Now more than ever, information for the job seeker is readily available and easily accessible. The Internet offers countless opportunities to not only find employment, but help you recognize your skills and organize them into a short, succinct document for potential employers. This Career Corner is a mere beginning to help you start the journey of finding your career. In it we offer links to sites which will help you identify your key skills, write a resume, and even job hunt. Good luck! Choose one of these areas: Self-Assessment Exercises- The Keirsey Temperament Sorter
- This site helps you determine your personality type and how you learn. Before beginning the test, see the "About the Test", or go here for more background. This test contains 70 questions, with the option to skip a few, so make sure you have some extra time before beginning it.
- The Communication Skills Test
- This site quizzes you on your ability to communicate and get your message across. Good communication is a valuable tool in and across all levels of an organization. Your ability to communicate effectively about yourself could make or break an interview situation.
- Locus of Control and Attributional Style Inventory Test
- Locus of Control is a belief about whether the outcomes of our actions are contingent on what we do or on events outside our personal control. Both locus of control and attributional styles have great influence on our motivation, expectations, self-esteem, risk-taking behavior, and even on the actual outcome of our actions.
- What's Your Work Style?
- What's the best way to increase your job satisfaction? Find an employer whose environment and culture match your professional values.
- The following survey -- developed by Spherion a leading employment and human capital management company survey -- will help you discover your work preferences and expectations, identifying the environment in which you feel most comfortable in and the type of employer best suited for you.
- ACUMEN Management Work Styles
- This test demonstrates how your thinking style may affect your success in a management role. Try taking it once at the beginning of the course and again at the end to see if your results differ.
- The Princeton Review Career Quiz
- The purpose of this test is to guide you to a career or careers that you would be most interested in. In answering 24 questions, this test will determine your interests and workstyle to help you choose a field or company suited to your strengths.
- MAPP (Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential)
- This test offered by the International Assessment Network not only evaluates your aptitude, personality or interest, but goes beyond these to assess your motivation. There is a sample test, however, the 20-page assessment will cost $24.95.
- The Entrepreneur Test - An Interactive Quiz
- Do you have a great idea for a new product? Do you want to start-up your own company? Be the boss? Take this quiz to see if you have what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur.
to the top Just For FunThe validity of these next few quizzes is in question, but they seem interesting. - Kingdomality
- This site helps you assess your career choices by comparing them to what your vocation may have been in medieval times. During this era, certain types of people gravitated to certain types of jobs. By determining your "medieval vocational personality," this test draws parallels to what you could choose as a career today.
- Test Your I.Q.
- Test Your Intelligence Quotient.
- Success Likelihood Test
- How do you handle success? Do you have loads of ambition? Or are you afraid to succeed? Take this test and find out.
- Are you a Procrastinator?
- Some of you may already know the answer to that.
to the top Writing a ResumeAll of the sites listed below are in one way or another devoted to writing that perfect resume. These are just a sample of the many that are out there. If you'd like to find more sites, do a search for "resume." If you find one that you think should be included on the list below, email it to christine_scheid@mcgraw-hill.com - Monster.com - Resumes and Letters
- The Resume section of Monster.com includes sample resumes, sample cover letters, sample thank you letters, and all the information you might need on how to write a good resume.
- College Grad Job Hunter
- This site includes 140 templates from 28 different majors (Accounting through Zoology) that you can use to mold just the right resume. With this one, the name of the site says it all.
- Resources for the Jobseeker on CareerBuilder.com
- If you can't find it on this page, you're not going to find it.
- Preparing a Resume
- This site gives you the step-by-step process of gathering information, to writing your qualifications to your employer's needs, to organizing and effectively writing the resume.
- The Dixon Report
- This is a well-written and conversational site that gives you instructions on how to write "super-quick" electronic resume by Pam Dixon.
- Rebecca Smith's eResumes and Resources
- This is another site which gives information on how to write several different formats of electronic resumes, including Web, HTML, and ASCII formats.
- Career City - Resumes
- Another site with plenty of resume writing suggestions, including a complete resume tutorial, tips, and samples.
to the top Finding a Job Now that you've probably submitted yourself to some of the self-assessment exercises and determined who you are, what you like and where you're going, and have composed a winning resume, you should now be ready to start job hunting. The sites below are an amalgamation of suggested readings (for tips on the process), and actual job search links. Most also incorporate other helpful information, so after perusing the initial link, surf around a bit and you might find more interesting, helpful information. Job Search Articles:
The following sites are good to read before you begin your job-hunting journey: Job Search Sites:
The following are some of the most popular sites on the web today: Voted "the best" by NetGuide, Webcrawler, Starting Point, TV.COM, Internet Business Network, LookSmart, Club Web, Noteworthy Ezine, & METROSCOPE - CareerBuilder
- This site not only lets you search jobs posted on the web, but in newspapers as well.
- The World Wide Web Employment Office
- This is a worldwide job-searching site. Its job search titles are organized by occupation, and not by industry.
- Job Options
- This is a multifaceted web site, containing a wide variety of job search information and tools. In addition to allowing job searches by title, salary, experience and geographic region, you can submit your resume to their database. You'll also find job tools such as tips for interviewing and resume creation, salary guides and calculators, and links to numerous other career sites on the web.
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