Book Description
Job seekers and employers will benefit from this extensive directory of Web-based professional associations and societies. Research indicates that some of the best employees and exciting job opportunities can be found on websites dedicated to these associations and societies, and this guide's comprehensive list of more than 1,900 such associations from around the world ensures that readers can find them. Each listing indicates whether the association offers a job board, a resume database, and a discussion forum, and the sites are organized by career field, industry, and geographic location in order to maintain the searches' focus. This ideal resource for college career centers, recent college graduates, and mid-career professionals in transition also includes updated information provided at the WEDDLE's website.
Book Description
This unique book reveals over 1,000 websites of special interest to anyone seeking an international job. Includes practical information on key steps in conducting an effective job search.
Book Description
Picking up where his bestseller (over 55,000 sold) 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions left off, Matthew DeLuca along with Nanette DeLuca take job seekers to the next level of job-search effectiveness by arming them with more valuable lessons, tips, and rules for acing any interview. Emphasizing the interpersonal aspects of the interview process, they draw on their unique experiences as job placement professionals to provide powerful insights into what interviewers look for in a job seeker and how to give it to them. Organized around question categories for quick-reference, and packed with real-life success stories and the candid observations of job placement professionals, this book tells readers what they need to know about: - How to stand out from the rest and get an interview - Understanding the rationale behind different types of questions - Fielding “curve balls,” stress producers, and illegal questions - Mastering the virtual interview
Customer Reviews:
The first book was much, much better........2005-11-06
If you have already read the first book "Best Answers...", and you read it carefully, you are not likely to find the sequel to be of the same value. I noticed the second book has a co-author, and you can feel it from the text. The new 201 questions are quite plain and are not as interesting or challenging as the first 201 in the first book.
There is a lot in the text that is just common knowledge. I also found some questionable advices. Chapter 2 "how to get interviews" tells you to find phone numbers of line managers and call them directly asking for an interview. If you are a professional with experience seeking for a senior position, I doubt you would be hired this way. I think it shows disrespect to the managers' busy schedule.
Chapters 6 and 7 are trying to give you some basics on how to prepare for an interview. You can find information on it of about the same quality in almost every interviewing book. There are also other books that are doing it better.
Overall, an OK book (I've seen worse), but don't expect it to be as thrilling as the first one. Oh, well... That's pretty typical for a sequel.
You can also read my review for the first book.
Insightful!.......2002-07-08
This comprehensive, smart book gives you the basics on how to get a job interview, perform well at the interview, end the interview and even negotiate the terms of your benefits if you're hired. The authors raise and provide answers to several hundred questions - some of them painfully obvious, but some of them pretty tough, like "Why do you have that felony conviction?" We from getAbstract have the 202nd question: If you're applying for a job, why haven't you already read this?
Book Description
“Simply the best thing in print on the subject of using the Internet in your job search.”-Richard N. Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?
Co-published in association with the world-renowned Public Library Association, the Guide to Internet Job Searching explores the Web's most comprehensive and informative resources, taking you beyond Monster.com and online newspaper ads-while showing you how to best use all the best resources available.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent book - great advice and extensive resources.......2006-10-30
I think this is the 4th or 5th version of this book which is updated every 2 years (or so). They are always excellent!
The Guide to Internet Job Searching is focused on helping people to leverage the Internet and the Web for job search. You'll find very thorough and thoughtful explanations of how to use different technologies, including warnings - with advice - about dangers you may be facing. Then, you'll find an extensive and detailed directory of job search resources, organized into logical and useful categories.
Practical, "actionable" advice, and up-to-date resources. Great combination!
A very useful book.......2006-04-05
I thought this book was very helpful. Of course, it is always easier to find jobs through your own personal and professional networks, but if you don't have that, internet searching is a good way to go. This book has many links available for jobs, internships and coops, and .... It also has job sites categorized by state and that was particularly helpful to me.
Overall, I recommend this book to anybody who's looking to find a job by using the internet.
Book Description
Going beyond prior editions, Targeting the Job You Want, 3e, includes complete information and advice on using the internet to find out about industries, research companies, and identify key decision makers. This edition delves into strategies and tips for online research that can help the user develop job targets, become an "industry insider", discover new opportunities never thought of , and network more quickly and more efficiently than ever before. Written by Kate Wendleton, syndicated career columnist, Targeting the Job You Want, 3e, will help the user identify their dream, make it specific and learn the steps needed to achieve it.
Customer Reviews:
A Good Resource.......2001-12-28
A very good resource for these crazy times of frequent job changes. Kate Wendleton is right on the money when she states that most people will have up to fifteen jobs and five careers in their working lives.
