Job search tips by Jade Gordon

Something that accelerates my job hunting is using Google Reader.

http://www.google.com/reader/

This is a "news reader" (You don't HAVE to use Google, there are other
news/feed readers). Essentially, a reader collects posts from blogs and
other sites set up to supply "feeds", and puts them all in one spot. I
made a "Jobs" category in my reader. Here are some of the places that have
feeds with Graphic Design job listings (even if only once in a while).

http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=graphic+designer&l=seattle&from=rss
This is actually a site that collects listings from various places and
serves them in feed format.

http://marketplace.nwsource.com/jobs/
Seattle Times listings. You would have to input your own search criteria,
and get it's own feed.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Coroflot/AllJobs
Coroflot

http://www.designspongeonline.com/jobboard/
Design Sponge

http://feeds.feedburner.com/GamasutraJobs
Primarily for the Video Game and animation fields, every so often, they
look for Graphic Designers here.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/med/
Yes, all the categories of Craig's List have their own feeds!

I'm always looking for more places to add! A lot of sites I still have to
check manually, especially those that have complicated search functions as
the main way to check listings. I wish the temp agencies I joined would
use this too, it would make things so much simpler. The main advantage
other than the aggregation is speed. These are all "live" feeds, which
means I can see things relatively close to posting time. I mostly live on
the feeds right now, and you might even find a lot of listings get pulled
fairly quickly because they get a lot of responses from it. I like to try
to be one of those first responses!

Anyway, the advantage of school and attending all the events you can is
the in-person networking, and that is always going to be more valuable.
Still, it can be a good idea to keep an eye on the listings, watch for
trends, and so on. I find that this speeds things up, and I probably spend
about 75% less time reading listings with this advantage of a more
one-stop method.

Jade Gordon
http://www.design-by-jade.com