Day 4: Maybe I answered the question already...

This is the first Sunday after I started this experiment and I checked the available Information Technology jobs in the Sunday paper. There are nine jobs and five of them are public/government jobs that are probably required to advertise by law. I can remember five years ago that there would be nine columns across two or three pages of IT jobs in the Sunday paper each week. While I know that the economy is not humming along as it was a few years ago, I have to believe that there are more than nine companies that are hiring in the Portland Metro area. There must be more than nine IT jobs that are available in he Portland Metro area, isn't there??? And on a related thought, how are newspapers staying in business these days?

Anyway, back to the topic at hand, how can I find these jobs? I guess that I will move on from the once a week job postings in the newspaper and move to the second approach. This week we will create an automated job search using tools at Monster.com and see if we can turn up any more than nine jobs. Does anyone know if there is an automated search engine that will notify me once or twice a week and let me know when jos are advertised? The alternative is to search each company website by website and searching for all open careers on their website. That seems to either reqire more time than there is in the day or looking at the right website at the right time by chance.

So fellow readers, I guess I am stumped and in need of suggestions about what way is the best way to search for jobs that match my skills and are a good fit for me and the company. If anyone can help, I would love to hear from you.

Thanks for your help.