Many of the exercises are quite helpful. The seven stories analysis can tune one in on some hidden talents. The Special Interests List can certainly clue one in and where a person can direct his or her job search. Satisfiers/Disasitifers, 40 Year Vision, and Ideal Scene Worksheets if nothing else can put a frustrated job seeker in a good mood and re-invigorate some badly needed focus.
The sections on job targeting are indeed helpful. This sections works with geographic issues as well as industry and job function matters as well. Company attributes and personal attributes are a detailed level are discussed quite well here.
The research sections and internet listings cap off a wonderful resource for anyone in the midst of a career change. Kate Wendleton even sells her services in an appropriate way without an excessive amount of hype. I will most certainly read through Wendleton's other books, Interviewing And Salary Negotiation as well as Getting Interviews. Kate is most certainly in tune with todays ever changing employment market.
Insightful!.......2001-03-27
The mantra has been repeated so often that it's become a cliché: Worker loyalty has disappeared, making every job temporary. Author Kate Wendleton repeats the obvious facts about the increasingly transient work force, but goes beyond the apparent as she supplies inventive ways to approach your career decisions. Her most intriguing suggestion is that you should use a "Seven Stories Approach" to develop your "Forty-Year Vision." The stories help you discover what you're really passionate about so you can build a long-term vision to guide you meaningfully through your career. While the book is repetitious at times, it offers useful examples of job hunters who used Wendleton's tactics to improve their careers. We [...] recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a fresh approach to career change, and to human resource professionals who want to know how applicants are (or should be) thinking.
Can take you from a frozen standstill to a heavy jog in 1 wk.......1999-02-13
So many great exercises and techniques to help people focus and find what they want to do. Once focused, there are helpful guides to getting interviews, writing resumes, turning interviews into offers, and then negotiating the offers. Above all, however, it really helped to lay out long term goals. My next step doesn't have to be the "dream job", it just needs to get me closer to my long term goals. Frankly, I am not prepared for my long term goals yet - but at least now I have them!
Book Description
The immediacy of the Internet, the accessibility of books, and the experience of About.com Guides are all at your fingertips in this dynamic how-to series!
It's about...getting the advice you need to get the job you want!
Trapped by today's tough job market? Expert Alison Doyle has you covered! The About.com Guide to Job Searching gives you all the information you need to make the right connections, take the necessary steps, and make yourself stand out. With Alison's help, you can start achieving your career goals today! With this authoritative guide, you'll learn how to:
Choose the right career path for you.
Use the best methods for managing your job search.
Apply resume and cover letter techniques guaranteed to get you noticed.
Know where to search for jobs in your field.
Discover inside tips for networking and interviewing.
From writing a good resume and locating the best search engines to what to do when you get an interview, The About.com Guide to Job Searching gives you all you need to land the career of your dreams.
The About.com Guide to Job Searching also includes four types of special features with informative tips and advice:
Ask Your Guide: Alison's expert answers to your toughest job search questions
Tools You Need: Information about researching, purchasing, and using various job search tools and resources
Elsewhere on the Web: Alison's other favorite job search Web sites
What's Hot: The hottest job search trends and tips out there
Plus, you can link back to the About.com Job Searching site for even more information:
A unique Get Linked section at the end of each chapter lists helpful links back to About.com.
Alison's About.com forum offers you the opportunity to post questions, get answers, and trade secrets with other job searchers.
Links to job listings, networking resources, and sample resumes and cover letters that help you get ahead of the competition.
Customer Reviews:
Job Searching.......2007-03-16
I'm glad I bought this book, it is very informative and it applies to anyone. The web links on the sides of the pages are very useful and can be put to good use. Searching for a job can be daunting and overwhelming, but with the advice and the skills learned in this book you can persevere and be successful. This book is very well thought out and gets right to the point, I would recommend this to anyone who is searching for a job, including skeptical people.
Has all the answers.......2006-11-22
I am about to leave a career that I've worked at for 38 years. This wonderful book arrived just in time for my second career search. When you only know one job it can be hard to know how to find a new career. I can honestly say that now I have several opportunities that I'm ready to explore. This book offers help and advice for everyone, no matter what their age or work situation. I am going to purchase several copies for my friends, some want to work for the first time, and others would like to start new careers. This is the book for all of us!!! Sandy ( a retired teacher from NJ )
Practical, up-to-date advice, very useful book!.......2006-10-30
The Internet and Web keep changing, and as [...] Job Search editor since 1998, Alison Doyle knows what is going on and she shares her knowledge in this book. This book is up-to-date and extensive, and Alison's advice is straight-forward and practical (just like her section of About).
