Career Exploration and Career Stuff on the Internet: Search for information
Career Exploration and Career Stuff on the Internet: Search for information
Series of Blog posts on career stuff. Focus will be on career exploration and Internet job resources. My hope that you will find the information helpful in your career journey.
As with anything you read on the internet, please evaluate the information you read and use the specific information that is helpful to you.
You want to find information on something – where do you go off to find it. I guess you could do a variety of different activities to find information. Some ideas could be
* Ask an expert (if you can find one)
* You can ask a person randomly off the street
* You could look at an ancient achieve looking through historic documents
* You could just guess
* You could do a search the Internet using a search engine
You could probably think of other ways to find information than those listed above – some ways to find information are likely to be more effective than others. I would like to focus on using search engines to find information on the Internet.
My guess is that most people are familiar with using search engines – places on the Internet that you can use to find information on the Internet. Google would be a common search engine.
If you are using a search engine, and you are not finding the information you are looking for – try the Help section. Sometimes a search engine may provide a help section. I like to use Google as an example in using a help section.
(going to give some information about the Help section – I am giving a description on how the Google web site looks from my computer screen, you computer screen may look different) (words in italic are words that were on the computer screen)
Go to google web site – www.google.com
You will find at the bottom part of the screen – you can find
Setting option
This will open a menu of different options – you can select
Search Help
Then scroll down to the
Filter & refine your results section
And select the option
How to Search on Google
You read about some ways to help you search on Google
One technique is when you are trying to search a phrase
If you scroll down
In the Expert Search Tips
You can select
Search Options
And you can read about how to search for a phrase in the section called
Search for an exact match
And you can read about putting a phrase (“ ”) when you want to find documents that have a particular phrase