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Getting A Job Online

  Like many of us, I was unemployed for a very long time last year. But things have changed dramatically since the last time I was unemployed. And from my experience if I could only one piece of advice it would be this: Don't even think about wasting your time hunting for jobs on the Internet. Actually, when I was a small business owner, the database was a good and useful tool to have. And I still use a spreadsheet to keep track of household expenses. But IT geeks have taken the database to new, sinister levels. It really wasn't long ago at all that when you looked for a job on the Internet, there not only would be an actual job available but they would ask you to email your resume to a specific person. That seemed very effective, rational, and convenient for everybody. Then something happened and I'm not sure what. But the age of the agency has arrived and as far as I could tell in my eight months of searching, the only purpose for the agency's long and tedious online ...