Whenever I looked for my last job, I used a notepad on my laptop to make notes of the contacts I had made, the jobs I had applied for, what kind of custom resumes and cover letters I was using and all kinds of good stuff. Managing a job hunt as a professional is like being an account representative, salesperson, researcher and administrative assistant rolled into one. No wonder very few people do a decent job at it.
There are a handful of tools out there to manage your daily tasks but how about your job hunt? Myjobtips.com is a good start. Since so much of the job hunt has moved online, so moves your tools.
Are there any other tools that you use (or used) to manage your job hunt?
August 23, 2006 at 3:58 am
Do you ever read my column, “Getting Hired”?
Marvin
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October 5, 2009 at 6:52 am
Hi Lance, just saw this post as I’m surfing around your new REHAUL site
Even though the post is 3 years old I wanted to suggest JibberJobber.com as a site/tool to help organize a job search. In fact, I launched JibberJobber just a few months before you wrote this post (we launched in May of 2006), and it is designed after the CRM tools a salesperson would use to organize their prospects and accounts.
So yeah, three years late but still a relevant tool
January 6, 2012 at 6:32 am
To begin I think I should give you my background. I am a fifty year old grandmother of four, with four children. I have been unemployed since Feb.2,2010, My unemployment benefits have ran out and I am in a shelter that requires I get a job or I leave. I hear everyday on the news the recession is over, but it really is not looking that way to me job wise.
I have been told that if a person with less inteligence, less expeirence, and younger than I was appling for the same job, they would hire the younger person. I have been told to wear wigs and girdels and makeup , just to clean toilets.
I do not want you to think I hate young people quite the opposite, when my daughter got a job I was so happy I was beyond words. You have to realize it is harder for some one with two children to be homeless than one older person. That was the reasoning I had to accept. I think if they made a plea for there side I mean the younger generation that way they would get a better responce.
Thanks for listening
desperately seeking
employment
Margarita Dopwell
January 6,2012
Subject: employment
To: Aryen Unlimted
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