Self-Assessment and Career Development
Writing a Résumé
Finding a Job
Just for Fun

Self-Assessment and Career Development

www.mymajors.com

MyMajors provides useful advice on university majors and college majors that a college student with your interests and achievements might do well in.

www.careerkey.org

Tests measure users' skills, abilities, values, and interests and returns information designed to help them learn about themselves, discover career options, and make better decisions.

www.assessment.com

MAPP identifies your true motivations toward work and allows you to match yourself to job categories to see where you best fit.

www.jobhuntersbible.com

This guide from the author of What Color Is Your Parachute? incorporates his Net Guide with a large list of job resources online and includes many of the self-assessment exercises and job searching hints from the book.

http://www.sigi3.org/

SIGI 3 helps students and other job seekers create a career plan that's right for them. SIGI 3 integrates self-assessment with in-depth and up-to-date career information that is easy to use and provides students and adults with a realistic view of the best educational and career options for their future success. SIGI 3 helps each user examine key motivators and matches work-related values, interests, and skills to educational and career pathways. Individuals explore a range of options based on their personal choices.

www.careerclusters.org

A unique site that links what students learn in school with the knowledge and skills they need for success in college and careers.

www.iseek.org/mncareers/index.html

Users will find lots of information to help start exploring what type of career they might be interested in and resources to help make informed decisions about careers and education.

www.psychologytoday.com

This site contains personality assessment and career management segments that are insightful and useful tools.

www.vault.com

This is a life management site that offers something for everyone including college students, job seekers, those in career transition and senior executives.

http://jobstar.org/tools/career/index.php

A comprehensive collection of career information, including career assessment, where to look to identify trends, and links to descriptive information for occupational fields.

www.salary.com

Provides users information on total compensation for specific jobs in specific industries in specific geographic locations.

www.rileyguide.com/trends.html#gov

This site contains labor market information including statistics on employment, wages, industries and other factors affecting world of work.

www.bls.gov/oco/cg/

The U.S. Department of Labor's Career Guide to Industries tells the user about occupations, training, earnings, working conditions and job prospects.

www.acinet.org

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, America 's Career Kit provides information on hundreds of occupations and requirements for entry, wage and trend reports, and employability tools.

Writing a Resume

www.jobweb.com/resumes_interviews.aspx?id=896

JobWeb®, a web site of career development and job-search information for college students and new college graduates, is owned and sponsored by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). See Seven Tips for Effective Resume Writing and Typos, Grammatical Errors Most Common Resume Mistakes .

www.rockportinstitute.com/resumes.html

Rockport Institute's award-winning guide to resume writing will teach you to write a resume equal to one done by a top-notch professional writer. It offers examples, format choices, help writing the objective, the summary and other sections, as well as samples of excellent resume writing .

www.bestresumewriting.com/

Provides the insider information about resume writing. Make sure you are the one who gets the job interview by showing you how to write a perfect resume.

www.acinet.org/resume/resume_intro.asp

CareerOneStop is an integrated suite of national web sites that help businesses, job seekers, students, and workforce professionals find employment and career resources. Check out their resume tutorial.

http://careerplanning.about.com/od/resumewriting/Resume_Writing.htm

Your resume introduces you to potential employers. Find out how to write one that will make a good impression. Learn about different resume formats. See samples of good and bad resumes. Get the facts on portfolios and other resume-related documents.

http://www.damngood.com/jobseekers/tips.html

Hot tips on resume writing.

www.cvtips.com/

CvTips.com is a job search info center. Includes resume, curriculum vitae (CV), cover letter, and interview guides. Here you can find CV Examples and information on how to write a CV.

www.eresumewriting.com/

How to create winning resumes and compelling cover letters.

http://content.monster.com/res ume/home.aspx?WT.mc_n=SRCH/?s_kwcid=resume%20writing%7C735132319

Career advice from www.monster.com. See if your resume could benefit from an expert review. You can ask for a professional critique and learn what you can expect from one.

www.resume-place.com/

Home of the best federal resume writing services and federal job search expert consultants.

Finding a Job

www.collegegrad.com

This website, based on the book of the same title, is a cornucopia of resources and information to guide college students and others through a complete job search. It has job databases for those seeking internships, entry-level job seekers, and experienced job seekers as well as a searchable database of more than 8,000 employers. It also offers advice on careers, the job search, resume preparation, and more.

www.monstertrak.monster.com

Formerly known as JobTrak, this site has joined the Monster.com community. As in the past, users must be affiliated with a member college or university in order to access the job postings on this site. Students and alumni should call the career center for access information. This site has been cited as an excellent resource for executive as well as entry-level opportunities.

www.wetfeet.com

A site with a complete suite of resources for the job seeker seeking to make better career decisions and for employers trying to further develop their human resources potential.

www.careerbuilder.com

CareerBuilder has evolved into one of the larger and more dynamic sites for job and career information. Registration is free of charge and allows a job seeker to store a resume online without posting it in the database. Registered users can create up to five personal search profiles to track new jobs added to the database, and an e-mail message can be generated to a user when a match is discovered.

www.hotjobs.com

One of the web's largest sites for job and career information at which users can register and search for jobs from a vast database.

www.monster.com

The web's largest site for job and career information at which users can register and search for jobs from a vast database.

www.careerjournal.com

From the Wall Street Journal, this site contains hundreds of articles and information covering all aspects of the job search and career management.

www.careeronestop.org

Access over 1 million jobs, get labor market trends and tips, or post a resume for thousands of employers.

www.deepsweep.com

DeepSweep is a free, non-profit job board which includes job postings from all walks of the non-profit sector. Positions advertised include entry-level vacancies and career opportunities for seasoned, non-profit staff as well as senior-level executives.

www.jamminjobs.com

Jammin'Jobs is a national job board that lists thousands upon thousands of open positions nationwide. In addition to jobs, it provides the articles and resources for both job seekers and employers.

www.quintcareers.com

One of the oldest and most comprehensive career development sites on the Web, now with more than 1,600 pages of career and job-search content.

www.usajobs.opm.gov

The official site for U.S. federal government employment.

www.ajb.dni.us

This site is a joint effort of the 2,000 offices of the state employment service and the U.S. Department of Labor. Users can search the database by selecting a job category and entering a zip code to find all openings within a specific area. The Keyword Search allows a user to target jobs requiring specific degrees or licensing/certification or specific job titles. Transitioning military personnel can use the military specialty code to match skills to jobs in the public sector. America 's Job Bank (AJB) is one of the largest job sources online and is not limited to the continental United States . Users can also connect to and search the databases of individual state, district, and territorial employment services. It is suggested that users search both the local state job bank and the main AJB site to review all available jobs in any given area.

www.jibberjobber.com

Free job seeker organization tools to help keep track of companies, jobs applied to, network contacts, and interview preparation along with many more tools available to the job seeker.

Just for Fun

www.cmi-lmi.com/kingdom.html

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.

http://discoveryhealth.queendom.com/procrastination_short_access.html

Are you a procrastinator?