OCCUPATIONAL DESCRIPTIONS/JOB MARKET INFORMATION
- America's Job Bank: http://www.ajb.dni.us— is a national site linked to public and private employment agencies throughout the U.S. This site links to "ACINET."
- America's Career InfoNet: http://www.acinet.org/acinet/ This site includes information on general outlook of occupations, wages, and trends, and it has a resource library.
- Career Voyages: www.careervoyages.gov – this is a national site that includes each states' occupational information with excellent formatting related to trends.
- Coast Careers: http://www.coastcareers.com This is a comprehensive career planning site created for community college level students. Go to the DECIDE section. This site can be very helpful if you still need reinforcement for some of the career ideas you currently have.
- Companies Online: http://www.companiesonline.com has links to many corporate home pages.
- Employment Projections Home Page: http://www.bls.gov.emp/ This is a site with projections for the fastest-growing occupations and industries, labor force statistics, and contact information for your state.
- Federal Jobs Digest: http://www.fedjobs.com details jobs in the federal government.
- JobStar: http://jobstar.org/tools/career/spec-car.htm This site was created by the California Library System and is geared for California, but it has excellent career guides, salary information, and company research which includes Hoover's Online list, Fortune Magazine's top 100, and Forbes' 500 largest private companies. It also links with NationJob.com. This also has an excellent section on the Hidden Job Market and how to search for such jobs.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ is an excellent career resource. This site is linked in most of the megasites noted. There are complete descriptions of jobs with training needed, tasks performed, salary ranges, and related jobs.
- Princeton Review: http://www.review.com has a (careers section related to job hunting) and http://www.careerjournal.com contains (Wall Street Journal articles on careers). Each of these sites collects stories about people working in many different fields. Review.com is actually a very thorough site with good articles for recent graduates.
- Wageweb: http://www.wageweb.com has wages showing average minimum and average maximum salaries for the following fields: human resources, administrative, finance, information management, engineering, health care, sales and marketing, and manufacturing.
OTHER USEFUL SITES:
Bilingual employment opportunities: http://www.HireDiversity.com
Comprehensive international list of job-related sites: http://www.my-edu2.com -go to Education and Courses, then to Career.
Cybermagazines: http://www.blackcollegian.com, http://www.collegegrad.com, http://www.careermag.com, http://www.fastcompany.com, http://www.hightechcareers.com and Job Web http://www.jobweb.org— click on articles or student newsletters.
Indiana site for career planning with information for secondary and college students and parents: http://www.icpac.indiana.edu which is changing to www.learnmoreIndiana.org
Internships: http://www.internshipprograms.com
Job sites for college students: http://www.JobTrak.com
Online education resources: http://www.learn.berkeley.edu/ and http://www.cvc.edu (California links), and http://www.universityalliance.com, where all of its classes are online. If any of you decide that you want to continue your education by taking classes over the Internet, these resources should help you out.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology allows you to take any of their classes on line with out charge, go to “courses” at www.mit.edu
Peterson's Guides: http://www.petersons.com
Recruitment sites: http://www.Careerbuilder.com
Service learning: http://www.cool2serve.org & http://www.teachforamerica.org
Telephone directory: http://www.bigyellow.com
The Virtual Library: http://vlib.org/Overview.html
Also refer to Chapter 7 web links
