Appendixes
Best Bets for Extending Your Search: Other
Internet Job Guides
While "Job Search and Employment Opportunities: Best Bets from the Net" is
the first guide to highlight the best of the employment related information
available on the Internet, we'd be remiss if we didn't acknowledge the
existence of other guides which may also prove useful in your job search.
Several of these we've come to call "mega-guides" because of their all
inclusive nature and the fact that they point the way to so many different
resources, big and small, emerging or folding, helpful and, sometimes, not so
helpful. These "mega-guides" gave us a good initial start in our research
and may do the same for you.
The second category of employment guide we found were the field specific
guides, those whose scope was much more narrow than the "mega-guides," but
who served their target audience equally well. These smaller guides are
ideal for individuals concentrating their search in one well defined
discipline.
So, for the record, please feel free to consult the following guides:
Two valuable online resources that should not be overlooked are publicly
accessible mailing lists and news groups. While not usually dedicated to
employment opportunities, these message exchange services focus around a
central subject -- be it geology or baseball card collecting. Those with
a professional bent often list relevant job openings. To find a mailing
list or news group that matches your interests, you might check out the Publicly
Accessible Mailing Lists guide by Stephanie da Silva.
Best Bets for Navigating the Internet: Tips for
Beginners
You're viewing just one page in a vast, interconnected world of
information on the World Wide Web. The Web is becoming increasingly
synonymous with the Internet, the global network of networks, connecting
thousands of computers and people. If you're new to "surfing" on the
Internet, here are some best bets that you may want to
visit in order to familiarize yourself with this new cyberspace.
Internet and World Wide Web in General
World Wide Web Organized by Subject
The Web is not really organized; it's actually very chaotic.
Still, there are some brave attempts being made to organize it by subject
area:
Searching the Internet
If you're tired of "surfing," you may want to try searching for the
specific information you're after. A number of sites on the Web allow
you to enter keywords relevant to your interest. Every few months, a bigger
and better search tool
pops up on the Web. The best tools are always overloaded. Here are a
few to try:
- Lycos, the latest and greatest,
nearly always overloaded because it works so well.
- WebCrawler,
which tries to rank the most relevant matching documents at the top of the
list.
Internet Connectivity Problems
Many aspects of Internet connectivity are particular to your unique
situation. Asking questions of your closest computer guru (or geek) is often
your best bet to figuring it all out.
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