You need to approach a job search website not from point of view of someone who wants a job, but from point of view of person who has to handle hundreds of applications.

Ultimately, it's that person's hopes and dreams for getting through mass of applications that matters, not your hopes and dreams vis-a-vis your career.

Here's how you can make that person's dreams come true:

• KISS--keep it simple and short.

• Provide everything asked for in application. Someone who has to sort through a hundred applications a day doesn't necessarily have time to visit your website, or ask you again for required writing sample, or even clarify any part of job advertisement.

• Make sure very first sentence of your cover letter specifically references job in question in a way that makes it clear this is not a form letter (even if it is a form cover letter after first line). Even something fawningly polite--no, especially something fawningly polite--such as "Thank you for allowing me opportunity to apply for your..." will greatly increase your chances of ending up in recycling bin.

Job Search Websites: Advanced Users' Cheat Sheet

1. After applying online, work your network to try to make a human connection at company. The person who posted job has probably already turned phone off for fear of going deaf from job applicants' calls. But if you can somehow get within a few degrees of separation of that person's assistant, or even a co-worker, you may be able to get face time you need to jump out of resume slush pile.

A tight knit team is a group of competent individuals who care deeply about each other and are fiercely committed to their mission. They are highly motivated to combining their energy and expertise to achieve common objective. From our observation and studies on building teams, we have found three primary conditions that have to be met in order to attain higher levels of team performance and member satisfaction.

• Resources and Commitment
• Ownership and Heart
• Learning

These three conditions are heart and soul of teamwork but are not blueprints. Every team is unique, and requirements and details of its teamwork have to be worked out separately. Let’s look closer at condition number two – Ownership and Heart.

This condition necessary for teamwork to blossom requires that building teams occur from “inside out.” In other words, people have to work hard at developing “team friendly” attitudes, values and beliefs. Teamwork functions best when people believe it from heart and act or think with integrity and in a way that is aligned with basic team principles. Tightly knit teams are built on attitudes, mindset, and values as much as policies and systems to support them. At its most basic level key to unlocking power of teamwork “Genie” depends on willingness of team members to rub lamp of responsibility. Stake holders in team need a passion for personal management to “install” teamwork and to nurture it. The seeds of teamwork have to be planted, cared for, and developed by members themselves. As we stated before, building teams doesn’t come from outside in, it comes from inside out.

There is no question that “outside” forces will impact ease and speed with which teamwork takes hold. But those forces do not control heart and will of individuals. Each member is responsible for his/her actions to group. There are so many people who just don’t get idea of responsibility and yet these same people tell us that they can’t remember last time that they had a serious teamwork experience. Some say that they have never felt power, energy and enthusiasm that comes from a solid team experience.

All too often organization members are unaware of level and quality of teamwork that is going on around them. They are too busy competing against each other to think about it much. In any social structure, if people are not willing to take responsibility, get involved or become interested in what is going on, they deserve what little luck gives them. Members forgo their right to complain about level of morale and quality of work life when they don’t assume responsibility, assist in building teams, and help to foster teamwork.