Finding a job onlinewas all the rage five years ago. And while the Web remains a useful tool in determing whatkind of workyou’d like to do — and finding the perfect job — aresearch paperpenned by Christine Fountain at the University of Washington indicates that the Web might not be the job-finding tool it once was.
Scheduled to be presented at the American Sociological Association’sannual meetingnext week, Fountain’s research indicates that people searching for work online in 1998 had slightly better odds of finding a job — but that the advantage disappeared by 2000.
It seems that the days ofscanning resumesare over.