3. What Do We Do with the
Internet?
Get information. Give information.
4. More than That,
We Curate
Information
Content curation = selection
and presentation of content in a
way that adds value.
You have to know how to take
what is important and relevant
from what is simply available.
5. Curate Your Outbound Data:
Manage Your “Digital Dirt”
You’re already doing a lot of this with your
Email domain and name
Resume, if you post it online (pros and cons)
LinkedIn profile
Email signature
Facebook
Twitter
Digg
Vizibility
6. How Do You Curate the
Information Available for
Inbound Job Search Research?
Develop a list of trusted sources—but how do you measure
signal-to-noise?
Ask, comment, and answer—you’ll get a good feel for which
websites are trustworthy and which are junk. In addition to
having some name brand recognition, real web sites
Are written in solid English.
Contain complete articles, not excerpts.
Are updated regularly.
Might or might not have high Google PR value.
Have lots of backlinks to them.
11. Google
Do more than search for companies
Search for the kind of company you want to work for
For example, if you’re looking for a company that is
growing, search on:
grows|growing.operations|facilities|campus
Where | = or and . = and
Keywords you can use: series, round (for funding), top
companies, fastest growing (industry), wins deal, receives
contract
12. O*Net --
http://www.onetonline.org/
Learn about a job title to
prepare your resume, get
ready for your interview,
prepare for a promotion.
You’ll have good keywords
to insert into your
resume/application
You’ll know how to answer
questions about how you’d
handle specific situations.
13. O*Net: Search on Skills
Find job titles related to the ones you had in mind
17. Where the Jobs Are: Apps
that Help
LinkedIn
Monster.com
CareerBuilder.com
LinkUp.com (only company
sites)
Indeed.com
Craigslist
A million other text-based
help-oriented/how-to apps.
18. Useful Job Search Productivity
on the Go
SimpleNote—Record key
pieces from your interview;
type them in your car,
download your notes when
you get home.
LunchMeet (networking—
meet people in your area)
ScanBizCards (keep your
data in one place)
19. Blogs that Inform Your Job
Search
Careerient.com—Utah focus, global applicability
Diggings—synthesizes Department of Labor information
Guerrilla Job Hunting—Part of the Guerrilla Marketing
franchise
Personal Branding Blog—Dan Schawbel
Workbloom—resume samples
My two favorites
Ask the Headhunter
CareerRocketeer (the blog itself and its blogroll)