The Web and book resources in this section will help you with all aspects of your job search.
Researching Global Issues I Researching Careers I Researching Companies I Job Search I Finding a Recruiter I Resumes, Cover Letters, and Interviews I Training and Financial Aid I Networking and Associations I Internships I Entrepreneurship I Freelance and Home-Based Business I Starting a Nonprofit I How to Start Your Own Life’s Work Support Group I Sample “Research Questions List”
Below find listings of the major job banks and job search sites. Use these resources for job interview preparation and all aspects of the job-search process from researching specific job openings, finding job fairs, etc. In addition you will find other job-search sites to help you find specific job openings in private sector (executive), government, and nonprofit jobs, as well as green jobs, foreign affairs, medical jobs, part-time work, technology jobs, and many more.
Major Job Boards and Job-Search Sites
As the U.S.'s largest online job site, CareerBuilder.com puts over 1 million jobs in front of poised job seekers wherever they are—at home or at work—in print and on the Internet. More than 23 million unique visitors come to the site every month to check out the opportunities in every industry, field and job type. Using the CareerBuilder site in your job search gives you the speed and efficiency of reading the Sunday help-wanted ads of more than thirty of the nation’s largest newspapers the day before they appear in print at the newsstand.
This site provides employment, training, and financial help to job seekers. From the U.S. Department of Labor.
Indeed.com is a search engine for jobs, allowing job seekers to find jobs posted on thousands of company career sites and job boards, including the major job boards, the top 200 newspapers, hundreds of professional associations, and company career centers. You can search for job listings by title, keywords, company name, salary, and location.
Job Shouts matches job seekers with jobs via Twitter. Users set up their profile and are notified by Direct Message on Twitter when a job matches what they are looking for.
This popular site features national and international searches by location, category, and keyword; focus sites for honing in on specific careers; access to companies and descriptions of their open positions; and a customized job search, courtesy of a monster job-search agent. Also includes links to sites with nonprofit job listings.
Nexxt is a rebranding of Beyond, one of the earliest job boards in the recruitment market. As a premium job board and recruitment platform, it boasts a huge network of niche job posting sites. Search millions of jobs with top employers on Nexxt and across all the focused Career and Local sites powered by Nexxt. You can create a free account, post your resume to the site and apply to job postings at no cost.
SimplyHired.com is a vertical job search engine that pulls listings from job boards, company pages, online classifieds and other data sources. They aim to make the process of finding a job as simple as possible utilizing a simple interface that anyone can use to sift through the millions of jobs to posted daily. Search jobs listings, research current job trends and salaries, get updates when new jobs are posted, and more.
SnagAJob.com is the nation's largest job site for part-time and full-time hourly jobs. They are a job board and more, offering advice and resources for job seekers.
Vault offers a job board where users can search by category, keyword, location, experience level, posting date, and can sign up to receive email notices of job matches.
Other Job-Search Sites
Private Sector Executive Jobs
BlueSteps is an exclusive service of the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC). The Association of Executive Search Consultants provides this service for retained executive search firms that are looking for experienced executives. For a fee, you can make your "Executive Profile" and resume available to member firms. Other services offered.
ExecUNet is a nationwide networking organization for senior level executives and professionals, listing unadvertised job openings starting at $150,000 and up. Fee based.
TheLadders.com is the world's largest community catering exclusively to the $100k+ job market. TheLadders.com offers online job search resources and content. Their specialized job search engines are an invaluable asset to top-earning job seekers in sales, marketing, finance, human resources, law, technology, operations, and all other $100k+ fields. Fee-based membership, various levels available.
NationJob has one of the largest networks of both active and passive job seekers in the country. Their highly successful PJ Scout (Personal Job Scout) service has helped millions of Job Seekers search for new jobs by sending new job openings that match each user’s unique preferences to their email account on a weekly or daily basis. Job titles, company names, and locations are included in each PJ Scout email, with the direct link and full URL of each position. Each job seeker can select specific communities, industries, employers, and keywords for PJ Scout to use when searching and sending job listings. Additional preferences and fields including type of position, salary, education, and more help filter listings even further to provide the most targeted job searches possible. Additionally they offer PJ Select, where job seekers can create a profile and send a resume. Both services are free to all job seekers.
Government Jobs
Federal Career Development Center
At the Federal Career Development Center visitors are guided through the planning process and learn how to compile and evaluate their personal assessment, complete an (IDP) Individual Development Plan, prepare for interviews, complete their application including KSA development, networking techniques, and much more. This service assists current federal employees in evaluating and achieving their short and long term career goals.
This career center was developed to help federal government job hunters find, apply for, and land government jobs. It was expanded to assist federal employees seeking upward mobility, career progression, and retirement planning assistance. Federal Jobs Net also includes comprehensive Postal employment information, information about overseas jobs, law enforcement opportunities, and detailed information on Veteran's benefits, handicapped employment options, and special emphasis hiring programs.
Govtjob.net is an online source of jobs available in state and local government, including city, town, village, county, borough, township, public sector and others.
USAJobs is the official job site of the U.S. Federal Government. It is the Federal Government's one-stop source for federal government jobs and employment information. If you are looking for a federal government job, this site is a must.
