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Where
Do I Look For
CAREER INFORMATION
Sources
on the Internet
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No
two persons are born exactly alike, but each differs
from each in natural endowments, one being suited for one
occupation and another for another . . . all things will be
produced in superior quantity and quality and with greater
ease, when each man works at a single occupation in accordance
with his natural gifts.
- - - Plato
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| 2000-2001
Occupational Outlook Handbook--keyword
searchable |
| Career
Interests Game -- suggests a variety of careers
suitable to different personality types and
interests. |
| Career
Magazine. Full of helpful advice. |
| 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. |
| Dictionary
of Occupational Titles (1991)--Provided by the
United States Department of Labor, Office of
Administrative Law Judges Law Library. |
| First
Steps in the Hunt: an almost daily tipsheet of
jobhunting suggestions and promising web sites for
the job search. |
| JobSmart:
while this is oriented toward the California job
market, there's a lot of good general links for
resume writing, resume posting, jobhunting on the
net, and career advice. |
| Peterson's
Career and Job Channel -- Help in several areas
of job searching. Focus appears to be aimed at
college graduates. |
| Princeton
Review's Career Guide --use this along with the Occupational
Outlook Handbook when you're trying to determine
what careers would interest you. |
| National
Association of Colleges and Employers: Excellent
starting point for people who are new at jobhunting;
guide to information on resume writing, career
choices, company information (including SEC
filings), employment centers and more. |
| What
Color is Your Parachute?-- Job hunting
online. Some help in all areas of job hunting. |
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Career
Advice
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Resume
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| 200
Letters for Job Hunters--from a book by Ten
Speed Press. Extremely useful advice as well as
sample letters. . |
| Monster.com--"We’ve
gathered the most up-to-date techniques for writing
cover letters and examples you can use as a guide." |
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Cover
Letters |
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| Occupational
Employment Statistics--national and state data
for 760 occupations. Includes wage data by job
classification. Occupational employment and
wage estimates at the national level are divided
into seven tables, one for each occupational
division (managerial, professional, sales, clerical,
service, agricultural, and production). |
| Salary
Surveys for Various Professions -- provides
detailed information for approximately 50 careers.
Also gives additional links to several other useful
sources. |
| America's
Career InfoNet; Wages & Trends -- provides
salary ranges for hundreds of occupations by STATE.
First select a category or enter a Keyword, then
choose a state. |
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Salary
Information
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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. |
| BridgePath--Get
Job and internship announcements sent to you for
free. |
| Educational
Placement: Jobs for teachers. |
| Federal
Jobs -- Look for federal employment
opportunities by type of job and location. |
| Government
Jobs.Com--listings of jobs in city, county and
state governments and quasi-official
non-governmental |
| Government
Jobs Official Posting Site agencies. Also links
to other job hunting resources like state and city
joblines, 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. |
| Job
Resource--operated by students, for students.
Posts job listings and resumes, searchable by
keyword and location. |
| Jobs
for Police National police and law enforcement
job listings updated daily, searchable by state. |
| Job
Searching--this welcome guide from About.Com
(formerly the Mining Co.) is particularly useful in
linking you by your specialization--business jobs,
science jobs, arts jobs, etc., as well as links for
international jobs, "cool" jobs, and for
skills areas--employer research, interviewing, and
such. |
| LITA--Jobs
in Library and Information Technology. Updated every
Wednesday. |
| 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. |
| Minorities
Job Bank--career, self-development, and job info
for all ethnic minorities. Lists jobs with Equal
Opportunity employers. |
| Monster
Board--another 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. |
| Next
Wave--a career and job posting site for science
majors. |
| NonProfit
Career Network--a place to look for jobs and
volunteer opportunities in the nonprofit sector,
post your resume, and find out about the service
organizations listed. |
| Opportunity
NOCs--job opportunities in the nonprofit sector. |
| RehabWorld--job
postings for occupational and physical therapy. |
| Science
Professional Network--job listings, science
career fairs, career workshops, and career links for
scientists. From the AAAS. |
| Tennessee
Department of Employment Security --
Occupational outlook, wages and benefits
information, labor market reports and job search
information. |
| UTM
Jobs--Job openings on the campus of the
University of Tennessee at Martin. |
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Job
Listings
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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Relocation
Information
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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. |
| Standard
Occupational Classification Codes |
| TechWeb:
the place to go to look for 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. |
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Company
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If you have sites you feel warrant
inclusion please email me with the URL. Thanks.
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