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Job Hunting Online
Introduction: The Internet
1. Primer
2. Gateways
3. Supersites
4. Job Search Engines
Introduction: Research On The Internet
1. Directories
2. Search Engines
3. Best Search Engines
4. Meta-Search Tools
5. Clustering
6. Specialized Search Engines
7. General Research
8. Beyond Search Engines
9. The UnderWeb & Deep Searching
10. Beyond The Web: Usenet & Newsgroups
11. Evaluating The Data
12. Grants
Introduction: Contacts And Networking
1. Internet Networking
2. Finding People You Know
3. Finding People You Don't Know
4. Chat Rooms
5. Forums & Message Boards
6. Newsgroups
7. Mailing Lists
8. Networking Web Sites
9. A Category All Its Own
10. Miscellany
11. People At Their Business
12. E-mail
Introduction: Counseling, Testing & Advice
1. Online Job-Hunting Articles
2. Online Job-Hunting Guides
3. The Gateway Sites & More
4. Online Personality & Traits Tests
5. Online Careers Tests
6. Transferable Skills
7. Education
8. More Help: Career Counseling Offices
9. One-on-One Career Counseling
10. Offline Career Counseling
Introduction: Web Sites For Job Hunting Research
1. Geography/Moving/Where To Live
2. Identifying Careers
3. Salaries
4. Industry Research
5. Company Research
6. Company Research & Contact Info
7. Beyond Contact Information
8. More Specific Company Research
9. Self-Employed And Home Business
10. Part-Time, Contract, & Temporary Work
11. Non-Profits And Social Conscience
12. Work For Minorities
13. Work For Women
14. Work For The Disabled
Introduction: Job & Resume Sites
1. Resumes & Cover Letters
2. Portfolios
3. Job Boards: The Supersites
4. Job Boards: Job Search Engines
5. Job Boards: Regionals
6. Job Boards: The Networked Sites
7. Job Boards: College & Graduate Sites
8. Job Boards: Niche/Trade/Specialty
9. Job Boards: Diversity/Women/Disabled
10. Job Boards: Government
11. Job Boards: Contract & Temporary
12. Job Boards: Executive
13. Job Boards: International
14. Job Boards: Links To Job Boards
15. Job Boards: Articles About
16. Volunteering
Introduction: Job Hunting Online
1. Chapter One: Learn The Net
2. Chapter Two: Resumes
3. Chapter Three: The Job Boards
4. Chapter Four: Contacts And Networking
5. Chapter Five: Counseling And Testing
6. Chapter Six: Online Research
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Contacts and Networking
Introduction to Contacts and Networking
1 - Internet Networking
2 - Finding People You Know
3 - Finding People You Don't Know
4 - Chat Rooms
5 - Forums & Message Boards
6 - Newsgroups
2 - Finding People You Know
3 - Finding People You Don't Know
4 - Chat Rooms
5 - Forums & Message Boards
6 - Newsgroups
7 - Mailing Lists
8 - Networking Web Sites
9 - A Category All Its Own
10 - Miscellany
11 - People At Their Business
12 - E-mail
8 - Networking Web Sites
9 - A Category All Its Own
10 - Miscellany
11 - People At Their Business
12 - E-mail
A Category All Its Own
Craigslist
Craigslist describes itself as an "online community"; it's a good description. Originally started in the San Francisco Bay Area, craigslist has quickly grown into a series of Web sites in 48 U.S. cities, as well as in cities in Canada, the U.K., Ireland, and Australia. The site is nothing special to look at, but the minimalist approach fits it well; it is about function and getting the job done. Style is not the point. Instead, come here to look for a job, sell your dishwasher or buy a car, find where to catch some live music this weekend, join in discussion groups on a variety of subjects, find an apartment or meet that special person, register to vote; it is an online reflection of the places where we live. A community. More particularly, and somewhat redundantly, there is the "community" section (the site, you'll notice, doesn't really believe in upper case letters), which is a series of running forums on different subjects. You can use this community section to hook up with people in the same line of work, start a job club, look for investors for your new business, and so on; almost anything goes. Another section allows you to post, and look for, "gigs", which are typically one-day (or less) jobs. If you are still job-hunting when the savings run out, and need to pick up some short-term work - as well as look for something more permanent and make connections with people that can help - then craigslist is the place to go.