How to Find a Job in a Down Market

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Brian Alden
CEO, Job.com
http://www.job.com  
877 - 7JOBCOM

Brian Alden is the founder and CEO of Job.com.  Headquartered in Fredericksburg, VA, Job.com was launched as a full service job board in the winter of 2001. Now, eight years later and with a database of over 4.6 million resumes, Job.com has become one of the fastest growing career portals on the Internet. On average, over seven million unique visitors flock to Job.com on a monthly basis to search for employment, access career advancing information and place highly qualified candidates from across the country.

 

Over the years Job.com has been forming a variety of alliances with companies who are the "Best of the Best" in their career services segment. The growing number of partnerships along with the site's continuous development of value-added features have converted Job.com in to a "one-stop shop" to help job seekers further their careers. Whether you are an employer looking for a new hire, or a candidate looking to be hired, Job.com is dedicated to bringing together great people with great companies.

How to Find a Job in a Down Market

In this video, career expert Brian Alden discusses ways to search for a job in a down economy as well as in any economy. This video is designed for job seekers of all career levels and provides insight on how to use Job.com and the Internet to find a better job. The entire video series includes an overview of how to start your job search and tips on networking, interviewing, salary negotiating and resume writing.

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Hi I am Bryan Alden, Founder and CEO of job.

com and today we are going to talking about what it takes to get a better job in a down economy as well as how to get a better job in any economy. If you are going to start a job search in a down economy there are some key things that you need to make sure of before you start that job search.

One, figure out what you want to be in your carrier, where you want to go, what you like about your current job, what you don't like about your current job and use that as your starting point to decide where you going to move your carrier path.

Before we get started let me tell you about myself. Job.

com is the fastest growing carrier port along the internet, receiving over seven million job seekers each month who search over 500,000 jobs that are available on the website each month. Additionally job.

com offers some of the best carrier tools on the internet today. Weather it is job finders, job alerts or whether it is resume distribution services, education centers. You can find everything that you need to help with your job search in 2009 at job.

com.

Prior to starting job.

com, I found several of the internet's earliest carrier management sites. Before to that I was an executive recruiter and even had my own executive search firm. So let's get started on getting you the tips that you need to find out better job.

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