How to Get a Job Through the Web

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How to Get a Job Through the Web

Not today that highlights the importance of having contacts. In the labor market, it's always good to meet other people from your area. Or, depending on your performance in any other area.

Social events have always been a great way to meet people, especially when they have to do with his work, such as conventions, corporate parties and others. The point is that we can not always count on to form contacts in these situations - and, in the crunch, we have hardly anything to look like someone. In the era of Internet, e-mail makes things easier, like a good Google search can do miracles, but sometimes the ideal tools are created specifically for this medium.

1) Social Networking The main point here is LinkedIn contacts. Even if you think you do not have many friends or acquaintances that may help you, you'll see that with this tool has many more contacts than you think, whether for a business contact, or look for a job opportunity. LinkedIn is a social network entirely dedicated to work: you create your profile, fill your data and adds everything about you that may be relevant to the professional world: historical studies, jobs, skills and all courses you have done. The next step is to locate people you know or want to know. Connecting to them, they form the socalled "connections" that are created from the point that you meet this person. You were co-workers, studies, friends, acquaintances... All this weighs in the decision of others. Now, okay, you have your contacts, how to get them? Firstly, there is the search for job openings and companies. It is easy to find something in your area and even that does not locate, you can find the contact you want to send the company your resume. Want something more guaranteed? Visit the profile of your friends and see the connections of the same - there you'll see who else they connect and you get an advantage to approach. You can tell your friend that you submit within the same platform, to other contacts - the famous IQ, "Who says' so-called real world.

2) Indication of friends If you already have a job but still need to make a contact, the tool is as useful as places to locate, if not more. Here, it is easy to find by area professionals and business. Need a contact with that director unreachable? Hopefully, he will have a LinkedIn profile and you can send a message, this is not a means


of direct contact. This usage turns out to be especially strong for those working in the commercial sector. Optionally, LinkedIn also has advanced bills paid, to facilitate contact with messages, improve search results and allow the organization of contacts. Before thinking about spending money with one of these, however, it is worth getting used to the basic use of the tool, since for most people is not necessary to use any of the advanced options.

We can also cite some companies that provide jobs for free on the web, such as "Vagas de Empregos" in Brazil. Social media are also a great way to get contacts. If you have a group of followers with some activity on Twitter, it's easy to pass on requests for contacts, job opening, or even ask about them. Through the practice of Retweets or reproduction of tweets, many people end up knowing of the opportunity in a short time. Already Orkut, for example, also has several communities that reproduce often vacancies in several areas.

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