Using the Internet does several things for you. First, you have instant access to jobs all over the world. Second, when you show computers as a job skill on your resume and you use these skills to find a job, you are immediately demonstrating your worth to a potential employer, in terms of your adaptability to learn new things as well as your up-to-date knowledge of the Internet. Third, you may discover career opportunities that you might have overlooked without the Internet!
There are several ways to go job hunting on the Internet. In Wyoming you may want to start at the Wyoming Employment Resources home page* at http://wyomingatwork.com/. Here you will find the
Wyoming Job Bank which shows jobs listed with the twelve Employment Resource Centers located across Wyoming. You will also find a link to America’s Job Bank (AJB) at http://www.ajb.dni.us/. AJB has a daily listing of over 500,000 jobs nationwide with more than 1,000 new jobs being added each day!
Another way to go job hunting involves going directly to an employer’s home page. Let me tell you how I found employment information from six national employers in a matter of minutes. First, I got the New York Stock Exchange report from the local newspaper (Casper Star-Tribune). Then I went down that list of businesses and chose a company I thought would be interesting. I typed a business name or a key word (like "IBM") in the search engine**. In seconds, I got a list of matches to my search. Scanning down this list, I looked for the corporate home page. Many corporate home pages have a link to employment opportunities within the company. So I activated this link by clicking on the underlined words, and at the page the link took me to, I found several jobs which interested me ... and I found them in just minutes!
You can do the same thing with only a little time and practice! The Internet is designed to be as "friendly" to people who are not familiar with computers as it is with people who are. Below is a short list of firms who have home pages and employment links which I found in less than five minutes of searching. Your job search is only limited by your imagination when you use the Internet!
**Search engines are mechanisms for finding information on the Internet. There are several different types, which work by accepting information (business names and keywords) and then seek out the requested information.
Here we are in the information age! Hundreds, if not thousands, of firms are entering the "Information Superhighway" via the Internet. Did you know the Internet is an excellent place to go job hunting? And did you also know that free Internet access is available to you at Wyoming’s Employment Resource Centers, some
libraries and other public places?
*Home pages are the starting points in Internet sites. For a business, this may simply be a graphic and brief description of the company. Generally, home pages have many "links" (underlined words and phrases) which, when activated, bring you directly to other pages. These pages may be either within the company or at other Internet sites.
These pages designed by Gayle C. Edlin.
Last modified on March 31, 1998 by Gayle C. Edlin.