Posted By: Phil Rosenberg In: Changing Careers So whats all the fuss over Job Search 2.0?
Web 2.0 is the interactive web, where users provide the content. Why does that matter to a job seeker? Web 2.0 can help job seekers get found on Google, Yahoo, and other popular search engines.
Heres a listing of my favorite 50 Web 2.0 sites for job seekers:
So whats all the fuss over Job Search 2.0?
Web 2.0 is the interactive web, where users provide the content. Why does that matter to a job seeker?
Because Web 2.0 gives every job seeker the opportunity to promote subject matter expertise. Web 2.0 gives multiple formats and platforms and tools to allow job seekers to announce to the world I know my stuff!.
In addition, Web 2.0 can help job seekers get found on Google, Yahoo, and other popular search engines.
So what does Web 2.0 look like? Heres a listing of my favorite 50 Web 2.0 sites for job seekers:
1. LinkedIN Social Network, primarily business www.linkedin.com 2. FaceBook Social Network, business and personal www.facebook.com 3. MySpace Social network, primarily personal www.myspace.com 4. Ning Private Social networks www.ning.com 5. Plaxo Contact synchronizer www.plaxo.com 6. ZoomInfo Business directory www.zoominfo.com 7. Spoke Business Directory & Social network www.spoke.com 8. Jigsaw Business Directory & Social Network www.jigsaw.com 9. YouTube User generated video www.youtube.com 10. Twitter Text-like social network www.twitter.com 11. Pownce File Sharing social network www.pownce.com , Closed in 2009 12. Flickr User Generated Photo sharing www.flickr.com 13. Zooomr User generated photo sharing and text for mobile www.zooomr.com 14. Yahoo Answers User generated questions and answers www.answers.yahoo.com/ 15. LinkedIN Answers User generated questions and answers www.linkedin.com 16. Google Answers User generated questions and answers www.answers.google.com/answers/ , Closed in 2009 17. FaceBook Groups Common interest based groups www.facebook.com 18. Yahoo Groups Common interest based groups www.groups.yahoo.com 19. Google Groups Common interest based groups www.groups.google.com 20. Grou.ps Common interest based groups www.grou.ps 21. Blogger Blog platform www.blogger.com 22. Wordpress Blog platform www.wordpress.org 23. Typepad Blog platform www.typepad.com 24. Del.icio.us Social bookmarking www.del.icio.us 25. Ma.gnolia Social bookmarking www.ma.gnolia , Closed for redevelopment - expected to reopen Fall '09 26. Furl Social Bookmarking www.furl.com 27. Reddit Submit, vote on, and rank news www.reddit.com 28. Digg User submitted reviews of websites, services, blogs www.digg.com 29. Technorati User reviews of whats happening on the live web www.technorati.com 30. StumbleUpon User reviews and web channel surfing www.stumbleupon.com 31. Pandora User defined internet radio www.pandora.com 32. Last.fm User defined Internet radio www.last.fm 33. Skype Social network, IM, and VOIP www.skype.com 34. Jaxtr VOIP linked to websites, blogs and social networks www.jaxtr.com 35. Fon By, sell, and share wifi connections www.fon.com 36. Meebo Web based multi platform IM www.meebo.com 37. Google Maps Mashup maps with other data www.maps.google.com 38. Yahoo Maps Mashup maps with other data www.maps.yahoo.com 39. Google Calendar Shared and mashup calendars www.google.com/calendar 40. Evite User generated invitations and events www.evite.com 41. Meetup User generated special interest group meeting listings www.meetup.com 42. Eventful Create and share events www.eventful.com 43. Favorville People helping people www.favorville.com 44. Prosper Peer to Peer lending www.prosper.com 45. Indeed Job listing aggregator www.indeed.com 46. SimplyHired Job listing aggregator, also on LinkedIN www.simplyhired.com 47. FeedDemon Manage RSS feeds www.feeddemon.com 48. Wikipedia User created encyclopedia www.wikipedia.com 49. Razume User submitted resumes, professional community review & Feedback www.Razume.com 50. Clusty Cluster Search results in folders www.clusty.com
This is just a list of my favorites. There are hundreds of Web 2.0 tools available on the web today.
How will you Web 2.0 your job search?
Comments
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Posted by: jobdrone
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