The Internet has made employment in the 21st century an activity that unifies all members of society, whether you have just left school, college, university, or are assessing other possible career pathways or opportunities, which are different to your current position. These processes however can be time consuming, and the information the user gains can often be inappropriate, or too basic/specific in its findings, making it difficult to know for some users where to begin searching for jobs or career options.
The best way to counter-act this is to start choosing websites like doctorjobs.com, Career-ahead.co.uk or Topjobs.com, which will help provide you with interesting and easy-on-the-eye job information, with career tips and links to other web sites concerning job searching. This will allow you to cover a broad, yet varied database of job information and actual jobseeking, meaning you can become more specific in your pursuit of employment as time goes on, and you become more aware of the options open to you. If you are unsure and wish to seek advice, websites usually provide career guidance councilors online or ëagony auntí services allowing any specific questions you have to be answered directly and promptly.
Users may also be interested in the networking possibilities the discussion group websites have, as a compliment to the job banks and resumes/CV databases most companies on the web offer. The Internet is also an excellent medium for finding out about job opportunities abroad (see our networking database on www.onrec.com for possible sites that may aid you in your search).
The main piece of information I have found useful is that when looking or researching possible vacancies or career options, try not to limit your ideas. Use as many different search engines as you can in order to see new websites you (and therefore other potential jobseekers) might not have heard of (www.google.com is a very good website to start with).
If you have a specific job or career in mind, try entering or looking for jobs specifically in these alternate search engines. You will be amazed at how many websites there are designed for your particular choices that you may have missed by looking at web pages which provide information on too general a scale. Websites also tend to offer precise company profiling and information that will prove useful in interviews or assessing its problems and benefits to you as a potential employee. Once you start to explore the wide range of possible websites and information created specifically for you in mind, you will be able to find it an unconventional, efficient, and cost effective means of job researching.
Emma Knuckey
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