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Looking for employment opportunities in yesterday’s workplace was a fairly straightforward procedure. You looked in the newspaper, called some friends and associates, maybe called a few employment agencies, and checked with your professional association or union. You still need to do these things, but they won’t lead you to the majority of the employment opportunities that exist in today’s workplace. You need to significantly expand your approach to include:

• Monitoring the websites of companies that you would like to work for and you feel are likely to be adding to their staff. Most company websites these days have a section where they list current employment opportunities. In the IT sector, this is the main way in which many companies advertise their jobs or contract opportunities. There’s even an attitude on the part of some of these companies that if you can’t find these opportunities on your own, they’re not interested in you. In other words, they want people who are “with it” and who know how to find employment in their industry.

• Most professional associations have a job-search service which they provide to their members. Companies who want to hire members deal directly with the association, which in turn lists the information on its website. Some industry associations do this as well, and you can sometimes access this information even if you’re not a member.

• While most of the major newspapers still include a career or employment section, you may find more opportunities listed online on an electronic employment service, which more and more companies are using instead of listing their requirements in print. Most of these services allow you to post your résumé on their site for free, and some of them will automatically notify you when an opportunity comes up that matches your job specifications. Some of these sites are also a very effective way to monitor what is going on in the workplace and to learn from the experience of others who are actively seeking employment.

• There are lots of online job sites available today; some that are generic and others that specialize in particular professions or geographical areas. One of the biggest is www.monster.com. Other sites are excellent resources for monitoring workplace activity, trends and news, www.rileyguide.com being one of the best of these.

We’ve already learned that the vast majority of employment opportunities are generated by small businesses. These businesses may not have a website at this point and if they do, it may not have a section on employment. In order to flush out these opportunities, you need to access every possible tool.