Employment

Employment and web technology is from either the perspective of either the employer or the job candidate.

Web technology also allows an individual to be proactive with their job search with tools.

Tech Jobs

Blue Collar

Blue collar jobs are generally hourly or manual labor jobs with more and more technology skils required. 

White Collar

Jobs in a company cubical or office environment, generally with 2, 4 or more years of collegiate degreed schooling.

Pink Collar

Jobs whose labor is related to customer interaction, entertainment, sales, or other service-oriented work and considered as 'Pink Collar' jobs (Wikipedia).

New Collar

Well paying tech jobs that don't require a 4-year degree and sometimes with specific skill-trained certification.

Employer

Make your business shine from your external web resources to your internal web resources.

Job Candidate 

Web technology resources are diverse for a job candidate.  Your employment strategy should include a plan to educate yourself on these resources.

Tools

• LinkedIn - a tool to connect the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful.

• Poachable - job candidate / employer anonymous matching service

• Praxis - Apprentice at a startup

• O-Net - the Occupational information Network is a free online database that contains hundreds of occupational definitions to help students, job seekers, businesses and workforce development professionals to understand today's world of work in the United States.

• Switch

Articles

• 8 Things You Need To Know About Applicant Tracking Systems

• Trying to Find a Job? 8 Little Ways to Make Your Job Search a Whole Lot Easier

• 6 soft skills that can boost your career

  1. Go beyond speaking the language 

     1. Listening skills

     2. Appropriate body language

     3. Asking the right questions

     4. Write clearly and convincingly

  2. Deeply understand true collaboration

     1. Teamwork

  3. Employers prefer problem solvers

  4. Technology skills are fundamental

  5. Work without a safety net by working with minimal supervision

  6. To err is human

• Human resources - watch for these red flags when hiring for a startup

Also See

• Resume

• Negotiation

• Staffing