I often receive requests for help finding new employment.  I have prepared the resources below to assist in identifying new career opportunities. Having hired hundreds of employees over the years I have included a few tips below.  employment, job, resume, post, help wanted, hotjobs, dice, jobcircle, monsterGood luck. 

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TIPS:

• Check often: While you are hunting for a job, make this blog page your home page.  This will provide an easy way for you to search and also act as a reminder to check for new listings.
  
  The links below pop open new windows/tabs to make it easy to quickly access sites.  Click the Primary Search Sites link above and then set the page as your browser start page (Tools menu, Internet Options, General tab).  employment, job, resume, post, help wanted, hotjobs, dice, jobcircle, monsterThe page will open to the section below (you only need these tips once). 
   
• Exposure: I recommend posting your resume on as many online sources as you can.  This will help recruiters find you.  Most of the really good jobs are only known by recruiters and will not come up in most searches, so make it easy for them to find your information.     
   
• Professional Email Account:  Setup separate professionally formatted email accounts to receive responses.  I often find myself making a judgment about an individual based on their email address, and hotbabe@ really makes me think twice about the individual.  employment, job, resume, post, help wanted, hotjobs, dice, jobcircle, monsterYou will find that many of the job sites sell the email address to spammers, which is a trade off for using their service. So you want an address you can leave behind when you find the job, or do what I do and simply visit it weekly and delete the spam.   
   
• Update your resume with a minor change each week.  This will ensure it appears as a recent resume.  employment, job, resume, post, help wanted, hotjobs, dice, jobcircle, monsterMany recruiters tell me they use the age of a resume to judge whether to contact the candidate.  To increase your exposure further you may also wish to create multiple resumes focusing on different skill groups. 
   
• Automated Searches: Many sites will email you search results daily .  Use them, they save time.  But still visit the primary sites daily and scan new postings for jobs that don't show up in the email searches. 
   
• Focused Responses: Send tailored resumes when responding.  Highlight your salient experience based on what the employer has listed as important.  Try and organize your experience in the same order the employment posting listed requirements and placing the relevant experience on the first page. employment, job, resume, post, help wanted, hotjobs, dice, jobcircle, monsterThe easier you make it to review why you are a match the more likely you are to end up on the shortlist.
   
• Save Copies: Save every resume and the job posting in separate folders on your computer.  Mark on your calendar to send a brief follow up one week later (if they haven't contacted you).  Don't send another copy of your resume, it only makes the recruiter mad.  employment, job, resume, post, help wanted, hotjobs, dice, jobcircle, monsterInclude a brief summary of why you meet the requirements and offer to send another copy of your resume if they want it. I keep a separate document with dates when I sent things and notes from phone calls.  It amazes them when you know exactly what was said during previous conversations.  
   
• Relevant Skills: Avoid listing every skill you have ever heard of in your entire life.  I receive resumes listing dozens of worthless or at least very old technologies or skills.  These are noise and make it difficult to find what I am looking for in the resume, notably the skills I listed in the job posting. 
   
• Stay in contact:  Keep recruiter email addresses and contact them monthly to check in.  employment, job, resume, post, help wanted, hotjobs, dice, jobcircle, monsterTake the time to send a separate message to each and avoid trying to save time and blast an email with dozens of recipients.  Even when employed, and even if you think you will never lose your job, be kind to recruiters and keep their contact info.    
   
• Know your going rate.  Visit www.salary.com and research salaries before your search.  A candidate who asks for less than the going rate may not be qualified. Likewise, ask too much and you may not even make the list. 
   
• Be careful about the information you include.  Never ever provide your real birthday, social security number or city where you were born.  There is no legitimate reason why a job site would need this information and it could be used for identity theft.  If they ask for the information for password recovery make something up that you can remember.  Use a city you can remember other than your true birth city and pick a date like July 4 as your birthday.  Same for a pets name, mothers name, etc.  Hackers do get at this info.  Click here to read about the Monster.com hack.

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Primary Search (review daily):employment, job, resume, post, help wanted, hotjobs, dice, jobcircle, monster employment, job, resume, post, help wanted, hotjobs, dice, jobcircle, monster

www.6figurejobs.com
www.careerbuilder.com
www.dice.com 
www.hotjobs.com
www.jobcircle.com
www.monster.com

Secondary Search (review at least once each week):

www.95jobs.com
www.accessnyc.com
www.allaroundphillyjobs.com
www.allemploymentagencies.com
www.aquent.com 
www.ruafit.com (pronounced Are You Fit)
www.bestjobsusa.com
www.beyond.com
www.careercity.com
www.careerexchange.com 
www.CareerJournal.com
www.careerlocal.net
www.careermagic.com
www.careernation.com 
www.careermetasearch.com
www.careermole.com
www.careerweb.com
www.careerxchange.com
www.christalarico.com
jobs.cio.com
www.computerjobs.com
www.computerwork.com
www.coworxstaffing.com
www.craigslist.org

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