The articles and helpful tips alone are extremely useful in putting together a job search campaign.  These little extras are not found in traditional job search venues. However, not all jobs are posted on the internet.  And if you limit your search to internet job boards, you may be excluding many active markets that should form part of your campaign.  Remember that internet job boards are accessible globally, thereby tremendously increasing the competition ratio.  It’s the first place most people look, so when you target a job through an internet job board, it has been viewed and possibly pursued by hundreds of other job seekers.  Internet job boards should be a primary search avenue, but not at the exclusion of the others.  There are many, more traditional pursuits that seem commonly overlooked nowadays, but are still viable job search tools.  Here a re a few:

The local newspaper: a focused, localized publication.  The advantage to print advertising is that the response will be limited.  Your competition ratio drops significantly.  It is indicative that the employer wishes to find someone locally, and the response will be limited to those who remember to make the effort and go out and buy the paper on Saturday morning. The newspaper is still host to many excellent opportunities, and should be included in the overall search.

Corporate career portals: some companies choose to post their jobs only on their own internal website. Logic dictates that if a candidate finds the posting, it shows they were specifically interested in the organization and demonstrates sincerity.

Municipal employment office: find the local employment office in your community and check it out. Commonly, student jobs will be posted here, but there are other positions listed as well.

College and university job boards:  either online or in person, check out the local college and university job postings, even if you are not a student. Many colleges and universities also hold quarterly job fairs.

Headhunters/recruiters: their primary goal is to find staff for employers. This means that at any given time, a headhunter many have several clients all actively pursuing new staff.  When employers enlist the services of a headhunter, their available jobs will be posted only by the headhunter, who may or may not choose to use the internet or other job boards.  This means it may not be posted anywhere, and you may not even know about the opening unless you are in contact with the recruiter.  Often recruiters have an adequate pool of candidates to choose from, that they don’t need to announce a new opening.  Get yourself into that pool.  Recruiters also regularly trade candidates amongst themselves, so it’s a good idea to be part of their network.

Networking: hugely productive in job searching, getting a networking campaign off the ground and continually making contacts in the business world often yields better results than any job board.

These are some of the more common job search avenues that should be included in your campaign.