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Using the Internet and the World Wide Web in Your Job Search
by by Fred E. Jandt Mary B. Nemnich, JIST Works, Inc., 1997 Reviewed by Bill Crane NOCCC - October 15, 1999 at 00:04:42:
The Complete Guide to Online Job Seeking and Career InformationThis book is a very thorough, and generally non-technical, description of the resources available for job searching using the Internet and is an update of their first book. The 14 chapters cover nearly every aspect of job searching and will be helpful even for someone with very little or no experience with computers. The first three chapters cover the rationale for using the net, selecting and installing a computer with a modem, software, ISPs, web history, browsers and search engines. From there on they discuss www classified ads, commercial services, various job listings, career resources and Internet support groups.
Perhaps more valuable are the chapters on preparing and submitting your electronic resume, internet job hunting netiquette (etiquette), e-mail, voice and face-to-face interviews. One chapter offers advice for college students and a final chapter makes suggestions for employers.
The Preface comments on the changes that occurred in the 18 months between the first and second editions. There have been even more changes in the 24 or so months since the publication of this edition. For example, Bulletin Boards are even less used today. Furthermore, the best way to publish or send your resume today by e-mail is with the Word word processor. While there is a wide variety of browsers in use by people who know little or nothing technically about computers, other than “what works,” most require a resume submitted in Word. WordPerfect may be a better word processor, but Word is the most used by far of the two. While the authors talk about using ASCII, both Word and WordPerfect in the latest versions can convert a document into HTML. This may be acceptable and may provide a better copy. A few will still request a hard copy for scanning which can be sent by FAX or even snail mail. While there are some references in this book to specific sites for job searching, the rapid changes on the net make these sites undependable.
This book provides a good, non-technical background to start a job search using current technology available on the Internet. While it will provide general guidelines for conducting a search with a resulting saving in time, it is not a substitute for the many hours, days and weeks or months that may be spent on the actual search itself.
A 3.5 inch floppy is included that contains the software program, Watson Power Resume Builder. This must be installed using the Start, Run selections with Windows 95 and entering “A:\setup” in the Run window. It is easily installed and is certainly helpful in resume preparation. An “interactive interview” requiring about 45 minutes is made by providing information about your training, education, experience and work history, and the results summarized for reviewing. This result can be sent by e-mail to Intellimatch, or copied to a floppy and mailed to them. A phone call to their 800 number reached “jobwarehouse.com” in San Jose, California, but was not answered by a live operator. Their e-mail address is info@intellimatch.com and their URL is http://www.intellimatch.com.
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