êcareerperfect.com - Work Preference Inventory
http://www.careerperfect.com/CareerPerfect/cpWorkPrefInv.htm
Based on the premise that the process of values clarification is very important in career planning, the Work Preference Inventory gives you a small glimpse that helps you to clarify what you value in terms of work style to assist you in making more fulfilling and rewarding career and employment decisions. For best results, use Java-script-enabled browser.
http://keirsey.com/frame.html
Select the Temperament Sorter II. The Temperament Sorter is a PhD designed assessment tool created to uncover a person's innate tendencies, preferences, and motivations to arrive at an integrated view of their personality.
êFree Myers Briggs Personality Type Test
http://209.15.29.56/myersbriggs/personhome.htm
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® personality assessment tool is a written instrument that "indicates" a person's likely psychological type. Psychological type describes the different ways people: prefer to take in information, prefer to make decisions, are energized by the outside world or by the inner world, and prefer to keep things open or to move towards closure.
http://www.careerkey.org/english/
The Career Key is a free service to help you with career choices, career
changes, and career planning, job search, and choosing a college major or training
program. It was developed by Lawrence K. Jones, Ph.D., NCC of the North
Carolina State University. More than 5,000 people visit daily for professional
career guidance. This website offers links to the free Career Key ™ - professional career test, which measures
your skills, abilities, values, interests, and personality. Once you complete
the test, you can identify promising jobs and get accurate information about
them using the following links: Identify
your job skills and Get career help on different
topics.
êConnecting Personality Types With Careers
http://www.doi.gov/octc/typescar.html
Compiled by the Department of the Interior. The lists represent careers and
jobs people of various types tend to enjoy doing. The job requirements are
similar to the personality tendencies of the various types. It is important to
remember that these do not list all the jobs possible under the headings. And
it is very important to remember that people can, and frequently do, fill jobs
that are dissimilar to their personality this happens all the time and
sometimes works out quite well.
Matching RIASEC Results to Careers - University of Missouri Career Interests Game
http://career.missouri.edu/article.php?sid=146
This is a game designed to help you match your interests and skills with
similar careers. You can determine how your personality will fit in with
specific work environments and careers. Read the descriptions of each group and
list the group you would be drawn to first, then your second choice, and
finally your third choice. This exercise is based on Dr. John Holland's theory
that people and work environments can be loosely classified into six different
groups. Different peoples' personalities may find different environments more
to their liking. While you may have some interests in and similarities to
several of the six groups, you may be attracted primarily to two or three of
the areas. These two or three letters are your Holland Code.
myfuture.com - Work Interest Quiz (Military focus)
http://www.myfuture.com/t3_career/t3ct_workinterestquiz.html
This quiz is a sample version that will acquaint you with a national test
called the Interest-Finder Quiz. The work types it
measures are: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and
Conventional. It is available with the ASVAB Career Exploration Program,
offered in many high schools. It then lists possible jobs and their military equivalent that match each
work type.
http://www.careers.siue.edu/majors/majors/default.html
A convenient website that helps you connect majors with careers. For each major
that interests you, choose "Information" to find an outline of common
career areas, typical employers, and strategies designed to maximize career
opportunities. Choose "Links" to find a list of websites that provide
information about listed majors and related careers. Keep in mind that the
information sheets and websites are representative of typical career paths
associated with each major and not a comprehensive list. You may want to
explore information and websites from multiple majors to help you learn about a
wide range of career opportunities.
California Regional Occupational Centers and Programs
http://www.carocp.org/
This website offers information on California's 73 Regional Occupational Centers and Programs (ROCPs) which have been a strong and integral part of California's educational system for over 30 years. ROCPs provide high school students 16 years of age and older, and also adult students, with valuable career and technical education so students can (1) enter the workforce with skills and competencies to be successful; (2) pursue advanced training in higher educational institutions; or (3) upgrade existing skills and knowledge.
http://www.jobprofiles.org/index.htm
This website on “Career Exploration: The Personal Side of Work” offers
commentary from experienced workers who share the rewards of their job; stressful parts of
the job; basic skills the job demands; challenges of the future; and advice on
entering the field.
