Top 10 Tools for Landing a Better Job
From the first Google search to the last interview, you can boost your odds at landing a better job with the right preparation. Here are our ten best tools and tips for job-seekers and career climbers.
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It's not exactly a "hack" to suggest hitting Monster.com, or your LinkedIn network, to check out job offerings and work your connections. Each site amongst our five best online job search sites, however, puts you in a different pool of possibilities, and each has its own quirks and tools. They're somewhat perfunctory and broad, but wouldn't you feel bad knowing you missed a great opportunity simply because it wasn't in your super-specific Craigslist search?
The same types of skills and always-there alertness that make someone a Craigslist power user can give them the edge on the site's job board, which has the benefit of (sometimes, not always) attracting relatively tech-savvy, with-it employers. Once you're getting text message and RSS alerts whenever "Micro-brew taster" shows up, browse these tips for applying for a job on Craigslist, written by someone looking to hire through Craigslist and looking for only the honest, direct, ready-to-work types.
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The secret to finding a job in today’s challenging market is how well you have networked with others during your entire life. Not just career, but life. And networking is not asking other people for info about opportunities. It’s staying connected with everyone you ever knew and asking for advice. That’s the operational word, advice. To stay connected with your network, offer info from articles you’ve read and rumors you’ve heard. Quid pro quo. Then others will offer you info when you need it. The most down to earth stuff I’ve read about networking is a chapter in the new book, Much of What You Know about Job Search Just Ain’t So. Ain’t that the truth? Check it out at bn.com and read Chapter One free.