ONLINE JOB SEARCH GUIDE from Job-Hunt.Org
Forbes Magazine Best of the Web for Job Hunting, 2002
June 13, 2002 - the only issue for June, 2002

1. INSIDER INFORMATION - Tapping the Hidden Job Market by Susan Joyce
2. NEW, NEWSWORTHY, and/or INTERESTING SITES - 34 sites specifically for educators
3. JOB-HUNT NEWS - 2 New Sections Added to Job-Hunt (and Job-Hunt Goes on Vacation until July 8)
4. Subscribing and Unsubscribing - Directions for unsubscribing from (or subscribing to) the ONLINE JOB SEARCH GUIDE

1. INSIDER INFORMATION - Tapping the Hidden Job Market by Susan Joyce, Job-Hunt's Senior Job Hunter

Excerpt from Tapping the Hidden Job Market, the newest Job-Hunt article, which offers you several ways to dig out the 75% to 85% of the jobs that are never advertised on a Web site or in a newspaper or other publication.

This is just one of the many methods described for leveraging an association or society (like the ones in #2, below, for educators) to help you in your job search:

JOIN A COMMITTEE --

The best way to meet colleagues at other companies (where you may soon be working) is to join one of the association's committees.

At a minimum, it will give you people with whom you can speak when you go to the next meeting. At best, it will give you visibility with everyone in the organization and the opportunity to demonstrate your expertise as well as establish a good reputation for yourself.

Join one of the larger committees (usually the program or membership committees). You will get to meet more people than a smaller committee, and the workload is frequently light because it is spread among so many people.

These committees usually provide you excellent visibility inside an organization in exchange for a few hours of work every month.

In addition, both the program and membership committees usually offer you a good excuse to call potential employers and get contact names ("Hi, my name is Mary Jane Smith. I'm on the membership committee for the East Overshoe Financial Guru Society, and I'd like to invite your company's VP of Sales to attend our next meeting as my guest...").

If a committee requires some special skill (like the Web team), don't join the committee unless you have the skills necessary to do the job. If you don't have the skills necessary, let them know FIRST. Then, if they are flexible (or desperate!), you may have a chance to add to your portfolio of skills while you gain visibility.

The REAL goal is to demonstrate your expertise in your field and to expand your number of contacts and your sphere of influence.

Add the association name and the committee membership to your resume (in a "Professional Affiliations" section, perhaps), particularly if you are the chairperson of the committee. Association names and acronyms can be very important keywords for recruiters searching through a Web or a resume/applicant database! For MANY more tips, see "Tapping the Hidden Job Market!"

2. NEW, NEWSWORTHY, AND INTERESTING SITES - 34 Web Specifically for Educators

Associations provide you with a window into the famous 'hidden job market:"

• American Association for Adult and Continuing Education - no jobs, but a conference and links to adult learning resources
• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education - no jobs, but many resources
• American Association of Community Colleges - JOBS plus professional development, news, government relations, and more
• American Association of School Librarians - no jobs, but career development and continuing education resources, publications, resource guides, and much more
• American Association of State Colleges and Universities
• American Association of University Professors - no jobs, but conferences, workshops, and other events, publications, reports, news, and additional information
• American Association of University Women - a few jobs, plus conferences, fellowships, grants, research, and tons of other information
• American College Personnel Association - no jobs, but a career center, a national conference, and more
• American Council on Education - no jobs, but an extremely useful member directory (members are colleges and universities), news, and many other resources
• American Educational Research Association - JOBS, plus searchable member directory, conferences, fellowships and grants, and more
• American Library Association
• American Montessori Society - JOBS plus events, teacher programs, and more
• American School Counselor Association - no jobs, but career development and role definition material, publications, and other resources for both parents and counselors
• Association for Advancement of Arts Education - no jobs, but a good collection of resources and information
• Association for Career and Technical Education - no jobs, but career information, conventions, publications, and more
• Association for Educational Communications and Technology - JOBS, plus conferences, chapters, affiliates, directories, regional coordinators, and much more
• Association for Science Education - no jobs, but a plethora of resources and information for science teachers - conferences, discussions, publications, news, etc.
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development - no jobs (except at ASCD), but a national conference, news, resources and more
• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education - some jobs plus conferences, publications, and other resources
• Association of Research Libraries - JOBS plus publications, meetings, conferences, and other information
• Association of School Business Officials International - no jobs, but publications, committees, volunteer opportunities, meetings, and education links
• Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada - JOBS plus publications, news, a directory of Canada's universities, and more
• College and University Professional Association for Human Resources - JOBS plus compensation surveys, conference (U.S. and Canada), regional Web sites (U.S. and Canada), publications, and much more
• Correctional Education Association - a few jobs, plus a conference, chapters, resources, and other information
• Council of the Great City Schools for Urban Education in the 50 largest U.S. cities - no jobs, but professional development resources, publications, news, reports, and more
• EDUCASE - an association for transforming education through information technologies - JOBS plus conferences, seminars, institutes, and many other resources
• Education Law Association - no jobs, but events, publications, and other resources
• International Society for Music Education - regional conferences, committees, a marketplace, and other information
• Learning Disabilities Association of America - no jobs, but resources, events, and more
• Learning Disabilities Association of Canada - no jobs, but events, scholarships, research, and much more
• National Art Education Association - no jobs, but conferences, publications, news, and other resources
• National Association for College Admission Counseling - JOBS, plus conferences, professional development, and more
• National Association for Music Education - a few jobs in the Career Center, plus conferences, publications, and more
• National Association of Elementary School Principals - JOBS in the Career Center plus news and newlsetters, national conference, networking, and more
• National Association of Independent Schools - JOBS in the Career Center plus publications, conferences and workshops, and much more
• National Association of Teachers of Singing - a place to list your class offerings plus links to music-related Web job sites, plus events and publications
• National Collegiate Athletic Association - JOBS (to find them, click on the "Employment" in the left column of the home page), plus other information
• National Council for the Social Studies - JOBS, plus events, local chapters, a discussion board, and much more
• National Education Association - no jobs (except at the NEA D.C. headquarters), but employment links and tons of information
• National Education Writers Association - a few jobs, plus news, a member directory, publications, and more
• National Parent Teachers Association - no jobs, but national and state conventions, meetings, and lots of information

For tips on leveraging association Web sites in your job search, see the previous issues of this newsletter AND Job-Hunt's newest article, Tapping the Hidden Job Market, excerpted above. You'll also find more associations for engineering, medical and healthcare, accounting and finance, law and law enforcement, and information technology professionals in the NEW Job-Hunt "Associations and Societies" section.

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3. NEWS -- Job-Hunt News
   

Two new additions to Job-Hunt:

1. The article on "Tapping the Hidden Job Market" provides tips on reaching the 75% to 85% of jobs that are NOT advertised. (See an excerpt in the INSIDER UPDATE, above.)
2. The section named "Associations & Societies" containing all of the associations and societies collected and published in past issues of the Online Job Search Guide. As new issues are published, the section will be updated.

The next Online Job Search Guide will be published on July 11 -- Happy lonn-n-ng 4th of July!!

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