Gigonomics: Welcome to Cyber Jobbing

Negotiating the fibrous world of online job searching is an exhaustive endeavor all its own, and if you’ve plunged into Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice or Indeed, you’ve probably come to think that 1) there are tons of jobs out there and 2) you aren’t a fit for any of them.

This is especially true if you come from an industry as wrenched apart as mine. In print media, a top job is like a plucked chicken tossed into a tub full of piranhas—gone the instant it hits the water.