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Tips on how to effectively use the
Internet in your job search
Job Searching : One of the top ten
reasons cited for using the Internet
Use the Web to:
Research industries
and occupations
Search for jobs
Apply for jobs
Post your resume
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Net Advantages
Speed - You can get your resume posted
or apply online very quickly.
You turn the process
into a two-way search.
Employers can search
and find you instead of
just you looking for
them.
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Recruiting Trends 2001 –2002 (Michigan State Univ.) study asked
employers to rate the effectiveness of their web recruiting activities
Responses from 286 employers found:
35% of recruiting activity is 16% of the companies that 37% of the resumes a
conducted through the Web, actively use the Web, company receives are
some companies use it conduct 75% or more of through the Web
exclusively, others only their recruiting activities on
want face-to-face interaction the Web
19% of the college hires The most common Electronic Web searches to
(median 10%) can be positions recruited on the screen resumes tend to
directly attributed to the Web are entry-level (35%) focus on major, grade point,
Web and specialist positions degree level and selected
(39%) experiences or skills (e.g.
software knowledge)
Most employers respond While 83% indicate that they
within a couple of days will expand their e- THE INTERNET HAS
(53%) to two weeks (27%) recruiting efforts, employers ADDED A DIMENSION TO
after receiving a resume find the Internet to be only THE JOB SEARCH
“somewhat” (38%) to
“moderately” (26%) BUT WITH MIXED
effective in finding RESULTS
candidates they desire
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A Caution
Don’t put all your job search eggs in this one
basket. It is one of many job search
strategies – not the only one
It is estimated that a web job search will bring
results between 1 – 10% of the time
Not great odds
The more technical your field, the higher your
chances of success
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Research
Industries
and
Occupations
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Researching Careers and
Industries
Discover the employment outlook, job
profiles, potential earnings and the
training and education required for a
wide range of occupations
Recommended sites
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Discovering Potential
Employers
Once you’ve identified job titles and
industries then you begin to research
the companies/organizations
employing people in these jobs
Recommended sites
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Searching
For
Jobs
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Who uses the Web to Recruit?
Larger companies have web sites that
contain employment information: Look
for “Employment,” “Careers,” or “Jobs”
usually found right upfront on their site.
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Job Listing Sites
You can uncover all Sites allow employers
types of jobs to do a nationwide
Searchable by job type, search for jobs and
industry and region internships
Sites allow you to post Majority of sites free to
your resume and create candidates - Employers
search agents that pay to post jobs and for
E-mail you when the ability to search
they’ve found resume banks
a match
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Before you register at a site…
Read the fine print – Who has access to your
information? Can you change your resume once posted? Will
there be a fee to change? How long does it stay posted? Will it
be deleted if you don’t update it?
Consider once your data is
published it is public and
out of your control
Consider getting a separate
E-mail account and a P.O. Box
Those are easy to discontinue.
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LET’S BE CLEAR ABOUT ONE THING…
Why do you think they want you to post on their site?
Most of these sites are for-profit ventures. They charge
employers and advertisers and want to promise as many
hits as possible. Many sites invite you to register and or post
your resume. Some sites require you to register before you
get to use the site. Most page layouts make it look like you
NEED to register. When you register, they capture and use
your data. Again, it is important to read their confidentiality
statement and the rules.
Prior to registering, see if you can get to
the job postings first.
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General Job Search Sites
Worth Checking Out
CollegeGrad.com Careerbuilder CoolWorks HotJobs
For outdoor/resort
jobs
JobFactory MonsterTrak Oregon The Riley Guide
You’ll need a Employment Job Listings
password if your not Office
using the EOU server-
Call Career Services
America’s Job America’s Career JOB SEARCH MANY MORE…
Bank InfoNet SITES BY MAJOR
Under ‘State Info”
you can get to
each state’s
employment
programs
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Search Engines
Each search engine is Choose precise keywords to
unique. describe your search. Searching
for “clinical trials” and “job” and
Northern Light organizes “California” yields better hits that a search
search results into for “biotechnology jobs.”
categorized folders Find the Help pages provided
and read instructions on how to
Alta Vista allows the user to
best use each engine.
put their search topic in the
Use more than one search tool
form of a question
since no one site is all inclusive
HotBot uses pull down Go to searchenginewatch.com
menus for easy, yet precise to learn more
web searching
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MetaSites
Allow you to quickly search multiple job listing
sites through one interface
If used alone you won’t have the same
specialized features utilized when using the
individual search engines
Best for searching unusual or very specialized
fields like “bioinformatics.”
metacrawler.com dogpile.com
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Newsgroups & Mailings
Joining newsgroups Google Groups– find
and mailings is a great groups in your field
way to find out about
job leads. Newsgroups Lists.topica.com –
are special interest directories of
discussion groups on a newsgroups & mailing
variety of topics. lists with job
Always act opportunities
professionally while
posting and responding
to the group.