ê careerbuilder.com - Salary Calculator
http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/SalaryCalculator.htm
The Salary Expert let’s you know how much a position pays anywhere in the United States.
http://www.technicaljobsearch.com/salary/salary-calculators.htm
Links to financial and salary
calculators and wizards. This requires that the user register. Includes city cost of living comparison and
relocation; government job paycheck calculator, IRA, 401(k) and retirement
planning; paycheck annual salary, and hourly and gross pay; potential future
salary; W-4 Form allowances and income tax; loan, mortgage and amortization;
investment and savings; and other financial and salary calculators.
Some salary calculators are reliable,
some are only accurate enough for guesstimating, and others are little more
than gimmicks to attract Web site traffic. Before you take the results of a
salary calculator seriously, read about the methodology used to collect the
data. The most reliable data is collected scientifically from employers, at
least once per year. If the methodology is not offered or seems unscientific
(e.g., collected randomly from volunteer job seekers), don't take the results
seriously. WorldatWork, a nonprofit professional association, sets the
standards for collecting salary data. So, any salary calculator that adheres to
its standards is probably reliable.
National Economic Development and Law Center
http://www.nedlc.org/publications.htm
THE SELF-SUFFICIENCY STANDARD For California 2003 • The Self-Sufficiency
Standard for California for 2003 describes the income required by California's
working families to pay for the basic needs of rent, food, child care, health
care, transportation, miscellaneous costs, and taxes, on a county-by-county
basis. The Standard is calculated for every county of California, and is
calculated for 70 family types. Author, Dr. Diana Pearce. Available free in downloadable format. Full Report (2003, 87p.p.) Order No. 2003-10 [$5.00]
JobStar Profession Specific Salary Surveys
http://www.jobstar.org/tools/salary/sal-prof.htm
A collection of over 300 links to online salary surveys on the Web. Surveys specific to JobStar areas of
California (Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego) are
labeled. Otherwise, surveys are national
or regional in scope.
http://eresumes.com
Online since 1995, author Rebecca
Smith's eRésumés & Resources is an excellent source for Information on
Electronic Resumes & Online Networking, career development skills necessary
in today’s global, electronic workplace.
This site is currently under revision; new pages are published as they
are completed.
http://www.job-hunt.org/associations.shtml
Job-Hunt.org has a listing of Associations and Societies section on for
categorized listings of associations and additional association resources to
help you identify useful associations.
êDirectory of US colleges, Universities, and Community Colleges by State
http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/state/#CA
Most colleges and universities have alumni associations. They provide a valuable resource of
networking possibilities. The University of Texas has an excellent directory of
US colleges, universities, and community colleges
http://www.findaschool.org/
Findschools.org provides an alphabetical listing by school name, within
country, for over 100 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
http://topica.com/
A free service that allows you to find, manage and participate in email
lists and discussion groups.
http://groups.yahoo.com/
Search for, browse, create, or join a group. Requires registration to join.
This website offers a 30 day plan to find a good job. It offers no guarantees, but it does offer
practical advice on what a jobseeker can do to set daily goals and follow-up in
the job process.
ê The Riley Guide Career Meta Site Job Listings
http://www.rileyguide.com/jobs.html
The original, and still the best, guide
to on-line job hunting, particularly if you are new to the Internet world.
Continually revised and updated.
http://www.careerjournal.com/
Career Journal from The Wall Street Journal, offers excellent news and
contains a large and growing library of excellent job search articles. Find
jobs using the Advanced Search, pick keywords for the job title or the job
description, and fine tune your search by location (from country name to Zip
Code), preferred commuting distance ("radius"), company name,
category (accounting, advertising, aerospace, etc.), and/or job source
(employer posting or WSJ print ads or both). Create multiple resumes
with 3 levels of privacy available (hide all information, hide contact
information, hide nothing). Using the Job Tools - available only to registered
users - save searches to rerun again, create "job seek agents" to
search and e-mail results to you, see the jobs you've applied for, and much
more. A Privacy Policy is posted.
http://www.directemployers.com/
DirectEmployers.com - several large employers combined their efforts to create
their own job site and this is it, combining a big site's search and support
capabilities with opportunities from the employer Web sites! You search at
DirectEmployers by keyword, "time filter" (age of the job posting),
source (employers and/or staffing firms), and U.S. Only or
"worldwide" (which includes the U.S. as well as non-U.S. jobs).
