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April 11, 1997 --- C|Net is hiring. If you want a front row seat in the new media revolution, there are few better places to launch your career. See their hiring opportunities at http://www.cnet.com/Community/Welcome/Contact/Help/index.html?dd

Posting Your HTML Resume

April 10, 1997 --- If you plan to place your html resume on the web, you've probably wondered how to make sure that the search engines index it correctly. Here are our brief tips on the search criteria for some of the major search engines.

YAHOO.....
Technically, Yahoo's information on your site is derived from the data you submit. Each submission is reviewed by a "real human". :) Yahoo ranks its keyword searches based on these criteria:
1. Yahoo categories containing the keyword
2. sites with the keyword in their title
3. sites with the keyword in their description
Limit your description to *10* words!

ALTA VISTA.....
Keyword searches are based on these criteria...
1. Keywords are in the title or in the first few words of your web page.
2. Keywords are close to one another in your page.
3. Keywords are used more than once in your page.
Capitalize any keywords that the searcher may capitalize when searching for your site.

EXCITE.....
Searches favor sites with keywords in the title and then in the text of the site. It also favors keywords that are contained in complete sentences.

HOTBOT.....
Pages with keywords in the title and then in the text are given preference. Hotbot also uses meta tags.

INFOSEEK.....
Pages with keywords at the beginning of the page or in the title do well. Pages with a high frequency of keywords in the text of the page also tend to rank higher.

LYCOS.....
Gives priority to pages with keywords in the title and early in the text of your site.

WEBCRAWLER.....
Pages that match all keywords are listed first and then those that match any keywords. Within these groups, pages with more frequent use of keywords within a page are listed first. It also uses the "concentration" of keywords within a page.

NOTE: All search engines now say that they penalize for "Word spamming" on web sites.....that is just listing keywords numerous times back to back simply to try to "deceive" the search engines.

Downloads

April 9, 1997 --- With the overwhelming volume of material at your disposal, the question you usually face as a Net Job Hunter involves taking control of your job search. By far, the most important component of looking for work is knowing precisely what you want. Once you've accomplished that trick, the rest of the hunt is a breeze.

To overcome the feeling that you're drowning in possibility, we suggest that you take a look at the downloadable tools available from ZDNet Career Dowloads. Ranging from an automatic resume mailing tool to personality inventories, we're sure that you feel in more control of your destiny using these local tools.

Four Tools For Women

April 8, 1997 --- In this overly male medium, there are a few very solid resources for women job hunters:

Feminist.com career page
Links for everything from the Association of Women Industrial Designers to the Glass Ceiling Commission.

WomenBiz
Networking for women business owners.

100 Best Companies
Check women's pay, opportunities for advancement and child care and other family-friendly benefits on Women's Wire

Using Mailing Lists

April 7, 1997 --- The Internet is home to about 75,000 mailing lists on a huge range of subjects. Each list has between 10 and 10,000 subscribers. (Liszt is a searchable index of them and includes a great introduction to mailing lists).

Mailing lists vary significantly in frequency, content, tone and local culture. Essentially, they are all groups (communities) that communicate by sending email through the mailing list software. You send a piece of mail to the mail software and it distributes it to the rest of the group.

Essentially, there are three different types of mailing list (majordomo, listproc or listserv). The names refer to the software that operates the list. That's important because your ability to research the membership of a list depends on using the right instructions. Each piece of mailing list software has a different set of instructions. The most common type of mailing list is the "listserve" variety.

You can review many listserve groups by email. Send an email to this address:

listserv@listserv.net
Leave the subject line of the message blank. At the top of the message body, write:

list global xyz
where xyz equals the term you are searching for. For example, sending the command

list global unix
will return a list of all known listservs relating to unix, including any and all lists that contain the string "unix".

It's important to know that every mailing list has two addresses One looks like this:

listserv@domainname
majordomo@domainname
listproc@domainname
And is the address for the computer that administers the list. It is useful for finding out more about the list and, importantly, getting to know who subscribes to the list.

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:

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. -----------------