Newsgroups are online, message-based communities of people with
common interests. Each newsgroup is dedicated to a topic, and
you may write, search, read and reply to messages about that
topic. Several newsgroups are job and career related.
Some groups are dedicated to employment advertising, while
others are dedicated to resume submissions, job wanted messages,
or general discussions about employment and careers. The Usenet
Employment Newsgroups are a very productive source of job
posting. Thousands of jobs are posted to the various Newsgroups
each day and these opportunities are often overlooked by most
online job seekers. Many Employers, Recruiters, and Job Sites
automatically post their positions to the Newsgroups, and the
groups serve as a Meta Job Search Engine. Unfortunately, since
these are all free postings and anyone can post to newsgroups
the groups are filled with off topic posts, scams, and other
worthless junk.
Tips for Your Job Search
Most online job seekers do not use the employment newsgroups.
Most job seekers concentrate their efforts on the large
commercial job sites and the employment newsgroups require some
time and effort to investigate and use efficiently. Use the
JobMetaSeek Newsgroup Directory to determine if any of the
employment groups could be useful in your job search. Look for
employment newsgroups serving your industry, occupation or
locations of interest.
If you decide to incorporate one or more of the newsgroups into
your job search, you will want to use a program specifically
designed for newsgroups. Web site interfaces, such as Google or
the newsgroup function in Outlook Express are not the best
methods to access this material. One of the best Newsreader
available is Agent. It is available free of charge or can be
upgraded for a small fee. The program comes with complete
installation instructions and it includes excellent filtering
tools. Once you configure the software, the process of
retrieving and reading the messages of interest is more or less
automatic.
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