Online Job Seeking… Or how to make use of Web 2.0 and let it do the searching for you

Getting Organised Make a list: Where (location) do you want to work What sort of work (contract/full time etc) What do you want to earn? What are the categories of work you want to do?

Getting Organised - continued Make another list: Job websites to use Job websites to join CV’s to make and upload Software websites of choice Software website forums to join Social network sites to use Social network sites to join

Social Networks Facebook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn MySpace Flickr DeviantArt Vimeo Others? – Naymz, Aniboom, Newgrounds…

Feeds and Blogs Subscribe to as many useful feeds as you can: Job feeds Blog feeds Start a blog – it IS useful Make your blog Web 2.0 friendly embed video from YouTube AND Vimeo use Flickr badges use ‘share this’ buttons

Create galleries of content Create a gallery of your work on: Flickr (images) Facebook (images, video, anything) YouTube (video) MySpace (images, video, anything) Vimeo (video, a cool site) DeviantArt (images, Literature, Flash) Where else?

Creative Commons Licence your work using a Creative Commons licence This means people are more likely to want to use your designs, credit you, and even though you may not get paid, you get KUDOS

Creative Commons - types Different sorts What is right for you? Find out about this NOW!

Facebook & Twitter Start a Facebook page or group Start another Facebook page or group Make your Facebook pages or groups interesting Get a Twitter account Follow a lot of designers and developers Tweet about interesting links or techniques Make your tweets worth reading UPDATE VERY OFTEN – EVERY DAY Get Tweetdeck

Job Websites General sites: Monster, Gumtree Specialist sites for animation or multimedia Arts Council – voluntary work or expenses only Research the sort of jobs they offer If it looks worth it, register and upload CV and portfolio work (if required) Include links to your website and other relevant portfolio work you have online

Searches and CV’s Set up saved searches on job websites if it’s offered Subscribe by email to these searches, every week at least Upload your CV and if possible make it searchable (not just a PDF) Make your CV suited to the site you have uploaded it to

Search Feeds (RSS) Use a good feed aggregator: Google Reader (online, available anywhere) iTunes (desktop) Subscribe to feeds offered by job websites ‘General’ job lists Saved searches if possible (your custom searches)

Your Blog If you blog well, your blog can achieve things: People may subscribe to you Your ‘ID’ will get known You will improve the SEO of your portfolio by creating your own FEED… And submitting your feed to Yahoo Use Feedburner to improve the compatibility of your feed

And by the way… Have you noticed all these icons? They are all web 2.0 icons – applications and web functionality for the SEMANTIC WEB

What Next? Get Organised: Make lists Make a blog Join every social media site you can think of Subscribe to lists of jobs, good blogs etc Make a great CV Make a great portfolio ONLINE

Remember Make your work user friendly Make your work available Make your work attractively presented Make your CV attractively presented And I want a commission if you get a job using this advice ©penworks2009