Learn where to focus your time for your online job search. We review the different types of job sites and look at alternate ways to find jobs on the web: mailing lists, social media Discussion of some of the social media sites that can help you find jobs and build your network.

1. Searching the Web for Your Next Job Noah Wolfe, Digital Media Consultant Washington, DC - 2010

2. Where to Search How to Search How to Use Social Media in Your Search This Presentation

3. Great Sites: Craigslist.com LinkedIn.com Good: Indeed.com WashingtonPost.com/jobs Difficult: Monster.com CareerBuilder.com General Job Sites

5. Discovery Channel http://careers.discovery.com/ U.S. Senate/U.S. Congress Hospital Jobs Hospital web sites Company Specific

6. Don’t focus on job titles You and your future employer may use different words for the same job Search for keywords Use words from your list of skills e.g. “YouTube” not “social media strategist” Run Location Based Searches Create “Search Agents” Emails you search results at regular intervals Search Tips!

7. Red Flags Protect you information Do not send information to questionable sites Do not pay for access to questionable job listings Do not respond to anonymous contacts that want to interview you “Work from home sales job” Beware of Scams

8. Good for finding jobs in a specific industry Moderated Often run by helpful people Ask questions of the moderator May have additional community features Mailing Lists

9. Brad Traverse http://www.bradtraverse.com/ NOI jobs http://www.neworganizing.com/resources/jobs http://groups.google.com/group/noi-jobs ParnasaFest http://groups.google.com/group/parnasafest-jobs/topics Mailing Lists

10. How Social Media Can Help

11. Key to your job search Public Resume References Your Network/Rolodex Public Status Jobs Listings Join Groups Local, Job Specific Alumni Associations http://Linkedin.com

13. Find local groups related to your industry

14. Join the community

15. Group may have a mailing list, forums

16. Attend happy hours, networking events

17. Follow up with an email, on LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.http://MeetUp.com

19. Set up searches

20. Follow job listing accounts

21. e.g. @SocialMediaJob

22. Network

23. Follow people, talk, ask questions

24. Tweet

25. Share information you find, live tweet events

26. Use hashtags. e.g. #jobs

27. Stay current on your industry’s trendshttp://twitter.com

29. Tweetdeck

30. Hootsuite.com

31. Automated Searches

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