Posted By: Phil Rosenberg In: Changing Careers So what’s all the fuss over Job Search 2.0?
Web 2.0 is the interactive web, where users provide the content. Why does that matter to a job seeker? Web 2.0 can help job seekers get found on Google, Yahoo, and other popular search engines.
Here’s a listing of my favorite 50 Web 2.0 sites for job seekers:
So what’s all the fuss over Job Search 2.0?
Web 2.0 is the interactive web, where users provide the content. Why does that matter to a job seeker?
Because Web 2.0 gives every job seeker the opportunity to promote subject matter expertise. Web 2.0 gives multiple formats and platforms and tools to allow job seekers to announce to the world “I know my stuff!”.
In addition, Web 2.0 can help job seekers get found on Google, Yahoo, and other popular search engines.
So what does Web 2.0 look like? Here’s a listing of my favorite 50 Web 2.0 sites for job seekers:
1. LinkedIN – Social Network, primarily business www.linkedin.com 2. FaceBook – Social Network, business and personal www.facebook.com 3. MySpace – Social network, primarily personal www.myspace.com 4. Ning – Private Social networks www.ning.com 5. Plaxo – Contact synchronizer www.plaxo.com 6. ZoomInfo – Business directory www.zoominfo.com 7. Spoke – Business Directory & Social network www.spoke.com 8. Jigsaw – Business Directory & Social Network www.jigsaw.com 9. YouTube – User generated video www.youtube.com 10. Twitter – Text-like social network www.twitter.com 11. Pownce – File Sharing social network www.pownce.com , Closed in 2009 12. Flickr – User Generated Photo sharing www.flickr.com 13. Zooomr – User generated photo sharing and text for mobile www.zooomr.com 14. Yahoo Answers – User generated questions and answers www.answers.yahoo.com/ 15. LinkedIN Answers – User generated questions and answers www.linkedin.com 16. Google Answers – User generated questions and answers www.answers.google.com/answers/ , Closed in 2009 17. FaceBook Groups – Common interest based groups www.facebook.com 18. Yahoo Groups – Common interest based groups www.groups.yahoo.com 19. Google Groups – Common interest based groups www.groups.google.com 20. Grou.ps – Common interest based groups www.grou.ps 21. Blogger – Blog platform www.blogger.com 22. Wordpress – Blog platform www.wordpress.org 23. Typepad – Blog platform www.typepad.com 24. Del.icio.us – Social bookmarking www.del.icio.us 25. Ma.gnolia – Social bookmarking www.ma.gnolia , Closed for redevelopment - expected to reopen Fall '09 26. Furl – Social Bookmarking www.furl.com 27. Reddit – Submit, vote on, and rank news www.reddit.com 28. Digg – User submitted reviews of websites, services, blogs www.digg.com 29. Technorati – User reviews of what’s happening on the live web www.technorati.com 30. StumbleUpon – User reviews and web channel surfing www.stumbleupon.com 31. Pandora – User defined internet radio www.pandora.com 32. Last.fm – User defined Internet radio www.last.fm 33. Skype – Social network, IM, and VOIP www.skype.com 34. Jaxtr – VOIP linked to websites, blogs and social networks www.jaxtr.com 35. Fon – By, sell, and share wifi connections www.fon.com 36. Meebo – Web based multi platform IM www.meebo.com 37. Google Maps – Mashup maps with other data www.maps.google.com 38. Yahoo Maps – Mashup maps with other data www.maps.yahoo.com 39. Google Calendar – Shared and mashup calendars www.google.com/calendar 40. Evite – User generated invitations and events www.evite.com 41. Meetup – User generated special interest group meeting listings www.meetup.com 42. Eventful – Create and share events www.eventful.com 43. Favorville – People helping people www.favorville.com 44. Prosper – Peer to Peer lending www.prosper.com 45. Indeed – Job listing aggregator www.indeed.com 46. SimplyHired – Job listing aggregator, also on LinkedIN www.simplyhired.com 47. FeedDemon – Manage RSS feeds www.feeddemon.com 48. Wikipedia – User created encyclopedia www.wikipedia.com 49. Razume – User submitted resumes, professional community review & Feedback www.Razume.com 50. Clusty – Cluster Search results in folders www.clusty.com
This is just a list of my favorites. There are hundreds of Web 2.0 tools available on the web today.
How will you Web 2.0 your job search?
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