Tuesday, March 06, 2007
The Hunt continues
Been pretty busy signing up for all different kinds of job searching services and such. So far, I have tried Monster, Robert Haff, Texas workforce commission, and working on getting the Houston Chronicle for the classifieds. Anyone else have some other strategies to share? On the lighter side of things, I believe this is a good example of how to motivate a geek to work out.
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YOu know what is sad.. My friend and I were playing this Sims like game online yesterday. One of the aspect I can increase is the main characters "health". So later one when I went to the gym, I said to her "I am going to increase my health now". then today when I came to work, she asked "how is your health", I said "+5". -_-
I didn't have that much success with site like Monster, and mostly I just ended up getting spammed a lot.
The classifieds were OK, but what I mostly did was go to the employment pages of all the medium to large companies in the area and apply to every relevant job posting every day. It gave me something to do, and some sites update quite often. It's sorta like checking the AH every day.
Unfortunately, others rarely update. You learn pretty quickly which pages are the most useful. From what I've experienced, when managers go through the crap required to get a job posted, they often want to get someone in quickly; with this in mind, it's important to apply to a posting early.
But what if you are ranged DPS and you want to increase your +hit and you just end up playing video games all day?
I'm in agreement with Kabitzin; go directly to the company webpages and use their built-in system instead of the craptastic catchall ones. Of course, this only works if you have some specific companies in mind, based on industry type or location.
Monster used to be good when the internet was young, but now all companies just use their own recruitment pages on their own websites (unless they are REALLY small companies). Just cut out the middleman and get the first word from the company website.
I would check every company's page, even if you don't think they do what you want to do. For example, a company that makes moonkin feather pillows may still need a programmer or two on their staff.
Also of importance: many companies with good websites store your profile, so all you have to do is add new jobs to your "cart" each time you find a new one. Since it's so easy to apply to jobs, there's no point in not applying. Note some of them cap you at 10 per day... er, not that I would know...
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