Feature Article: How the Real-Time Web Changes Job Search: The Internet as One Giant Job Board
Special Feature: 10 Rules of a Good Job-Search
Quintessential Site: Featured Career Web Site of this Issue
Latest Additions: What's New on Quintessential Careers
Q TIPS: Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search
Editor's Note: About this Issue...
This is a special issue of QuintZine. With this issue, we've been producing this newsletter for 10 years.
That makes this the perfect issue for our Internet Job-Hunting Annual Report
since Internet job search is really what QuintZine and its parent site, Quintessential Careers, are all about.
Since our first issue in March 2001, we've grown from about 50 charter subscribers to
almost 8,000. We've never been sad about any subscribers we've lost along the way,
because when folks unsubscribe, it's often because they've found a job and don't need our advice anymore.
Our format has remained largely unchanged in the last decade. Our first issue featured an
article on the Web-based resume as just one tool in the job-seeker's toolbox -- not unlike our
advice in this year's annual report that job-seekers need a mix of online and offline techniques to
land a job. The Career Doctor column, which ran in that first issue and for six subsequent years, lives on in
archive
and blog
formats. Regular features in our inaugural issue that live on today are Site of the Issue (our first featured
site was Monster.com), What's New at QuintCareers, and Q-TIPS. Occasional features include our 5 Quick
Questions with a Career Expert and Quintessential Reading.
It has been our great pleasure over the last 10 years to bring you timely and important guidance for your job search
and career, such as our second feature in this Issue, on the 10 rules of a good job search.
Here's to the next 10 years of QuintZine!
--Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., Master Resume Writer, Credentialed Career Master,
Certified Electronic Career Coach, and editor at
kathy(at)quintcareers.com
Feature Article: Job-Hunting Annual Report
How the Real-Time Web Changes Job Search: The Internet as One Giant Job Board
A Quintessential Careers Annual Report 2010
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
When we left off last year, we were sounding the death knells for job boards. Evidence we've
gathered in the subsequent year still points to, at the very least, significant evolution and
change in job boards, and probably eventual extinction of their current form. But even as the job-board
realm continues to contract and consolidate, new wrinkles have emerged, such as plans
by Direct Employers to build thousands of new job boards using the .jobs domain.
More about that later in this report.
See our full
Annual Report
to view the major trends we've observed about Internet job-hunting in the past year.
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The bulk of the many emails I receive from job-seekers deal with frustrations caused from innocent errors or
omissions they unknowingly make in their job-searches. Letting valuable days pass while doing nothing toward
their job-search. Time -- countless hours -- wasted applying to far too many jobs posted online and hearing nothing back.
Posting resumes on a large number of job boards. Applying to jobs using a generic resume. Not understanding the
immense value of relationships and the power of networking. Blowing interview opportunities by making a bad first
impression or providing weak interview responses. Waiting days, weeks, and even months without following up.
The antidote to these and other common job-search
errors is to follow this article's 10 rules of a good
job-search. Following the 10 rules
will not guarantee your job-search success, but will reduce your frustrations and time wasted on fruitless
activities -- while directing you to the best and most efficient job-search techniques.
Find a Job, Post Your Resume -- on our Job Portal!
Even in a bad economy, there are still job postings and career opportunities!!
Go now to search for jobs, post your resume, build an online portfolio, receive career consultation,
and learn about continuing education opportunities.
LinkUp, featured in our 2010 Internet Job-Hunting Annual Report, is a job search engine that lists
only jobs taken directly from more than 20,000 company Web sites. LinkUp's approach is intended
to address the problems of stale openings (LinkUp claims its listings are always current), as well as
fake postings, work-at-home scams, and listings by recruiters, or staffing agencies (LinkUp promises
all its postings are from real companies). LinkUp also doesn't list the same job multiple times
from different sources.
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Job Space -- South African jobs portal, where
job-seekers can search job listings (by keyword, job category, location), post your CV, and register for email job-matching service.
No cost to job-seekers.
