D.C. Area Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
How Do You Job Hunt?
For many reasons I won't go into, I feel the need to make a change job-wise in the near future. I am incredibly lucky and have not had to job hunt for, oh, 11 years!
Few of my friends are in the same industry and many of my former co-workers work within the same work community, but I think I want to leave that as a whole, so I can network, but that does not seem so promising.
Aside from Monster, etc. What else should I be doing?
Re: How Do You Job Hunt?
Indeed.com has a nice job search engine that you can set up alerts to be emailed every day.
I think that a HUGE mistake that people make is thinking that if they email off their resume that they are golden, and just sit back and wait for someone to call them. I think that it is great to find a posting online that you feel suits you, but I think that unless it says "online interest only" or something like that, that you should dress up in your best suit to drop off your resume in person, if you are able to know where the job is.
When I was at my old job in CT and hiring for a position, I might have a stack of 20 resumes in front of me, but if someone walked in and was a good fit off the bat or made a good impression, I rarely contacted the random people who were no more than a piece of paper in a pile. This works especially well if you are outgoing and confident. I'd rather not waste my time talking to 10 potential duds when I have someone who could fit the bill standing in front of me.
well, i am no expert seeing as i've been job hunting for like four years (i'd been looking to switch jobs in nyc for two years before we moved here). i've literally forgotten what not job hunting is like!
it obviously differs a little depending on your field but i frequent indeed.com, mediabistro (more publishing/media listings), linked in, the smithsonian job site (and usajobs.gov), and washingtonpost.com most often. if there's a company or organization i'm especially interested in, i usually follow them on linked in.
monster and career builder are now just meh to me - more agencies and shady listings.
you should still put the word out that you are open to new opportunities because someone may know someone who could help you out.
good luck!
Stand up for something you believe in.
are you on LinkedIn? if not, you should join
also, FB might be a good resource
I work for a very large company and would be happy to pass your resume around if you are interested, email me sssssm_2000 at yahoo