10 Links to Make Your Job Search Wi-Fi Ready - CareerAlley

10 Links to Make Your Job Search Wi-Fi Ready - CareerAlley We may receive compensation when you click on links to products from our partners. Flashback to 30 years or so and the world was a very different place.The Internet as we know it today did not exist and there was no such thing as a smartphone.Wi-Ficertainly did not exist and many of us rememberthe early Internet days with dial-ups. Jobsearch has gone through a similar change. The days of pounding the pavement are gone and replaced with pounding the keyboard. No matter what your age, if you are looking for ajob, the Internet is your main portal into the many tools thatyou must use today. Job Search Boards: SimplyHired.com This site is different from most of the others as it searches across companies and other job boards. There were over 500,000Finance jobs and 600,000 Operations Jobs when I checked the site. Filters are on the left hand side of the page as well as keyword refinement options. Top of the page has links for local jobs, salary trends and employment trends. Save your searches here too. Indeed.com Hard to believe, general search on this site returned more than 1,000,000 jobs (sounds like a lot to me). Similar to some of the other job search sites, you can refine your search by putting a location in at the top, or use one of the many refinements on the left hand side of the page. Top of the page has links for forums, salaries and trends. Networks: Five Strategies for Leveraging Your Online Social Networks Beyond your usual use of social networks, this article (from QuintCareers.com) outlines a few strategies for leveraging your social networks. Most are common sense, but you may not think about them until you read them in the article. The first strategy, Be Selective, is great advice in terms of who you might use for recommendations, but Im not sure I agree if you are looking for people who can provide leads. There is additional advice on the right hand sidebar regarding Twitter which is worth a read as well. Dont forget to visit their Art of Career Networking section as well. How to Leverage Social Networking to Get Your Next Job This article, posted ontheladders.com provides some tips and comments and links. Keep in mind, the article is not only talking about leveraging social networks, but your entire online presence. This is somewhat akin to my advice getting as many people as possible to know you are in the job market (my Job Search Marketing Toolkit). Smartphone Apps: LinkedIn Goes Mobile This article, by Alison Doyle of About.com covers the LinkedIn mobile version. This is a mobile web based version of LinkedIn, which means that it is smartphone web friendly. The article gives a better explanation then Ive just given and also provides additional related links. Mobile Web Job Search Following through on the topic raised in the prior link, Ive listed popular job search sites that have mobile, iOS, Android and Facebook apps for job search: Apps for Job Searching Job Search Facebook Apps Snagajob iOS, Android Careerbuilder Job Search Android Top 25 Must-Have iPhone Apps for Your Job Search Good luck in your search. Joey Trebif