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Job Hunting? Try A Niche Job Site, Aggregator or Corporate Career Section

Gretchen Glasscock — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:47:42 +0000

As the economic scene darkens, more people are going online to look for jobs. As job cuts hit, domino style, industry after industry, job seekers need to get a little more creative and persistent in their search.

Sometimes, when flocking to the big boards, job seekers overlook the niche job listings which might be a perfect fit and have just the right job for you. Niche job boards focus on a specific industry or demographic. Careers.AdvancingWomen.com, our job board, for example, is a diversity job board where employers seek women and minorities, the disabled or other diverse groups. But there are plenty of niche job sites out there, one of which may be right for you.

Interested in Anthropology / Archeology Jobs? How about Dance Jobs, Environmental Jobs ,Equine Jobs (that’s horses)? Yep, all of them have niche job boards. Even Retirement Jobs, Winery Jobs ( sign me up!) and Zoo Jobs have their own boards. How cool is that?

Want more niche job sites to pore over? Look up Niche Job Sites Directory

Another source not to overlook is job aggregators like Indeed.com. Companies like Indeed.com scrape jobs from a variety of sources and describe themselves as “a search engine for jobs; jobs that are listed on job boards, newspaper sites, and niche sites. In one simple search, you can find the very latest job listings throughout the web – one search. all jobs.” Well, not quite. Although job aggregators, like Indeed.com, are another tool in your job searching tool box, there are more.

Don’t forget the jobs sites of big corporations. Although they may be advertising in many job boards on the web and in news papers there, there’s a good chance they have three to ten times that many jobs advertised on their own corporate career site.

So, here’s the strategy. Go to the big boards like Monster. Go to the niche sites in your industry or your demographic. Identify some corporations you’d like to work for. Then go to all of them, and, if you don’t see what you want on first visit, set up an rss feed or an alert so that you don’t go looking for the jobs, the jobs come to you. And we invite you to go post your resume and get an alert from our diversity niche board, Careers.AdvancingWomen.com

LinkedIn Applications Add Depth To Your Profile/Resume

Gretchen Glasscock — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:29:46 +0000

Since Linkedin has become the “resume” that most of the movers and shakers on the web turn to, it is certainly one in which we want to put our best foot forward. But, in addition to that……remember, our goal a either job seekers or perennially ambitious professionals, is to stand out from the crowd…… we want people to get to know us in a little more depth. More detail sets us apart as unique and allows us to display some of our expertise

JobMob.offered one of the first reviews of linkedin applications First Review: Using LinkedIn Applications to Show Professional Job Success |

They review 9 initial applications and if you’re interested, you should read the entire review.

I only selected three I found useful for the moment:

BlogLink by TypedPad pulls in blog posts from any blogs you’ve defined in your LinkedIn profile’s Websites section. The posts are displayed directly from each blog’s RSS feed, initially with just an excerpt and a ‘read more’ link. ( Let’s readers know you’re a thought leader, or interesting or humorous of whatever your unique skill is.)

Reading List by Amazon lets you keep track and show which books you’ve read, are reading, planning to read or would like to read. You can also find people with similar tastes (industry leaders? potential bosses?) and subscribe to follow their Reading List and discover which books you should be reading. Can you imagine coming to a job interview and spooking the interviewer by saying you’re reading the same book as they are? ( Again, you can give your take on a book and weave in your areas of expertise.)

My Travel by TripIt is a geographic locator tool giving you an easy way to see which of your connections is physically nearby or will be soon. ( I think this is really a cool tool and can help faciliate your networking. You can let everyone know where you’ll be, with great ease, and ask if any in your farflung network havev recommendations or want to meet up with you.)

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