Job-hunting, resumes, employment, careers

Updated: Mon Dec 10 12:58:45 EST 2001

To find a new job, try the following:

  • Direct Marketing World
  • FedWorld Jobs (which is updated everyday)
  • JobWeb
  • National Employment Search
  • Online Career Center
  • E-Span
  • Monster Board which has over 50 thousand listings, will post your resume, and can run an agent to look for jobs matching a profile you specify
  • Career Mosaic which has a good geographical selection interface
  • Career Path (search job ads in six major newspapers)
  • Career Builder (with the ability to have it search and email positions according to a personal profile as they are posted--currently only operating in Washington, DC metro area, though)
  • America's Job Bank
  • Help Wanted USA
  • Career Magazine Database
  • Career City
  • NationJob Network
  • DICE (full-time and consulting jobs, with a search engine--mostly weighted toward California, but not exclusively so)
  • Career Sight (resume posting, jobs, etc.)
  • Virtual Resume (post your text resume free or pay extra for additional services, such as HTML formatting, distribution via Usenet, etc.)
  • Careers section at TechWeb
  • dc.jobs for job-hunters in the Washington, DC metro area (also visit the newsgroup dc.jobs)
  • The Riley Guide (a very extensive listing)
  • Select Jobs (a resource for computer industry jobs-seekers)
  • DC Metro Careers On-line [new!] (Thu Jun 5 07:36:43 PDT 1997)
  • Internet Resources located in DC area but with national clients [new!] (Mon Jul 21 05:59:20 PDT 1997)
  • JobSmart (if you live in CA)
  • Jobs Resource (has a lot of entry-level positions, something you won't find in many of these databases; also more senior openings, geographic breakdown, resume posting, search by several criteria--a primary source for college recruitment) [new!] (Tue Jul 7 18:54:33 PDT 1998)
  • Careers resources from the Wall Street Journal
  • Resumix will assist in resume preparation, including HTML coding for posting on your Web site [new!] (Wed Mar 11 05:33:53 PST 1998)
  • Bull's Eye Job Shop [new!] (Wed Mar 11 05:35:38 PST 1998)
  • HRS Federal Job Search will email you jobs based on a profile you create (which may be by location and salary as well as position description)--but each job it finds will send you a separate email; you might get hundreds...
  • Skill Search (for both job seekers and employers)
  • Jobsmart offers nationwide salary surveys and access to position listings in California
  • Futurestep is a joint venture of Korn-Ferry and the Wall Street Journal, providing recruitment information for executive and managerial positions
  • Computer Jobs Store is a national and regional database for employment in the computer industry. [new!] (Thu Mar 11 13:53:45 PST 1999)
  • AmericanJobs.com--a database of computer jobs. [new!] (Mon Apr 19 05:54:10 PDT 1999)
  • Jobs.Com is a new site with many categories of positions (potentially) available. They have special resume-formatting software which must be used to submit resumes directly through the site. Too bad if you aren't a Windoze user, though; the software supports only that platform. [new!] (Wed Apr 28 13:30:11 EDT 1999)
The Wall Street Journal also recommends that job hunters use regular search engines, like Alta Vista, and enter keywords like "hiring" along with position titles or subject areas. This may find postings on companies' Web sites which haven't been placed on the centralized boards mentioned above. [new!] (Wed Mar 11 05:45:25 PST 1998)