Online Universities
URL: www.phoenix.edu; www.kaplan.edu;
www.capella.edu
Background: According to Global Language Monitor's July 2010 ranking, the
three top online universities are the University of Phoenix, Kaplan University,
and Capella University.
General Description: Offer both courses
and degree programs, either by yourself
or interacting with an instructor or
other students online.
You can get a degree while job-hunting.
Usefulness to Job-Hunters: You can go to
school online, get trained in new skills,
etc., while still pursuing your job-hunt.
For example, you can get trained in such
skills as using a computer or particular
software programs, accounting, marketing, business plans, etc. You can even
get a college degree while job-hunting.
In ClosIng
search engine, they will turn up a number
of sites to help them with that job-hunt,
such as: www.jobswap.com, www.dol.gov/
vets, www.hireds.com, http://fedshirevets.
gov, and www.woundedwarriorproject.
org. Also, there are military skills translators, a list of which can be found at http://
vetsuccess.gov/military_skills_translators.
Now, on to the part of the job-hunt
that has moved online the most dramatically: your resume. u
For a complete list of social networking sites, go to the entry on Wikipedia,
found at http://tinyurl.com/k2jhx. You
can click on the little icon immediately
to the right of "Registered Users" and get
them listed in their order of popularity.
Another list, with monthly updates, is
available at Digital Market Ramblings,
found at http://tinyurl.com/d3ytpff.
You can stay up-to-date on social
media developments by subscribing to
the free daily e-mail called SmartBrief
on Social Media. Sign up at www.
smartbrief.com/socialmedia.
Each social media site has a different
scope, a different emphasis, and a different
audience. Look for the things that matter
to you. Choose a site appropriately. If you
have a particular issue, and you just don't
know how to fnd the appropriate social
site, do a search on Google. For example,
if ex-military who are hunting for help
in getting back into civilian life put "exmilitary job-hunting" into their Google
Richard N. Bolles has
led the job-search feld
for more than forty
years. A member of
Mensa and the Society
for Human Resource
Management, he
has been the keynote
speaker at hundreds of conferences. Bolles
holds a bachelor's degree cum laude
in physics from Harvard University, a
master's degree from General Theological
(Episcopal) Seminary in New York City,
and three honorary doctorates. He lives
in the San Francisco Bay Area.
DIVERSITY
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