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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4593493" data-attributes="member: 35909">I was just searching today to find some means of contacting an old co-worker at the bookstore that was an EE major.  He works at FM Global now, and I finally managed to find him... on a networking site that offers almost no information.  For all I know, my contact request only stayed "in-site" and didn't end him an email notification.  Which would mean he won't even notice until he happens to go to said site again to check up.  It got me to thinking, though.What are some good resources for networking and job searching specifically in engineering and technical fields?  If it's a job search site, I VASTLY prefer ones that let you choose experience level.  I hate sifting through 8 pages of results with nothing but jobs for people with 10 yrs xp, 2 years xp, 5 yrs xp in a very specific job function, etc...  Putting in "entry level" or "entry" in the search field proves rather unreliable.Engineering Central has proven the most useful of all the internet sites I've seen, which...still isn't a great boast.Dice.com seems great, but too much of it is devoted to computer science/engineering, network security, and other things out of my field completely.The USAjobs site is basically required for searching federal jobs, but is a major pain to use and has yet to result in a single contact or job offer.  (Been plugging away there on and off for over half a year now).LinkedIn is the website I found him on, so I joined.  My page, if you'd care to join / connect with me: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=37037227&trk=tab_pro" target="_blank">LinkedIn: View Profile Sign In</a>Pretty bare bones, though.I'd really like some kind of headhunter service to help out, but locally there aren't any for engineering. I've found some online, many are employer-centric, to the point of some not even letting those looking for work search employers and instead requiring you to send all your information and *maybe* get contacted.  Even the user-friendly ones seem mostly like glorified job search sites with no actual help.  And as I had thought before looking for headhunters, they are pretty much exclusively looking for experienced professionals to fill niche or senior level positions.  Not much help for the just out of college sort.EDIT: May need to log in just to view the profile, sorry.  And for some reason searching my name doesn't result in finding it either.  Oh well.</blockquote>

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