This is the first guide devoted to showing how to use the resources of the Internet to conduct a national or international job search; keep current in your field, find top experts, track the competition; use online resources to prepare for job interviews; and connect with major employers through electronic job banks. Includes hundreds of job listings and career resources.
Pam Dixon (www.pamdixon.com) is an author, researcher, and the executive director and founder of the World Privacy Forum, an internationally recognized non-profit public interest research group focused on conducting research on societal and human rights topics, particularly those where privacy intersects with technology. Dixon has written seven books for major publishers and has published hundreds of articles, as well as influential privacy research and studies. Her work focuses on emerging issues, and often intersects with technology-related issues.
Dixon's work in privacy includes substantive longitudinal research studies which are much-cited and highly regarded, as well as journal articles and testimony before lawmakers and state and federal agencies, as well as work with the international community. Dixon speaks frequently as an expert lecturer in the US and abroad. She also works with other NGOs to create consensus on key issues in privacy. She is well-known as the originator of the Do Not Track idea created in a consensus meeting she held.
Dixon has also written extensively about technology as a book author and as a former New Media columnist for the San Diego Union Tribune. She wrote the first book to ever be published about the subject of online job searching, a book for Random House / Times Books which went on to be a finalist for the Computer Press Awards. Her book on distance education is a classic. Dixon is frequently quoted in the media regarding privacy and consumer rights issues. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Fortune, U.S. News and World Report, Newsweek, Business Week, The Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, The San Francisco Chronicle, Reader's Digest, USA Today, the Sunday Times (London), Wissen (Germany), and many others have featured and quoted Dixon. www.pamdixon.com
