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A great idea really gets me excited and great websites cause me to shake and tremble with delight. Fortunately, therapy should fix that soon. Until that time however, I would like to share with you some great websites that could help you in your quest of gainful employment. These first few websites are NOT directly job-related. Not monster.com, hotjobs.com, nor ineedajobsomywifestopsbuggin.com. Yet these few websites can have a remarkable impact on your positive job search. Okay, to the list....
1. Are you the kind of person who uses the Internet often and bookmarks pages and sites for future visits? Have you acquired through the years lots and lots of bookmarks some from months and years back? Do you even remember what you bookmarked years ago? Even if you have a well organized bookmark system, do you dread having to constantly scroll down the loooong list of bookmarks you have accumulated? Fret no more! Open the door. Cause www.symbaloo.com is what you’re looking for. Symbaloo is a cool website that puts all your bookmarks on one page in an easy to see and follow format. You can have 30 links or more on a single page and you can even have page categories (employment, business, news, sports, entertainment, etc.) and place your links accordingly. They offer link suggestions, RSS feeds, and you can copy links from other symbaloo sites (only if they okay it). It is very simple to set up and totally free. I found links that I forgot about; links that were still valid today. Imagine what your symbaloo job page would look like. You have thirty squares to fill with your bookmarks. On one row, you have all your job search sites; another rows has the employment RSS feeds; another will find the company research sites, and another will have your how-to and help websites. If you need more rows or columns, you can add or delete. Pretty cool, huh?
2. Stumbleupon.com is terrific. There are literally millions, if not billions of webpages and sites available on the web that we never, ever see. It seems that the search engines are all about “the usual suspects” when it comes to our finding the information we need. Stumbleupon.com changes that by literally stumbling through the web and providing you with all sorts of cool unsung sites. You can control your search in several ways: a) stumble allows you to go into a search text box and type the specific information you are seeking; then it will stumble through pages with that information. Is it perfect? No, it makes mistakes ands sometimes the info seems abstract, but not often. b) stumble has categories (videos, wikipedia, news, friends) that you can stumble through. The same situation as above applies here as well. Imagine, by typing “employment” you could find a plethora of useful information you never dreamed existed.
3. youtube. The other day I read about a horrific beat-down that occurred in Oakland, CA. I know it was horrific because I was able to view the video of the beating on youtube.com . I purchased a keyboard and with no musical or piano training was able to play “Heart and Soul” within days. How? I went to youtube and was able to watch several videos of several people painstakingly showing me how to do it. And if anyone wants to know what I look like, or sound like, you only have to visit youtube and type Aaron Boyce and viola! there I will be, speaking and showcasing what I do best. When employers are looking for you, what do you give them besides your resume and cover letter? On your resume or cover letter, how about including a link to your youtube page where it shows a video(s) of you at work, speaking about work, helping someone, volunteering, in school, receiving your degree or certificate. It could even be a slideshow of your accomplishments. In 2009, why only tell them, when you can show them how good you really are.
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