5 Tips on How to Do the Daunting and Equally Challenging Task of an Employment Search

It can be a daunting experience, for many reasons,visitors to their sites, but they are-unlike a lot of
to do an employment search. Equally challenging, youadvertising that drives us nuts-most valuable sources.
might feel, is the employment search you do online.Besides plugs for doo-dads and stuff to buy or pay
You might have caught on by now to Craigslist, but iffor, they have advice columns, special interest
not-or if you want to extend the search-you eithersections, and calls for experts/job announcements.
start there and/ then consider the many kinds ofAnd they are free! I subscribe to five different
networks and job banks and boards that fit your skillnewsletters for writers. Because of those, and
sets, income needs, and other particulars. This canbecause I read every little box, frame, passage,
get intense. Employment searches can lead you toentry in every one, I have garnered about 50% of
agencies, advice, and attitudes you feel overwhelmedthe job/gig leads I followed up on and landed. 4) GO
by. Breathe. There's a way to "narrow" your search,DIRECTLY to the SOURCE Well, sort of directly. The
making efforts pay off, literally and figuratively. Now,newsletter editor is the one who runs a site that
as a freelance writer, I access specific banks andcenters on your field. Visit the website. (Don't gloss
boards, but my example will hopefully help you clarifyover the many links that say "click here", in other
your own employment search process. 1) COMPANYwords, no matter how many filters you have up to
and LOCATION SEARCHES Find job boards thatvisually block all that linkage.) Those same writer
have updated classified for employment in your areanewsletters have vested interest (creative,
and in major companies you might be interested inintellectual, financial) in doing the same work you are
working with. For the Bay Area, for instance, Tribemaking an employment search for, and typically
(sanfrancisco.tribe.net) features a search engine andfeature a job board exclusively for professionals in
drop-down menu to look for jobs by company andyour field. A daily newsletter with writing leads also
category (field). Considering your area of expertise,features high-paying and low-paying (ugh) job
find the companies who employ your type, and visitsections on the parent site, In fact, besides a super
their help wanted/employment search/seeking XYZarchive of articles on writing, the site is primarily one
pages. For example, I consult many sites-like Pearsongreat, great (in size and quality) job bank. I have
Education-- belonging to publishers, visit theirgotten at least 25% of my gigs there. 5) OPTION:
employment/jobs section, and look from there forNETWORKERS Just as many other professionals care
any gigs I might be good for. 2) CAREER SEARCHESenough about humans in the workforce and getting
That is, for example, if you are a journalist, seekthem into that workforce that they have built
journalist, press, news, magazine, periodical ads atbusinesses to connect employers with employees
such places as NewsJobs.net, which offers postingsand free agents with clients. Yes, they usually cost
for NewsJobs in the U.S., NewsJobs in Canada, andsomething, so you might want to be the kind of
NewsJobs in the U.K.. In the same respect, when youperson who believes that it takes money to make
do an employment search on a major search enginemoney. But many are quite successful at what they
and are typing in different and varied words anddo. I have-in my reading and employment searching
phrases, be as thorough and thoughtful as you can. Ifand career developing hours-read many accounts of
you are a carpenter, look for more than justhow beneficial these networks are...networks such as
carpenter jobs. Type in all the variations you canScriptLance.com, Guru.com, ELance.com, for specific
think of for the word carpenter-"carpentry," "builder,"types, and, for general sources, such network
"building," "construction"-and all the different wordssolutions planners as Careers.com, HotJobs.com,
you can think of for jobs-"careers," "help wanted,"JobSeeker, and Jobvertise will work for you and with
"needed," "places for." I found, for instance, a greatyou to find you a job in your area of expertise,
publication called Places for Writers, which is not denslocation, emotional and intellectual setting, and income
and coffee shops and what we would likely first thinkbracket. Of course, the other 25% of my income
of when we read the word "places", but which iscomes from doing my own employment search
places calling for submissions. 3) SUBSCRIBE toelsewhere: in-person networking, word-of-mouth (be
NEWSLETTERS in YOUR FIELD Newsletters are onegood at what you do every time you do it!), and, of
of the greatest cogs in the Internet machine. Theycourse, the beneficent, beneficial, benefiting and
are used by webmasters and web mistresses to getfitting Craigslist!!!!