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Looking for a job?

Like thousands of Calgarians, Dawn Stewart is searching. But the former oilpatch employee, laid off last spring from Encana Corp., isn’t just on a job hunt.

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She’s also helping more than 1,000 other unemployed Calgarians find work, as well as local companies looking to find new staff.

Since losing her finance-IT-related job, Stewart created a Facebook page called Calgary Job Board to bring would-be employers together with Albertans, as well as job-hunters who want to talk about issues such as how to set up a resume.

“I use social media quite a lot to network with my friends and we’ve all been talking about the job market situation and how bad it is,” she said Friday.

“I thought if I’m looking and my friends are talking about this, too, why don’t we just set up a Facebook group and share it out with our friends. It’s just an extra (search) venue.”

While Stewart’s approach may be unique, the relentless search for work isn’t isolated.