While searching for employers
and opportunities, look for job listings at several
levels, again thinking all the
time about moving from general to specific.
• Start with the large recruiting
sites to get the broadest overviews and largest
database searches you can.
• Review the online journals,
newspapers, and job banks for your target loca-
tion, industry, and occupation
or discipline. Look for recruiters who
specialize in a particular
industry or occupational group, or who concentrate
on one geographic area.
• Scan through appropriate websites
and online journals for the various profes-
sional or trade associations
to find job listings marketed to your particular
job areas, occupational fields,
industries, and geographic location. There are
also websites for many of the
diversity and affinity groups with which you
might identify yourself, and
many times these will carry job announcements.
• Visit employer websites, even
if you found their jobs listed in other locations.
Many now use the major job
lead banks to advertise "generic" jobs they are
always looking to fill but
post the specific openings, along with even more
job categories, on their own
sites. It's also likely you will find a way to
contact their human resources
departments to learn about any opportunities
they haven't posted.
JOB LISTINGS 101: START
WITH THE INTERNET JOB GUIDES
Online resource guides for job
and career information contain links to hundreds
of Internet employment resources.
Using these, you can quickly identify places
to begin your job search. The
Employment or Jobs/Careers sections of the virtual
libraries might also be useful,
but you'll likely find these guides better organized
and more in-depth. We've included
a short list here to get you started.
| The
Riley Guide |
http://www.rileyguide.com
|
| JobHuntersBible.com
|
http://www.jobhuntersbible.com |
| JobHunt |
http://www.job-hunt.org |
| JobStar |
http://jobstar.org (says
"California" but is great for all users)
|
JOB LISTINGS 102: THE GREAT
JOB LEAD BANKS
Job lead banks feature hundreds
or even thousands of job announcements in
numerous fields and occupations.
The online classifieds of most major news-
papers fall under this category
(smaller regional and local papers are generally
considered targeted sources,
the following category). Almost all of these sites
and sources have a keyword searching
capability, allowing you to scan all the
job listings in a few minutes
instead of a few hours.
| America's
Job Bank |
http://www.ajb.org |
| NationJob |
http://www.nationjob.com |
| CareerMosaic |
http://www.careermosaic.com |
| CareerPath |
http://www.headhunter.net |
| Headhunter.net |
http://www.careerpath.com
(a searchable collection of newspaper classifieds)
|
JOB LISTINGS 103: TARGETED
SOURCES
Many sites are set up to serve
a particular industry, occupation, geographic
location, or group of people.
Those of professional and trade associations, along
with all trade and industry publications,
fall into the category of targeted
sources. This book contains hundreds
of these sites, so select the chapters that
address your needs, and also
scan the index for topics you hadn't thought of.
Here is just a small example
of the kinds of resources you'll find online:
|
InfoMine (mining industry)
|
http://www.infomine.com |
|
Asia-Net (Asian-language
specialists)
|
http:
//www. asia-net.com |
|
SaludosWeb (persons of
Hispanic descent)
|
http://www.saludos.com |
|
American Zoo and Aquarium
Association
|
http://www.aza.org |
|
ChicagoJobs (leads for
jobs in the greater Chicago area)
|
http://www.chicagojobs.org
|
|
New Mobility's Interactive
Cafe (disabled people)
|
http:
//www. newmobility. corn |
| ComputerWorld
(IT trade journal) |
http://www.computerworld.com |
JOB LISTINGS 104: EMPLOYER
WEBSITES
As we outlined in "Stepping
Through the Internet Research Process" earlier in the
chapter, you'll need to identify
lists of employers in any given industry, filter the
list to just those in your local
area, and make contact. Business directories and
telephone directories can be
useful in this part of your job search, as can your
local public library or job service
office. The Riley Guide's "Tell Me About This
Employer" also will help
you find many resources. Here are five places to head:
|
Yahoo! (start identifying
employers)
|
http://www.yahoo.com |
| Hoover's
(business research) |
http://www.hoovers.com |
| AltaVista
(search engine) |
http://www.altavista.com |
|
BigBook Yellow Pages (find
businesses in a certain area)
|
http://www.bigbook.com |
|
Tell Me About This Employer:
The Riley Guide
|
http: //www. rileyguide
.com/employer, html
|
