Provides job seekers with techniques to gain access to potential employers electronically, including information on how to get a résumé into a database, job hotlines, computer-driven and video conferencing, and databases for designing employer lists.

A concise, comprehensive guide to the emerging electronic recruitment industry. Reflects phenomenal shifts in the job market occurring literally as you read these pages. Features advice, suggestions and tips from human resources, software and database specialists on how to use computer resume databases, employment-tracking software and video text recruitment ads. Includes dozens of company names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers.

The most complete guide to job finding on the Internet—for beginners and old computer hands alike HOOK UP, GET HIRED! New methods to expand your job search and reach more potential employers—in your backyard or miles away Find out how to look for jobs and market your resume through electronic mailing lists, newsgroups, and bulletin boards Learn from the experiences of real people who found jobs on the Internet Just in time—the Internet, a part of the information highway, has arrived to help you find a job in the leaner, meaner '90s. The fastest-growing gold mine for job searchers in history, the Net—used by tens of millions of people—offers hundreds of new job resources. This book shows you how to be a job success across town or across a continent. Don't be left behind. Learn about a new kind of marketplace for job finding from America's favorite careers columnist, Joyce Lain Kennedy: Internet experience not required View 100,000+ online job ads; search by career field Put your resume where countless employers can see it Manage your career like a pro with the ultimate in networking Prepare for interviews by researching companies via the Net Make your resume Internet-friendly Send free e-mail anywhere in the world Save time and money with special "autopilot" Net tips Become a consultant or find freelance assignments using Internet savvy Why wait? Hook Up and Get Hired!

Shows how to put together a resume that will grab the attention of both computer and human readers in today's evolving electronic job search universe

Answers such questions about writing resumes as: Electronics is "in". Is paper "out"? What are the keywords at the center of the new resume? Now that computers read and evaluate resumes, is it still useful to personalize mine? How do I perform my resume in front of a video camera?

New-style job messages that get you in the door and on your way up From sparkling cover letters to six-word bios, a fresh bevy of job search letters has grown powerfully useful for successful career communications. Job Search Letters For Dummies delivers the quality of New Era know-how you need right now to land good jobs and thrive. Whether you’re a long-time professional or a recent college graduate — or somewhere in between — Job Search Letters For Dummies has you covered. Job Search Letters For Dummies covers the gamut of leading-edge topics, including effective strategies for internal career communications on topics such as raises, promotions, and position changes; rules for communicating professionally with texts and networking on social media platforms such as twitter and LinkedIn; fresh and updated communication phrases to voice accomplishments and make job-fit statements; post-interview etiquette and letters such as thank-yous, "hire me" reinforcement notes, interest revival queries; and much more. Get hired with 40 types of job letters Create short messages for a smartphone world Network on social media sites Model best letters more than 200 pro samples Whether you’re a long-time professional or a recent college graduate — or somewhere in between — Job Search Letters For Dummies has you covered. A note to job seekers from nationally syndicated careers columnist and author or Job Search Letters For Dummies, Joyce Lain Kennedy: Welcome aboard, job seekers! Thanks for checking out this first guide to communications-supported job search and career growth in relentlessly changing technological times. The right messaging — what you say, why you say it, and when you say it — is as important today to your employment goals as it has been at any time since Leonardo da Vinci wrote the first professional resume in 1482. Consider recent job–finding history: In 1986 fax machines and postal mail were the most popular ways to send resumes and cover letters. In the 1990s the Internet boom kicked in with new tools to connect jobs and people: e-mail, websites, cell phones, mailing lists, and online bulletin boards. In the 21st century the double-time march of recruiting technology skyrocketed, building a techno-swamp populated with endless ideas of how to connect work and people through smartphones, wonder tablets, apps, and social media for virtual networking. You’re competing in a new world of work out there. If your job search is treading water — or even drowning— there’s a better way. Make a splash! Engage hiring authorities through a communications-centered campaign with smart content.

Career Planning and Job Searching in the Information Age answers key questions for today?s providers of career-planning and job-searching information. Librarians and career development professionals’concerns--such as cost-effective use of the Internet, the reliability and integrity of electronic resources, and successful search strategies--are addressed in this comprehensive collection. In this follow-up to Library Services for Career Planning, Job Searching and Employment Opportunities (1992), real-life methods used by information providers to reduce costs and improve quality of service through a better understanding of today?s technology and audience needs and expectations are shown. Readers learn about: issues and ethics in the electronic environment job searches conducted on the World Wide Web a university placement office?s gopher site for 24-hour access to job information a university library and career service department?s collaboration on job search seminars how a public library fit electronic job searching into its mission an alumnae network?s evolution into a national career development organization Career Planning and Job Searching in the Information Age presents a broad base of knowledge from which readers are launched into tightly focused case studies offering details on how to deal with the issues of technology and service. This book makes it clear that in the ever-changing world of information technology, there is little room for the status quo. Professionals who don’t learn about electronic resources risk missing out on a wealth of up-to-the-minute information that is infinitely useful to patrons planning a career or searching for a job. Library professionals just beginning to address these issues, professionals already possessing a general knowledge of these issues, and students of library science and career development will all benefit from this collection.