Monthly Archives: April 2009

A continuation of Job Stalking #2.

If you want to use the newspaper to find jobs thats fine, but its extremely limiting nowadays.  We used Craigs List and many online job finder helps…like Yahoo! Hotjobs where I input all the information I wanted to give and then used the search and email alerts to have the possibilities sent to my email box.  You can also google for local job listings, sometimes your library will have a web-page for postings.

Next, I hunted for… READ MORE!

A continuation of: Job Stalking #1.

What where the things that I did to start my job search?  First, go on LinkedIn and sign up, after you complete their whole input process there is an option to download it (your resume, cv) in PDF form!  Presto Magic!  An online resume builder that costs you absolutely nothing! (also includes your introduction that is the cover letter)

Then I went online and had the PDF converted to text or a Word document… READ MORE!

Now that I finally have a job, I wanted to share with you a little about the modern day process and what you can expect.

First a little background. Even though we live in Northern California we have found our friends across the states tend to agree with our general knowledge about the ‘job stalking’ procedures and results that I will lay out here in multiple post/parts.

Second the job positions. I am a Chef/Cook with college in Computer Information Systems and a… READ MORE!