Career Education Web Resources
Career Advice, Resume Preparation, Cover Letters, Interviewing
Skills
- 200 Letters for Job Hunters
From a book
by Ten Speed Press. Extremely useful advice as well as sample letters.
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1998-99 Occupational Outlook Handbook
Keyword
searchable.
- About Work
From Monster.com--starting point for novices in the
world of work. Everything from career advice and job listings to work from home and
business start-up information. Includes a chat room and an "ask an Expert"
feature.
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Best Jobs for the Future
from US News 1998 edition, also includes advice, info on specific careers.
- Black Voices
Click on the JOBS link for Job info around the country, post a
resume, etc.
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Career
Connections From the Council for exceptional
children. The only job bank on the
Internet devoted exclusively to special education professionals.
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Career Interests Game
Suggests a variety of careers suitable to different personality types and interests.
- College Grad Job Hunter
All kinds of advice
on how to look for work, write a resume, post it on the net, negotiate salaries and
benefits, and much more.
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Dynamic Cover Letters
Also
advice on interviewing skills, creating a resume, job hunting skills. Includes a
bibliography and comprehensive job hunting links.
- JobSmart
While this is oriented toward the
California job market, there's a lot of good general links for resume writing, resume
posting, job hunting on the net, and career advice.
- National Association of Colleges and Employers
Excellent starting point for people who are new at job hunting; guide to information on
resume writing, career choices, company information (including SEC filings), employment
centers and more.
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Occupational Employment Statistics
National
and state data for 760 occupations. Includes wage data by job classification
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Princeton Review's Career Guide
Use this
along with the Occupational Outlook Handbook when you're trying to determine what
careers would interest you.
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*Rebecca Smith's E-Resumes and
Resources Guide to how to construct and post resumes online, and
other job search skills.
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Salary Surveys for Various
Professions
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Student Center
Career information, info on
35,000 companies searchable by state and line of business, employment statistics by state,
articles on resumes, internships, more.
- Student Gateway to
the US Government From the US Governement.
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Getting Past Go: a Survival Guide for College
Grads Tips on job hunting, resume preparation, relocation, more.
Tripod Another all-purpose guide to getting started in
life, with info on work, money management, looking for and setting up your new home, and
enjoying yourself (members get some extra services).
Job Listings, Company Information, and Resume Posting Sites
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America's Employers
Postings of
thousands of jobs, along with a database of company info, a resume bank, and an FAQ file
on the job search process.
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Annual Report Gallery
Downloadable and
printable annual reports from Fortune 500 companies (though some only in Adobe Acrobat
format)
- Annual reports for Free
More than 3200 companies.
Find your company alphabetically or by subject, and call PRAR's 800 number to request the
annual report.
- BridgePath
Get Job and internship announcements
sent to you for free.
- Dow-Jones Careers
Selected content and advice
from National Business Employment Weekly and Wall Street Journal Interactive.
Sorry, but if you want the job listings, you have to pay for them.
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Educational Placement
Jobs for teachers.
- Government Jobs.Com
Listings of jobs in city,
county and state governments and quasi-official non-governmental.
- Government Jobs Official Posting Site
Gov't agencies. Also links to other job hunting resources like state and city
job lines,
statewide newspapers, etc.
- JobDirect
Designed specifically for entry-level
jobs for new grads. Free to jobseekers; fill out the standardized resume form and get
listed in this searchable database.
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Jobs for Police
National police and
law enforcement job listings updated daily, searchable by state.
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Law Enforcement Careers
This site offers
employment, testing and interviewing guides for federal and state police careers.
- MedSearch America
Look here for jobs in
health-related fields.
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Minorities Job Bank
Career,
self-development, and job info for all ethnic minorities. Lists jobs with Equal
Opportunity employers.
- Monster Board
Job listing service, more
than 50,000 job listings from more than 4000 employers. Also has employer profiles, and a
nice section on self-employment.
- the Next Wave
Career and job posting site for
science majors.
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NonProfit Career Network
Jobs and volunteer opportunities in the nonprofit sector, post your resume, and find
out about the service organizations listed.
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Opportunity NOCs
Job opportunities in the
nonprofit sector.
- RehabWorld
Job postings for occupational and
physical therapy.
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Science Professional Network
Job listings,
science career fairs, career workshops, and career links for scientists. From the AAAS.
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TechWeb
Technical job postings, list your resume.
- Vault Reports
"The Jobseeker's Secret
Weapon." Profiles of major employers based on interviews with people who've worked
there, tell about the kind of organization it is, the benefits and drawbacks of working
there. Although the purpose of the site is to entice you into buying the full reports on
each company, the snapshot profiles in themselves are quite useful.
Relocation Information
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Relocation Central
Another helpful tool
for anyone who's moving. While the database is still growing, and not enough cities are
represented, there is info on housing, banking, schools, recreation, and such for the
towns that are there; there is also a moving time line calculator, and a moving expense
calculator, and other handy tips.
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Relocation Salary Calculator
Wherein by inputting current salary, current location, and new location we find that, if
someone wants me to move to Boston they need to pay me $23,000 more. How figures are
calculated (consumer price index?) is not clear.
- Rent Net Search for rental housing all over the
country, by price range, type of housing, number of bedrooms.
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Virtual Relocation, US
Anyone who's
thinking of moving needs to check this out. Check by state for info on builders, rentals,
mortgage lenders, schools, day care, demographics, and much more.
Finding Out What Careers Are Available
&
Matching Them to Your Interests and
Abilities
- Occupational Outlook Handbook 1998-99. Ref HD 8051.A62 U3
Also available online at
http://stats.bls.gov/ocohome.htm
Explains job requirements, duties and outlook for a large number of jobs.
- The Career Interests Game
http://web.missouri.edu/~cppcwww/holland.shtml
Choose your personality type and see what kinds of jobs might be appropriate, then click
on the professions to find out more about them.
- Princeton Review Career Guide
http://www.review.com/career/templates/temp1.cfm?body=index.cfm
Unique features include an internship search and "Top Ten Jobs for...("Need to
pay off student loans right away," "Can't stand tie or pantyhose," etc.)
Some other features require free registration.
- Job Searching, from the Mining Company
http://jobsearch.miningco.com
An excellent one-stop shopping place for info on careers, job search skills, job fairs,
internships, and job lines and tips for specific professions.
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