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I found Careers in Collections more or less by accident. In fact I found them because I follow Philip King , the CEO of The Institute of Credit Management , on Twitter , and Careers in Credit Collections follows him.

If you're actually looking for a career in collections - and you've got experience in collections - then you'll find twenty-one jobs on that site alone. Those twenty-one jobs though, aren't the point of this post.

The real point is that there are opportunities all over the internet - but you may not find them if you don't use the internet fully - and with discrimination.

I have to say that I didn't see the point of Twitter when I first looked at it - too many people with nothing to say, and all of them saying it far too often - but I've come to realise that Twitter is a very useful tool. I didn't see the point of LinkedIn or Naymz either - but I see the point of them, now, too.

I'm not looking for a job - I'm looking for business - but I stumble over job advertisements all the time. I find them by accident, because I happen to follow somebody on Twitter - or somebody happens to follow me. I find them because I joined Groups on LinkedIn and they turn up as advertisements in my in-box. They come in occasionally via Naymz - and sometimes even via Ecademy .

It was time-consuming - and frankly quite boring - to fill in all those profiles and join all those Groups that bring me in all that information. But it was worth it. Use the internet. Get everything out of it that you can.

Geoff - http://www.metlissbarfield.com/