The official online job search resource hosted By Dick Bolles, author of "What Color is Your Parachute"
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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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Contacts and Networking
Introduction to 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
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
8 - Networking Web Sites
9 - A Category All Its Own
10 - Miscellany
11 - People At Their Business
12 - E-mail
Mailing Lists
Mailing Lists are similar to Newsgroups, but are done through email, and don't always carry the varied threads that Usenet groups do. Mailing lists do exist on every subject possible; you subscribe to the lists you want to receive by sending an email; those lists are then sent to you periodically. If you want to stop subscribing, you send an unsubscribe message. (The subscription process is completely automated; I once had a heck of a time getting off some lists when the underlying software was incorrectly installed by the list manager, because there was no human to contact.) Like Usenet, Mailing Lists are another older Internet device. Many lists, at least the non-commercial ones, are disappearing. There are just plain better ways of communicating on the Net these days.
Compared to Message Boards and Usenet, mailing lists are a slow method of communicating, particularly for the job-hunter. Though at times useful for gathering information, they are just not as immediate in their nature as the other possibilities on the Net, and so I would not recommend them for direct communication with others.
Topica
On this Web site is a list of Mailing Lists, for oodles of subjects; lots of newsletters are mixed in here, too. Not all of them are going to be useful, of course, but with a little work, you will know which ones are going to bear fruit as you are looking for contacts.
Tile.Net
Not a fancy site by any means, but one of the most useful sites on the Internet. This is a list of mailing lists, organized by name, description, and domain; you will find "Description" most useful.
L-Soft
Access to over 72,000 mailing lists, searchable by keyword, country of origin, and so forth.