I have become active on Reddit recently. Sadly my most popular post was a video of a lave lake collapsing... not my original content. Still it has been informative and I have has several mildly popular posts of stuff on my blog. I figured it would be nice to do a post on the Job Hunting resources out on Reddit.
If you are not familiar with how it works people post articles, questions etc and then others vote them up or down and/or comment on them. Rather than have all articles all in one massive page they allow people to create subreddits which cluster posts around a specific topic. Some are hugely popular like science (600,000 readers) others have one or two readers. And be warned, some are NSFW or might be considered offensive.
Reddit - Jobs: How to get work and how to leave it. Employment, recruitment, résumés, CVs, interviews.
Reddit - ForHire: for posting open positions or looking for work
Reddit - Freelance: Articles of interest for freelancers and people who want to become one.
Reddit - Resume: A place to post resumes
Reddit - Work: intended to be about life at work, not for people offering or looking jobs. [has specific locations/countries as subreddits]
And this is just a start. There are special subreddits for Sysadmin work, CS work and AskReddit is a catchall for any general question you have. Additionally there are subreddits for Autism and Aspergers that offer additional resources for help beyond work.
Another useful site is Metareddit which attempts to corral the 75,000+ subreddits in a way that you can browse and see what some of the most popular are.
Showing posts with label job search resources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label job search resources. Show all posts
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Hiring for Hope: a non-profit dedicated to job placement
I recently ran across an organization called Hiring for Hope that dedicates itself to assisting people in their career search. Their funding comes from Donations and Fees charged to companies when they place someone. In an odd twist they also help couples who have recently lost a child. I think this is because two non-profit groups merged to form one.
Anyway, they offer an interesting outlet for the job search and may provide sensitivity that other recruiting firms lack.
Link: http://www.hiringforhope.org/index.html
Anyway, they offer an interesting outlet for the job search and may provide sensitivity that other recruiting firms lack.
Link: http://www.hiringforhope.org/index.html
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Using Twitter in your job search
Twitter is an amazing tool when you think about it... a heck of a lot of information gets passed around in 140 characters or less. And one of the various things is that Job Searches can be enhanced by Twitter.
As with all Social Media curate your presence to make sure it is professional and links to a resume/web page about you. If you are openly searching mention the jobs you are searching for; use the keywords tag (#<keyword>) if it is something people look for.
But there is more. You can stalk the people at companies you want to work at. Say you really want to take part in the LOLCats company? then follow the CEO Ben Huh or CTO Scott Porad or simply look for people on Twitter that work there and see if they Tweet about job openings. If nothing else you will get an idea of what is important to the company and/or to them and that will give you an advantage in Cover Letters, Resumes and Interviews.
Also, there are whole profiles devoted to job searching. Follow @Microjobs and see what he tweets out. And if you are feeling particularly brave tweet "I want a job at @<company>" and see if anyone responds.
Use Twitter to gain intelligence for the interviews too. Often the fires of the day will appear on the Twitter account of workers there. You can use that information when interviewing like "Remember last week when your Gold Position fell in value and your hedge did not kick in?" Something like that demonstrates you care about them and know about them.
Finally there are the Twitter Search engines devoted to finding jobs. TwitJobSearch is one such example. Google twitter job search and see what comes up.
As with all Social Media curate your presence to make sure it is professional and links to a resume/web page about you. If you are openly searching mention the jobs you are searching for; use the keywords tag (#<keyword>) if it is something people look for.
But there is more. You can stalk the people at companies you want to work at. Say you really want to take part in the LOLCats company? then follow the CEO Ben Huh or CTO Scott Porad or simply look for people on Twitter that work there and see if they Tweet about job openings. If nothing else you will get an idea of what is important to the company and/or to them and that will give you an advantage in Cover Letters, Resumes and Interviews.
Also, there are whole profiles devoted to job searching. Follow @Microjobs and see what he tweets out. And if you are feeling particularly brave tweet "I want a job at @<company>" and see if anyone responds.
Use Twitter to gain intelligence for the interviews too. Often the fires of the day will appear on the Twitter account of workers there. You can use that information when interviewing like "Remember last week when your Gold Position fell in value and your hedge did not kick in?" Something like that demonstrates you care about them and know about them.
Finally there are the Twitter Search engines devoted to finding jobs. TwitJobSearch is one such example. Google twitter job search and see what comes up.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Another Department of Labor resource for your job search
Yet another Department of Labor resource for your career search: http://www.careeronestop.org/
Offers various pages on job searching, resumes, interviewing, researching your career and people/places that can help.
Offers various pages on job searching, resumes, interviewing, researching your career and people/places that can help.
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