Online Career Center - Links

• Civil Service
  
• Creating Resumes and Cover Letters
  
• Education/Educators/GED
• Employment Megasites
  
• For Students
• Government Sites
  
• Job Boards
  
• Long Island Specific Sites
  
• Non-Profits
  
• One-Stop Centers
  
• Re-entering the Work Force (for workers ages 50+)
  
• Unemployment Information
• Veterans
  
  
  

Civil Service

• City of Long Beach, NY - offers civil service positions. Click on 'Employment'.
• Nassau County Civil Service Commission - lists information about open positions and an application to take Civil Service Examinations is available.
• New York City Employment
• New York State Civil Service Jobseeker page - examination and vacancy announcements.
• New York State Civil Service Resources - test guides and resource booklets for local and statewide examinations.
• New York State Unified Court System - click on 'Current Opportunities' to search for openings locally or statewide.
• StateJobsNY - a service provided by the NYS Governor's Office of Employee Relations to state agencies.
• Suffolk County Civil Service
• Town of North Hempstead - offers civil service positions. Click on the 'Working' button, then 'Employment'.

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

• BOCES Online Application for Educators (New York) - position announcements and online application.
• CUNY Jobs - positions with the City University of New York system
• Department of Environmental Conservation - is seeking male and female staff for four residential Environmental Education Camps.
• New York State Education Department - GED testing dates/schedules for Nassau County
• New York State Teacher Certification - test dates and registration information for the NYSTCE.
• NYS Education Dept. - Resources for Individuals with Disabilities
• SUNY Jobs - positions with the State University of New York system

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

• Nassau County Resources - links to resources in Nassau County and local governments to assist individuals looking for work in Nassau County.
• 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.
• New York State Department of Labor
• New York State Job Bank - State Department site where job seekers can access thousands of listings, save searches, post resumes, and find career planning resources.
• Small Business Administration - Federal agency that offers guidance on planning, starting and growing a small business.
• United States Department of Labor
  
  
  

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 - 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

• New York State Unemployment
  

Veterans

• Department of Veterans Affairs - Veterans Adminstration jobs.
• Helmets to Hardhats - construction jobs for veterans.
  
• New York State Veterans - The New York State Department of Labor offers this site for veterans to assist them in returning to the workforce in New York State. Linked at this site is a local Veterans' Employment Representative.
  

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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