歷年考研英語(yǔ)閱讀理解2004年01

[00:05.81]2004 Text1 [00:10.67]Hunting for a job late last year, [00:13.25]lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across CareerBuilder, [00:16.99]a job database on the Internet. [00:19.90]He searched it with no success [00:22.43]but was attracted by the site's "personal search agent". [00:26.37]It's an interactive feature [00:28.69]that lets visitors key in job criteria such as location, [00:32.93]title, and salary, [00:35.05]then E-mails them when a matching position [00:37.59]is posted in the database. [00:40.11]Redmon chose the keywords legal, [00:43.03]intellectual property, and Washington, D.C. [00:47.26]Three weeks later, [00:48.68]he got his first notification of an opening. [00:52.00]"I struck gold, " says Redmon, [00:54.63]who E-mailed his resume to the employer [00:57.04]and won a position as in-house counsel for a company. [01:01.38]With thousands of career-related sites on the Internet, [01:04.91]finding promising openings can be time-consuming and inefficient. [01:10.35]Search agents reduce the need for repeated [01:13.18]visits to the databases. [01:15.10]But although a search agent worked for Redmon, [01:18.13]career experts see drawbacks. [01:21.25]Narrowing your criteria, for example, [01:23.68]may work against you: [01:25.89]"Every time you answer a question [01:27.99]you eliminate a possibility," says one expert. [01:32.28]For any job search, [01:33.99]you should start with a narrow concept [01:36.72]--what you think you want to do--then broaden it. [01:40.76]"None of these programs do that," says another expert. [01:44.35]"There's no career counseling implicit in all of this." [01:48.39]Instead, the best strategy is to use the agent [01:51.72]as a kind of tip service [01:53.84]to keep abreast of jobs in a particular database; [01:57.68]when you get E-mail, consider it a reminder [02:00.69]to check the database again. [02:03.52]"I would not rely on agents for finding everything [02:06.53]that is added to a database that might interest me," [02:10.25]says the author of a job-searching guide. [02:13.56]Some sites design their agents [02:15.74]to tempt job hunters to return. [02:18.56]When CareerSite's agent sends out messages [02:21.08]to those who have signed up for its service, for example, [02:25.01]it includes only three potential jobs [02:28.24]--those it considers the best matches. [02:31.47]There may be more matches in the database; [02:34.40]job hunters will have to visit the site again to find them [02:38.13]--and they do. [02:40.04]"On the day after we send our messages, [02:42.46]we see a sharp increase in our traffic," [02:45.08]says Seth Peets, vice president of marketing for CareerSite. [02:50.42]Even those who aren't hunting for jobs may [02:52.83]find search agents worthwhile. [02:55.55]Some use them to keep a close watch [02:57.87]on the demand for their line of work [03:00.02]or gather information on compensation [03:02.64]to arm themselves when negotiating for a raise. [03:06.57]Although happily employed, [03:08.39]Redmon maintains his agent at CareerBuilder. [03:11.81]"You always keep your eyes open," he says. [03:14.43]Working with a personal search agent means [03:17.03]having another set of eyes looking out for you.

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