Nonprofit Jobs
The Association of Fundraising Professionals
The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) represents more than 30,000 members in 200 chapters throughout the world, working to advance philanthropy through advocacy, research, education and certification programs. If you are looking for a career in fundraising, the AFP provides an online Jobs Service, a premier electronic recruitment resource for the industry. Here, employers and recruiters can access the most qualified talent pool with relevant work experience to fulfill staffing needs. Whether you're looking for a new job, or ready to take the next step in your career, the resources in this section of their site will help you find the opportunity that's right for you.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Philanthropy Careers
Part of The Chronicle of Philanthropy this site provides a free job board searchable by state, organization, position, date, or field. Additionally offers free e-mail job ad notifications.
DeepSweep is a free nonprofit job board. It includes job postings from all walks of the nonprofit sector. Positions advertised include entry-level vacancies and career opportunities for seasoned nonprofit staff.
This is a site for middle, executive, and director level job-seekers looking for non-profit and public sector employment in higher education, health, advocacy, philanthropy, government, social and human services, and community and economic development. Search jobs by keyword, function, industry, and region. You can also take advantage of a matching service and find career resources.
GuideStar: The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations
GuideStar provides free access to detailed information about the finances and management of nonprofits. Includes information from IRS records regarding salaries of the organizations' highest level staff.
At this site you can post your resume, research nonprofit job openings, and explore volunteer opportunities. It also has a schedule of job fairs, conferences, and convention sites around the country.
Work for Good, (formerly Opportunity Knocks) is the national online job site focused exclusively on the nonprofit community. On their site you can search nonprofit job listings, post and edit your resume, write a cover letter, set up a "search agent," and have access to a wealth of valuable resources for developing your career
Field Specific Job-Search Sites
ClimateBase is a platform for climate action, education, and impact. The Climate Careers platform which is accessible to anyone as a free public benefit — empowers the global climate community with the most comprehensive directories for climate jobs, organizations, and events. Their mission is to help mobilize humanity to solve the climate crisis and create a low-carbon, planet-positive future we want.
Conservation International's mission is to conserve the Earth's living heritage—its global biodiversity—and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature. Find on their site listings of careers for those who are passionate about the environment.
Launched in 2010, the Conservation Job Board helps conservation professionals discover great employment opportunities in ecology, wildlife, forestry, marine biology, environmental education, and related fields. They also help employers recruit highly qualified environmental professionals to meet their employment needs.
Cool Works job search portal helps you find seasonal work in the great outdoors. On this site you can find a summer job in Yellowstone, Yosemite, or another national park, work as a camp counselor, at a ski resort, ranch, theme park, tour company, and more.
Dice.com is a leading career website for technology and engineering professionals. It is designed for the specific needs of technology professionals, enabling them to perform highly targeted job searches based on specific criteria, including location, type of employment, skill set and keyword. Dice.com also provides job search tools such as search agents, resume posting and career-related content.
The Environmental Career Center
The Environmental Career Center has been connecting leading environmental, conservation, and sustainability employers with top candidates for over 40 years. They started the first environmental job board - launched on Earth Day 1995. In addition, they provide employers and job seekers with comprehensive career, and staffing services in the environmental, sustainability, natural resources, energy, and green jobs sectors.
ForestryUSA is one of the foremost website on forests and forestry in America. It provides quick access to all the Internet sites of the federal and state governments, the forest industries, service and supply companies, associations, the American forestry community, consultants, education and research, forestry news, employment opportunities, and much more.
GISjobs.com is a job board that advertises GIS jobs and resumes for the Geographic Information Systems industry. They also offer FREE user-submitted GIS salary survey information from GIS professionals world-wide.
Good Food Jobs
Good Food Jobs is a gastro job-search tool, designed to link people looking for meaningful food work with the businesses that need their energy, enthusiasm, and intellect. They post opportunities with farmers and food artisans, policy makers and purveyors, retailers and restaurateurs, economists, ecologists, and more.
PedJobs is the official employment resource of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Launched in 2001, the mission of PedJobs is to bring together pediatric health care professionals with employers seeking their services. On this site you can search for jobs by keyword, category, job level, type of job and location, post your resume, and have access to a career resources area, as well as receive their Career Quarterly e-Newsletter — all for free to job seekers.
Planetizen: The independent resource for people passionate about planning and related fields.
Pro Staff is a professional staffing and recruiting firm specializing in administrative and light industrial careers.
On this Web site you can search for renewable energy jobs based on keywords and location or browse by technology (e.g. solar, hydro, geothermal, etc.) or profession (finance, legal, etc.). Registration is not required to apply for a job. Resumes may be posted, and a privacy policy is available. News, podcasts, stock reports, and more also available.
SocialService.com is the place to start looking for a social service or social work job, whether in mental health, substance abuse, children and youth, medical social work, criminal justice, domestic violence, counseling, community organizing and outreach, EAP, mentoring, homelessness or a variety of other human service areas. Their free services include their job search tool the "Job Agent" which will e-mail you notices of new job postings that match your geographic, educational and keyword criteria and their "Resume Posting" portal where you can upload resumes for viewing by potential employers.
The United Nations provides an easy to use interface for finding United Nations jobs across the globe. Jobs are organized into four catagories: new listings, organizations, duty stations (where you can see listings by country), and closing soon.
Below you will find general job hunting books as well as specific job-search books for finding private sector, government, and nonprofit jobs. Also you will find a section of books for those who are unemployed or about to be.
General Job-Hunting Books
Other Job-Hunting Books
Private Sector Jobs
Government Jobs
Nonprofit Sector Jobs
Books for Those Who Are
Unemployed or About To Be
Copyright © 2024 EmpowerYOU - All Rights Reserved.
Powered by GoDaddy