CAREER RESOURCES (updated4/25/08)
These links are placed here for the benefit of my friends who are seeking career resources. They are useful for conducting a search, tweaking the resume, preparing for an interview, and following up afterwards. I'm always looking for good additions!
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Job Search Websites
www.indeed.com - I really like this one for its simplicity and thoroughness. With this one, simple, Google-like search, you are accessing all the major job boards and company sites. Remember to set up those daily alerts to your email account.
SimplyHired - Similar to indeed.com, SimplyHired reaches across many job posting resources and organizes the results by company name and location.
Wall Street Journal's Career Journal - Articles, job searches, resume posting. Note, if you are interested in theladders.com (see below), you can usually find a link for a discount or a free trial.
The Ladders - This site is know as the marketplace for $100K+ jobs. In their model, candidates pay to search and post their resumes....this is a good measure of one's seriousness about the job market. Their are actually different ladders; HR, Operations, Finance, etc.
geebo - This one seems to be growing in popularity. This is a link directly to the Orlando search.
jobs.net - This is a link to Orlando jobs organized by category (e.g., executive, education, etc.).
Linkedin - Has a job search that also highlights openings within your "network."
Resume / CV / Cover Letters
Susan Ireland Resume Samples - From the author of the Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Resume comes these 90 samples sorted by occupation.
Interviews
Salary Surveys
Salary.com - This site has some wizards for identifying salary ranges in geographic areas.
Graduate School Career Resources
Yale University - Web links from their Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Scroll through the complete list.
Additional
WetFeet - Career research (some free, some subscription)
TradePub.com - This is a great resource for free industry trade magazines, e-newsletters, whitepapers, etc.
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