On-line facilities make job hunting easier

Cal State Long Beach arts major Brookes Reeder visits the Academic Computing Services in LA-371.three to four times a week to use the computer facilities for his classroom assignments.

He also takes time to check on his home page that contains information on his interests and links to various sites of interests on the World Wide Web of the Internet.

Soon, he hopes to post his resume and portfolio on the page in search of job.

"It is an opportunity to market my works by making my portfolio. freely available to the world," he said.

Reeder is taking advantage of the new development on the Internet whereby job applicants use the resource as an additional job hunting tool.

Apart from individuals marketing their skills, sites have recently sprung up offering free job listings and resume-marketing services for applicants, especially students.

JobTrak, the employment newspaper made available to students by the campus career services center, for instance,now has an on-line edition complete with job search service at http://www.jobtrak.com, for students and alumni.

Those wishing to use the service must however have the university's password.

Some other resources such as StudentCenter not only offers a free on-line guide for resume writing, cover letters and thank-you notes, it also has an interactive "career doctor," that helps students discover careers based on individual skills and interes ts.

Students visiting the Monster Board have access to search a database containing about 45,000 jobs worldwide.

The Career Path limits its services to providing help wanted ads from five major newspapers.

Another site, Career Talk features weekly columns that answers questions about careers at http://www.career.talk.com

History major Marco S. Sobias hopes to participate in the on-line career search soon.

"It's always better to advertise in many places," he said, "Many people get to see you."