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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
Miscellany
AllDomains
Whois Net
Weddle's Professional Associations
Maybe you don't know anybody at the company you are interested in, and you can't seem to come up with a contact there at all. Assuming the company has a Web site, you can, as a kind of last resort, plug the company's Web site URL into AllDomains' search engine. It looks through the database of domain registrations and returns basic data about the company, usually including an "administrative contact". If it's a large company, the administrative contact may be the same as the technical contact, which may be just an IT manager or a trusted programmer in the IT department; but for smaller companies, you may have just gotten the name and contact info for the head guy, or somebody close to him. When you get your search results, ignore the message about -This domain is taken - of course it's taken, you knew that. The data you want is in the scrollable box at page center. For some domain returns, you have to scroll past the "terms of use" cautions to get to the data you want.
Whois Net
Similar to AllDomains, sometimes Whois works better. Note that Whois.net is different from Whois.com. Whois.net has more features.
Weddle's Professional Associations
Where are you likely to find those who are doing what you want to do? This is an excellent list of professional associations, from the site of one of the masters of the job-hunt and the Web.