Creating a GMAIL Account
Before you start building or automated employment searches is to load some free tools onto your computer
Get a Free Gmail Account (Copy)
Go to Google and create a Gmail account. These accounts will really be helpful to you for your job or career search.
They have great built in Spam protection.
GMAIL Sign up Form
Click to Sign up for Gmail. You will need a secondary email to complete your application.
Filling in the Gmail Registration Form
You may have to keep choosing a username or email address until you find one that is available.
Choose your Gmail Password
1. Choose a password, while watching the password strength to make sure your account stays secure.
2. Re-enter your password.
3. Choose a Security question. This is used in case you forget your password and need it reset. Write this down.
4. Put your Security question answer here. Write it down.
5. Here is where you put your secondary email. This is an email that Gmail can mail should you forget your password.
The completed Gmail Form
This is the Gmail application form completed. You then click the "I accept. Create my account" button.
Welcome to Gmail
After reviewing the screen and some of the valuable tools you receive with Gmail, you would then click that you are ready.
The Gmail Dashboard
For now we are done. We will add some other features that you will need to be changing later.
Since you are here also sign up for a Google Reader account. This will be important in our strategy to help us with our Career and Job searches.
Welcome to the Google Reader
Now that you are signed up to the Google Reader you do not need to do anything else here. This will be used later for RSS feeds. Do not worry that you do not know what they are, we will be learning about them shortly.

