Cloud Computing Resources for Your Next Job Search

If you need to create a flowchart, Lovely Charts is a great alternative to Microsoft Visio. It's easy to use, web-based, and extremely flexible. Even if flowcharts aren't your thing, you can do it with Lovely Charts.

Check out a nice sample of some behavior based questions you may encounter in interviews these days. It would be wise to have an answer or two for each of the questions listed.

Indeed is a search engine that expands your search for jobs from many different sources. It's worth using rather than having to check every different site like Monster, Dice, etc.

While many of us might not go so far as creating some of these business cards, they may inspire you to put some creative element onto your own.

Toodledo is a task list tool which helps you organize all your projects and tasks. Since it's online, it's accessible anywhere you need it, including on your iPhone. There is a free version as well as a paid version, which the main difference is sub-tasks and the length of time your completed tasks are stored. Be sure to check out the comparison chart to see how Toodledo compares to the competition. One great way I've used Toodledo is integrated to an iPhone app called Appigo Todo. It helps you manage all your tasks in a way that follows the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. The products work well together and really help with tracking your tasks as well as seeing accomplishments.

Emurse is a place to input your resume online and create as many as 10 different resumes, depending on the focus you'd like to highlight in each. Once you have your base information entered, just select which sections you'd like on each resume, create it, distribute it, and see who's looking at your resume. As a free service, it's certainly worth checking out.

Vistaprint is the place to go to get 250 professionally designed, full-color business cards for free. You can upgrade the free product for an add-on price. One consideration, it may be worth paying the extra money to not have the back side of the card glossy as it could then be written on by people you hand it to.

Recommended by a friend named Jenn, Lunalux creates high quality business cards and personal branding products.

Odesk is a way of connecting people to employers online and building a reputation for your skills and services. Check out the video on the home page. It explains how the service works and how a distributed workteam can benefit companies and workers.

While not a cloud app, Open Office gives you basically all the features of Microsoft Office except the price. Open Office is a free product to download and has equivalent programs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. If you're used to having MS Word before you left your last employer and don't want to shell out the dough for your own copy of MS Office, give Open Office a try. It even allows you to save your files in MS Office formats so you're sure everyone else you give the file to can read it. Open Office also allows you to output your files as PDF documents.

Lifehacker tips on making a great resume and business plan.

As it turns out, MS Office has an online template for tracking your job search. It works in Excel 2007. Check it out and tweak it to meet your needs.

Lifehacker is a great site to find the best of the best in productivity ideas and applications. One word of warning, you can get hooked on reading Lifehacker articles and forget about being productive. Taken in moderation, Lifehacker is an invaluable resource. One thing in particular to use Lifehacker for is finding "the best" whatever. They regularly conduct polls of the best app for this, that, or the other thing and their users vote on it.

If you need to promote your own personal brand, Zazzle is the way to do it. Create custom printed or embroidered shirts, jackets, or whatever, with no minimum orders and fast delivery. Fantastic prices on the products that are truly one of a kind.

Take some time to evaluate your Facebook account and your current security settings. Sophos recommends some ways to lock it down a bit and protect yourself.

Article in the New York Times about how companies like Appirio are creating web applications that help connect employers to matching employee candidates through social networks like Facebook. While many people may dismiss Facebook as an illegitimate way to connecting to employers, the industry is changing.

Lee Hecht Harrison is an outplacement agency that can help you discover how to position yourself to stand out from everyone else in the stack of resumes. Their proprietary Ten Milestones methodology help you prepare yourself for the entire process from determining what kind of work you want to negotiating an offer.

Find out what Google Docs can do for you. It's online, integrated productivity by allowing you to break free of saving files on flash drives and separate computers. Save one file, one place on Google Docs and and collaborate with others on the same file. Never send an attachment again.

Salesforce.com is the premier CRM company. They offer free developer edition accounts by simply signing up. Once you sign up, use Salesforce on the web to track your contacts, companies you want to work for, and the progress your making with each of those companies. Included with the developer edition account is Salesforce Mobile which gives you access to all your Salesforce data on the iPhone, BlackBerry, or Windows Mobile device.

Google Voice gives you one phone number for life. When someone calls your Google Voice number, it can ring your home phone, cell phone, and office phone, all at the same time. Answer it where you want, when you want. Record special greetings for each caller and you can even listen in on voicemail. Use it with your cell phone to get unlimited long distance calling in the US because Google Voice calls your phone. Way more features available to detail here, but check it out.