The air is brisk with winter's approach and for many here in the Capital District it's a time, once again, to find a job. Yes, as surely as January follows December, the approaching start of a new calendar year finds many employers giving pink slips just before or right after Christmas.
This time around, though, skip the help wanted ads and start searching the Internet -- you just might be able to find gainful employment by New Year's Eve.
The best place to start a search for work on the Net is aservice maintained by Ohio State University called the Business Job Finder. In addition to the help you can get from this site, it also lists no less than 58 other great sites, many of which have respectable listings for opportunities in many professions. It also connects to 13 different university career centers.
The Business Job Finder breaks into Accounting, Commercial Banking, Corporate Finance, Insurance, Real Estate, and several other specifiic related categories. These categories also have links to a few employer home pages to help you learn more about a specific company and to get advice on getting into business school. If you're beyond that stage, go to the Job Search sites and start exploring.
The Monster Board is another great resource, not just because it has a database of more than 5,000 jobs but because it contains a great tutorial for putting together an online resume. You can comb the database with the Career Search feature, which allows, in an easy to navigate format, different kinds of search filters.
Career Mosaic is one of the better resources out there. Whereas most jobs to be found on the Internet focus on technical jobs -- UNIX programmers, IS managers, and the like -- Career Mosaic appears to have the greatest variety in its professional database.
HelpWanted is quite good. HelpWanted has a terrific database of listings and a good search engine.
There are many other sites out there to search filled with all manner of jobs so good luck to you. |
