JOB HUNTING ONLINE – Newark Free Library
FREE EMAIL – We suggest www.yahoo.com (Avoid funny or suggestive screen names!)
HELP WITH YOUR JOB HUNT
These sites give advice on job hunting, resumes, interviews – the process of job hunting – and also contain extensive lists of other websites, including those with job postings. Newark Free Library’s “CAREERS SECTION” has numerous books on job hunting, resumes, and interviews (see beginning of 650 section).
www.job-hunt.org
www.jobhuntersbible.com– site from Richard Bolles , What Color is Your Parachute, advice on all aspects of job hunting and lists of many websites
www.riley.com
STATE AND LOCAL RESOURCES FOR DELAWARE
New Castle County jobs – www.nccde.org, click on “Employment” left column
City of Wilmington jobs -- http://www.ci.wilmington.de.us/jobs.htm
Jobs with the State of Delaware (DEL-Delaware Employment Link) – www.delawarestatejobs.com
NATIONAL JOB WEBSITES
www.ajb.org (America’s Job Bank)
www.careerbuilder.com (includes classified from the News Journal)
www.craigslist.com
www.monster.com
www.quintcareers.com (Quintessential Careers)
SPECIALIZED JOB SITES
Just a sampling --
Allied Health – www.alliedhealthcareers.com
College Students & Recent Grads – www.jobweb.com; www.collegegrad.com
Computers, Technology – www.computerjobs.com
Engineering – www.engineeringjobs.com
Government – www.careersingovernment.com
Hospitality, Restaurant, Retail – www.hcareers.com
Law enforcement & Fire – www.theblueline.com
Sports – www.onlinesports.com/pages/careercenter.html
SALARY CALCULATOR / COMPARE COST OF LIVING
www2.homefair.com/calc/salcalc.html
TESTING OR CERTIFICATION FOR CAREERS
Some careers requiring testing or certification -- Paramedic, Police Officer, Post Office, etc – see study guides available at the library; also our database Testing and Education Reference Center has online practice tests.
RESEARCH POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS / COMPANIES
Once you have an interview, you want to find out more about the company. Alternatively, you may want to identify potential employers in a particular area. For either, use business directories in our Business Reference Section (local and national) and articles from business magazines and newspapers found in our library’s online databases. The RefUSA database can be searched by location and type of business to create a list of potential employers.
USE THE COMPANY’S WEBSITE
When you have identified potential employers, go to their websites to view job openings and to apply from the website. A survey in 2003 found that companies hired four times more applicants who applied directly through their website compared to those who applied on a national job board like Monster.com.
CAREERS SECTION AT NEWARK FREE LIBRARY
See our Careers Section located in nonfiction at the beginning of 650. Contains books on job hunting, resumes, and interviews as well as books about specific careers and labor trends (such as the US Occupational Outlook Handbook). The Occupational Outlook Handbook is also available online at www.bls.gov/oco
RESUME WIZARD ON MICROSOFT WORD
Open Microsoft Word. Click on File à New à General Templates à Other Documents à Resume Wizard. If you forget these steps, simply type “resume” in the help screen at the top right. The drawbacks to using Resume Wizard include the fact that so many people use it, your resume will look like many other peoples’ resumes … and it takes over the formatting for the page, sometimes making it difficult to make changes.
From our library computers, to send a resume as an attachment to an email, you must first have an email address, next type your resume and have it stored on external storage such as a flash drive (avoid CD or floppy disk), then go to your email account, select “attach,” browse on the flash drive to find the correct file, and hit “open.” This will attach it to your email. Send the email to the email address given in the job ad.
Some job bank websites may require an unformatted, plain text version of your resume. Some job banks ask you to include keywords on your resume (e.g., subject terms that will help the computer match you with a job.)
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