Career Information Sites

Volunteer/Internship

www.idealist.org – Define what information you'd like to receive by email from the job openings, volunteer opportunities, internships, events, and resources posted here by organizations all over the world.

Job Sites

www.americasemployers.com – Career development articles, tools and resources to help you during your job search. Read about writing successful cover letters and resumes, interviewing, networking and other great tips.

www.careercity.com – Plan a career, post a resume or job.

www.careerbuilder.com – CareerBuilder is the smart way to search for a new job, locally or across the country. For job seekers poised to consider their next opportunity, CareerBuilder.com allows them to become a careerbuilder by taking control of the search process through the use of tools that streamline and target their individual search as well as maintain their confidentiality. CareerBuilder encourages job seekers to become managers of their careers. Job seekers defines specific criteria and searches more than 400,000 continuously updated jobs, representing more than 25,000 of the top employers in virtually every industry and field.

www.monster.com – For Job Seekers: Monster is a lifelong career network, providing continuous access to the most progressive companies, as well as interactive, personalized tools to make the process effective and convenient.
For Employers: Monster offers employers cost-effective and efficient recruiting solutions, including real-time job postings, complete company profiles and resume screening, routing and searching.

www.nationjob.com – At NationJob you can find Career Articles, Free Career Test, Information For Employers, Search Companies, and Career Articles.

www.jobbankusa.com – Everything you need to find, start and grow into your next job. JobBank USA specializes in providing employment and resume information services to job candidates, employers and recruitment firms.

www.career.com – Career.com, the innovator of interactive, online recruiting provides the industry's most advanced state-of-the-art system to bring companies and candidates together quickly and easily. Some services offered are, Dynamic Job Posting, Private Resume Database CyberFair™, JobDigger, Job Hosting, Hot Jobs and Comprehensive Management Reports.

www.employment.com – At Employment.com you can search for jobs by category and by job location.

www.collegegrad.com/intv/ – At CollegeGrad.com, we target college students and recent grads exclusively, providing more entry level job search content to job seekers than any other site on the Internet.

www.jobprofiles.org – Job Profiles was completed by experienced workers. They give a description of their job, stressors and rewards, future challenges, and advice.

http://www.jobapplicationcenter.com – This is not your typical jobs search site. Unlike regular jobs search sites, here you will not find job postings for which you have to compete with dozens of other job applicants. Instead, we've searched the internet for you, to find exactly how, when and where to apply to almost every major U.S. company directly. When we can, we provide downloadable job application forms, and when those forms are not available we provide the links you need to apply with each company directly.

Occupational Information

www.bls.gov/oco – The Occupational Outlook Handbook lets you find out about a specific occupation by describing what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

www.jobhuntersbible.com/ – This site is designed as a supplement to the book; The 2002 edition of What Color Is Your Parachute? , Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers.

Salary Information for all Career Fields

www.joboptions.com/esp/plsql/espanenter.espanhome – Job Options is pleased to introduce Spherion. Serving as your personal recruiter, Spherion can help you identify companies that meet your criteria, and are seeking qualified candidates with your skills. Choose from 500,000 jobs from more than 50,000 employers in thousands of locations. You may also post your resume.

www.acinet.org/acinet – America’s Career InfoNet web site lets you find wage and employment trends, occupational requirements, state-by-state labor market conditions, millions of employer contacts nationwide, and the most extensive career resource library online.

www.wageweb.com – WageWeb provides compensation information and services that will help you attract and retain your most valuable asset-your employees.

www.jobhuntersbible.com/ – This site is designed as a supplement to the book; The 2002 edition of What Color Is Your Parachute? , a Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers.

Writing Resume/Interview Information

www.careermosaic.com – Find jobs, post resumes, and receive jobs by email.

www.monster.com – For Job Seekers: Monster is a lifelong career network, providing continuous access to the most progressive companies, as well as interactive, personalized tools to make the process effective and convenient.

