Good afternoon, everybody. I"m pleased to be here with you, graduates of 2007. I"m a 1 , and students often approach me with 2 . You see, we are living in a society of great changes. With the presence of 3 , the process of getting a job in today"s world has changed for 4 .
Well, how can you use new technologies to help you7 First, let"s look at how you 5 . The traditional method of hunting for a job in the past required first, doing research on jobs that were 6 , typically by looking in newspapers, periodicals and magazines, as well as TV ads, and 7 . Then you decided where and for what post you were going to apply, put your resume 8 in a stamped envelope, and waited anxiously for someone to 9 .
Well, today, maybe the job search and 10 are very much the same, but the tools used are much more advanced, and they 11 . In fact, technology has not so much changed the process as enhanced it. The benefit, both for 12 , is that this makes the search more open to people of 13 from all over the world. But as more people are involved, it becomes 14 for the applicant than it ever was before.
The 15 for the working world today is learning these new and 16 and combining them with the older methods people have been using for years. For example, 17 , you can research employment not just in your city, but also in your state, your country, and 18 . You can copy information from a web page and paste it into a Microsoft Word document that"s easy to 19 . In many ways, it"s easier now. Just type your job application, click, and 20 ; it gets there in an instant.