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Programming Job Search Guide
Different Strategies of opening search
Different Strategies of opening search
 | Use your personal or professional network. If you have friends in the company you are interested | |
| in, then they can do internal referral for you. This is the most effective way to get phone interview call. So, don't forget to get contact information of your friends (or friends of friends) who are working at industry. If you forgot getting contact information of your friends, then you can use social network sites (like Linkedin) to reconnect with your friends. BTW, your friends will get referral bonus if you accept offer. In addition, I recommend you to go through documents on networking tips. For example, you can refer to networking page on Yahoo Hotjobs. | ||
| Use career websites like Monster.com, Yahoo Hotjobs or Dice.com. Those career websites allow | |
| you to enter keywords of your interests (for example, C++ programmer, Java programmer, Oracle administrator) or location of your interests (San Jose or New York). But please keep in mind that you need to check as many job forum sites as possible because recruiters do not post job openings on every career sites. That is, one position that you found out from Yahoo Hotjobs may not be visible at Monster.com. | ||
| Check openings through company sites of your interests (for example, Microsoft, Oracle, Yahoo, | |
| Google, Cisco, etc). Why can't you simply rely on checking career websites like Monster.com or Yahoo Hotjobs? This is because some companies do not post openings on career web sites. So, you have to prepare a list of companies of your interests (you can refer to Foutune 500 companies, or find out key start-up companies in your area). Each company has a web page called as Career or Employment on their homepage, so you have to regularly visit this page and check whether new openings are posted. | ||
| Some career websites (for example, Monster.com, Yahoo Hotjobs) allow you to post your resume | |
| and cover letter on their sites with no cost. If recruiters find your resume interesting, they will contact you. | ||
| Use conventional Web search engines to find openings. Use specific keywords if you use this | |
| strategy. The keywords are combinations of your specialization and career-related keywords. You can use general keywords like Software Engineer Jobs, Silicon Valley jobs, or Programming jobs, or specific keywords like C++ jobs, C++ career, C++ position, Java jobs, J2EE jobs. Similarly, you can use Database / Network jobs, or you can go more specific like Oracle administrator job. So, use the keywords in your specialization. |
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Useful Career Sites
| Yahoo Hotjobs - One of the best Career web sites. Besides regular functions like job search or | |
| resume post, it provides nice information on career tools such as how to write resume, how to prepare interview, networking, salary, etc | ||
| Monster.com - One of the best Career web sites. It has similar functions as Yahoo Hotjob | |
| Dice.com - More IT related | |
| Careerbuilder.com - You can do job search and post resume and cover letter | |
| Indeed.com - One stop search engine. It pulls out data from Monster, Yahoo Hotjob, etc | |
| 4jobs - You can do job search and post resume and cover letter | |
| NetTemps - You can do job search and post resume and cover letter | |
| Vault - Less IT-related It also provides salary surveys | |
| ICrunchData - Mainly focused on data management elated job such as Data Analyst, DBA, | |
| Business Intelligence, Statistics, etc | ||
| Kdnuggets - This is a job forum page for the people whose specialization is data mining or machine | |
| learning. So you have to check whether there is a career site in your specialization |