I had been searching high and low for employment websites, and was not having any luck. Well, not until I simplified my search.
Once I did that, I located the job websites that was what I was looking for. This site will overwhelm you with all of the opportunities it provides. Read the rest of this entry »
In our tough economy, unemployed Americans are taking over. It seems like everyday during the previous summer we are bombarded with stories on the news regarding home foreclosures.
Now as winter approaches, the numbers are still increasing. The economy seems to be at a standstill and the average American people are receiving the short hand of the stick.
College Grants are being taken away, Companies are downsizing and families are striving to find ends meat. It is a recession that many were not planning for.
Thankfully, there is a job search site, or a online job search, that will direct you toward success. How do you find it you ask? Read the rest of this entry »
Many Americans would have never thought the economy would be in the state that it is in currently. We have heard of the Great Depression in history class, but to live in a recession seemed unlikely.
Bailouts seem like the norm and home foreclosures keep increasing. But there is one key difference between the economic troubles of today and the financial troubles of 1929: Americans didn’t have the luxury of an online job search or job websites during the Great Depression. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you just graduated from college and you have no idea where to start looking for jobs?
During your four years in college none of your professors gave you advice on where to start looking for jobs and your counselor provided you with a just a few useless job websites and job search engines.
Now it is two months after graduation. Partying and relaxing is over and it is time to buckle down and find a job. You are good at what you do and you have had plenty of internships.
The only thing is that you don’t know where to start and your resume isn’t too dense. Read the rest of this entry »
Millions of Americans are loosing their jobs everyday. The economy is not booming like it has been in previous years.
It seems like America has been on a steady decline month after month. Congress talks about the improvements in the economy because of stimulus packages and bailouts, but houses are still being foreclosed and refrigerators are not as full as they usually are.
Thankfully, there are job search engines and job search websites to help ease the annoyance of layoffs and pay cuts. With these benefiting search tools, looking for a job seems to be a more attractive option. Read the rest of this entry »
Finding an employment listing is as simple as calling up the company, asking for the human resources department and asking someone where the company posts its employment listing.
They will happily tell you where to find their job web sites because companies these days hate hard copies of resumes and cover letters. Wouldn’t you if you have to sift through hundreds or thousands of applicants and then store them for future use?
Or, if the company doesn’t store them, they throw them away in the garbage, which makes for a giant waste of paper.
But instead of searching for one specific listing, it is probably best to simply find a great job search engine and let it do the searching for you. Otherwise, it could take a very long time to get nowhere in your job hunt.
In fact, most companies don’t even post their job opportunities on their own site anymore, because this may look tacky to its customers. Instead, they choose a site or multiple sites to advertise their employment needs on.
When choosing a job site that works best for you, don’t automatically assume that you prefer the sites that are most well-known or advertised on television. The truth is that much, if not all, of the job listings on the big, popular sites will also be listed on the smaller, more concentrated sites.
The smaller sites monitor the bigger sites and make sure that they have everything that the big sites have.
The only difference is that the smaller sites will try to make the information more concentrated and specific, so you get exactly what you searched for instead of listings for a hundred jobs that might fit a vague job description. Smaller sites are also great for local job searches and often include local job listings that the bigger sites won’t have.
Smaller sites also often have a niche, that is good for you and that companies in that industry prefer to post their listings on in order to get a better qualified and concentrated response of applicants.
For example, if someone is looking for a job in journalism, the local newspaper is more likely to post a job on a journalism job site than it is on a big all-inclusive job site.
The sample that they receive back will be smaller, but it will have a better concentration of the quality candidates the newspaper is specifically looking for.
Job web sites are the best and only way to apply for jobs these days.
Unless you have the privilege of meeting the hiring manager or owner of the company in person for any reason, in which case you should print out your resume and cover letter ahead of time (and I recommend using a slightly heavier and possibly lightly tinted paper instead of regular computer paper) and present it in a manila envelope. Other than this special and rare instance, you should be applying for jobs on job web sites for the best and most effective results.
Web sites offer a great way to quickly find jobs that you are interested in applying for. They are fast and easy, often providing step by step directions on how to apply. Be sure to read the job description carefully, because in some cases the person who made the listing says that he/she prefers emails over suing the web site.
In such case, they will provide the contact information and you should reply to the posting via email. But be sure to list which web site you found the job posting on, because the employers are always curious in which web site is working best for them and yielding back the best job candidate results.
Remember to always include a short cover letter with your resume, whether you apply on a site or via email. In some cases, a job site is tricky because it makes it so easy to zoom through the job listings and send out resumes in such a short amount of time and call it a day.
But if you really want the full consideration of the hiring manager and if you want an easy way to stick out from the rest of the resumes include a short, to-the-point cover letter. Start off with the hiring manager’s name, if it is given, and then list in the opening paragraph the position you are applying for with the company’s name and the job web sites on which you found the listing.
You are basically writing in the letter what skills and qualities you possess that would be an asset to the company that can’t be found on your resume or that is in the bottom half of your resume and has a chance of being overlooked.
