Monday, March 20, 2006

How to Use the Web To Find a Job

The Christian Science Moniter reports:
Online job hunting passed a milestone recently when Booz Allen Hamilton, a technology consultancy, concluded in a study that more than half of new hires (51 per cent) were found through the Internet. Job seekers applied directly to companies at their websites or were discovered on job websites such as Monster.com or CareerBuilder.com. They also used social-networking sites, some of which specifically focus on making business connections. Newspaper classified ads, a traditional resource, now account for only 5 percent of new hires, the study said.
Anyone looking for a job will want to read this article.