Are You Using RSS for Your Job Search?
If you’re not using RSS by now, then you need to find a time machine and press FWD. But even if you are, few people realize that you can use RSS to improve the efficiency of your job search. If you don’t know anything about RSS read RSS Explained.
All you need to do to get the most up-to-date job search results is to find the career sites that you use most often and subscribe to their feeds. If the site doesn’t have a feed, you can have Google Reader do the subscribing for you as you surf the web with its subscribe bookmark:
- Go to Manage Subscriptions on the bottom left side of the reader
- Click the Goodies tab
- Drag the Subscribe bookmark to your browser’s toolbar.
You can find everything you need to do to set up your career feed at at One Day One Job.
And while you’re at it, subscribe to my feed to learn more tips on using the web to life better.
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Learn How Web 2.0 Will Help Your Career
A quick but valuable clip from Sacha Chua on how Web 2.0 can help you land your next job:
ReadWriteWeb posted the video on their blog in the context of how Generation Y will use these newer technologies to change how we work with the web. But you don’t have to Gen Y to reap the benefits of a sleeker web.
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iGoogle Job Search Keeps a Tab on Your Career
It’s always a wise strategy to keep up-to-date with the opportunities in the marketplace of your career. The problem with the major career search sites such as CareerBuilder or Monster is that it can be hard to keep up with all the alerts or to always search each site looking for a prospect
that’s worth pursuing. Indeed helps aggregate these search engines of course. But even that can be time-consuming. Having a single radar screen to view the searches that are relevant to your interests not only makes your life easier but it also helps you to keep a focus on the management of your career. A simple solution: use your iGoogle account to display lenses of real-time searches from your choice of services.
Steps to set up a tab on your job search:
- Set up an iGoogle account if you don’t already have one.
- Click Add a Tab and enter a name for your tab (Career, Job Search, etc.)
- Click “Add Stuff”
- In the search bar, you can do either enter “job search” or the specific sites you use
- Review and select the widgets that are displayed
- Take advantage of the “You might also like” option offered
- In each of your widgets, edit the profile (job description, location, number of posts to display in the lens, etc)
- Click “Back to iGoogle Home” and review your new job search lens
That’s it. Play around with the lens and customize it however you wish.
I recommend including a lens for your LinkedIn profile and even your FaceBook or Myspace profiles to round out your entire lens page. You could even set up your own Google Custom Search with your job search specs and include that in your career tab in iGoogle. If that’s too complicated then you can just grab “Job Search Universe” in iGoogle’s gadget seach page and add it to your lens (in the screenshot above, it’s in the lower right hand). Happy job searching!
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Have You Considered a Career in Farming?
There’s a great picture I found that offers up 10 reasons for you to consider a career in farming.
Here’s the text-friendly version of what’s listed on the photo:
- Minimal competition from your peer age group.
- The opportunity to implement some of the latest technology breakthroughs in biotechnology and computers into your business model.
- Desirable work envrionment including somewhat flexible schedule, working outdoors and no traffic jams.
- Agriculture businesses can provide a nice envrionment for raising children to be responsible citizens.
- The future of farming involves dealing in finance and marketing and executing business plans and strategies.
- Chance to network with other successful farmers around the world through conferences and the Internet.
- Seeing your accomplishments and being able to measure your success from field to feed yard to the financial bottom line.
- To carry on the family legacy and tradition.
- Being involved with an industry that will change as much in the next decade as it has in the last century.
- Providing products that are invaluable to society and the economy: food, fiber, and lifestyle.
Now even if you don’t really consider a career in farming, that list is a solid guide for any career. You could apply it to engineering, marketing, web design, blogging, leadership, biomedical products or any enterprise really.
But I’m posting this list here not only as a career suggestion, but also as a list to remind us of what we might be giving up in our drive toward a high-tech world. Do we really know what we’re doing or where we’re heading? I don’t know a thing about farming. But I know that I eat and most of what I eat comes from farms (I hope). And I’m not the only one who knows nothing about farming.
Maybe it’s too late for me, but I don’t think the market for food will vanish anytime soon. Do you?
If you would like to see the picture click the link above or please visit Kathleen Connally’s A Walk Through Durham Township, Pannsylvania (http://www.durhamtownship.com) for a unique view of a remarkable corner of our country. If you’re interested in her work, please consider supporting her unique dedication to capturing beauty in this world. Prints are available through her site–go ahead and see for yourself.
If you want to learn more about agriculture please visit the Berks County Agricultural Center and browse around. A few moments of poking around the site might change how you see things.
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