Looking for an online job can be difficult especially for beginners. Just follow these 5 simple steps to help you start with your search.

1. Your Simple 5-Step
Checklist For An
Organized &
Successful Online
Job Search
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Not much fun, is it? Job hunting usually
doesn’t rank high on anyone’s top-ten
list of “things I like to do”. The fact that
you can conduct an online job search
probably doesn’t make it any more
enjoyable. But it can be. In fact, it you
get (and stay!) organized, you may find
that searching for a job online can be
interesting, perhaps even an experience
that provides you with skills that will
serve you both professionally and
personally.
Lookingfor a job?
First, a few words about searching
for work using the internet. Ours is
now a world full of social media,
populated globally by somewhere
in the neighborhood of 400 social
networking sites (SNS). As each of
those sites have matured, users
have discovered different ways to
utilize the strengths each
possesses.
Sites such as Facebook (friends and
family) and Pinterest (photos and
images) have morphed into
promotional vehicles for businesses
and employment sites for
individuals, for example. Social
media is now so pervasive, so
ingrained in our daily lives, that
anyone who chooses not to have
some form of presence online

2. some form of presence online
virtually doesn’t exist (both literally
and figuratively).
With that being said, it seems fairly
obvious that an online job search
strategy is essential to career
development. From basic web-
based job boards to setting up Job
Search pinboards on Pinterest or
making extensive use of Twitter to
follow others in your professional
sphere, knowing how to use the
internet and, equally importantly,
ensuring you do so in an organized
manner, is mandatory for
maximizing your online job search
efforts.
(Don’t keep
things in your
Inbox or Sent
Folder-you’ll hate
looking for it
later). Resumes,
cover letters,
thank you letters,
rejection letters.
When you apply
via email, send a
copy to yourself
via Bcc. Save
copies of all
materials related
to each job,
including URL,
Facebook name,
etc.
Here are a few items to consider:
Job
Websites
Engage with
social media
sites.
Save your
info!Imme
diately.
Visit websites
of
companies in
the
industries in
which you
would like to
work.
Monster.com,
CareerBuilder and
the like. Schedule
a time to review
them. Set up
Bookmark folder
on your desktop
to make repeated
site visits simple
and provide
storage for
information about
specific openings.
Complete your
search of all sites
one right after the
other, then go
back to your
folder and apply
for the openings,
again one right
after the other.
You’ll appreciate
Research and
categorize which
companies have
Facebook pages,
Twitter accounts
and Pinterest
accounts, for
example. Follow
them. Diligently.
You’ll not only
learn about
openings and the
focus of each
company, you can
learn a great deal
about their
corporate culture as
well. Again, set up
a separate folder
for each so that
Repeatedly. Create
a Bookmark
folder. Or a
spreadsheet.
Whatever format
you prefer that
enables you to
efficiently access
and work with the
information you’ve
stored.
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3. You’ll appreciate
the rhythm you
fall into.
for each so that
you can quickly
refer to something
specific rather than
have to scroll
through pages of
info or lists of
documents.
stored.
5 It’s a date!
Use whatever calendar works for you to meticulously record the
who, what and when of all of your job applications and requisite
follow-ups. Missing a deadline when applying for a job means
doom.
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