Learning the Ropes of how to Look for Jobs Online

If you are someone who likes to look on the bright side of things, all the choice you are given in the job market  now that just about every job on the planet is on a job board that you can easily access, must really make you happy. If you're the kind who looks at a glass and sees it half empty, you'll probably see that now that every applicant has a resume on Monster.com, the employers have an infinitely large pool of candidates to choose from too and that you are going to have to compete in a much tougher field. Since there are way more applicants who  look for jobs online than there are companies with positions to offer them, the job boards in general don't really have a great reputation with the hiring managers. To them, there are so many potential applicants to pick from, it can be quite a task narrowing it down. For job seekers who look for jobs online though, there are a few ways by which the competition can be overwhelmed.

A resume is so 20th century these days. What you need to catch a hiring manager's interest today is an entire website with information about you, about what you do, with examples of your work and that talks about where you wish to take your career in the future. It'll be kind of like a LinkedIn profile or a Facebook profile, only much bigger and much better. To look for jobs online isn't just about doing the same thing that everyone else is doing; it is all about finding new ways to wow a hiring manager. And a move like this certainly fits the bill.

While the hiring managers are on Google or Bing trying to locate your website, they are also going to try to call you up on a search just to see what they can turn up. You should probably do this yourself before you apply, to see if there's anything unflattering that Google unearths about you. If there is anything like that, you probably want to see what you can do to limit the damage potential of it. You could either contact the website that publishes the information that you find disturbing and ask them if they could consider taking it down, or you could speak to a search engine expert for ideas on how to push those search results off the first page.

How do most people who look for jobs online go about their search? They go straight to a job board and apply there, of course. What you could do differently is, you could go directly to the website of the company in question, and apply right on the website. Every corporate website offers to accept candidate profiles on a form on one of their pages. Even better would be planning to visit all the trade websites frequented by people who specialize in your industry, and making yourself heard on their forums. The more contacts you make this way, the wider your network will be in your industry. And the better will be your chances.