Intelligently integrating information online is the mantra that is the basis for the foundation of Intelius Inc as a company in 2003. Naveen Jain envisioned his company to be one of the leaders in its industry; an innovator company spearheading the Internet revolution in the 21st century. Offering services for purposes of personal security and helping out in decision-making, Intelius as a company has been able to provide its customers assurance that their next steps in business or personal lives are risk-free and advantageous.

As a result of its services like the famous background check and employee screening, customers are assured that the person they are going to date or hire are not a hazard to society and have undergone the process of careful scrutiny. Its people search service is a venue for family and friends to get back in touch with one another even though it’s been years since they last saw one another. Its award-winning identity protection service, IDWatch, assures people that their personal accounts are safe from the growing number of identity thieves around the World Wide Web.

Since he founded the company, Naveen Jain has guided it with an iron fist. Innovation and interest in their customers’ welfare are the strategies that he has employed in the operations of his company. Not only that, Jain has kept his company conscious of its social responsibility; the one that requires them to take their work outside to those who are in need. Philanthropy and business go hand-in-hand for Jain. Through the company, he has supported various advocacies ranging from education, shelter, family counseling and youth empowerment. He is even an ardent mentor of budding entrepreneurs from all over the country, lending his and his company’s time and effort to provide a training ground for these brilliant innovators and future businessmen.

A right mix of business smarts and corporate responsibility has kept Naveen Jain at the top of his game and he has no plans of slowing down just yet.

Job hunting needs to be thought of as a highly personal, highly directed marketing operation where you are the product. Your resume is an advertisement. Your extended network is your source for information.

So where does the web fit in? At AA-Careers, we recently posted a job on Craigslist and got hundreds and hundreds applications in a calendar week. For a single job. That’s increased competition.

Had a strong person gotten ahold of us before we posted the ad, they could have landed the position before having all that competition. How? By finding someone at our office who became aware of the job prior to posting. Everyone knew of the job for at least 11 days before it was posted. Who in your network might know of a job that’s coming available soon?

Be sure to check your cover letter and resume carefully! When we did an analysis of the 650 resumes, we found a large number of errors. 63% of the applicants were easily removed with a fast triage process. How? The same way any employer would. By passing over resumes where the objective didn’t match our job posting. By rejecting candidates whose cover letters gave us reasons not to hire them, like "I know I’m overqualified but I really need a job". By eliminating prospects whose documents that didn’t open properly. And by eliminating job hunters who didn’t bother to spell check their cover letter and/or resume.

So the good news is that job sites give you a sense of who is hiring, and for what kinds of positions. But once those jobs are posted, the competition is intense. You can still compete, if you have a well written resume, designed to appeal directly and clearly to the recruiter. And if you have practiced interviewing – so you don’t stumble at a critical point.

Another issue to be aware of is how quickly and easily you can be looked up on the net. As we Googled several job hunters, we ran into some pictures and comments that were in questionable taste. Nothing insane, but enough to tilt our thoughts about who to hire.

AA-Careers provides a broad set of services for Bay Area job seekers, providing our clients a personal career consultant, a managed job hunting campaign, modern tools like a personal website, video, highly targeted resume, and much more. Let us know if we can help you.

Be careful out there, and good hunting!

Ted Waitt and the Waitt Family Foundation are active in supporting science and education.

Philanthropist Ted Waitt has a collection of quotes on ThinkExist.com.