Getting Started
- America's Career
InfoNet
- Information on wages & trends, career exploration and more, including
state profiles.
- Dictionary of Occupational Titles
- From the U.S. Department of Labor
- EmploymentSpot
- EmploymentSpot is the information sweetspot for job seekers and human
resoures professionals on the Web. EmploymentSpot was designed to break
through the information overload of the Web to bring the best
employment-related sites together with insightful editorial in one
convenient, user-friendly spot.
- Finding
Study Guides for State Civil Service Exams: A Manual for Public and
Institutional Libraries
- From the Louisiana State Library
- JobHunt: On-Line Job
Meta-List
- An annotated directory of on-line job search resources and services.
- Louisiana Licensing Guide
- The Guide provides information about occupations that are regulated by state boards,
commissions, and agencies; it also provides insight into career decision making for students, counselors,
and others.
- Occupational Outlook
Handbook
- Standard tool for career planning offers job descriptions,
educational requirements, salaries, and future employment outlook for
most occupations.
- O*NET Online
- O*NET OnLine is an application that was created for the general public-to
provide broad access to the O*NET database of occupational information.
The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledges,
work activities, and interests associated with occupations.
- Resumes
- Sample resumes, links to resume resources, etc.--from JobSmart.
- Salary.com
- "Salary.com is the leader in online compensation information for individuals, business managers
and human resource professionals."
- Sample
Civil
Service Test Questions
- From the Louisiana Civil Service Department.
- Yahoo:
Business and Economy: Employment: Jobs
- Yahoo's index to the Internet also contains over 100 links to job
sites on the Internet.
Job Listings
Local Job Sources
LOOK HERE FIRST
National Job Sources
You can also do localized searches on many of the National Job
Search web sites listed below
- America's Job Bank
- Information on approximately 250,000 jobs. Funded through
Unemployment Insurance taxes, this service links the 1,800 state
Employment Service offices. The job openings come from all over the
country and represent all types of work, from professional and technical
to blue collar, from management to clerical and sales.
- Best Jobs in the USA Today
- Search a database of employment ads from USA Today
newspaper+. Also a resume bank, list of job fairs, job postings, career
store, and more.
- Careerbuilder
- Job ads from more than 30 major newspapers including: Boston Globe,
Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Minneapolis Star
Tribune, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Washington Post.
More than 400,000 ads posted each month.
- FlipDog
- "Access the Internet's largest, freshest, single database of current job
openings—and every job posted comes directly from an individual employer
(either posted directly by them or automatically extracted from their Web
site)."
- JobBank USA
- A good site for jobs in all kinds of fields. Try their Meta-search page, which
lets you search 18+ other job listings sites from the same starting
point.
- JobWeb
- Excellent site if you're a college student, recent graduate, or
alumnus, and looking for a job. Includes: Jobs: Searchable
database of job postings and Career Planning Resources: which
includes a Career Library and Relocation, International, Minority, and
Disability Resources. From the National Association of Colleges and
Employers (formerly known as the College Placement Council, Inc.)
- Monster.com
- More than 50,000 job opportunities, worldwide. You can search by
company name, location, discipline, industry, job title, or combinations
of these. The employer overview gives some background information into
the company selected, the products and services, and employee benefits.
They also have a large database of information for the job seeker and
the employer.
Specific Categories
- Academe This
Week - Chronicle of Higher Education
- Extensive listing of job openings from colleges and universities
across the country.
- Academic360.com
- Extensive directory of job opportunities in academia (formerly known
as Jobs in Higher Education).
- Black Collegian Online
- The electronic version of the national career opportunities magazine
including job listings.
- Careers in Business
- Primarily jobs in business, finance, insurance, etc.
- JobStar Central
- Find jobs in Sacramento, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San
Diego.
- Lawenforcementjob.com
- "The page has employment information on over 2,500 departments and
agencies, and ... will continue to grow and be the number one law
enforcement employment web site on the Internet."
- Monster Health Care
- Links healthcare employers and jobseekers. Job Search, Employer
Profiles, Resume databank.
- Saludos Web: Careers, Employment
& Culture
- An Internet starting point for Hispanic job seekers. The site is an
offshoot of the print magazine Saludos Hispanos, a national Hispanic
career and employment journal.
- USAJOBS - United
States Office Of Personnel Management
- The Web's ultimate federal job list -- every vacancy in the U.S.
government. The current job openings database is updated daily and
offers many search options. Also includes general federal employment
information.
Relocation Resources
- Salary
Calculator
- A helpful tool for people who are thinking about
relocating. Just enter your current salary (or what you estimate you
would need to live comfortably in your current city) and the salary
calculator will give you the comparable salary for the city to which you
will be relocating.
- Yahoo! Real Estate--City
Comparison
- Select two cities and compare them by cost of living, real estate, and
quality of life. Salary comparisons are also available.
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Updated 9/24/2006
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