The book is an easy read - points and additional resources are highlighted in the outer margins, chapters and sections are clear and logical. It covers everything from "Choosing Career and Job Options" (Chapter 1) through resumes and cover letters to interviews and evaluating offers (Chapter 14) and more.
This is an excellent book!
Most Helpful Job Searching Guide.......2006-10-22
The About.com Guide to Job Searching should be an instant classic in the world of job searching books. What makes the book special is that the writer, Alison Doyle combines her years of experience as a career services professional with current, solid Information Technology knowledge. That's a winning combination for today's job searcher who is Internet savvy and technology-oriented. Unlike some of the long selling job search manuals that seem to have added online job searching as an afterthought, Doyle's book makes online tools, job boards, e-mail, and cell phones an integral part of every aspect of job searching.
I write the Human Resources site at About.com so I have first hand experience of the job searching site which is fully integrated with this job search guidebook. The book really does cover everything you need to know to conduct a successful job search - quickly. And, as an added advantage for the reader, it provides links to all of the rest of the best online resources for job searching.
As an employer, I'd advise job searchers to follow the book's advice. It's on target, demonstrates common sense, and will get your resume and application looked at by potential employers. Written in an engaging style, job search advice is offered with lots of stories from Doyle's years of helping people job search. Doyle's been covering job searching online since 1998 and job searching, in general, for over fifteen years. After reading Doyle's guide, I'd highly recommend it as your one stop guide for job searching.
Cutting Edge Job Search Guide.......2006-10-18
The author expertly integrates a solid print presentation of job search strategies with specific references to helpful online resources which will support job searchers those various phases in the process.
The book is clearly written in simple, jargon free language yet it reflects the sophisticated perspective on an experienced professional in the career devlopment field.
Book Description
This compact resource has established itself as the guide for anyone who's taking their job hunt to the Internet. A companion volume to Richard Bolles's best-selling WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE?, this book shows you how to integrate the Internet into a comprehensive job-hunting strategy. It helps you reap the best of what the Internet has to offer while navigating the morass of information available online. With more than 30 years of job-hunting expertise, Mr.Bolles brings an unparalleled depth of knowledge to this field and offers invaluable insight and wisdom to job-hunters at all levels. Fully revised with updated links, site-content profiles, and recommendations, JOB-HUNTING ON THE INTERNET is packed with information and advice that no savvy job-hunter can afford to do without.
Customer Reviews:
not terrible--- but not all that great.......2005-10-28
This is a little companion volume to Richard Bolles's "What Color is Your Parachute?" (By the way, the best color for a parachute is "golden"--- but if you have one of those parachutes you don't need Bolles's books.)
It is--- just like the title says--- a guide to job-hunting on the net. It consists of 500 or so capsule reviews of various pages and sites. The selection is a little too heavily weighted towards career-coachy type stuff, and he wastes space on some rather generic sites (e.g., the Weather Channel's site), but it's still a useful selection. Every listing gets more or less the same weight, which means that an essential site like Google or Monster gets only a few more sentences than forgettable career-coaching sites.
It is written for a novice audience, and like many books written for a novice audience, it confuses the novices while still insulting the intelligence of the more advanced readers. (Happily, the insult is cushioned by Bolles's gentle good humor and readable writing style.) The book might have been more useful for everyone, even the novices, if he had upgraded the technical content a little.
This little book shares the strengths and weaknesses of Bolles's other books. There's a lot of sensible advice mixed in with an equal amount of fluff. And most of the tips in this book seem intended more to keep you busy doing research and searching for information than to show you where to look for an actual job.
Although he mentions that companies now do more hiring off their own websites than off job boards, there is virtually no information on how to mine info from companies' web sites. There isn't even any info on how to use companies' "Careers" pages.
This book is definitely not worth the twelve buck cover price, but you can get it for less it might come in handy.
A good book much improved.......2005-07-15
Having seen previous editions of this book, I was pleased to find that the book has been expanded and updated; it's even physically bigger than before. Some chapters appear to have been completely rewritten; the ones on Internet research and job sites are especially good. The authors also have a web page for posting updates to the book, a necessary addition for any book about the Internet these days.
The book does not list every possible job site on the net; but it does list the ones the authors think best, and they explain why. They also explain the best ways to use the net for researching companies, professions, and jobs. I thought the book much more honest than many others available on the subject. An excellent book for any job hunter these days.
