These are the voyages of the starship “Bachelor.” His or her continuing mission: to explore new job opportunities, to seek out new job experiences and new business contacts, to boldly go where no hardworking professional has gone before! …. (Cue in the Star Trek fanfare)
Actually, let’s be honest: it really isn’t the “new” frontier. Job searching on the net has been around for quite awhile now. But even in this economy, it’s still amazingly prevalent and popular enough to still be considered the “new frontier” in job development and the job market. If you’re fresh out of college and not perusing through any job sites online, you’ve got trouble. This is the new era; don’t be a Klingon! Achieve your prime directive and get on these sites right now….
- CareerBuilder.com
- Yahoo! Hotjobs.com
- Monster.com
- Indeed.com
- SimplyHired.com
- JobFox.com
Yes, it’s also true that these are only a shred of the many sites out there in the internet. You can even find jobs on your favorite social sites such as MySpace and Facebook. LinkedIn actually caters to the workforce specifically, too, with the added social connection networking benefit latent in the aforementioned sites in this paragraph.
You have a wealth of options to aid you in the search for your dream job. Make sure you set up accounts for each of these, and start searching. You never know what you might find–not to mention you’ll notice it’s a lot easier than having to send cover letters and resumes via snail mail–such a waste of paper and stamps, you know? E-mail indeed is a true miracle, and so are those handy