The Internet today employs more people than the publishing or advertising industries and is laden with opportunities for job seekers. Due to the fact that many aspects of the Internet industry are still relatively new, people with little or no experience in specific fields can and often are considered as appropriate job candidates. The trick is to show a prospective employer, no matter who it is, how your current skills can be transferred to the job in question. Read, network, join organizations and attend meetings. Here are some tips that may help you in this area.
You must realize that the Internet is not just one industry. It spans many, and as such positions are many and vary from general categories of marketing and content development to finance and project management. Choosing a general category such as interactive marketing or electronic commerce, for example, will result in too broad a target base and a more effective search result will occur if you define sub-targets and then specific companies or projects within those companies that maintain an interactive structure.
The interactive market place is busy indeed. But you can get lost in it easily and time will be best spent if you concentrate on how interactivity specifically impacts your area of expertise. In order to do this, you must first determine how your skills fit into an interactive environment. Think about how you could solve a problem specific to whatever company interests you. Establish yourself as an interactive expert in your field. Don’t let this scare you; no one need go to graduate school to achieve this. Just read, get online often and surf the Net. You may end up taking a class or two, but familiarizing yourself with the current jargon, trends, alliances, and personalities that are shaping the future will probably aid you more in your job search than another degree.
Keep plugging away. You’ll get there.
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