Employment Resources

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Employment Resources

• A presentation by
• Heather Maisel
• Frederic Murray
• Tara Stephens
• Emily Yearwood-Lee
• LIBR 557
• March 22, 2005

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RSS Feed

• RSS is a format used for syndicating news and
  news-like sites.
• It is often discussed in technical terms.
• What does an RSS feed look like?
• That depends on which version of RSS youre
  talking about. Heres a sample of RSS 0.9

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RSS 0.9

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  m    http//www.xml.com/
            SVG's Past and Promising
  Future      http//www.xml.com/pub/
  a/2002/12/04/svg.html      In
  this month's SVG column, Antoine Quint looks
  back at SVG's journey through 2002 and looks
  forward to 2003.      nnel
• YIKES!

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RSS in Plain English

• What does it mean Rich Site Summary or Really
  Simple Syndication
• Who Cares? Its a great Tool!
• Heres what you need to know
• It allows you to be notified when a Web site has
  been updated.

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How does RSS Help me know about Updates?

• A number of web sites are adding an RSS feed to
  their sites
• When you see the button or link youve found the
  feed.
• An RSS feed is the websites way of altering
  subscribers that the web site has been updated.

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Feeds

• BloogZ
• Syndic8
• Technorati
• Daypop

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How do I use RSS?

• Need to subscribe (no worries its free).
• Must have a tool than can read the feed.
• These tools are referred to as News Aggregators,
  RSS Readers or News Readers.(also free)
• A good list to find them can be found at
  LockerGnomes RSS Resource
• NewsGator is also a popular resource

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How do I subscribe to an RSS Feed?

• First you need an aggregator
• Then the single thing needed URL for the sites
  RSS feed
• Click the RSS or XML button and copy the web site
  address that appears (dont mind the code it
  wont mind you).
• It might look like this http//www.sitename.com/i
  ndex.xml
• Once you have the address add it to your
  aggregator and you are set as a subscriber.

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RSS, Job Search My Yahoo

• My Yahoo is now a Newsreader
• An excellent way to organize a job search
• Lets take a look http//www.yahoo.com/

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Benefits of using an RSS Newsreader

• Efficiency
• Breadth
• Organization
• Productivity
• Problem with collocating data from the web is
  there is no easy way to fully index relevant
  discoveries given the dynamic and ever shifting
  wash of the information world.

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Directories

• Browse lists of professional associations,
  company career pages, industry-specific job sites
  
• Sometimes browse job postings organized by
  industry or geography

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www.yahoo.com

• Biggest, best-known general directory
• U.S. site better than Canadian (www.yahoo.ca)
• Two approaches Hotjobs vs. drilling down through
  general directory
• Also has search engine

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http//www.allstarjobs.ca/

• Also has larger U.S. counterpart
• Geographic job search method most useful if a
  person relocating
• Also has search engine (confusing sort option)
• Links to career pages, classifieds specific to
  community
• Interesting feature Relocation Information

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www.canadiancareers.com/jobboards.html

• Part of larger career site (http//www.canadiancar
  eers.com) offering general job-hunting advice
• Links to industry-specific sites divided by
  industry or sometimes geography
• Not all links work
• Similar site is http//www.jobbus.com/

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Human Resources and Skills Development Canada

• http//www.hrsdc.gc.ca/
• Federal department program and services
• Information on training, labour laws, benefits
• Shortcuts and search engine
• A-Z index, Boolean, Advanced Search
• E-services
• Link to National Job Bank

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Job Bank http//www.jobbank.gc.ca/

• Largest Canadian Web-based network of job
  postings
• Degree and non-degree related positions
• Search single or multiple regions
• Keyword but no controlled vocabulary
• Job Match service

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Working http//working.canada.com/index.map2.html

• Amalgam of 11 newspaper Classifieds
• National resource with local focus
• Fee for employers
• Keyword and shortcuts
• Profiles and resume tools

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Monster.com

• An employment megalith
• Publicly traded
• Canadian version is monster.ca (25,000 postings)
• Search jobs (free)
• Post resume (registration required)
• Read articles (free)
• Fee for posting jobs
• Job search alerts for saved searches

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Indeed.com

• Currently in Beta
• U.S. focus
• Aggregator for job sites
• Clutter-free and simple interface
• Sort results by relevance or date
• Search term refinements available on results
  pages
• Job listings available via RSS and/or E-Mail.
• does not accept money for placement.

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Other major sites

• Hotjobs
• Careerbuilder
• Flipdog
• Jobs.net
• Craigslist
• Americas job bank

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THE END

• Happy Job Hunting!