I receive tons of resumes each day and would love to get back to each person individually to strategize on career advancement and the tools that are most useful on the web today.  In the search business, we get paid by companies to go out and find people with very specific skills sets.

To be good at finding the right people, our team needs to know to leverage all of the tools on the web and where to look.  In that process, we have generated some opinions on a few of the most effective sites for job seekers.  As time doesn’t allow us to get back to each invidividual who sends us their CV, we decided to put together a quick list of sites we think would be helpful.  Here they are:

www.visualcv.com     VisualCV.com gives you an easy new way to present your Curriculum Vitae (CV) online. VisualCV replaces the traditional resume with an online professional profile. VisualCV.com is the first website that allows you to create an Internet-based resume, build and manage an integrated online career portfolio, and securely share professional qualifications with your customers, partners, employers and colleagues.

www.wintheview.com  (WTV) is an easy to use, step by step web program that helps you to prepare better for the interview by gaining a better understanding of the job requirements and then creating specific talk points that directly correlate your strengths, skills and accomplishments to the “position success requirements”.

www.indeed.com  Indeed is a search engine for jobs – with a radically different approach to job search. In one simple search, Indeed gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from thousands of websites. Indeed.com includes all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages – and we continue to add new sites every day.

http://www.weddles.com/awards/index.htm  Who has the best insight on which employment sites are most helpful? We think the answer to that question is obvious … it’s you, the recruiters and job seekers who have used the sites. And, that’s what the annual WEDDLE’s User’s Choice Awards are all about. They recognize the elite of the online employment according to the most discerning judges around—that would be you!

Get yourself on linkedin.com

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/01/ten_ways_to_use.html

Most people use LinkedIn to “get to someone” in order to make a sale, form a partnership, or get a job. It works well for this because it is an online network of more than 8.5 million experienced professionals from around the world representing 130 industries. However, it is a tool that is under-utilized, so I’ve compiled a top-ten list of ways to increase the value of LinkedIn.

Hope these help and best of luck in job search!

Ken Diamond