It never fails to amaze me when I talk to highly qualified executives - who have reached out to me for assistance after getting dismal results in their job search - and find out that their main job search tactic is spending hours on the Internet visiting job boards and posting resumes.

You never put all your eggs in one basket when it comes to the executive job search. Technology will continue to impact your personal and professional lives, but you have to maximize its use to benefit you. In other words, don't let the Internet control your life - use effectively and strategically, but diversify your job search methods.

In the same manner like companies develop a multi-media campaign to promote their products and services, you have to develop an integrated, multifacted job search to increase your success ratio in this highly competitive job market.

Move beyond the computer, spread your wings and engage at least five different strategies/tactics in your executive job search. What methods should you be considering?

Here are a few suggestions:

-- Face-to-face networking events

-- In-person career fairs and professional industry conferences

-- Niche job boards and job search agents

-- Direct mail campaign to recruiters and companies

-- Job aggregation sites like Indeed.com and Simplyhired.com

-- Online social networks and professional communities like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Zoominfo, Ziggs, Namz, etc

-- Intelligent job matching sites like DCJobs.com

-- Resume distribution (services) to employers and recruiters

-- Company websites and blogs

-- Web portfolios and personal career websites like VisualCV.com