Jump2Jobs -- a global job site that only lists
job openings from companies, sending job-seekers directly to the employer's Website. You can search
or browse listings. Also includes some basic career advice. No cost to job-seekers.
TweetMyJobs -- with 8,000+ vertical job channels
segmented by geography, job type, and industry, this site is able to connect employers and recruiters
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job opportunities and internships. No cost to job-seekers.
Find even more career and job site additions to Quintessential Careers by visiting our
Latest Additions section.
Find Your Career Future. Learn More About Yourself
Career Maze is designed to help every job seeker, at every level, make smarter
career choices. Individualized to reflect your unique personality and written in
"plain English," it is thorough and easy to complete.
Once completing the assessmemt, your 2-part report includes:
A specific, career-relevant discussion of your workplace personality
A list of job types compatible with your personality
Career Maze encourages you to think about tapping your full potential to find your future.
Q TIPS:
Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
If you're in job search mode, you should create a binder," writes career coach Ford Myers, "-- your
very own Career Transition Binder. I've found that there are two types of job seekers: those who create
a binder to keep track of all their networking, interviewing, career documents, lists, and contacts in one place
-- and those who don't."
Myers goes on: "Guess which group tends to make more progress, get more interviews, land great jobs
more quickly, and negotiate better deals? Yup -- the binder people!
"Think you can track and manage all this information 'electronically' -- on your Smart Phone, PDA or Netbook?
Think again! I've had plenty of technology-savvy clients try to do this, but it never works. They ALWAYS wind up
using a paper-based organization system, in the form of their own Career Transition Binder.
"Your Career Transition Binder will help keep you organized and allow you to know where everything is. Think of it as
'Command Central' for your entire career transition campaign. After all, you need to take your career transition as seriously
as any REAL job you're ever going to have. Treat it like a work project!"
Are you spending enough time on your job search? Probably not if you're like most
job-seekers. Citing the U.S. Department of Labor, Donna Sweidan notes that "job-seekers are at it
for approximately 18 minutes a day" and are thus "operating at about 25 percent capacity." If you are
unemployed, job-hunting needs to be as close to a full-time job as you can possibly make it. Sweidan
offers a Job Search Savvy Test
to help you see if you're doing enough of what it takes to land a job.
Executive career coach Rita Ashley has taken some heat for exposing a nasty, dirty secret of the job-search
world: Age discrimination is alive and kicking. She interviewed hiring decision-makers who admit to age bias and provide
their rationale. Some of their reasons:
Workers with many years of experience (say 25+) are likely to rely on old expertise.
Mature workers are more likely to sue if they are fired.
Mature workers don't put in the long hours that are sometimes needed.
Mature workers don't always adapt well to newer technologies and processes.
Mature workers are slow to make decisions.
Mature workers sometimes lack energy and enthusiasm.
Quintessential Careers Press Announces Our Latest Book: The Quintessential Guide to
Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media.
The
Quintessential Guide to Job Search 2.0: Advancing Your Career Through Online Social Media,
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D., and Randall S. Hansen, Ph.D., provides six chapters to guide you
through the next revolution in online job search. Since job boards, vestiges of the first
revolution in online job search, should still be part of the job-seeker's toolkit, this
book helps you navigate those while also considering the future of job boards. The book
looks at building your personal brand, teaches you to make the most of social-media venues
in the job search, guides you in creating a digital presence, suggests you consider blogging,
and discusses ways to integrate multimedia elements into your job search.
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QuintZine: Topics in Upcoming Issues
WATCH FOR feature articles on these topics in upcoming issues of QuintZine:
* Entrepreneurship Quiz
* Warning Signs You Won't Like Your Next Employer
* Contrasting Good and Bad Job-Search Techniques
* New Grads: Roadmap to Work and Play
* Working Night Shifts/Odd Shifts
* Tips for Dealing with Office Politics
* De-Stressing Before an Interview
* More Cover-Letter Components
* Empty Nest Job-seekers
* How to Stay Motivated at Work
* Quintessential Career Profiles of YOU, our readers
* Q&As with well-known career experts
* Book reviews
. . . and much, much more...
