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CAREER DECISION & ASSESSMENTS WEB SITES

About Career Planning
www.careerplanning.about.com/library/blplanning.htm
One of 700 different topic sites from ABOUT.com. Each site, including this one on career planning, is managed by a professional expert from that field who offers articles, advice and links to additional topic-related sites.

Career Planning Process by Bowling Green State University
www.bgsu.edu/offices/sa/career/students/index.html
Kudos to Bowling Green State University's Career Center for their most excellent site. They offer accurate, thorough and quality career information.

Personality Tests
www.2h.com/Tests/personality.phtml
No one can resist taking personality and "IQ" tests. Here are some fun and some serious career-related tests.

Personality and IP Test Links
www.coach.net/personal.htm
A master list of links to lots of test sites (but don't take any one test as gospel!)

Queendom
www.queendom.com/tests/career/index.html
Check out the career test section.

Quintessential Careers
www.quintcareers.com/index.html
A career site that addresses the needs of high school students as well as college students. You can e-mail a "Career Doctor" with specific questions.

Princeton Review
www.review.com/career/
A career information site directed at college students. Occupational profiles and networking advice.

WorkSearch
http://worksearch.gc.ca/ (click - "Site Map")
Our Canadian neighbors, the Department of Public Works and Government Services, supply this comprehensive career decision site. Information and advice range from explaining career decision-making steps to helping you determine if you should be self-employed. Get to know yourself better through tons of unique self-inventories that assess traits including communication skills, learning style, and if self-employment is right for you. Get ideas on how to gain experience while in college.

MyPlan.com
www.myplan.com

Skills Profiler
www.acinet.org/acinet/skills

JOB BOARD WEB SITES

CareerConnect by Lakeland Community College
careers.lakelandcc.edu
Lakeland Career Services Center's own job board of local job openings. Post your resume in the database so employers can find you. Hyperlinks allow you to communicate directly with employers and send your resume in a nanosecond.

CareerBoard
www.cleveland.careerboard.com
A local job board useful for finding information on various companies.

Cleveland.com
www.cleveland.com/jobs/
Job opportunities from the classifieds section of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, online. Check out current, local career events.

MonsterTRAK
www.monstertrak.com
JOBTRAK is now part of the Monster.com family. This is a national job board and job search information site designed for college students.

Net-Temps
www.net-temps.com
Don't rule out staffing agencies when looking for a job. This site is dedicated to them and their jobs.

Snag-A-Job
www.snagajob.com
Summer Jobs & Part-time Jobs for Students

FlipDog
www.flipdog.com
A national job board that allows job seekers to narrow a job search by city. (It has a reasonable number of local jobs compared to most national job boards.)

Ohio Means Jobs
www.ohiomeansjobs.com/omj/
Job seekers can view postings from more tan 8,000 job boards and Ohio-based employer web sites which is a partnership of the State of Ohio, Monster.com and Indeed.com.

GettingHired
www.gettinghired.com
Dedicated to assisting people with disabilities connect to meaningful career opportunities, this national job board offers an enhanced profile and local job search feature.

Cleveland Engineering Society
www.cesnet.org/jobs.asp
The Cleveland Engineering Society (CES) non-profit professional membership organization's website offers local engineering jobs as well as science and engineering information resources.

JOB SEARCH WEB SITES (multiple topics)

About Career Planning
www.careerplanning.about.com
One of 700 different topic sites from ABOUT.com. Each site, including this one on career and job search, is managed by a professional expert from that field who offers articles, advice and links to additional topic-related sites.

America's Career InfoNet
www.acinet.org/acinet/
A portal to numerous job assistance resource links for job and resume databases, professional associations, legal information, occupational and labor market information, and relocation resources.

Career Planning Process by Bowling Green State University
www.bgsu.edu/offices/sa/career/students/index.html
Kudos to Bowling Green State University's Career Center for their most excellent job search information site. They offer accurate, thorough and quality information. One of the best features is a huge sample list and definitions of work skills and competencies. (Look in the "Career Planning Process" section under "Self-Assessment".)

College Grad Job Hunter
www.collegegrad.com
An entire job search book, College Grad Job Hunter. Check out the chapter on networking. The site also has a Q & Q forum for job search questions.

The Complete Idiots Guide to the Perfect Resume
www.susanireland.com/resumeindex
Site of job search book author, Susan Ireland. You'll find many tips for job hunting and resume writing.

Job-Hunter's Bible
www.jobhuntersbible.com
The guru of career planning and author of "What Color is Your Parachute", Richard Bolles, offers sound job search information. He includes current career-related articles, excerpts from his benchmark book (of course) and links galore.

JobStar Central
www.jobstar.org
The best part of this site is the hints on creative ways to locate the "Hidden Jobs". Also, if you're a linkaholic, you'll find lots of job search-related links!

