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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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Research on the Internet
Introduction to Research on the Internet
1 - Directories
2 - Search Engines
3 - Best Search Engines
4 - Meta-Search Tools
5 - Clustering
6 - Specialized Search Engines
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
8 - Beyond Search Engines
9 - The UnderWeb & Deep Searching
10 - Beyond the Web: Usenet & Newsgroups
11 - Evaluating the Data
12 - Grants
General Research
Sometimes, you need to do some basic research for your job-hunt - that is, you need to find data that does not specifically relate to the next company you are going to approach, or the like. In such a case, you will need to turn towards the general research tools on the Net:
RefDesk
This is what you'd call a "meta-research" page; it seems like every possible Web resource is here. On their home page, without scrolling (what I call "above the fold"), you can do searches through Google, MSN, their own database, or do lookups in Mirriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus. You can catch up on the latest news, see stock quotes, see the official time in the United States, from one of the government's atomic clocks, accurate to 2/10 of a second. As you scroll, you gain access to People Search (directory lookups), current news, both national and local (type in your zip code), reference sites, quick looks at lists such as government 800 numbers, phone numbers of your local officials, and on and on. This almost wasn't a Parachute Pick, because I hate, detest, abhor (hold on, let me look in the thesaurus) loathe, despise, and execrate pop-up ads. But if you have a pop-up blocker, or if you feel love, affection, devotion, fondness, yearning, or ardor for pop-ads, then by all means, go for it.
About.com
About.com is different than most of your research resources on the Net, in that every entry was compiled and written by actual people, specifically for this site. In fact, almost 500 people, writing on thousands of subjects. Excellent and authoritative. The URL I have given you is for the page from their browser; here you can start looking through their list of topics alphabetically. At the bottom of the page are the links to the rest of the alphabet.