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CLASS OF 1995 Use Internet to simplify job search Job hunting isn't easy. Many grad3 anticipate the search (or their ultimate careers with the sort of joy and excitement usually reserved lor dental surgery Considering all the campfire stories about previous grads sending hundreds o! resumes, each greeted by a rejection letter, it's hard to blame them There are scores of services all claiming to have that extra «lge it takes to get you the job you want Or at least something that pays money They're probably right, but who wants to pay big bucks lor that kind ol service before even making the big bucks? Internet to the rescue. Why page through classified ads lor every city where you're interested in working, when you can hunt through lists ol jobs offered around the world? Why send individual resumes to companies who may or may not be hiring, when you can post your resume publicly for compa nies who are actively lookm j for new hires? By using the Internet, you can vastly increase the scope and power of your job search Many employers are realizing that the Internet is an excellent piace to advertise their job ojaen ings. The circulation of local clas sified ads just can t match the Internet's scope As more and more job-seeking services pop up on the Internet, more and more companies are using them to draw applicants from around the world Finding av ailable jobs A good place to start search ing, especially (or those without high-bandwidth Internet capabilities, is in Usenet news. There are a number of newsgroups dedicated to offering and finding jobs. The misc.jobs.* hierarchy gets heavy traffic, so by carefully monitoring the appropri ate groups lor a lew days you should tind something worth while The rmsc jobs resumes news group is dedicated lor job seek ers to post their resumes where employers can tind them Follow the guidelines below for plaintext resumes misc jobs of lered consists solely ol job offers worldwide while misc.jobs.Oder ed entry contains entry level jobs Look m misc.jobs.contract if you're looking for one-shot con tract type jobs The World Wide Web is a great place to conduct your job search It is possible that you could spend days jusl going through all the subtrees on Yahoo's Busi ness Employment directory (http www.yahoo com Busi noss/Employmen!/). It includes hundreds of links to career ser vices, job listings, resume servers, and much more For many of them, you should already have a tent resume pre pared (see the next bullet) The following are some tree online services The Online Career Center (http www iquest net/oco) mam tains a database ol available jobs submitted by employers. They can be searched by keyword, by state or by city OCC also has a database ol resumes which employers can search Submit ting your resume is free tl you do it online through their Web serv er. Monster Board (located at http //www monster com/) has a jobs database searchable by selecting categories, locations and companies of the jobs you want to see Keep your searches narrow because it'll only show you five results for any given search. The Monster Board also allows you to submit a free online "resume" which is actually a Itll out (orm. (ioiny after a job Once you've found a viable |Ob opening advertised, the next step is usually to send youf resume to the compa ny offering the job Be sure to check the advertisement for instructions on how they prefer to receive resumes E-mailing a resume to an employer who specifically asked for delivery by fa* or snail mail will nof make a terrific first impression If you are sending your resume via e-mail, you will need to con vert if to a plam text (ASCII) tor mat first Most word proi essors are able to save a document as plain ASCII text II yours doesn't, try copying and pasting the text of your resume into a plain text editor like Notepad iWindows! or Teach Text (Mac) If will probably take some effort to get the unformat ted te*t to look anything like it did before the conversion Make sure each ime is no longer than /8 characters long Most text terminals have displays that are 80 characters wide, so 76 should be short enough to prevent lines from wrapping or being truncated Once you think you have it perfected, e-mail it to , a •.ell ,1 - . w'-t It may seem tempting to try to send that beautifully formatted Word 6 or PostScript version of your resume with the tables and embedded graphics In a word, don't Not unless the company specifically states that it's okay to do so. 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