Even More Useful Information

I'm going to vent about my little exercise in futility tonight. After publishing my information on Monster, I was pretty geeked. Naturally, you'd think it would be as fun, (if not more,) to do the same at Career Builder. No. It's not. Let me tell you this: when I graduated from college and was looking for my first job (some 6 years ago,) Career Builder was THE place. It was helpful, easy to navigate, and you could get in and out. You didn't need to spend three hours trying to figure out how to format your resume so it's not just one big, 4-page-long, run-on sentence that no employer in their right mind would take a second glance at. Specific example you say? Not example...reality. I did in fact spend a tremendous amount of time clicking and entering information everywhere possible. What's worse...there was no good place for me to put joblish codes. I finally just said "screw it," and made my resume private so no one search it.

Please don't get me wrong...I'm not bashing on Career Builder. It takes work to put yourself out there...I would just prefer that my work be rewarded with a decent looking finished product. It would be great if you could call Barney Stinson up and ask him for a video resume...that would solve all my problems (How I Met Your Mother reference.) Unfortunately, even though Laura-Land isn't always grounded in reality, that isn't possible. Soooo, I'm going to make Career Builder work. I'm not going to leave you hanging. I did find a solution. I put my joblish codes at the top of my resume, directly below my name and contact information. You can't get much more "pow" than that. I still haven't figured out how to format it, but that's another problem for another night (and don't worry...you won't have to hear about it again.) Once I did that, I started to think about my Monster page. I logged back in and added my joblish codes to my resume there as well. On Monster, I now have my codes in two highly noticeable places. The more you can get it out there, the more rewarding it will be.

To summarize my neurotic, type-A musings; I've successfully entered my joblish information into Monster, Career Builder, LinkedIn, Facebook, and now I'm going to tackle a new website that I just learned of. It's threaded through Career Builder. It's called Bright Fuse. I'm going to check it out and you'll hear about it in a couple of days.