The internet provides many easily accessible opportunities to enhance your job search, outreach, and networking. Your online job search will be more productive if you have narrowed your search to a specific geographic region and occupation. Knowing where you are willing to live or relocate is important to your search. Simply applying for every job in your chosen profession, knowing that you are not willing to relocate, is a waste of time for you and a potential employer.

Once you have narrowed your geographic preferences, visit the website of the city and the local Chamber of Commerce in that region. You can learn a lot about the employment opportunities, employment rates, and projected job growth of the particular region.

Job postings are often listed for governmental, community, and educational institutions on the city or Chamber of Commerce sites. They also include links to other sites creating a spider-web of promising links to support your online job search in a particular geographic region. Following these links opens up a variety of options to enhance your job search via the internet.

Focus your time and energy in the regions that attract you most for the most productive use of your time.

Employment Research Sites

• Professional Associations


• Research Organizations


• Government Agencies


• Educational Institutions


• Community Organizations


• Libraries

The best tools for locating websites are search engines and directories. Search on the name of the site or use topical and geographic keywords. There are many directories you can use to find sites