General Resources
A collection of comprehensive career-related Web sites
- Careers.org Career Resource Center
The Web's Career Directory of Directories is the Internet's most complete and extensive index of career-related Web sites. Their words, but check out this site for a wide range of career resources common and uncommon (jobs in Alaska?), resources for going back to school and the small business owner as well as common job and career tools.
- CollegeGrad.com
College Grad Job Hunter is geared toward the recently graduated job hunter. Includes how to plan for the job hunt, job postings, resume and cover letter preparation, tips on interviewing and negotiations, and how to start off on the right foot in a new job. Good articles on job search techniques.
- DBM Alumni Services
Drake Beam Morin, the world's leading provider of career management programs and services has aligned its global resources with ours to provide U.Va. alumni with a comprehensive portfolio of career-enhancing programs and tools including: job leads, networking opportunities, professional seminars. Membership enrollment is free.
- Disabilities
Comprehensive federal Web site of disability-related government resources. Includes sections on employment and education.
- Experience.com
Alumni from hundreds of universities and Fortune 500 companies post internships and entry-level and experienced jobs exclusively on Experience. It is partnered with CareerBuilder, Yahoo! Hotjobs, Dice, and other great partners to make it easy for you to do all of your searching for internships and jobs in one place.
- Five O'Clock Club
An interesting network of career clubs, with east coast geographic distribution plus Chicago. Kate Wendleton has written several good books on jobs and careers. The article we include here, "The Key Steps in Finding a Great New Job," distills the best from them. We recommend her books.
- Getajob.com
The employment resource for job searches. Links to job postings, resume assistance. A "jobsleuth" looks for the jobs for you.
- CavLink
U.Va. has a special business relationship with NACELink to provide private-label, co-branded job listings and resume databases.
- Job Hunt.org
The purpose of the Job-Hunt Web site is to provide the most comprehensive listing of useful Internet-accessible job-search resources and services on the Web, in a format which is most useful to jobseekers. And so it does.
- Monster Career Resources
Have you figured out we like Monster.com resources? This is a good one - all kinds of information on kinds of careers (and what people DO in them); tips on all aspects of resumes, interviewing, negotiating, compensation, relocating and more; ideas for people in special circumstances (executives, mid-career, independent workers, military transition, non-profit careers and more); also chat rooms and newsletters.
- odinJobs
Odinjobs is an IT job search engine that helps IT & engineering professionals find the right job. Includes information on job salary , job demand, and roles in over 100 different IT skills and more.
- Roundtable.org
The association of 24 public relations, marketing, graphics, advertising, training, information technology and other communications organizations with more than 12,000 professional members. The goals include furthering professionalism, cooperation between member organizations, career and employment support, meeting and seminar promotion, community service, employer assistance, and membership services and benefits. A great place to find interesting info AND job listings.
- Wetfeet.com
When you sign up for a free membership with wetfeet, you will be able to download to useful guides: "Getting Your Ideal Job: Interviewing, Networking, and Landing Your Job Offer"and "Selling Your Stuff: How to Succeed at Career Fairs". Both are worth reading. "Getting Your Ideal Job" is 92 pages long, and is a good overview of the job search process.