It331 Unit 1 Assignment

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Unit 1 Assignment Kaplan University IT331-01 Part 1: Introduction The world of technology today has so many avenues to get your resume or “face” seen in the job market. From Facebook to Linkedin to Job websites to My Space, you can search for jobs, look at requests and even just put yourself out there. I have many times in my career been approached with a job opportunity through a social website more so than an official job website. When you discuss your skills or even just update where you work that can trigger a networking society. I think people will navigate towards the associations that they are more comfortable in, in their career fields or what they can afford. Part 2: The Associations I have to be honest. I didn’t have a Facebook for the longest time and I was old fashion in the sense that I only used job websites like USAJOBS or Monster or Career Builder when it came to looking for another job or finding a job more in the career field I wanted to be in. For this paper I have chosen some of the more popular sites: Facebook, Linkedin and a new only that my husband showed me called RallyPoint. I had never even heard of this site until only day on Facebook, I was looking at the newsfeed and I saw a like post from my husband that was for Rally point. In the following paragraphs, I will discuss the cost, advantages and disadvantages of these three associations. I just joined Linkedin and RallyPoint so my experience will be limited. Part 3: The Cost All of the sites, I have chosen for this paper are free at or for a slight cost you can have Premium services. Like most websites, they lure you in with free to set-up but then limit what you can do so you feel like you should pay the money for the other services. I don’t think you can call a service or website free when you have to pay to get anything out of it. Part 4: The Advantages Some of the

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