Chapter 16. Courting a Corporate Partner—Online
In the previous chapter, we checked out online job dating. Just you and millions of others. What an intimate little group.
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Instant Internetting
Online matchmaking is even more fun when you have a specific business or industry in mind.
How many of the apps you've posted online received mass e-mailed or suspicious file attachments? From someone in a third-workingworld country who wants to pay less than minimum wage? Or from someone hyperventilating about investing your money in a pyramid scheme? Or perhaps someone trying to trick you with a get-rich-quick scheme?
These are computerized clues that you're doing something wrong.
Using employer database services is not hazardous to your health. Relying on them is!
Continue your face-to-face instant interviews. Just add these sites to automatically work for you 'round the clock.
Picking Corporate Partners
The corporate courting dance is a two-step:
Use the search engine. Input the name of a business you respect.
Do a search for your type of work. Some corporate sites will appear.
Treat these leads the way you'd treat any other legitimate job opportunity:
Research the web site. Find out all you can about the business and its needs.
Note the buzzwords (and buzzphrases) so you can buzz like a bumblebee.
Do another in-depth online search for the business name to see if you can dig up any news stories, prognoses, and problems (translation: opportunities).
Restructure your ...
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