Bolles tells it like it is out there on the Internet.......2003-04-06
Richard Nelson Bolles designed this guide to be used with his book; What Color Is Your Parachute? He gives a realistic picture of the pros and cons of job hunting on the Internet. He lists sites where you can find; 1) Job announcements; 2) Places to post your resume; 3) Information on organizations that interest you; and 4)People to connect and network with. Four years after the book is published, addresses are probably out of date. However, he reviewed the sites personally and has written a knowedgeable book about the actual experience of using the Internet.
This review was adapted from Learning A Living; A Guide to Planning Your Career and Finding a Job for People with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, and Dyslexia by Dale S. Brown
Job hunting on the Internet.......2000-11-16
Comfortable book for the beginner. Doesn't hold out as much hope for the internet for a job hunting source as I do. (Perhaps due to the age of the book. I found my last two jobs via the internet. The book is easily read, and can give the beginning job hunter some great places to start. One hint for those beginning a job hunt. Hunt! Do Job Searches on each engine you use and submit your resume directly to the listed jobs. Don't wait for the recruiter to bring your resume up on line.
Spend your money on Internet Training.......2000-03-29
If you already know how to use the many search engines that are out there, don't waste your money. Everything in this book can be found with the use of a search engine. Plus, you will get the correct site address. There are many site addresses listed in the book that are incorrect.
Book Description
The best of more than 40,000 job boards and career sites currently available on the Internet, organized by career field, industry, and geographic focus is contained in this handy reference for job seekers and recruiters. For recruiters, topics covered include how many people come to the site each month, the number of resumes found in each database, and the cost to search resumes and post a job; for job seekers, this handbook indicates how many jobs are posted on each site, the salary ranges of these jobs, which sites store resumes in their databases, and whether a free job agent is available. With full-page profiles of 350 of the best of today's Internet employment sites, it is a must-have book for making smart decisions about where best to invest time and effort online.
Customer Reviews:
Very helpful!.......2007-09-11
Compared to other books I've read under this same topic, Pat's book is extremely helpful! I liked that he was very specific assuming that you know nothing! He broke down the subject into simple easy to read chapters. His thought provoking questions at the end of each chapter along with his detailed examples of what you could do, really helped me to get out of my rigid and locked mindset and to get into the flow of my own creative juices. Halfway through the book, I had to get a notebook because the ideas just started coming to me! I would have spent months and possibly big $$$ trying to learn the information that was handed me in a nice little package. As far as dropping his friends website addresses and his own, I love that..it gives me more examples to study of what this business is all about!
Not worth the money!!!.......2007-08-24
This book is a lot of white space, double-line-spaced written text, and 1-page chapters. This is essentially a pump and dump book that pumps the websites of all his associates so that you can dump your money into their coffers. There are much better options out there. Pass this one up and spend your money wisely elsewhere.
Best Place to Start.......2007-08-02
I am really grateful to Pat O'Bryan for writing this book, and making this essential information available for people like me who wanted to start an online business but had no real clue on where and how to begin. Many spend large sums on "programs" and seminars and end up discouraged because of the huge amount of information and options currently available, some useful, but a lot of it quickly becoming dated. So this book was a beacon showing me how to take secure time and money saving steps towards developing my own products, finding niches, choosing the appropriate affiliate programs that I can relate to, and so forth. Pat's easily understandable explanations and points of view regarding product creation, marketing, etc. is priceless. I highly recommend this book to all who are starting out, it can be a true earn as you learn, hands on approach, to internet business. [..]
Surprisingly good.......2007-05-19
I wasn't exactly looking for a beginners guide but this book has
some very valuable information. Fast, easy read.
Book Description
Job seekers looking for new positions and recruiters seeking new sources of talent will be able to easily locate the more than 40,000 employment sites on the Internet using this all-inclusive directory. Completely updated for 2007/8, this one-of-a-kind directory lists more than 10,000 job boards, organized by occupational field, industry, and geographic focus. In addition to containing all of the larger and better-known sites and thousands of smaller specialty sites, the directory also features resume databanks, career portals, and the URL for each of these sites.
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2007/8 Directory of Employment-Related Sites on the Internet: For Recruiters and Job Seekers (Weddle's Directory of Employment Related Internet Sites for Recruiters and Job Seekers)
2007/8 Guide to Employment Sites on the Internet: For Corporate and Third Party Recruiters, Job Seekers, and Career Activists (Weddle's Recruiter's Guide to Employment Web Sites)
Postcards From Space: Being the Best in Online Recruitment & HR Management
Recruiting on the Web : Smart Strategies for Finding the Perfect Candidate
