What I have learned so far....

1. Jobsites that I go to daily: Indeed.com, Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com, Craigslist.com, Hotjobs.com, Jobs.com and Search4uinc.com. Indeed is good for finding new jobsites but it doesn't seem to catch everything from Careerbuilder/Monster or so I think at this point. I haven't gotten use to twitmyjobs or tweetmyjobs.com but will give more information later once I get it down.

2. I have been told to "market myself" and one way to do this is to set up a blog. I guess recruiters go look at these things so I decided today to do this.

3. Update resume to 2009 standards, don't have the career objective on it, that is so 2003. I had my HR director at my current job do mine and I trust her completely and have had 6 interviews so far so it must be working better than some. But it also could be that I can do so many different things, I am not tied down to just one job title.

4. Search4uinc.com has some great job search tools and one is get up an hour earlier. They say it is a full time job to find a full time job and I am really believing this. You don't get to just send your resume to all hiring companies anymore. You now have to register on their company careersite and depending on their requirements for username/password you should keep a notebook close by to keep your mind/brain from filling up with information that you may never use again. You then fill out an application, then upload your resume. This could take up to 15 minutes depending on the length of the application so x's that by 4 job posting = 1 hour of your day. x's that by 8 = 32 job app's a day.

4. You will get many junk/scam emails for employment. My suggestion is set up a new email address for employment so that you may be able to spot the scam's pretty fast and hopefully any real correspondence for a job opportunity won't be missed. I did this last month and find it nicer to keep this separate from my other email address.