Job Sites to Visit

Most will ignore this advice. Most students think they can find a job--easily. You're not looking for a career path from "fry guy"  CFO of McDonalds--although that makes a wonderful Hollywood romantic comedy starring you and the co-star of your dreams.

Looking for work is work. It's harder than work because it's not emotionally or financially rewarding until the end of the process--landing the job.

Ideally when looking for work, you will not care where you are based. Most people, however, do care. Don't however narrow your vision to one place, such as Bridgeport. Be ready to travel as much as 50 miles of your ideal location. In the case of Bridgeport that would mean from New York City to New Haven and north to Hartford. There's no south because travel across the sound is expensive.

You can also search for jobs by region, as in the case of this international job search site offered by the New York Times. Does it have all the managerial jobs being offered in Hong Kong or Paris? No. Does it have all the managerial job openings in Hong Kong or Paris whose companies are looking for someone with experience in the U.S.? Yes.

Find a paper that serves the region best. In this case it is the New York Time and the Hartford Courant. Most of these sites are contracted out to job site publishers such as Monster.com. Don't assume the listings are the same. They are not. The Times contracts Monster to maintain the site and the data base of resumes, but the Times draws its own job listings.