One way to understand if you truly know something is that you can explain it to someone else. So what is the job-search process? Take a break and reflect on your understanding of the search process and how you would explain it to someone.
Now I am guessing that many had a response similar to:
1) write a resume and cover letter + post it online (one of the ‘big boards’)
2) search the job boards for listings and respond to ones that fit your skills/requirements
If you are particularly clever, you may have ‘join linked-in’ and ‘network’ as part of the process.
This is not surprising, because this is the same process that folks used before the internet.
But we now have the internet – so what have we changed? Well, instead of searching in the newspaper we now search on-line, oh, and instead of mailing our CVs and cover letters, we now e-mail them…..
And, that + linked-in/social networks/networking provide us with a good view of the job search process.
Or does it?
