The Job Search Has Gone High Tech

You don't buy compact discs anymore, and you probably download your books. The digital revolution has finally come to the job search. The days of printing your materials on paper and stuffing them into an envelope are over. You hear about jobs on the Web, you use the Web to learn how to write a résumé, and you upload your résumé or paste your information into Web forms.

Today's wise job-seeker knows that networking is still the heart and soul of the job search. You already do networking, even if only on a social basis. You get together with family, friends, and classmates. Now it's time to learn how to do job-search networking. Think of it as another form of job interviewing—only it isn't restricted to people who can offer you a job. It pays to network with anyone who can help you understand anything about the job search: how to prepare for the job search, how to learn about a particular company or industry, how to meet someone who might know of an opening.

Set the introduction you created aside for a while and then return to it, trying to review it as objectively as you reviewed the information you initially encountered on the Career Center's website. What are the strengths of having this information available as a primarily text-based document? What are the weaknesses? Imagine instead that you decided to develop a video version of the introduction. In a paragraph or two, outline how you would present this information as a video. Be sure to consider both visual and audio components. How does your video outline address some of the weaknesses you find in the text-based document? Does the video outline introduce any new potential weaknesses the print document would not contain?

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