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.
Even if you know how to
encode the document to send via
e-mail, lhal doesn't mean the
recipient will have the knowterkje,
patience or desire to decode and
view it If you absolutely must
send the pretty version, find out if
you can fax or snail mail your
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