Gig List - Dec. 11, 2008

Wow, it is slow. Today there are green opportunities for transportation bloggers and a techie developer. There is a potential ice storm headed here, so in case the gig list is delayed (or missing!) tomorrow, please know it is weather related and I will post it asap. Also, just a reminder that Part 2 of Green Gig's series, "Job Application Advice from Top Green Employers" will be up this weekend, so stop by and get some more pointers from another great green employer!

As a topic of conversation, how much personal information do you share when you apply for jobs online? The good-ole days of printing out resumes and cover letters on fancy paper and mailing applications to employers are more or less gone. Now, with a click of a button, your information is sent directly to potential employers almost immediately. But often job ads are blind, some for legitimate reasons and some not. So who is really reading your resume? Personally, I have two resumes, a traditional one and one with an email address, but minus my address, phone number, dates of employment, graduation dates, ect. If the ad is blind or I do not have much information on the company, I send the second resume. Now whether I have lost any potential gigs because of this, I don't know, but I have still landed gigs applying this way.

How about you - do you do anything to protect your personal information when you apply for jobs? If so, what?

These listings have been removed because they were posted in Dec. 2008!