But remember to keep it as brief as possible, maybe two to three short paragraphs, because the hiring manager does not and will not read through a long essay of your life’s story.
That simply shows that you do not know how to select and highlight the important facts and that you don’t appreciate the employer’s time.
While you are hunting for a job, you will get different opinions and advice about a job search site. Some may claim that they love one job search site and hate the other job search engines.
While it is always a good idea to listen to the advice around you and the opinions of others, it is always very important to pick the site that works best with you and that you are most comfortable with. After all, all the resumes go to the same employer and the employer does not care which website you applied from.
Your parents may tell you that the best way to apply for a job is to go into a company and ask for an application. With all due respect to parents, this is wrong. You must remember that your parents grew up in a very different generations and, baby boomers especially, have trouble excepting the all-encompassing ways of the Internet.
They may think that showing up to a company in person implies motivation, dedication and a desire for a job, but in fact it sends the completely opposite message.
It says that you are willing to waste people time instead of figuring out on your own that most companies nowadays only accept electronic applications. It sends the message that you are outdated and behind the times.
It might also suggest that you don’t know how to use the computer or the Internet. At the very least, you are wasting your own time as well as theirs, since they will simply refer you to the website where they post their career opportunities.
Instead, you want to appear to companies sharp, slick and on the ball. After proof reading your resume a hundred times and then letting three other people proof read your resume, save it as a PDF. This shows that you are professional and savvy when it comes to the Internet and computers.
Also be sure to include a short cover letter that gets right to the point of what you can offer the company. After these steps are taken, believe it or not, the best thing you can do for yourself is to spend your days sitting alone at the computer like a total nerd.
Your parents might think that you are a lazy bum, but they simply don’t and can’t understand how applying for jobs are done in today’s day and age.
Employment websites are the preferred way to apply for jobs these days. In these times of the fast paced Internet, it is outdated and not appreciated to go into a company, ask if they are hiring and then ask for an application.
Some think the fact that you took time out to go to the company and the personal touch of a face-to-face conversation will give you an advantage in the candidate picking process. The truth is that you are wasting your time and theirs.
First off, the only person you’ll probably talk to is the secretary or front desk person. When you ask them the golden question, “Are you hiring?” they will simply tell you to either visit their job search site for a list of career opportunities or to visit the employment websites that they chose to post to their job opportunities on.
Even in the rare case that they let you speak with the person who does the hiring, they will do the same thing.
And, although it’s always a good thing when the hiring manager sees your face and knows your name, chances are they will not remember your name when sifting through the hundreds of resumes received. And they obviously will not get a chance to see your face.
Furthermore, since all resumes are electronic now, employee seekers don’t even have to bother with looking at names. They can enter key words and skills that they want to see in resume into a software program that searches through all those resumes for them to deliver the ones that are most pertinent to the employer’s requests.
So you can see why a face-to-face or over-the-phone meet and greet is most advantageous only after they have already asked you in for an interview. Until then, it doesn’t serve much purpose.
If you insist on visiting the companies in person, you will soon find that it is a real time waster that does go very unappreciated. It may even have the opposite effect, with employers thinking that you don’t know how to use the Internet or employment websites or that you are stuck in old-fashioned ways, which is definitely not a good quality for today’s ever evolving technologies and methods.
If anything, you want to look quick, sleek and ahead of the times. Your parents may tell you to go in anyways and introduce yourself, but remember that they grew up in a completely different era, without the amazing advantage of the Internet, and, as much as you hate to disagree with them, they are wrong.
They may think you’re an unmotivated bum, but the truth is that the best thing that you can do for yourself right now is spend your days at your computer.
Job search websites differ on many features, so it is important to pick the job search engines that you work most effectively and efficiently with.
You don’t want to be stuck at your computer trying to find the search field or suggested jobs to apply to or whatever while you are wasting precious time to apply for jobs.
Finding a job is a long and tedious process and job search websites can make it much easier or much harder for you. It is ok to use multiple job websites and I actually encourage it.
Different sites may offer to jobs or different kinds of jobs. I recommend writing down two to four job sites that you like using and rotate among them each day of the week.
That being said, it is important to record which jobs you are applying to and which site you applied from. This will help you to avoid applying for the same job more than once, thereby wasting precious time and looking unorganized to the employer, and it will also allow you to go back to the site to look up the exact listing for a job that you may have been invited to interview for.
As you can see, being overly organized and persistent with you job search is imperative for a successful search. Find a quiet spot in your house to apply for jobs and concentrate.
You should be armed with a pad of paper and a pen for note taking. Again, record the job you are applying for, the name of the company, the site from which you applied, the date on which you applied and any contact information that the listing offered.
Being organized in this manner will give you a definite advantage over those who aimlessly browse through sites, applying for jobs here or there and not putting the effort into the application process that is absolutely required to achieve success.
Yes, jotting down every move you make on the Internet when it comes to job hunting can be boring and tedious. But it works, bottom line. Don’t spin your wheels by applying for jobs in a half heartedly manner.
There is no point because the employer will not waste his/her reading an application that the applicant did not even care enough to construct properly.