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Online
Career Center - Links
Civil
Service
Creating Resumes and Cover Letters
- Advanced
Resume Concepts - cover letter tips.
- JobCentral
Resources - This section of JobCentral offers advice on resumes,
occupations, salaries and relocation information.
- New
York Job Zone - a free, online job search and career planning
system that helps adults make informed career decisions. Includes resume,
cover letter and reference list builders.
Education/Educators/GED
Employment
Megasites
- CB
Campus - CareerBuilder's
site for college students and recent graduates.
- CareerJournal
- The Wall Street Journal's job site.
- Career
Leak - provides career profiles, information on specific companies,
employment articles, resume samples and more.
- Help
Wanted: Tools for Tough Times - Multimedia educational site
created
by PBS affiliates to help New Yorkers struggling with unemployment,
looking to increase job skills, hoping to improve personal finances,
and
much more.
- Job
Central - a national labor exchange provided by leading U.S.
employers in alliance with the National Association of State Workforce
Agencies (NASWA).
- Monster
Board - a broad-ranging site for both job-seekers and employers.
- Riley
Guide - an extensive listing of links to job-hunting sites.
- Salary
Wizard - provides comparative national salary information for
various career titles.
- Workforce
New York - jobseeker links.
- ZoomInfo
- provides brief descriptions of thousands of businesses, along with
links to each company's web site, related industries, and competitors.
Paid subscriptions offer more in-depth services.
For
Students
- CareerSmarts
- for students in career planning classes, their parents, and young
adults independently interested in occupational self-assessment.
- Career
Zone - created by the New York State Department of Labor mainly
for students in grades 6-12, this site enables young people to start
planning for a career by examining in-depth job descriptions, utilizing
interest/skills assessment tools, exploring educational options and
even building a resume.
- GrooveJob
- part-time jobs.
- Internships.com
- designed to help students locate experience-based training to advance
their careers.
- Job
Web - online complement to the Job Choices publications that
offers career and job-search advice for recent college graduates. Includes
resume samples.
- O*NET
Online - a comprehensive database of worker attributes and job
characteristics. As the replacement for the Dictionary of Occupational
Titles (DOT), O*NET is the nation's primary source of occupational
information.
- Occupational
Outlook Handbook - provides hundreds of career descriptions.
- Studentjobs.gov
- job opportunities with the Federal Government for high school, college
and graduate students.
Government
Sites
Job
Boards
- CareerBuilder.com
- one of the web's largest resources for connecting job seekers with
employers.
- Craigslist
- has many different listings, including employment classifieds searchable
by region.
- Dice.com
- computer and technology jobs.
- Indeed.com
- easy to search job board.
- Law
Jobs - nationwide job searching for law professionals.
- MonsterTrak
- Monster's site for internships and entry-level jobs.
- New
York Post Employment Classifieds
- New
York State Job Exchange - affiliated with America's Job Exchange.
America's Job Exchange is the successor to America's Job Bank. This
site offers the full resources for job searching, and career changing.
- New
York Times Employment Page
- Simplyhired
- job board aggregator that links to openings across the web.
- Snagajob
- hourly positions.
- USA
Jobs - official employment site of the Federal Government. This
is a one-stop source for federal jobs and employment covering all federal
agencies. This site includes job search in US and assistance for employment
overseas. A section on resume writing and tips for interviews are also
included.
- www.6figurejobs.com
- for professionals seeking executive, senior-level and management positions
paying over $100K per year.
- www.allhealthcarejobs.com
- lists thousands of medical positions.
- www.theladders.com
- $100K+ jobs.
- Yahoo!
HotJobs - one of the most popular online job boards.
Long
Island Specific Sites
- CareerJumpStart
- resume writing guidance and local job openings.
- HempsteadWorks
- a network of organizations that assist employers in hiring qualified
workers. This site offers career resources including job training, news
updates including job fairs, links to partner organizations where there
will be job listings. Also visit the HempsteadWorks Helpful Web Sites
for Job Seekers. Listed here are job banks for specialized fields.
- LIWorks
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dedicated to training and assisting Long Island's future workforce
- SCORE
(Service Corps of Retired Executives) - volunteer agency offering
free information and counseling for prospective business owners.
Non-Profits
- Idealist
- nonprofit sector career center.
- Nonprofit
Oyster
- Opportunity
Knocks - focused solely on professionals interested in searching
jobs and utilizing career enhancement resources within the nonprofit
community.
One-Stop
Centers
- Career
OneStop - site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor that
offers useful career tools (including resume and cover letter examples/templates)
and labor market information. A new section - "Worker ReEmployment"
-- is at the top of the page.
- HempsteadWorks
- Nassau County's One-Stop Career Center that assists employers in hiring
qualified workers and job seekers in developing their skills and securing
employment.
Re-entering
the work force (for workers ages 50+)
- AARP
Job Resources and More - timely resources and advice on where
the jobs are, how to get a job, tips on resumé writing and interviewing
as well as practical articles.
- AARP
National Employer Team - provides job links to selected companies
(formerly known as Featured Employers) that recognize the value of hiring
older workers.
- RetirementJobs.com
- connects mature job seekers with companies that are ideal for older
workers.
Unemployment
Information
Veterans
Please note: Inclusion of a site on this list does not indicate endorsement
of any fee-based services that may be offered. It is the responsibility
of the user to exercise due caution when accessing these sites. While
these links have been carefully researched in line with normal collection
development procedures, the Baldwin Public Library has no control over
remote sites or sources. No responsibility for their content or availability
is accepted or implied.
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