21 Looking for a job The one thing we all worry about is how to find a job as quick as possible to get started in the US. Oftentimes, the temptation is to start looking for a job before leaving, and to send tons of resumes with your home address. In my humble opinion and it just that, an opinion, it is not worth much in terms of results. It is true that internet gives you access to lots of jobs, but it has also increased the number of resumes received by companies exponentially. Sending a resume from abroad presents two problems: the first is that a foreign address can be enough to delivery you to the trash bin in no time; the second is that your resume might not be written the way they are expected to be here. I found out that resumes here are a lot shorter than in Italy, and written differently. For instance, in Italy people tend to put their birth date on the resume, while here is totally not done because of age discrimination laws.  Another little thing: in the US, you put the month first: 6/1 means 1st of June, not the 6th of January like in many -most-countries. Don't ask me why, I haven't figured it out yet; what is important is that  before hitting the send button you want to do some homework and learn how things are done here. There might be other things that are done differently in your country, and if you do not take care of these differences you are going to disqualify yourself from a job. There are a lot of books dedicated to resume writing, and you will find a lot of them in your public library. A good website to start preparing yourself is the section of Monster on resume writing.   Recently, my favorite website to look for jobs has become Indeed, which is basically an aggregator of jobs offerings from different websites. It has a very clean interface, and it speeds up things considerably. Below is a list of the biggest  sites for a job search. It is not inclusive, and remember that local newspapers might help considerably. Monster is probably the most famous site. Career Builder Hot Jobs Yahoo's site Dice specialized in IT jobs Executive Registry, for jobs that pay more than $100,000 As everywhere else in the world, networking is a critical success factor for getting the right job. For an immigrant, this presents an interesting challenge. I called a lot of people even before moving to the US, checking if they had friends or colleagues I could could have contacted. In my opinion, this kind of activity is a lot more productive than emailing resumes that will receive scant attention, if any.