Online Job Search: Present & Future -- Brendan Connerty -- Director, College Development
What Career Websites Offer Jobseekers? Research WetFeet.com Hoover's Online Networking Industry Insite Jobs and Applications
Online Job Listing Sites n America’s Job Bank n Career Central n CareerMosaic n HotJobs n JobTrak n Monster.com
Career Communities n DotCom n Mid-Career n Executive n Technology n Entrepreneur n Healthcare n Human Resources n Independent Professional n International n Campus
Monster Campus n Resource for helping college students choose careers and find jobs. n Entry-level job postings n Offers guidelines for: Writing cover letters, securing an internship, networking, finding a job online, preparing for interviews, and creating a resume. n Interactive highlights include the Virtual Interview, Cost of Living calculator, quizzes and polls. n Career experts, who are trained college career counselors and respected authors, are featured on Monster Campus each week. n Chat and message boards help foster an online community of students, counselors and employers.
Job Listings 340,000!
InternCenter n Created in 1996 by StudentCenter.com in collaboration with the College of William and Mary n A free product distributed by Monster Campus to university career centers n Allows groups of colleges and universities to share internship listings online and enhances their database both geographically and functionally n Winner of the 1998 NACE/Chevron Award for Outstanding Achievement and Innovative Programming in the Career Service Field n 140 members, 54,000 internship listings…and growing
InternCenter Demo Username: bird1 Password: bird
Resume Builder & Agents
Employer Needs n TIME: Shortening the hiring cycle n COST: Reducing ‘Cost Per Hire’ figures n QUALITY: Exact matches!
Unemployment Rate
Employee Tenure Surveys (1950’s-1990’s)
Newspaper Circulation Vs. Reach of the Internet
Employer Tools: Present n Resume Search n Job Postings n Profiles and Sponsorships n Additional Services
Online Career Sites: What are the trends of the future? Job SeekerEmployer
Trends & Tools of the Future n Enhanced Matching n Assessments/Testing n Certifications & Training n Free Agents -Talent Market -College Draft n C-Talent n Candidate Tracking n International Connectivity n Dynamic Content Delivery
What does this mean to today’s and tomorrow’s job seeker? n Shortened Job Searches n Increasing Probability of Finding That Perfect Job ! n Job seeker to have increasingly more control of attaining fulfilling work life!
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