opportunity to join mailing lists and receive mailed newsletters as well as a return address for emailed resumes.
As a job hunter, having an email address is a badge of credibility and an important tool in your arsenal. If you're looking for work from a public terminal (or using a friend's), HotMail can solve your email problems.
Fortune Magazine has a series of articles that will be useful for job hunters. We particularly enjoyed What To Do If You Get Fired. It's a good reminder that the three rules for leaving a company in the 90s may well be:
It's a pretty amazing editorial stance for a staid magazine like Fortune.
You'll also enjoy Getting Hired By Getting Wired
There are literally hundreds of small websites offering job listings and advice. Ray Osborne's Top Jobs is one of the better of the lot. Focused on Atlanta area joblistings, the site includes non-Internet Bulletin Board Systems in the Atlanta area.
We're pretty excited about the new version of Eudora (the email software). Currently only available for Macintosh systems, the new package has some pretty exciting features. All URLs are highlighted and can be tied directly to your browser. So, the URLs in your email can be immediately "clickable".
The new software also features text formatting for email (Bold, Italic, Font sizes, idents, margins etc). The days of "text only" email are rapidly closing. Formatting information is transmitted as a separate component so readers without advanced email software can still receive the standard product.
Finally, the filtering capabilities of the new version of Eudora are nothing short of remarkable. Based on definable characteristics (certain subjects, senders or key words), Eudora can be trained to return a standard reply. This is a particularly useful feature if you are considering the development of a newsletter.
The company is offering a fully featured version for a 30 day free trial and significant discounts if you're upgrading.
What does this mean for a job hunter?
Electronic resumes have been a major hassle for the past several years. Getting the formatting right for readability by a given hiring firm has been a nightmare. Most of the literature about emailed resumes is devoted to this simple subject. Eudora solves the problem. Today's formatting hassles will rapidly become a thing of the past.
Further, in follow up conversations, you'll be able to point your prospective employer to specific subset of your HTML resume with a piece of email.
Finally, Eudora is hiring. Take a look at their jobs.
Michel Bauwens, the Belgian Electronic Marketing guru, has begun an ambitious project to bring net business news to your desktop on a daily basis. Net Business Daily, now over two months old, is an outgrowth of Bauwen's fabulous project The Cybrarians Guide to Cyber Marketing.
You will find the section on Finding Corporate Sites particularly useful as a research tool.
While surfing the net last night, we came upon an interview with John Sumser, our editor. Called The Project Oriented Society, the interview scurries through a broad range of issues of interest as you plan your career.
Many of the items are also included in the Tools Area. The Web's largest collection of Employment related resources is also included in the Tools Area.
Combine it with an email account from HotMail and you can launch a savvy Net based job hunt from the local library.
We regularly follow and list the latest offerings in the employment world. This month, there are 100 new sites. Notably, very few of them offer technical (computing) jobs. Rather, they focus on a range of professional specialties. Some of our favories from this week are:
Generally, we suggest giving the list of new and changed sites a thorough going over. The prospects of establishing solid working relationships with a recruiter are stronger when they've just begun a new phase of their development.
Job hunting means getting good at using search engines around the net. Take a close look at WebTaxi. The service integrates most of the known seqrch engines into a single frame-based interface. We like it particularly becasue it lets you use the WebTaxi page as a starting point.
We incorrectly listed the link for
Editor and Publisher Interactive last week. Consider it fixed.
100 Best Companies for Working Mothers. We probably don't need to say much more.
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