I am starting a whole new job tomorrow and I have a *leetle* bit
of that stomach feeling you get at the top of a steep, unknown ski
slope.
Since this is my first change of companies in a while, I am very much not an expert in job change. In fact, my anxieties (about interviewing, about being without the certain status of a job for a while, about messing with my comfortable circle friends and routine in DC) partly motivated the actions of my whole last year. I was on a challenge to face the changes I feared.
But I found myself IMing and emailing with several folks from the old team in the last week about their potential searches, so I thought I'd write up a few experiences here, as some data that other might find helpful.
The Want Ads
Most useful online sites:
- Monster
- If your local paper has its own online listings, they may get some that don't appear elsewhere, so you probably want to sign up on their site.
- My local paper and many others are partnered with Monster, so you get two for the price of one
- Idealist.org: an excellent source of jobs in the non-profit, association, and foundation world.
- Craig's List: believe it or not, an excellent resource with many items that do not seem to appear in the more official listings. I think it's partly small companies and partly large companies with horrible HR where people need to do an end run by just going right to the public.
Really want to geek out? I set up the toolbar on my browser so I had a minimenu of the jobquest sites and could run through them right in a row very quickly. I set up search agents on Monster and Idealist to email me once a week.