Select the "Employers" link at the top of most pages to search
through an alphabetical listing of employers or an "industry group."
Select the "Metros/Regions" link to search by location in the U.S.
Select "State/City" or "Worldwide" to search in other
locations or industries across the world. Once you have a successful search,
you view the opportunities and apply (if you want) on the employer site. You
can store your resume at DirectEmployers (HTML or Word document or both), where
you can choose to block or allow it to be searched by employers. There is a
Privacy Policy posted.
http://www.truecareers.com/
From Sallie Mae, the college loan organization, a job site with a twist - a
sweepstakes where you can win $12,000 in cash or up to $25,000 in student loan
payments. Search for a job by keyword and location from the home page, or use
the Advanced Search that lets you get more specific. Three levels of resume
privacy are available, and the job tools let you save searches and set up
"job alerts" that will e-mail search results to you. You must
register to post your resume or use the other customized functionality, but you
don't need to register to search through the job postings. A Privacy Policy is
posted.
http://www.alljobsearch.com/
Search a bunch of job sites at once, and then view the results at each source.
AllJobSearch will use your keywords to search the usual suspects like Monster,
HotJobs, and CareerBuilder. Then it will add other sources depending on your
search criteria. Want engineering jobs in Massachusetts? It will search the
usual big sites plus sites specifically for engineers and sites specifically
covering Massachusetts. It also pulls in results from newspaper classifieds (a
GREAT source) and Internet newsgroups (a hidden source, more useful for some
jobs than for others). It doesn't have the tons of supporting information that
the Best of the Best have, but it is VERY good!
http://www.ajb.dni.us/
America’s Job Bank - nearly one million (yes!! MILLION) jobs, at all levels,
listed from the state unemployment agencies and directly from employers. Free
for both job seekers and employers. Many functions available - job search,
resume posting, and a job search scout. A Privacy Policy is posted.
http://www.careerbuilder.com/
CareerBuilder - one of the biggest job site networks. Four different kinds of
searches available -- quick, by company, by job category, and advanced.
CareerBuilder offers convenient resume building capability with up to 5 resumes
that may be created and 3 levels of privacy (visible, choosy, and anonymous).
CareerBuilder also offers a "Personal Search Agent" which will e-mail
you new jobs that fit your criteria. A Privacy Policy is posted with tips
included on how you can protect yourself.
http://www.employmentwizard.com/
You will find many jobs here that aren't on-line anywhere else. This site picks
up employment ads from over 80 newspapers (like the Boulder County Daily
Camera, the Omaha World Herald, and the Santa Barbara News-Press),
by date for the last 15 days, as well as direct employer postings. The Advanced
Job Finder works the best and is the most easily tuned. The Quick Job Finder is
a bit quirky. Create a confidential profile that may be search by potential
employers. There is a Privacy Policy, but it does not directly address the
issue of resume confidentiality or job seeker privacy.
NOTE: Monster would normally be one of the Employment Super Sites, arguably the major one. However, on 9-5-2001, a report on Monster's privacy practices was issued that, if accurate, indicates very bad practices. So, if you choose to use Monster, be VERY CAREFUL - follow Job-Hunt's cyber-safe resume guidelines, use a 3rd party e-mail address, and be extremely cautious about any personally identifiable information you share with Monster.
http://www.monster.com/
One of the biggest, an industry leader for many years! Offers the ability to
search job openings by location, category, and keyword. Also offers the ability
to post a resume with apparently good privacy protection. A resume agent
will let you know when a new opportunity meeting your criteria appears. A
Privacy Policy is posted, but as noted above, compliance with the posted policy
is unclear.
Friends
Outside - Support and Jobs for Former Incarcerated Persons
http://www.fcnetwork.org/Dir2001/dir2001al-fl.html#Anchor-S.K.I.P.,-21284
Each chapter offers special services and job support which
may not be available at another location.
