Internet can assist, frustrate, job seekers

From KNXV, November 25, 2008...

Job seekers might be tempted to spend most of their time using Internet services to find employment. There are, after all, so many options out there.

But relying on Web sites rather than networking, research and perseverance won't get you far, University of Tampa career-services director Tim Harding advises.

"If all that you do is click away on the job boards ... it is like climbing to the top of the (university) minarets with a stack of resumes and tossing them into the air," he said. "The likelihood is they're going to be tossed into trash cans or blown away as litter."

The Internet is "one of the ways" to job search, he suggests, but not the one to yield the best results.

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