JobWeb
www.jobweb.com
One of the most credible job search sites for college students from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Includes job search advice, articles, information on occupations, employer surveys, salary guides, and much more.

Rebecca Smith's eResumes & Resources
www.eresumes.com
Though she unabashedly promotes her book, Rebecca Smith offers specific advice on using electronic resumes and online job search.

Job Search Manual
www.sunraye.com/job_net

International Job Search Info
www.labourmobility.com

Pathways to Work For Young Adults
www.havrejobs.mt.gov/youth/
A very easy, graphical site.

RESUME WEB SITES

Career Planning Process by Bowling Green State University
www.bgsu.edu/offices/sa/career/students/index.html
Bowling Green State University's career & job search guide, which includes a fantastic skills self-assessment list.

College Grad Job Hunter Book
www.collegegrad.com/resume
An entire book online, including sample resumes.

Proven Resumes
www.provenresumes.com/toc.html
Resume advice targeting specific career areas.

Rebecca Smith's eResume & Resources
www.eresumes.com
Information and instructions to create an electronic resumes. Also, find links to resume posting sites.

Resume Tutor by the University of Minnesota
www1.umn.edu/ohr/careerdev/resources/resume/
Without a doubt, this site is our numero uno choice if you want to build a resume, section by section. They do a great job explaining what goes into each section and why. Lots of examples are provided to help you understand how to create your own resume text. You will need to do the final formatting of your resume, but if you have good text, the formatting is a minor task. Additional resume information can be found in their articles and links.

The Riley Guide
www.rileyguide.com/letters.html
Resume links heaven.

Resume Tutorial
www.acinet.org/acinet/resume

Words to Avoid in a Resume
www.hubpages.com/hub/Words-to-Avoid

Action Verbs
www.quintcareers.com/action_verbs.html

Resume Samples
www.resumemaker.com/samples/samples01.jsp

JOB LETTER WEB SITES

CareerLab - Career Advisor
www.cover-letters.com (Click on "Job Posting")
A library of 200 sample job-related letters (cover, thank you, etc.) with plenty of instructions to go with them.

Cover Letter Samples
www.nothingbutcoverletters.com

Thank You Letter Samples
www.cover-letters.com
(Click on "Cover Letter Library" under "Job Search" click on "Say 'Thank You' With Class")

INTERVIEWING WEB SITES

Interview Questions
www.pse-net.com/interview/interviewbyjob.htm
Interview-linkaholics can never get enough, so here are more interview question sites by specific careers.

Job-Interview
www.job-interview.net
Tons of sample interview questions, hints and links.

Monster Interview Center
http://interview.monster.com/
It's imperative that you practice for your job interview before the big day. This site, part of Monster.com, has excellent virtual interviews for specific occupations as well as other interviewing hints.

Interview Stream
www.ummlike.com

JOB DESCRIPTIONS and LABOR STATISTICS WEB SITES

America's Career InfoNet
www.acinet.org
The US Department of Labor provides information on wages and on occupational trends and required competencies. There are also links pertinent to diverse groups.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
www.bls.gov
Tons of federal employment and labor reports.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
www.bls.gov/oco/
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' OOH handbook, a resource book that provides descriptive information and the outlook for various occupations.

O*NET
http://online.onetcenter.org
This Web site replaces the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) book. It provides a large database of occupations and descriptions of them. Information includes the nature of the work, educational requirements, the skills, abilities and knowledge required, labor market information, related occupations and other informative Web links.

SALARY INFORMATION WEB SITES

Homefair
www.homefair.com
Calculate what it will take to relocate to another city.

JobStar
www.jobstar.org
Links to various salary surveys and advice on how to negotiate salary and benefits at the time of a job offer.

Salary.com
www.salary.com
Search for salaries by occupational area and city. There are also links to other salary studies, resources and job search information.

Salary Expert
www.salaryexpert.com
Another site that provides salaries by position title and city but with an additional multilingual option.

CBSalary.com
www.cbsalary.com
Great site. Has some "fun" occupations to get salary on under "Salary Calculator".

OTHER MISCELLANEOUS but INFORMATIVE WEB SITES

English Usage Resource Books
www.bartleby.com/usage
This site gives you access to the most-used, general information and language reference books: a dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, language usage guide, famous quotes almanac , bible, Shakespeare resource, geographical locations guide, and a book about anatomy!

Hire Diversity
www.hirediversity.com
Resources, information links, articles and job listings by state are provided for multicultural and bilingual job seekers.

Immigration Handbook Information
www.visalaw.com
Legal guidelines for employment of immigrants.

JobWeb
www.jobweb.com/article.aspx?id=648
Click on an area to check out other college career centers' Web sites.

Latpro
www.latpro.com
Employment resources for Hispanics.

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services
www.state.oh.us/odjfs/jobsearch
Links to government sponsored employment Web sites.

Updated 07/01/09