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When things just aren't going well with your job hunt, you may decide that something is wrong with the way you're going about it. That is a great realization, and not every job-hunter comes to it. If you do, you are a rare breed. Okay, so you realize you need a little career counseling, and you're hoping to find it on the Internet. This brings us to: Getting a little more realistic, you'd hope to be able to find four career counseling tools on the Internet:
The Fairy Godmother Report On Test & Advice Sites
WHAT YOU'D HOPE TO FIND: Well of course, you'd hope the Internet would just tell you what you should do with the rest of your life. End of story. (That's what fairy godmothers are for!) (1) Some decent interactive tests to give you a quick idea about a possible new career direction you might take; plus (2) some articles dealing with various career issues, to further brush the cobwebs away from your thinking; plus (3) longer career manuals for you to read when you have more time; plus (4) FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) dealing with common problems in the job-hunt. And each answer would be:
Getting a little more realistic, you'd hope to be able to find four career counseling tools on the Internet:
| (1) | Some decent interactive tests to give you a quick idea about a possible new career direction you might take; plus |
| (2) | some articles dealing with various career issues, to further brush the cobwebs away from your thinking; plus |
| (3) | longer career manuals for you to read when you have more time; plus |
| (4) | FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) dealing with common problems in the job-hunt. And each answer would be: |
WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET: Bingo! With career counseling you enter a job-hunting arena where the Internet comes close to giving you what you'd hope for. True, the Internet still cannot replace the value of a live career counselor – even if the Internet does have e-mail and chat rooms. But, so far a generic career counseling without a human body is concerned, you can indeed find much of what you'd hope to find on the Internet – as outlined in the hopes above – except for "detailed answers to common job-hunting problems."
In that department, I must admit that I'm stupefied at some of the superficial (and 'dead wrong') advice that I sometimes read online about job-hunting, resumes and the like. Of course, this defect would be cured real fast if these 'personnel experts' had to go out and find a job themselves tomorrow. But, that teeny-tiny objection aside, all the rest you'd hope for is here: Tests, articles, mmanuals FFAQs The whole works.
HOW EFFECTIVE: Well, there's only so much that impersonal online career counseling can do. Hence, my estimate of the effectiveness of career counseling sites on the Internet in getting you a job: 10 percent. That is, out of every 100 people who seek out career counseling on the Internet, 10 of them will find a job thereby, with the aid of the coaching that they pick up there. I think 90 will need more help or can do it without any help.
WORDS TO REMEMBER:
"Know then thyself; presume not the Web to scan, until you know what you love to do, and have evolved a plan."
(With apologies to Alexander Pope)