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Job Search and Career Networking

By Alison Doyle, About.com

Job Search / Career Networking

Copyright Jacob Wackerhausen

Career and job search networking can help you find employment opportunities and build your career. Here's how to network your way to a new job or career.

Top Social Networking Sites for Job Searching
The top social and professional networking sites you can use to enhance your career and assist with your job search, as well as advice on how to use social networking sites to job search.

Online Profiles
When you're looking for a job or positioning yourself for career growth, it's important to have an online presence where you can showcase your skills and experience.

LinkedIn and Your Job Search
How to use LinkedIn as part of your job search, including how to increase your visibility and connections, so employers and recruiters can find you.

How to Create a Professional Brand
How to create a professional brand and a strategic online online presence to help with your job searching and career building.

Using Twitter to Job Search
Some companies and job boards post job openings on Twitter, and job seekers regularly network through Twitter to help facilitate their job search.

Job Search Networking
Career networking can sound intimidating, but, it doesn't have to be and job search networking is still the top way people find new jobs.

Career Networking Tips
The importance of career networking shouldn't be discounted when you are in the midst of a job search. In fact, your career network should become a part of your daily work and career-related endeavors, as well as part of your job search.

Job Search Internet Checklist
When you're job searching, what you probably consider personal information can be found online by potential employers.

MySpace and Job Searching
If you have a MySpace or Facebook page and you're job searching, you may have heard that you need to be careful about the information you post. You do need to be careful, but it's also important to consider the flip side to job searching and MySpace - the companies who use it to find candidates for employment.

Networking Resources
The importance of career networking, how to develop contacts and how job search networking can help you find a job.

Sample Networking Letter
Sample job search networking letter for send to set up an informational interview or to obtain job search assistance by networking from a contact in your career field of interest.

Alison Doyle
Guide since 1998

Alison Doyle
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