Everyone advises you to post your resume on leading sites like Monster.com and HotJobs.com. And there's nothing wrong with that — my clients have been hired using both.

But don't forget the growing number of job postings found on niche Web sites that cater to specific industries, associations and other affinity groups.

This tactic worked for one of my clients Carla S., from Marshall, Minnesota.

"I interviewed for and got offered a great job this week after applying to openings on sites from my industry, like www.jobsinlogistics.com and www.careersinfood.com ," says Carla.

Action Step: Follow Carla's lead and focus your search on sites that appeal to a narrow audience. As a result, you'll likely find less competition for jobs that are closely matched to your qualifications.

Find niche job boards at sites like www.nicheboards.com and by doing searches for keywords ("YOUR INDUSTRY + jobs") at search engines like www.google.com, www.yahoo.com, www.teoma.com and www.kartoo.com.

Compliments of David Perry and Kevin Donlin

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Only 1% of  resumes that pass through a hiring managers hands grab their attention.  The 15-30 seconds scanning time mentioned by some is bunk! You need to approach the way you write a resume to be in that 1%.   Your resume needs to do only two things:

1. - 1st grab the reader’s attention in milliseconds, and
2. - 2nd give them sufficient rich content to make them call you.

Fail to achieve those 2 fatal requirements and your resume will be recycled.