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Job Hunting Online
Introduction: The Internet
1. Primer
2. Gateways
3. Supersites
4. Job Search Engines
Introduction: Research On The Internet
1. Directories
2. Search Engines
3. Best Search Engines
4. Meta-Search Tools
5. Clustering
6. Specialized Search Engines
7. General Research
8. Beyond Search Engines
9. The UnderWeb & Deep Searching
10. Beyond The Web: Usenet & Newsgroups
11. Evaluating The Data
12. Grants
Introduction: Contacts And Networking
1. Internet Networking
2. Finding People You Know
3. Finding People You Don't Know
4. Chat Rooms
5. Forums & Message Boards
6. Newsgroups
7. Mailing Lists
8. Networking Web Sites
9. A Category All Its Own
10. Miscellany
11. People At Their Business
12. E-mail
Introduction: Counseling, Testing & Advice
1. Online Job-Hunting Articles
2. Online Job-Hunting Guides
3. The Gateway Sites & More
4. Online Personality & Traits Tests
5. Online Careers Tests
6. Transferable Skills
7. Education
8. More Help: Career Counseling Offices
9. One-on-One Career Counseling
10. Offline Career Counseling
Introduction: Web Sites For Job Hunting Research
1. Geography/Moving/Where To Live
2. Identifying Careers
3. Salaries
4. Industry Research
5. Company Research
6. Company Research & Contact Info
7. Beyond Contact Information
8. More Specific Company Research
9. Self-Employed And Home Business
10. Part-Time, Contract, & Temporary Work
11. Non-Profits And Social Conscience
12. Work For Minorities
13. Work For Women
14. Work For The Disabled
Introduction: Job & Resume Sites
1. Resumes & Cover Letters
2. Portfolios
3. Job Boards: The Supersites
4. Job Boards: Job Search Engines
5. Job Boards: Regionals
6. Job Boards: The Networked Sites
7. Job Boards: College & Graduate Sites
8. Job Boards: Niche/Trade/Specialty
9. Job Boards: Diversity/Women/Disabled
10. Job Boards: Government
11. Job Boards: Contract & Temporary
12. Job Boards: Executive
13. Job Boards: International
14. Job Boards: Links To Job Boards
15. Job Boards: Articles About
16. Volunteering
Introduction: Job Hunting Online
1. Chapter One: Learn The Net
2. Chapter Two: Resumes
3. Chapter Three: The Job Boards
4. Chapter Four: Contacts And Networking
5. Chapter Five: Counseling And Testing
6. Chapter Six: Online Research
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| All job-hunting articles divide into three basic categories: WHAT, (What do you want to do?) WHERE, (Where do you want to do it?) and HOW (How do you get hired there?)
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| 1998 Career Guide: Find Your Career http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond/bccguide.htm | ||||
| Written particularly for college students or would-be college students, this guide from U.S.News and World Report lists "the hottest jobs of the year in 20 different fields" and has career outlooks for those jobs; it also lists related job-listing sites and associations, for each career. Very Nice! This guide has a number of other interesting articles, such as "Job search on the Net," "Part-time career paths" and "Estimated Starting Salaries for Graduates." When the normal lists don't interest you, and your searching for something really different, check Unusual Jobs. For additional help with the WHAT question, look in the Research section of this Guide, under Research Sites: Career Fields | | ||
| WHERE do you want to do it? | ||||
| Informational Interviewing http://danenet.wicip.org/jets/jet-9407-p.html | ||||
| This important technique, serving as an alternative to the traditional job-hunt, is explained and discussed at this site; while they make the technique a bit more complex than it needs to be, this site still provides a good overview. For additional help with the WHERE question, look in the Research section of this Guide, under Research Sites: Geography and Research Sites: Companies. | | ||
| HOW do you get hired there? | ||||
| Careers.wsj.com http://www.careers.wsj.com | ||||
| Under the heading "Job-Hunting Advice," this site has a number of articles about the HOW: Including how to react after losing one's job, plus other HOWs: Making a career change, relocating, searching, networking, using resumes and interviewing. While the articles are aimed at executives and management, their advice should be useful to all job-hunters. Taken from the Wall Street Journal's archives (among other places), these articles are on this relatively new Web site, under the leadership of Tony Lee, a former editor of WSJ's National Business Employment Weekly. (The one negative: The way that frames are used on this site drives me nuts. Some other users of the site have reported a similar reaction. Hopefully, however, you will love them.) | | ||
| Virtual Interview http://campus.monster.com/tools/virtual/ | ||||
| Monster.com's Career Center has a famous virtual interview exercise. It gives you the opportunity to practice a hiring interview, by offering you questions with multiple choice answers, and then telling you whether or not you chose the best answer. If you did not, it gives you a chance to try and choose a better answer the second time around. While some of the questions are cute, in the case of the more serious questions, personally I didn't think any of the answers they offered was the correct ones to give! The exercise needs: "None of the above" as an option, after each question. But, taken with a grain of salt, the exercise is fun to do, and you should learn some things by practicing. | |||