Everyone has seen them. They invade your e-mails with useless information ranging from bogus vacations to prescriptions for pills that either don’t work or you don’t need. And in an online community, they’re worse, pitching their wares in public.
You know them as spammers, the scourge of the Internet. And historically, spammers and their non-human counterparts, spambots, have made life for community managers miserable.
Back in February, we blogged about what to search for when doing a job search using the very popular craigslist. In the ensuing months, it appears that as the recession, or, at the very least, unemployment drags on, the legitimate job postings are becoming harder to find.
Anyone who has looked at a newspaper job ads lately already knows the grim tale – There’s very little there anymore. Sunday want ads that used to take up an entire section now only span a few pages.
While the economy has something to do with this downturn, the Internet is also playing a major role. For a fraction to none of the cost, companies can post their opportunities on the countless job boards online.
At the forefront of this trend is craigslist. However, job seekers that are eager to find a position on craigslist can find that sifting through these posts can be both tedious and rather aggravating. Here are some tips to make browsing through craigslist a bit more manageable.
