Where do you find a job?•Online

•Newspapers•Phonebooks

•Talking to friends/looking for help-wanted signs

Online

• www.careerbuilder.com

• www.monster.com

• www.usajobs.gov (for government jobs)

• http://www.thehawkeye.com/classifieds/employment/

• Specific websites…like Lowes, Target, Mediapolis School District, etc.

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• Facebook– Ask your friends on FB– Ask on FB pages like Burlington Buy Sell Trade– Ask on FB pages like SE Iowa Job Opportunities

• Twitter– Ask your followers– Use good hashtags such as: #lookingforajob

#education #science– Don’t use silly hashtags like

#gottagetajobormymomwillkillme

Look in the newspaper and look for help-wanted signs

• Look at the classifieds of newspapers.

• Go to the stores you want to work at and ask if they are hiring.

Phonebooks

• The yellow pages can also be a good source of info.

• The phonebook has white pages and yellow pages. White pages are businesses and people listed alphabetically (by last name, if it is a person). Yellow pages are listed first by category (bagel stores, plumbers, schools, etc.) and then alphabetically by store name.

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• After you graduate from college, you will be looking for a CAREER. A job that you will hopefully work at for a long time, will make “lots” of money at, and will be in the field that you went to college for.

• Yellow pages are good to use when you are trying to find places to apply to for your CAREER.

CAREERS

• Once you find some places you might want to apply to, you may decide to send them a resume. We will discuss how a resume is different from a job application later.

• YOUR ASSIGNMENT: find 7 places that you can apply to, using the yellow pages of a phone book. (The teacher will now tell you how to do this…)