Job Listings:   General   Minorities   Local   Government/NonProfit

Cover Letters   Resumes   Interviews

General Career Information

Business Week Online About Careers
Job search and career information for Business Week and LeadersOnline, an executive recruiter. Covers career strategies, work life, job trends, salaries and living costs. For middle to top executives, earning $75,000-$250,000.

Career and Job Hunting Resources Guide
From Quintcareers; includes a career toolkit with guidance on how to write cover letters and resumes among other topics, doing a job search and going to college.

Career Development Center (CSULB)
Covers the services of the Center, career guides, job bank links, and helpful hints.  Use Beachview for interviews and internships.

Career Development Manual
From the University of Waterloo, covers self assessment, occupational research, decision making, employment contacts, work and career planning.

Career Guide to Industries
Descriptions of 47 industries with career information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, covers working conditions, earning outlook and training requirements. 2000-2001 edition.

Career Ideas
From the University of Texas, nice features include hot careers and majors to careers.

Guide to Job Hunting on the Internet
Tips, tools, tutorials and other information on doing a job search on the Internet.  Includes a tutorials on cover letters, resumes, interviewing and salary negotiations among others. A comprehensive site for students and jobseekers.

How to Conduct an Effective Job Search
A comprehensive site, this step-by-step guide from JOBTRACK leads the seeker through the six steps in an effective job search.  Includes links to articles and extensive resources on resumes and business letters,  interviewing, etc.

JobHuntersBible
Online supplement to the book by Dick Bolles, What Color is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career Changers.

JobWeb 
"A web site of career development and job-search information for college students and new college graduates." Sponsored by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
2000-2001 edition from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics covers what workers do, working conditions, training and education needed, earnings and job prospects in a wide variety of occupations.

• For printed materials check the CSULB Library catalog COAST under professions, occupations or vocational guidance.

• The best approach to researching individual companies is to utilize the Subject Guide to Business - Corporations.  This guide provides links to web sites that contain current company data, brief profiles and directory type information about companies.  You will have the most success if the company is publicly owned.

• The best approach to researching salary, wage and benefit information is to utilize the Subject Guide to Business - Wages, Salaries and Benefits.  This guide provides links to general sites and metasites on this topic, as well as to wage, salary and benefits surveys online.  The surveys usually can be searched by occupation and location.

Job Listings: General

 

America's Job Bank
Links to 1,800 state Employment Services offices with jobs listings for both the private and public sectors.  

Brilliant People
From the Management Recruiters International; for executives; search for jobs, find a recruiter, or manage your career.

Career Exposure
Corporate job links in financial services, high technology, manufacturing, service industry, retail, transportation and energy fields.

Career Magazine
Job search and career information; search, post resume, relocation service, information about employers, recruiters and consultants.  Also a hot topics section.  

Career Shop
Post resume, search jobs and a personal job shopper. Nice list of links related to relocation tools.

Career Web
Online recruiting site; search jobs and post resume.

Careerbuilder
A megasite career search engine that covers multiple career web sites (over 70); advanced searching includes location, description, keyword, and salary searches.   

JobBank USA
Extensive services including searching jobs, submitting resume, featured companies, hot companies and industry associations.

Jobs & Careers
From About.Com contains career planning information and listings for careers in business/finance, media/arts, nonprofit, government, education, science and technology.

Jobsearchlink
Compilation of employment resources available on the Web. Also includes resume posting service and worksheets that walk job seekers through the job-hunting process.

Monster
"Monster.com is a lifelong career network job seekers can use to expand their careers, providing continuous access to the most progressive companies, as well as interactive, personalized tools to make the process effective and convenient. Features include: My Monster, resume management, a personal job search agent, a careers network, chats and message boards, privacy options, expert advice on job-seeking and career management and free newsletters."

Orange County Register Job Listings
Jobs advertised in the Orange County Register newspaper. Also linked with a national network of jobs. Site includes career tools, company profiles and announcements of local job fairs.

Net-Temps
Emphasis on temporary jobs, but also includes contract work and some direct, full time jobs.

TrueCareers
"Helps educated and diverse job seekers find good jobs with leading, reputable companies more efficiently."

Yahoo Hotjobs
Search by keyword, company, or location; post resume.

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Job Listings: Minorities

 

Advancing Women Career Center	Women
African American Village	African Americans
Asia Net	Asian Americans
Asian American Village	Asian Americans
Bilingual Jobs	Bilingual, Many Languages
Blackenterprise Career Center	African Americans
BlackVoices	African Americans
Career Women's	Women
Feminist Career Center	Women
HACE	Latino/Hispanic
Hire Diversity	Multicultural
Hispanic American Village	Hispanic
Latpro	Spanish/Portuguese Speaking
Minority Career Network	Multicultural
Native American Jobs	Native Americans
Native American Village	Native Americans
Native Web	Native Americans
Saludos	Latino/Hispanic
Women's Village	Women
Workplace Diversity	Ethnic Minorities, Women

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Job Listings: Local

Some example sites:

California Job Bank

California State Personnel Board

CSULB Open Jobs

Jobstar Los Angeles

Jobstar Sacramento

Jobstar San Diego

Jobstar San Francisco

Long Beach Press-Telegram Job Listings

Los Angeles Times Job Listings

Orange County Register Job Listings

• LA Jobs has a lengthy list of links to job web sites, some national which permit searching by location but most are for specific California locations (regions, counties, cities).  Scroll down to Job Listings.  Also includes job faires and career counseling centers in California

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Job Listings: Government / NonProfit

 

American Federal Jobs Digest	federal government
Careers In Government	public sector
Charity Channel	non-profit
Federal Jobs Digest	federal government
Federal Jobs	federal government
Goodworks	non-profit
Idealist	non-profit
Orange County Jobs	county government
USA Jobs	federal government

• For California state government jobs, use the sites listed under Job Listings: Local including LA Jobs.

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Cover Letters

Two example sites:

Cover Letters and Other Correspondence

Letters for Job Hunters
 

• Many of the sites listed under General or Job Listings above also include a section on cover letters.  These sections also may include information on other job search letters, such as thank you letters.
• For printed materials, check the CSULB catalog, COAST, under cover letters.

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Resumes

Two example sites:

Damn Good Resumes

Resumes

• Many of the sites listed under General and Job Listings above also include a section on resumes and permit the posting of resumes at the site.
• For printed materials, check the CSULB catalog, COAST, under resumes employment.

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Interviews

One example site:

The Job Interview

• Some of the sites listed under General and Job Listings above also include a section on interviewing for a job, even on negotiating for the position and salary.
• For printed materials, check the CSULB catalog, COAST, under employment interviewing.

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University Library, California State University, Long Beach