Toolkit Addition

ToolKit: Bookmarking Framed Sites

We've all been there. We come upon a site that makes liberal use of frames, breathe a sigh of displeasure, and plunge in anyway in hopes of gathering needed nuggets--of information or people.

After following 5 or 6 links, we're way into the framed site and we spot it. Just what we were looking for. The motherlode of resumes. Now, how to bookmark it?

Sure, you could just add it to your bookmark list. Unfortunately, though, doing this bookmarks the site, not the page. Because of course, pages that are displayed within frames, while distinct in themselves, keep a constant URL because they display only in the URL of the frame.

What to do....

Play with your mouse. To bookmark just the framed info that you want:

In Netscape:

• If you're using Windows, click the right mouse button. Then click "Add Bookmark". This saves just the particular page's URL--not the site's URL.
• If you're on a Mac, hold down the mouse button while the cursor is over the framed text you want. This will bring up the pop up menu.

In Internet Explorer:

• In Windows, click and let go of the right mouse button. Select "Add to favorites".
• On a Mac, open a new unframed window. At the same time that you click on the link, hold down the mouse button. Choose "Open Link as New Window." Then, add the URL of the new window to your bookmark list.

Search Tips

Search Tip: Sit Back and Wait

After a while, the search becomes bogged down. You've worn out your welcome with your best contacts. No one new is showing up. Perhaps it's time to sit back and wait for them to contact you.

Well of course this can't be you're only strategy. However, in combination with others, making use of certain elements of technology may just be beneficial.

Loads of places post loads of resumes. Those same places tend to keep the resumes forever. Often, when you find "the" candidate, said candidate is happily employed elsewhere.

But, it doesn't have to be this way.

America's Online Help Wanted registers information technology job seekers in several major US cities. Once the hunter has registered, you get their registration info by email, assuming you have registered as a recruiter. The names you are sent are active hunters, actively hunting in that particular city.

Of course, The Job Center does this also. The difference here is that both recruiters and hunters pay for the service. So, unlike most resume warehouses, Job Center's is more likely to have hunters who are actively hunting. Both the hunter and you are notified of matches by email.

So, email matching is one way.

Another is to let Junglee take over. (We wrote a bit about Junglee on 10/28/97 and so won't repeat ourselves here.) Junglee's Virtual Database (VDB) technology automatically aggregates job postings from the Internet or your intranets and delivers the postings into highly structured and targeted content databases like WSJ, Classifieds 2000, and CAREERMagazine. Links are automatically added back to your site. Clearly this saves you time from sending out notices of postings and puts those same postings into sites with heavy duty traffic.

And, we imagine it won't take too long for someone to use this newer technology and send stuff to you. Someone will figure out how to harness Junglee, send it on searches, and email you results from a variety of sites. But, ‘till then....

The passive approach can only be a part of your overall strategy.

By the way, not much of what we need in life is free and neither are these services.

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