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Job Hunt Detective Work
    November 29, 1996 --- Part of an extensive job hunt includes figuring out who to talk to. Today we feature a number of resources that will help you find people in your field on the net and then track down their mailing addresses and phone numbers.

    • Publicly Accessible Mailing Listslists over 8,000 organizations, publications, nonprofits and community organizational interests.

    • 555-1212.com is a tool for finding contacts by interest area.It can be searched by subject, name or title.


    Once you know the name of a contact, you can use the following services to track down names, addresses and phone numbers. If you can't find the information you're looking for on one, try the other two....none of them are 100%.

    • With WhoWhere?you can search for an individual's address, phone number, and/or e-mail address. It includes the ability to find out the name of a person whose phone number you have.

    • Four11 Like all these search directories, it can turn up lotsof similar names in large metropolitan areas -- and sometimes the addresses are outdated or wrong.

    • Switchboard looks for complete addresses and phone numbers. In my experience, it finds people that some of the other directories know nothing about.

      If you're looking for a specific person by name, be sure to try all three. One will turn things up that the others miss.

6 Days On The Road
    November 27, 1996 --- The most amazing part of the web is the sheer diversity of opportunities available to job hunters. We continue to marvel at the Truck Drivers Job Directory. Combine them with the short list of jobs offered at Water Online (for Waste Water Treatment Professionals) and you start to get the idea that the online employment scene is pretty comprehensive.
Usenet Newsgroups
    November 26, 1996 --- There are literally hundreds of thousands of job postings in the Usenet newsgroups. Organized by region (mostly) and profession (somewhat) Usenet is very fertile ground for a job search. We always reccommend using the AltaVista or Deja News search engines to poke through the big pile of opportunities in the mix.

    The other day, we got some email from an outfit called CyberBabes (they appear to focus on using Usenet to retrieve um,...pictures). They do have a comprehensive selection of tools for reading Usenet on their home page. Most importantly, they feature a Usenet Job Hunter's Companion that includes a preset filter for querying Deja News and a very comprehensive listing of newsgroups. You might also take a look at our usenet pages as a way of coming up to speed:

    A word of warning: Reading Usenet can be habit forming. If you've never used Usenet before, try
  • news.announce.newusers. It's supposed to be the first newsgroup you should read. There's also a great resource called "How can I actually find information" that is a solid introductory tutorial.
Recruiting Links Galore
    November 25, 1996 --- 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
Document Viruses
    November 24, 1996 --- 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?
More Resources
  • Companies with Job Ads (Nearly 1500 Links to Companies and their Job Postings)
  • Tools (Everything You need for a Job Hunt)
  • The daily newsletters are archived in weekly volumes in the Archives. Past issues include:
Week Ending December 1, 1996
  • Mailing Lists
  • Using Newsgroups
  • Recruiting Links
  • Microsoft: Virus and Tools
  • Jobs For Truck Drivers
Week Ending November 24, 1996
  • Jobs In Film
  • Future Scan
  • What Color Is Your Parachute?
  • Kaplan's Career Center
  • Tools For Researching Business
  • Rejection
Week Ending November 17, 1996
  • JobSmart
  • Career Resource Office
  • Boston.com
  • Career Atlas
  • Student Center
  • Chivas
Week Ending November 10, 1996
  • Email Timing
  • Job Safari
  • Nortwest Healthcare
  • ESpan Renewal
  • My Boss
  • Resume Shareware
Week Ending November 03, 1996
  • 1997 ERI
  • DigiSearch
  • Net-Temps Chat
  • Getting Flamed
  • Glass Ceilings
Week Ending October 27, 1996
  • Career Forums
  • A Posting
  • 1500 Companies and Jobs
  • Tripod
  • Extreme Resume Drop
Week Ending October 20, 1996
  • Leadership Resources
  • 809 Phone Scams
  • International Jobs Page
  • The Network Observer
  • Career Action Center
Week Ending October 13, 1996
  • Little Things
  • Email Etiquette
  • Resources For Women 2
  • Aero Industry
  • Hispanic Resources
Week Ending October 6, 1996
  • Interview With Rhidian Orr
    • College Career Centers
    • HTML Resumes
    • Specialty Employment Areas
    • Resume Advice
Week Ending September 29, 1996
  • Monsanto
  • Your Career Resilience
  • Consulting Links
  • Regional Classified Advertising Links
  • Discussion List: Disabilities and Employment
2 Weeks Ending September 22, 1996
  • Finding Hidden Jobs
  • Free Career Newsletter
  • Top Jobs On The Net (UK)
  • Career City
  • Cover Letter Tips
  • Job Lynx
2 Weeks Ending September 07, 1996
  • Laughing Through The Job Hunt
  • Chivas as a Search Tool
  • Black Collegian
  • Womweb
  • 62 New Sites
  • Much, Much More
Week Ending August 24, 1996
  • Federal Employees' Survival Guide
  • New Entrepreneur
  • Global Translation Alliance
  • How Long Will You Have Your Job
  • Canadian Job Resources
Week Ending August 17, 1996
  • Medieval Self Assessment
  • Recruiter's Online Network
  • Online Career Center
  • Dealing With Being Flamed
  • Regional Yahoos
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Complete Archives
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