Chocolate Covered - Job Search No 2 through ?

Many of us are college seniors and are working on obtaining that first job. While this may not be an easy task, there are many resources that we have available to us: the career center, careerweb, our professors, our classmates, our parents, etc. But what I always wonder is how would I go about getting a second, third, fourth or hundredth job once I've already left school.

Of course, you can post on sites like monster.com, but those always seem like your trying to find a needle in a haystack. WSJ blogger Henry Chalian talks about the methods that he is using to secure one of his subsequent jobs. Relying on financial recruiters, Chalian commenced is job search. However, as he found out, recruiters are not always as helpful as they lead on.

Whenever you may start looking for a second job it is important that you make as many bets as possible, hold on to those social networks and contacts, and cross your fingers for good luck.

Raspberry - Power of the Wiki-Masses

In an article by John Dvorak, he discusses the inherent issues with spreading knowledge through wiki sources. In a small environment with few contributors, wikis can have more accurate information but as wikis grow the information will eventually be skewed and have errors.

While this may be the case in an unregulated wiki, sites like Wikipedia that have a strong oversight committee tend to override the potential errors that come about. Wikipedia may not be the most trusted source for information, but I find it extremely useful to get background information on topics that I know very little about. Where else could you find summary information that is up to date, easy to access and well formatted?

Pecan - Virtual Teams

During one of my college internships, part of my work was conducted through a virtual team setting. My boss, as well as several team members, were located halfway across the country.

At first, the experience was very strange. You're not sure when it's appropriate to contact team members, you don't know how to contribute in team meetings, and worst of all you can't even put a face to the voice on the other end of the phone. It's extremely hard to be productive when you've never seen the people who count on you.

After reading this article by Jaclyn Kostner and understanding how to build trust in a virtual team, I realized that while there were some areas to improve, the team that I worked for excelled in most of these areas. Several weeks on the project proved that everyone was available, competent, consistent, fair and open to others. This created the ideal virtual team setting.