Internet: the Indispensable Tool for Job Hunting, The

Black Collegian, Feb 2004 by Bruce, Calvin

Also bear in mind that anyone receiving your documents electronically can forward them to other individuals with a few keystrokes. So try as much as possible to control where your personal information is sent and who receives it.

On a related matter: How are you identified in your personal e-mail address? Having an e-mail "handle" that's cute or provocative might be appropriate for personal, even intimate, communication. But an employer will likely look askance at receiving e-mail attachments (such as resumes) form "hot mamma," "hung stud," "gangsla boi," and the like.

Conclusion

The Internet offers unlimited resources to serious, committed African-American job seekers. With experience and appropriate creativity, you can become sophisticated in surfing the Web for sites that will help them launch their career and settle into a new job.

In exercising discretion and caution in job-hunting online, students can protect themselves while investigating exceptional opportunities that they would otherwise not know about through customary search efforts.

The Internet is definitely the "wave of the future." Those who ride the wave successfully will reach their career destination-and enjoy the journey along the way.

Calvin Bruce is a frequent contributor to TBC. He has worked for a dot-com employment firm and is a member of the Association of Internet Recruiting.