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The official online job search resource hosted By Dick Bolles, author of "What Color is Your Parachute"
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The Internet
Research
Contacts
Counseling
Job Hunting
Jobs & Resumes
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
11. E-mail A Counselor
 
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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Introduction to The Internet
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Gateways
Gateways are simply explained: if you were to go looking for job-hunting sites on the Internet, you would go to your favorite search engine and type in such keywords as: "careers",  "jobs", "employment", "resumes", (or "HELP!!") and see what turned up. Which would be an avalanche of sites, some good, many not, all of which would need to be evaluated before they'd be any use to you.

Luckily, the job of finding and evaluating all of these sites has already been done for you, by a number of people. The data is posted on web sites I call "Gateways"

. The best Gateways are well-organized storehouses of job-hunting information. They have articles about various aspects of the job hunt and links to more specific information on the Web. These links have all been vetted by knowledgeable people, so you will save gobs of time and energy by going to the Gateways before you try the search engine route.

Here are the best Gateways:

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