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10 Dec 09 Top 3 Free Job Search Tool of 2009

Recession is over now, and HR professionals are now rolling up their sleeves so that they can hire the best talent to accelerate the pace and cover the lost ground during the recession. The sad days of “no job in the economy” is almost over now, and even the job seekers are collecting the documents, and writing impressive résumé to take the shot.

This situation has provided the background needed to write this blog post. In this post, I will tell you about 5 wonderful tools that will help you search for your dream job.

Twitter search

Twitter does not any introduction. It is now a well-established phenomenon, and more and more people are embracing this cool micro blogging tool to tell you what they are doing. But this is not all, twitter can help you search job as well. Use the hash (#) search or advance twitter search to find the job that meets the qualification you have.

Craigslist

If you do not know what Craigslist is then you must have spend the last decade or so sleep-walking through your daily life. Craigslist is huge database of classified listing arranged according to country, state, neighborhood, job type, industry, etc. This tool can be very effective in helping you find the job the industry or location you like.

LinkedIn

The home page of LinkedIn proudly announce that over 50 million professionals (mind you the users here are professionals, not some teenage Facebook addicts) uses this service to connect, exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. Many people give credit to LinkedIn for the job they got. These days lot many interviews happen here, and professional recommendation from fellow LinkedIn users plays an important role in increasing your chances of employability. This is an amazing tool to use to search for job as well.

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20 Nov 09 5 Places to Look for Freelancing Gigs

Until now, the world economy had been suffering from one of the worst financial crises we ever faced. Companies were getting bankrupt, employees were getting fired, and those who were lucky to survive were facing salary cut. Such was the situation. Nothing looked promising, but there was one thing that was on the rise. It was outsourcing business.

Outsourcing the job to the independent freelancers worldwide was on the rise, and it continues to gain momentum, as companies have seen that they can get good quality work at a fraction of cost that they paid to full-time writers. This was one good thing that came out of the recession. People, despite having all the required skills, were not getting any job, therefore, they turned to freelancing.

If you are late to join and do not know where to start then this article is going to help you start your freelancing career. In this article, I will tell you about places where you can look for freelance gigs.

  1. 1. Online freelance exchange: Freelance exchanges (or freelance boards) such as Elance, Guru, oDesk, Lime Exchange, GetAFreelancer, etc., work as intermediaries. It provide platform for buyers to post jobs, and service providers to look for job based on their ability. A freelance exchange is a good place to start with, as the payment is more or less guaranteed on the work secured from these boards, and for that they charge commission.
  2. 2. Blog Job Board: Blogs like Problogger has a dedicated section where companies post freelance gigs.
  3. 3. Freelance forums: There are many freelance forums where new freelance gigs are posted every day, you should register to one or two of them and start visiting regularly.
  4. 4. Craigslist: Use the keyword search tool of craigslist to look for local or global freelance gigs. You will find a lot of work listed here.
  5. 5. Twitter: Of course twitter. This micro-blogging platform provides a potent search tool for freelance gigs as well. Like Craigslist, freelance gigs are getting posted on twitter, every hour.

I know many people who have benefited from the place I have talked about above. Just do a preliminary research before committing to anyone of them.

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