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Apply
For
Jobs
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Create a ‘Text Only’ Resume
Perfect your paper resume on A caution will warn you that Close out of the document.
your word processor and then you are about to lose all your Go to the open folder and
go to ‘File’ and ‘Save As.’ In formatting. open the notepad version of
the ‘Save as Type’ box at the You say, your resume (txt version)
bottom, choose ‘Text only’ or’ “Yes, You’ll likely be in Notepad
ASCII’ or ‘plain text’ (Windows) or Simpletext
I know.”
Name this file your (Mac)
lastnameresume .txt.
Prepare yourself. It won’t look Double space. Then list your Use the space bar to adjust
pretty. All of your bullets, name and contact information. space, don’t use the tab.
underlines and fancy fonts are For the body: Start counting.
gone. This is what you want. The maximum length for any Use ALL CAPS for your
Start the document with the line is 65 characters across. section headings. Double
word RESUME at the top. Once you get to 65, hard space between sections.
return.
You can add emphasis by If you want to includes lines, Consider your length. Don’t
surrounding words in use a series of dashes add on pages just because
*asterisks* -- - - - - - - to create a break. you can.
The only symbols you may At the end, double space and Take it for a test run. Send it
use are those you see on the then put END RESUME. to yourself and a friend to see
keyboard: - + * > ^ = how it transmits.
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E-mail Your Resume
Prepare a ‘text only’ To:
From:
Mike Smith
Scott Scientist
RE: Environmental Educator opening
version for E-mail Dear Mr. Smith:
I am submitting my resume for consideration
use for the environmental educator position posted
in the August 7 Job Seeker.
Teaching youth about environmental science
Send in the body of is critical to our future. My bachelors of
science degree in biology gives me the
appropriate background for this position.
an E-mail with a My work with the Oregon Museum of Science and
Industry Summer Science Camps gives me the
brief cover letter experience teaching students in this age range.
I look forward to your response so we can
discuss my qualifications and your needs.
Use keywords, Sincerely
Scott Scientist
consider adding a RESUME
keyword section to CUT AND PASTE
TEXT ONLY
RESUME HERE
your resume
END RESUME
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Sending your resume
as an attachment
If employers request an attachment they
will probably specify which formats are
acceptable. If they don’t specify, you
risk sending a version they cannot read.
Viruses are a concern – many
companies have policies prohibiting the
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Posting to an E-form
An e-resume is stored in a database where
employers can retrieve it and view your
qualifications. If the employer is interested,
they contact you.
Some sites require
that you input information
into their form, others
allow you to cut & paste
your existing ‘text only’
resume into a form.
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Posting a Web Resume
The Web resume gives you flexibility with regard to
graphics and overall presentation. Web page authoring
tools are getting easier to use.
This resume will be found by employers using a search
engine using keywords. All keywords in your resume
should be put in tag so it is found. Or you can
add a keyword section to your resume.
Keep length in mind. Add links to examples rather than
requiring the reader to repeatedly scroll down.
Keep in mind that once you post your resume on the web,
ANYONE can see it.
SAMPLE WEB RESUME
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Use Keywords
WEB SOFTWARE KEY WORDS ARE THE CONSIDER ADDING
SEARCHES FOR “HOT” WORDS WHOLE SECTION OF
KEY WORDS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH AN KEY WORDS. INCLUDE
PREDETERMINED BY INDUSTRY, SKILLS, DEGREES,
THE EMPLOYER PROFESSION OR JOB CERTIFICATIONS, ETC.
FUNCTION
PEPPER YOUR Administration: Not-For-Profit:
DOCUMENT WITH KEY Budget administration, Advocacy, board relations,
WORDS SPECIFIC TO product support, contract community outreach,
YOUR INTENDED administration, customer corporate giving, media
AUDIENCE. liaison, efficiency relations, endowment
improvement… funds…
Banking: Engineering: Healthcare:
Asset management, Computer-aided Design Cost center, continuity of
commercial credit, fee (CAD), industrial hygiene, care, certificate of need
income, receivership,lease experimental design, (CON), peer review, patient
administration, letters of product design… accounting, utilization
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Scannable
Resumes
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A Scannable Resume
A word processed paper version but without the
formatting
Some companies print and scan resumes into a
database using Optical Character Recognition
software. Fancy formatting really messes with
OCRs. They get confused between the capital
letter “I”, the letter “l” and the number “1”
Keywords important in this format as the OCR
is programmed to look for degrees, skills and
experiences
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Scannable Rules
Similar to ‘text only’
Avoid boldface, Use asterisks (*) or No vertical or
italicizing, script, plus (+) not bullets horizontal lines
shading, graphics and Use 10 – 14 point font
borders
Use fonts without Every line should be Use a traditional
serifs so they won’t justified left, no reverse chronological
touch each other centering resume format that
Good fonts are: Double return between avoids complex
Roman, Times and paragraphs layouts
Helvetica
Change action verbs Quality of printing is Don’t staple, use a
to nouns - important, no smudges paperclip. Don’t fold,
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