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  • 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
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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