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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.
- 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.
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
- Career
Voyages - this web site is the result of collaboration between
the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education. It
is designed to provide information on in-demand occupations along with
the skills and education needed to attain those jobs.
- 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
- Small
Business Administration - Federal
agency that offers guidance on planning, starting and growing a small
business.
- United
States Department of Labor
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
- Long
Island Jobs - job search website, exclusively devoted to Long
Island, with the purpose of connecting Long Islanders with Long Island
jobs.
- 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
- Department
of Veterans Affairs - Veterans Adminstration jobs.
- Helmets
to Hardhats - construction jobs for veterans.
- Hire
Vets First - a comprehensive career website for hiring veterans
of America's military. This site is sponsored by the U.S. Department
of Labor.
- Nassau
County Warriors to Work Program - Warriors to Work is the first
public-private program in the nation aimed at providing employment opportunities
for our nation's returning war veterans. Any veteran who is a Nassau
County resident will be eligible for the program. Program hotline is
(516) 572-8451.
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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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