文档介绍：Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across
CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. He searched it with no
success but was attracted by the site’s “personal s ...
Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across
CareerBuilder, a job database on the Internet. He searched it with no
success but was attracted by the site’s “personal search agent”.
It’s an interactive feature that lets visitors key in job criteria
such as location, title, and salary, then E-mails them when a
matching position is posted in the database. Redmon chose the
keywords legal, intellectual property, and Washington, . Three
weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening. “I struck
gold,’ says Redmon, who E-mailed his resume to the employer and won
a position as in-house counsel for a company。
With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, finding
promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient. Search
agents reduce the need for repeated visits to the databases. But
although a search agent worked for Redmon, career experts see
drawbacks. Narrowing your criteria, for example, may work against you:
“Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility。”
says one expert。
For any job search, you should start with a narrow concept—what
you think you want to do—then broaden i