Some of the support services include: self-help support group,
information, training and education, referrals, case management, group
activities, family liaison, counseling, employment assistance and
transportation support.
http://www.employmentwizard.com/default.cfm
This site picks up employment ads from over 100 small newspapers (like the
Boulder County Daily Camera, the Omaha World Herald, and the
Santa Barbara News-Press) as well as direct employer postings. In many
cases, you can see the print ad, too. There is a resume database where you can
post your resume, but not indication of protection for your privacy. Privacy
Statement is posted, but not obviously applicable to the resumes.
http://www.craigslist.org/
CraigsList is not exactly a standard classified section, but very popular and
effective for job seekers in the San Francisco, CA area plus many more
cities from Atlanta, GA through Washington, DC, including London, Toronto, and
Vancouver. If you are moving into a new area, you will also find listings for
apartments, roommates, cars, events, etc., depending on the city.
Check out the newspaper web sites
in the target location to scan the online job classified ads (most will have
them). Local radio and TV station Web sites may also have job postings, or
links to local job sites.
http://www.newspapers.com/
This site provides links to newspapers across the globe (organized by state or
by country), including local business papers and college newspapers. Many
newspaper sites, and directories of newspaper sites, may be found in Job-Hunt's
Classified Ads category.
Recently the trend for many newspapers
and other media is to use an employment super site rather than their own want
ads. So you may still need to read the paper to get the ads printed there. The
current exception is Employment
Wizard (an Employment
Super Site) which has the listings from many small regional newspapers
across the U.S.
www.job-hunt.org - Government Jobs
http://www.job-hunt.org/jobs/states.shtml
A comprehensive list of employment opportunities in each state. Simply select
the state you live in. This site
includes links to:
· State job market information (the largest employers in the state, the highest paid occupations in the state, etc.)
· The state employment office where you can register for unemployment insurance benefits
· Web job sites focused on that specific state, cities and regions within that state, or a small regional group including that state
· City newspapers within each state
· Web sites of colleges and universities in that state
· Employers in that state
http://www.govjobs.com/
GOVJOBS.COM lists public and private sector high technologies for top level
commercial aerospace, US Federal, state and city government, US Defense and US
Military branches, and agencies.
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/
This is job site for Uncle Sam, if you want to work in the U.S. Federal
Government.
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/gslis/resources/jobs.html
Library Jobs Resources - University of Illinois/Champaigne's Graduate School of
Library and Information Science comprehensive index of job sites related to
library and information positions.
If
you already know the name of your target employer, you will be able to type it
in Search engines like Google or
directories of Web sites like Yahoo and get
several company listings.
To find employer Web sites, visit:
http://www.academic360.com/
This is a directory of college and university Web site employment sections.
http://adams.mgh.harvard.edu/hospitalwebusa.html
This is directory of hospitals by state in the U.S.A.
http://www.bankdirectory.net/mainindex.htm
This is directory of banks in the USA, organized by state.
http://www.business.com/
This is searchable directory of businesses in the USA, organized by type (e.g.
accounting, etc.), to find accountants in your state:
§ Select the Accounting category
§ Type the target state or city in the search window at the top of the Accounting page
§ Select "Just this category"
§ Click on the "search" button, and review the results
http://www.superpages.com/
Web yellow pages sites like the Superpages provide a list of possible employers
and, sometimes, links to the employers' Web sites (browse the companies listed
in the categories that interest you or that hold the most potential for the
kind of job you want).
http://lii.org/search?basic_search=1
The Librarians' Index to the Internet (lii.org) is a
searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 12,000 Internet resources
selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public
libraries. lii.org is used by both librarians and the general public as a
reliable and efficient guide to Internet resources.
Los Angeles Public Library Jobs and Careers Web Link
http://www.lapl.org/inet/index.html
This website offers career information and job search sites for Los Angeles,
the state and nation.
Alameda County Library Research Center Job Search Site
http://www.aclibrary.org/jobs/index.asp
This library website offers job information for the Northern California Bay Area. Some links require that you have an Alameda County Library Card.