Job Search * Career Opportunities * Professional Contacts
Career Resources
- Career Centers - These sites offer many different types of career resources including tips and techniques in searching for a job:
- Job banks often offer actual listings of job openings as well as other career-related resource information:
- Professional contacts - It can be helpful to investigate sources of employment information within professions by reading their published newsletters and journals. Often, these are rich sources of industry trends. Many have sections devoted to members where they can post notices of position openings or advertise their availability. You can try querying in a search engine using keywords like "carpenters associations" or "geology journals" for the type of industry and information you are seeking:
- Online journals
- Listservs
- Associations
- Government jobs information can be found on the Internet at the several levels of government:
- Local - check the city, county or borough website for the Human Resource or Personnel listings
- State - You can check the qualifications and job types available in the various United States by looking for the Personnel or Human Resources Department on the state's main page. Each state Internet address looks like this:
http://www.state.ak.us
This will take you to the main page of the state of Alaska. If you want to check Washington state, for example, replace the .ak. with .wa. like this:
http://www.state.wa.us
Just use the state's two letter postal code to look at other state's main pages.
- Federal - The U.S. federal government has many job listings posted. This is one place to begin the search:
Office of Personnel Management
- Financial Aid
- For Women
- Other generally helpful sites:
