All work and no play can make anyone dull, but no work means no money for play! Looking for work? Got a job but lookin' to move up? Check out these resources and see if you can get a leg up on the career you want.
America's Job Bank: Links the 1,800 state Employment Service offices providing job seekers with the largest pool of active job opportunities available. Information on approximately 100,000 jobs.
Best Jobs USA: has career fair info, corporate profiles, extensive links to job lists, and the highly recommended Web version of Employment Review magazine.
Bilingual-Jobs.com: is an international career resource Web site offering FREE registration to bilinguals with technology and finance backgrounds.
Bullseye Job Shop: A list of all the job list links you could ever want. Covering everything from the ridiculous to the sublime.
CareerBuilder: A dynamite site that incorporates a career advisor, information on relocation, and a personal search agent which automatically notifies you when new jobs that meet your criteria become available.
Careerfile is a very responsive
site that matches your résumé with the needs of employers. You can either e-mail your résumé to them, or — better — fill out their résumé-building
form.
CareerMosaic: A top-notch job search site with special features for recent graduates.
Career Path: This free service allows you to search the employment classified ads of many major newspapers throughout the United States.
careers.wsj.com: This site from the Wall Street Journal is skewed almost completely toward corporate jobs, but the "Employability Index" is a great tool for realistically determining your odds for landing the big money gigs.
Careerweb:
This is also a huge and useful site, a nice place for Love Connections
between employers and job-seekers.
College Grad Job Hunter: Just graduated and out of work? Lots of people are, so get a head start on the competition with job search preparation and insiders' tips on landing your dream job.
Cool Works: So you always wanted a dream job in some wonderful place, like a ski resort or on a cruise ship? Check out Cool Works for job listings in the world's most beautiful places in some very creative careers.
Head Hunter, although fairly new, is one of the fastest-growing employment sites on the Internet. Best of all, it's free!
Hoover's Online is one of the better
commercial (i.e. you often have to pay for some information) business
information sources. Hoover's is for anyone needing business information,
whether looking for work, or working/investing smarter. They have a
marvelous corporate directory, a searchable
database of information on approximately 10,000 companies, and a very handy Corporate Web Registry, which
not only lists a couple of thousand corporate Web pages, but links to
hundreds of job listings and will even notify you when those listings
change. Some services are free, but others require a monthly membership
fee.
Hot Jobs: Search for employment with Fortune 500 companies in three catgories: computer & technical, finance & accounting, and marketing & sales.
Job Hunting Tips: Quatumsearch's tips for making a résumé, interviewing, references, and searching for your dream job.
Job-Hunt Meta-List:
Yow! What a big and wonderful list and service provided by Saint Dane Spearing.
Jobtrak has partnerships with more than 400 college career centers — no more searching through binders, no more suspicions that the student before you tore out all the best job postings. Jobtrak posts more than 600 new jobs each day, targeted to college students and recent graduates.
Monster Board: The definitive job search site for first-timers or old-timers. Comprehensive, easy to use, and you can target job listings by cities across the country.
NationJob Network: This site offers comprehensive lists of jobs in the education field.
Online Career Center: Tips for job hunting, a résumé matching system, job listings and a host of other services are available on this site.
Resumail Network offers a plug-in that allows you to standardize résumé submissions everywhere on the Internet — thereby relieving the tedium of filling out all those seperate, slightly different, highly annoying forms.
Women's Wire has put together an index of companies in the United States according to their childcare facilities, benefits, entry level pay, and percentage of women at upper level managerial position.
Jen's Bio Job Links: Links and reviews about how useful the listed sites were in Jen's own search.
Jobs: Yet another job link page, offering a thumbnail sketch of what can be found at each site.
John's Job Links: A nice page of job hunt sites and other resources related to the job hunt.
Online Newspaper Job Links: Jim Blakely put together this list of sites where you can look for jobs, including reviews of the sites.
Workin' Moms Home Business Resources: A comprehensive and frequently-updated resource for home-based entrepreneurs.
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