Welcome to Job Pointer v2, a different breed of job hunting dog.
Job Pointer is one of largest, best organized compilations of job search resources available. But what makes it so different? It's right on your desktop. JP works as a bookmark companion to your browser, linking you to more than 35,000 job search engines, employment databases, career sites and employer job pages on the internet. When you find a bookmark for a site you want to visit, double click it and JP will send its URL to your browser.
Job Pointer v2 is shareware. You may use Job Pointer the free puppy for as long as you want. Three of the databases, The Big Dogs, Career Esources and Treats, are fully enabled in the free puppy. The other databases, however, have their bookmarks locked. Please see the Shareware topics for more information on why you should register your Pointer and how to turn this free puppy into the full-grown JP.
Job Pointer is published by Dog-ear Development Company.
Job Pointer's Help "file" is really a set of html pages, a small web site on your computer, if you will. JP's Help displays in frames. The left frame always shows the Help Topics. The right frame, the one you are reading now, will change when you click on a topic link in the left frame.
JP's Help, like most Help files, is primarily text in order to keep its size small for faster and more efficient downloading. If you desire more visually oriented help, you can visit Job Pointer's web site for the Online User Guide (this link opens a new window and connects to the site). There you will find many screen shots of the Pointer and its components along with relevant descriptions of what things do or where they take you. Actually, the descriptions in the Online User Guide are not as lengthy as the text in this Help, but then you have the pictures to guide you.
Click and double click refer to the standard select and drag clicking functions of the mouse, or the left mouse button for right handed users. Right click refers to the context menu click, or right mouse button for right handed users. (Sorry lefties.)
The term "site" is used generically to mean any kind of bookmark or, more correctly, type of URL (Uniform Resource Locator) including web sites and pages, newsgroups, email addresses, gopher servers and telnet systems. It's easier to write and easier to read.
When using the word "site" as described above, the term "browser" can often be interchanged with the terms "newsreader," "email program," "telnet client," etc.
Links to other topics in this Help file are bright blue. Links to topics you have already visited will be dark blue. (This applies until you clear this setting in your browser's preferences or options -- please see your browser's help file for more information.)
Links to web pages are red. These pages always open in a new browser window so you don't lose your place in this help file. When you click one of these you are accessing the page over the internet.
Where menu commands are explained or referenced, the text changes to an underlined monospace typeface.
Job Pointer's Help is designed to be viewed using a sans serif font such as Verdana, Helvetica or Arial. It is best displayed using a font size of small or medium in MS Internet Explorer, 10 pt. or 12 pt. in Netscape browsers and the equivalent to those settings in other browsers. You can specify the fonts your browser uses to display pages in its Options or Preferences. Please see your browser's help file for more information.