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10 Mar 08 Using Top Business Lists for market research and lead generation?

When I was looking for my first job out of college, and in many of my subsequent job searches, I’ve often looked at the top business lists for the area where I was looking.

The print editions of the Cincinnati Business Courier and Dayton Business Journal, for example, contain top 25 lists of various companies and individuals in various categories. It looks like these lists can be ordered online, too: here’s the link for Cincinnati Business Lists. From this link you can search other markets and categories, too.

As a job seeker, I’ve personally preferred to spend some time at my public library, searching their archived lists, instead of spending money on these lists.

Have you found these lists to be helpful?

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06 Mar 08 Any success in getting jobs through Craigslist?

Have any of you reading this blog had any experience using Craigslist to get a job? I know that the posts show an email address with which you can reply, but it’s a Craigslist email address. Usually company names are omitted in these postings.

I did see that you can subscribe to an RSS feed of search results in Google Reader or some other feed reader, which is pretty cool.

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18 Jan 08 Use JobMaps to find jobs where you want them

Here’s a nice mashup of Google Maps and several job boards, powered by Indeed: JobMaps.us

1. Enter what kind of job you’re looking for and where you’re looking.
2. Mouseover the results and the map will show its location.
3. Click on a job listing for more information on the job and how to apply and email the job listing to yourself if you want.

Note that the locations are approximate. For example, if the job location says “San Francisco”, then the pin in the map will point to the center of San Francisco – it’s actual location might be elsewhere.

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03 Jan 08 Tech Job Aggregator on Twitter

Do you use Twitter? You might know that I’m an avid user of it. I just noticed this tech job aggregator, which has a presence on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Joblighted

Also, if you’re into Ruby on Rails, you might want to consider following http://twitter.com/rornews

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29 Oct 07 Craigslist Job Seeker Killed

I firmly believe in using social media and new media tools in our job searches; tools like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Craigslist. These and several others make it easier than ever to connect with people.

Having said that, we still need to be careful, as Steven Rothberg from College Recruiter.com mentions:

Front page news in the Minneapolis newspapers over the past couple of days has been the killing of Katherine Ann Olson. While any murder is tragic, this one is noteworthy to employers and job seekers alike because it appears to be related to the victim’s use of Craiglist to find a nanny position.

Ms. Olson was looking for a nanny job. She had successfully used Craigslist before and so searched it again. She found an ad of interest responded. She told her roommate that she was going to meet the family from the ad. After she didn’t come home, police initiated a search and found her dead in the trunk of her car at a park in Burnsville, Minnesota late Friday night.

I believe in the power of meeting up face-to-face with others, but I also strongly believe that these meetings must occur in public places like food courts at shopping malls or coffee shops, especially when meeting up for the first time.

What about you? What do make of all this? Join the conversation below.

Update: Craigslist scam avoidance tips

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11 Sep 07 Add Google Alerts to your job hunting toolbelt

No, I haven’t left this blog dormant. In fact, nearly every day over the past month or so, I’ve thought about you who stop by to read. In case you are interested in where I’ve been, let me point you to this blog post: One Voice Walk 2007. I’ve spent the last month or so doing some online publicity work for that project.

Do you know about Google Alerts? They are one set of tools in your new media toolkit that can help you in your job search.

Google Alerts let you find out about new web pages on topics of interest. I have them set up for my own blog properties, my name, the names of others, and other projects, etc.

For a job search, you should set up Google Alerts for companies you are targeting. Alternatively, you could set up alerts to keep current on what’s going on in a particular career, especially if you’re looking to make a change.

You do need to have a Google account, which is free, in order to set these up.

What are some ways that you have been using Google Alerts?

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13 Jul 07 It’s A Mashup World for Job Seekers

Welcome to the world of mashups. I first came to understand that term as applied to mixing up different kinds of music when I started listening to podcasts back in July 2005. Now the term applies to mixing up all kinds of media, including feeds from different websites.

Have you heard of Yahoo! Pipes? This is a website that lets you set up and create your own mashups of information from different websites. For example, there’s a pipe that finds videos on YouTube related to items on the front page of the New York Times. Another pipes searches YouTube for music videos for the top 10 songs found on iTunes.
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An interesting thing about these pipes is that you can subscribe to the RSS feed in an aggregator such as Google Reader or Bloglines.

While browsing Yahoo! Pipes earlier today, I found some that others have created that relate to job searching. Check them out, and, by all means, use.

• Business Intelligence Jobs Pipe, search for any job, not just Business Intelligence
• craiglist – Nationwide Development Gigs (Top 20 cities)
• Diversity Working Jobs Search

What tools have you found useful to you in your job search? Let me know.

• iTunes Mashup picture via Mashup.Podcast
• yahoo pipes web2.0 mashup, originally uploaded by FSSE-INFO™

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08 Jul 07 A little link-love…

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I’ve noticed a number of interesting websites linking back here, lately:

• Open Future©: John S. Veitch from New Zealand includes this blog in a section entitled “People With Ideas” – I consider that a compliment.
• Work in Progress: Lisa Takeuchi Cullen is a New York-based staff writer for TIME. She writes about workplace trends. I’m encouraged to be among the blogroll.
• The Job Blog: A set of regularly updated links to jobs and career information from around the web, coming via the Boston Globe’s web site.
• Water Cooler Wisdom: Alexandra Levit’s up-to-the-minute career advice from one who has survived the trenches.
• Wired and Hired: written by recruiters to help professionals navigate changing jobs in marketing, p.r., and advertising careers.

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29 Jun 07 Test drive your dream job

This is interesting. One of my Twitter friends told me to check out Vocation Vacations.

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