Finding a job no longer only involves simply scanning the "Help Wanted" ads in the local paper. Like most things, resumes have gone digital.\nMost students turn to online job search engines to help them find employment both during and after graduation. Ninety-eight percent of all job seekers use the Internet during employment searches, according to a report from staffing.org.\n"The use of online job search engines has seen a dramatic increase in the past few years," Mark Brostoff, associate director of undergraduate career services for the Kelley School of Business, said in an e-mail.
CBCampus.com
Cbcampus.com, run by CareerBuilder.com, is a job-search site geared specifically toward college students.\n"Cbcampus.com is designed with the knowledge that college students don't necessarily have a lot of real-world experience," Laura Morsch, career adviser for Cbcampus.com, said in an e-mail. \nCbcampus.com provides students with three different ways to search for jobs: by category, affiliated majors or skills and job title. Students can search for jobs by particular industries -- including health care, finance and information technology -- which helps uncertain students narrow their focus and find jobs that might interest them, Morsch said. \nCbcampus.com features an up-to-date blog through which students can submit their questions about employment and read about hot jobs and workplace issues. There is also an article and advice section that offers tips for building a resume, mastering an interview and negotiating salaries, Morsch said. \nWhile Morsch said it is impossible to predict how many of Cbcampus.com's job seekers will get an employment offer, she stressed that the most successful candidates are ones who conduct focused job searches and put a good deal of time and effort into their job search materials.\n"You want to make yourself available and visible to employers in as many ways as possible," Morsch said.
Monster.com
Monster.com allows individuals to search for prospective employment in four different ways -- by keyword, company name, job category or job location. Monster supplies information about how to interview successfully and provides online tests that can identify a job seeker's career strengths and weaknesses, according to the Web site. \nThe site also includes profiles of 110 different careers. \nMonster emphasizes the importance of resume-posting in a career search. Job seekers who post a resume are twice as likely to get interviews and job offers than those who don't, according to the Web site. \nEric Winegardner, director of product adoption for Monster.com, estimated that 45,000 resumes are added to the site's database every day. \nStudents can significantly increase their exposure by posting a resume on a legitimate job search site such as Monster.com, Brostoff said. \n"Students should also keep in mind that the number of resumes that are uploaded for each posting will be large and the competition fierce," he said. "A resume that is very vague will not get noticed." \nTo cater to the needs of college students and alumni, Monster provides job listings and career resources through an additional Web site known as MonsterTRAK (www.monstertrak.com).\nMonster also provides entry-level career resources such as the virtual interview, an interactive tool that enables users to test their interviewing skills in a safe environment, and a major-to-career converter that suggests career choices appropriate for different college majors, Winegardner said.
IUCareers.com
IUCareers.com is an online job search option specifically for IU students. \nThe site allows students to search for full-time jobs, part-time jobs and internships, both on- and off-campus, said Jan Van Dyke, senior assistant director for IU's Career Development Center and Arts and Sciences Career Services. Jobs listed on the Web site are also identified as work-study or nonwork-study so students will be aware of their eligibility for different positions. As with other job search engines, students may post a resume on IUCareers.com for prospective employers to browse.\nThe site also includes links to information about job fairs and on-campus interviews, Van Dyke said. \nSophomore Karen Gillespie received a job as a research assistant in the Herman B Wells Library through IUCareers.com. \n"I had created an account on the site awhile ago, so I just did a search for part-time, nonwork-study jobs," she said. "I browsed the results and sent (my resume) to a couple of places. The library called me right away, and I went in for an interview." \nGetting the job was about a two-day process, she said. \nAlthough some schools on campus, such as the Kelley School of Business and the School of Journalism, have individual career service centers and job search Web sites, IUCareers.com is the only career site for all IU students, Van Dyke said.\nHe said IUCareers has one major advantage over other online search engines for students: The companies whose job or internship opportunities are listed on the site are businesses that have developed a relationship with the University, usually because an employer has had a positive experience working with IU students or alumni. \n"Employers list themselves on our Web site because they want IU students," he said.
