If you''re thinking about a new job, now''s the time to aggressively pick up your search. Many people slow their job search down during the holiday months when in fact it''s one of the best times to look!

Here''s why. Many companies implement a new direction or strategy at the first of the year, resulting in a first of the year hiring surge. With new-year business strategies mapped out, companies start agressively looking for resumes and interviewing new job candidates in November and December.

Oddly enough, while employers start hiring, job seekers often decide to wait to mount their search until after the holidays, feeling that no-one will be hiring until then. This creates an optimal job seeking environment one with more jobs and less competition!

This is a good time for Resume Distribution

One of the best ways to take advantage of this situation is to give yourself massive exposure by signing up to all the top career sites as soon as possible. Of course it will take a little time, but it''s well worth it. The top career sites are visited by 1.5 million employers and recruiters daily - And collectively list millions of jobs.

If you want to save 60 hours of research and data entry, try a service called ResumeRabbit.com. They instantly post your resume to 90 the top career sites at once.

When searching for a new job, it''s important to work smart and cover a lot of ground. Today''s serious job seeker must take a multi-pronged approach to succeed. This should include networking, reading all the classifieds, posting your resume on all the top career sites and searching job listings on these sites daily.

From mid November to mid January, the holidays have a "slowing down" effect on the day to day business operations of a company. Many companies take advantage of this time to search for job candidates and do their interviewing for the coming year. If you wait until January to start your search you -- may be too late!

Beware there is yet another Job Search scam. This one involves you the "part time" sales person setting up a pay pal account so they can "transfer money into your account". Folks, be smart, never give anyone access to your personal information. Below is some of the text from the "job posting" NOTICE THE COMMON TYPOS

Thank you for your interest in the part time job offered by our company.

We are an electronics distributor from Europe. Starting from this month, we have extended our sales in United States but our profit was reduced because our banks have big fees for international bank transfers. We are seeking a trusted person who must supervise our sales from United States.

All you must do is to open a PayPal account to deposit money from our sales. We will ask our customers from United States to deposit the money into your PayPal account or to send you money orders on your address. We will announce you when money have arrived into your PayPal account. You will have to check everyday your account for updates.

Basicly you will have to work maximum 2 hours/day. For this, you will receive between 5-15% from all the funds that are in the PayPal account or from money orders. Once that the funds are in your possesion, you will keep the procent as following

- In the first week your procent will be 5% from the money

- Second week 7,5% from the money

- Third week 10% from the money

- after one month you will keep 15% from the money

You will have to send us the remaining funds through Western Union wire transfer.

So, in a few words that is the job you will do. Let us know when you have a PayPal account and we will send you another email with a small contract and we will start working immediatly.