Essential Job Search Sites

On this blog, we’re huge fans of Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook and Indeed. But The Wise Job Search has some other great ideas of “‘must have’ websites for your job search.” They recommend Google for a million reasons. It’s a good way to learn information about a company, find email addresses for contacts at that company, [...]

Why You Should Search by Company, not by Job

If you only look for the jobs advertised on the big job boards, you will miss out on many great opportunities that are not advertised. Especially in small companies, you will have a large advantage contacting them directly – even if they have no open positions advertised. So, figure out what company you would love [...]

Where the Niche Job Sites Are

CareerBuilder, Craigslist, Monster, Indeed, Washington Post Jobs… The big job boards are great for finding the majority of job listings. But what if you want more specific job boards, narrowed down by industry? Well thanks to Eric Shannon at internetinc.com, we now have a list of 100 US job board niches, categorized by industry, so [...]

How to Search A Job Board

The guys at VirtualJobCoach wrote a fascinating article about how you can get the results you want when searching job boards. Do you want to search generally or would you rather narrow it down? Are there certain key words you want to avoid? Well here are a few of their tips: For general results, list [...]

Social Networking Websites Raise Money Too

We strongly believe that social networking (both on and off line) is the key to finding your next job. But a BusinessWeek article by Jordan Golson  confirms that it’s good for both jobseekers and fundraisers. Social networking sites are exploding in popularity; Facebook claims to have 250 million users. But what’s quite interesting to me [...]

Five Ideas for Your Job Search

So you’ve recently graduated, had some time to relax, and are now ready to get into the job world. Charlie at Path Mapping has five fabulous tips for what to do next. Here are three of the five things to know when entering the job market after college: Don’t sound desperate – Many graduates scare [...]

How to Avoid Bugging your Recruiter

Yahoo! HotJobs asked a panel of recruiters this question: What is your biggest pet peeve about job seekers today? They came up with several interesting responses… Here are a few I completely understand: Perfect Candidates – Nobody is perfect. The job candidates that pretend they are just end up irking the recruiter. Be confident in [...]