The Job Search — Then and Now
The 1990’s Perspective
I’m fortunate, or unfortunate, depending on how you look at it, to have been part of the workforce searching for an Information Technology Programming job in the latter part of the last century. It was a different world back then: there was more face to face contact and telephone interaction, and the postal service was still a popular way of sending job applications.
Finding the Job Without Many Online Resources
To find a job in the pre-online world, you had to use your own initiative to find avenues to search for jobs offered. The difference today is that the jobs are mostly advertised online, so there isn’t much difficulty in finding available jobs. However, this leaves the onus on the applicants to find ways to stand out to be selected from the many applicants who have access to the online employer postings.
Without access to an electronic pool of jobs in the 1990’s, you had to find creative ways to look for job opportunities. The five methods below are just some of those that were used then and can still be used today but may not be as popular.
#1: One of the standard places to visit when unemployed was the Government Employment Centre. Unemployed job hunters would go to the centers frequently in person to view new job postings on boards or online through special…