For Employers: Monster offers employers cost-effective and efficient recruiting solutions, including real-time job postings, complete company profiles and resume screening, routing and searching.

www.collegegrad.com/intv/ – At CollegeGrad.com, we target college students and recent grads exclusively, providing more entry level job search content to job seekers than any other site on the Internet.

Career Assessments

www.advisorteam.com/user/ktsintro.asp – AdvisorTeam presents the Temperament Sorter II, you're invited to take the Temperament Sorter, the fun, interesting, and revealing questionnaire that tells you if you're an Artisan, Guardian, Rational or Idealist. This is the same instrument used in career development programs at Fortune 500 companies and in counseling centers and career placement centers at major universities.

www.careerkey.org/english – The Career Key will help you in choosing a career, a college major, changing a career, and career planning. Thousands visit daily for free professional career help.

www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca – The Career Development eManual has been prepared to guide you through the necessary steps, whether you are looking for your 1st or your 21st job. In order to help you do this in an efficient and effective way, the Manual has been organized into six (6) “steps”.

Specific Courses

Agriculture
www.ffa.org – Search for job opportunities in the field of Agriculture.

Nursing
www.nursingworld.org – Up to the minute Nursing News - by Nurses for Nurses.

www.nurseweek.com – Job Search, Nursing Careers, Upcoming Career Fairs, Facility Profiles, Resume Builder, Relocation Tool, and Salary Wizard can all be found on this website.

www.healthcareerweb.com – Find jobs in the health care profession.

www.nursingjobs.us – Find nursing jobs in Illinois.

www.nurse-recruiter.com – An online portal for nursing jobs in the United States from coast to coast.

http://usnursingjobs.net/jobs/il/

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/medicaled.html

http://cnacareer.org/jobs/il/

Dental Hygiene
www.adha.org/education-careers – How to get a job in Dental Hygiene.

College Search

Financial Aid

www.collegenet.com – The CollegeNET search engine helps you quickly find the ideal college. Narrow down by region, college sports, major, tuition, and several other criteria.

www.collegeboard.com – Helps you plan for college, by offering practice tests, information on finding the right college, and getting into and paying for college.

www.petersons.com – Peterson's reaches an estimated 105 million consumers annually with information about colleges and universities, career schools, graduate programs, distance learning, executive training, private secondary schools, summer opportunities, studying abroad, financial aid, test preparation, and career exploration.

Entrepreneurial Options

www.net-temps.com – Career development articles, tools and resources to help you during your job search. Read about writing successful cover letters and resumes, interviewing, networking and other great tips.

General

www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex_brief.php – Provides you with information of over 1400 four-year universities such as information on location, cost, size selectivity, major, student/faculty ratio, academic programs, single/coed, setting, diversity, extracurricular activities, sports, ranking, and religious affiliation.

www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/community/commcollhome.htm – Provides you with information on over 1200 community colleges giving information on location, programs, distance from home, student services, admissions, academics, and cost.

www.collegeview.com – College View provides information on the college’s student body, majors, and degrees, student life, athletics, special services, admissions and foreign student information, scholarships, and financial aid.

www.iccb.state.il.us – Illinois Community College Board site allows you to search for community colleges by college major. You can also link to all Illinois community college.

Sites for Learning about Yourself

Discover: Take inventories that will help narrow your occupational choices. Results are based o n your interest, abilities and values. Contact LLC Career Services at 234-5288 for a password and information on how to reach this site.

http://keirsey.com/ – Keirsey Character and Temperament Sorter site is a personality questionnaire. There are to parts to this personality questionnaire, character and temperament sorter. It is designed to identify different kinds of personality temperaments. After completion of the questionnaire, it will categorize you into one of the four temperament categories and the specific careers associated with that temperament.

www.collegeboard.com/plan_ning/myroad/ – My Road site is a comprehensive and integrated online solution for exploring and targeting colleges, college majors, and careers. Whether you’re heading to college or already there, it can help you learn more about yourself and explore the paths available to you.

 

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