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Web tools for the job hunt

As an outgoing fourth-year student with zero interest in immediately attending graduate school, I'm on the job hunt. Unfortunately, that puts me in league with a crazy number of other people, in a time when there are fewer and fewer jobs to be had.

It really is a scary time to be looking for a job - or even a summer internship - but thankfully, there are some great tools on the Web designed to help you not only find, but also land, the job of your dreams. There are tools for sprucing up your resume, for making connections with people you should know and for actually hunting down jobs in basically any field. Of the many (just Google it), these are five of the best tools to assist you with your job search.

1. LinkedIn: LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com) is one of the biggest and best places to both network and get a job available to you. It's a huge social network, full of millions of people in every stage of life, every profession and with all kinds of interesting experience and advice to share.

Building a profile is easy - you can update all your information or even just import your r

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