Free online resources to support your job search. Presented 4.4.2012 to the Salt Lake City Job Club.

1. Data  Information
for Your Job Search
Amy L. Adler
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801-810-JOBS

2. One of My Favorites…

3. What Do We Do with the
Internet?
Get information. Give information.

4. More than That,
We Curate
Information
Content curation = selection
and presentation of content in a
way that adds value.
You have to know how to take
what is important and relevant
from what is simply available.

5. Curate Your Outbound Data:
Manage Your “Digital Dirt”
You’re already doing a lot of this with your
 Email domain and name
 Resume, if you post it online (pros and cons)
 LinkedIn profile
 Email signature
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Digg
 Vizibility

6. How Do You Curate the
Information Available for
Inbound Job Search Research?
 Develop a list of trusted sources—but how do you measure
signal-to-noise?
 Ask, comment, and answer—you’ll get a good feel for which
websites are trustworthy and which are junk. In addition to
having some name brand recognition, real web sites
 Are written in solid English.
 Contain complete articles, not excerpts.
 Are updated regularly.
 Might or might not have high Google PR value.
 Have lots of backlinks to them.

7. Online Resources for Your Job
Search
Data Blogs
Apps

8. Indeed.com: More than Just a
Job Search Aggregation Site

9. Indeed.com Trends

10. Indeed.com—Best Places to
Work

11. Google
 Do more than search for companies
 Search for the kind of company you want to work for
 For example, if you’re looking for a company that is
growing, search on:
grows|growing.operations|facilities|campus
Where | = or and . = and
 Keywords you can use: series, round (for funding), top
companies, fastest growing (industry), wins deal, receives
contract

12. O*Net --
http://www.onetonline.org/
 Learn about a job title to
prepare your resume, get
ready for your interview,
prepare for a promotion.
 You’ll have good keywords
to insert into your
resume/application
 You’ll know how to answer
questions about how you’d
handle specific situations.

13. O*Net: Search on Skills
 Find job titles related to the ones you had in mind

14. Monster.com—Not Just a Job
Board
 Company.monster.com

15. LinkedIN: More than
Networking
Search on UPDATES
for places, job function,
and more.

16. GlassDoor.com: Social Media
and Information Mixture

17. Where the Jobs Are: Apps
that Help
 LinkedIn
 Monster.com
 CareerBuilder.com
 LinkUp.com (only company
sites)
 Indeed.com
 Craigslist
 A million other text-based
help-oriented/how-to apps.

18. Useful Job Search Productivity
on the Go
 SimpleNote—Record key
pieces from your interview;
type them in your car,
download your notes when
you get home.
 LunchMeet (networking—
meet people in your area)
 ScanBizCards (keep your
data in one place)

19. Blogs that Inform Your Job
Search
 Careerient.com—Utah focus, global applicability
 Diggings—synthesizes Department of Labor information
 Guerrilla Job Hunting—Part of the Guerrilla Marketing
franchise
 Personal Branding Blog—Dan Schawbel
 Workbloom—resume samples
 My two favorites
 Ask the Headhunter
 CareerRocketeer (the blog itself and its blogroll)

20. Crowdsourcing
 What are your favorite resources?

21. Download This Presentation
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22. Data  Information
for Your Job Search
Amy L. Adler
Inscribe / Express
801-810-JOBS