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Fresno County, California,
Workforce Connection's
Guide: Internet Sites for Job Seekers
Workforce Connection contracts to Fresno County to provide
job placement, job training, job and career counseling, and
a host of other services to assist county residents in
entering or re-entering the workforce.
I have supplemented their links with many of my own, but
the genesis of this page was originally the above mentioned
document.
- One Stop Program Info
- United States Government Sites
- State of California Government Sites
- Various Government Sites within Fresno County, California
- Fresno County, California, Employer Sites
- General Purpose Job Ad and Resume Posting and Search Sites
- Localized or Special Purpose Job Ad and Resume Posting and Search Sites
- Other Information, Online Tools, and Utility Sites
- Newspapers or their help wanted classified ads online
- Job information link list sites
- Employer information link list sites
- Private Placement Agencies
- Freelance, moonlighting, and work-at-home jobs
One Stop Program
Workforce Connection in Fresno County, California, USA, is an
instance of a One Stop Program office.
Table of Contents
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One Stop Program
offices in California (this is a
national program)
are listed in an Adobe Acrobat
file
linked from
here
[which gives more information about the program, and
other informative links] and links to web pages for
some of the One Stop offices are also provided further
down on the same page, for those seeking similar
services to Workforce Connection but not local to
Fresno, California.
-
Visalia,
Tulare
county equivalents of Workforce Connection site, just
for a specific example.
United States Government Sites
includes nationwide sites sponsored by the US
Government that are not government sites.
Table of Contents
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United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics
Employment Projections
site
Home Page.
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United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics
Occupational Outlook Handbook
site
Home Page.
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The United States Department of Labor's
Employment and Training
Administration
site
provides a
"find-it"
list for the organization, which among other things
provides a pointer back to the Parent DOL
site index.
DOL also has a
"find-it"
page of its own.
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USAJOBS
US Government Federal Employment
site
-- jobs and employment information.
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US Department of Commerce
Fed World
Information Network
search engine.
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US Department of Defense
Civilian Jobs
online home
page
-- phone number is 1-888-DoD-4USA.
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America's Career Infonet
site
-- occupational and economic
information.
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The
America's Career InfoNet
Career Resource Library
home
page
has a nice set of links to information useful to job-seekers.
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America's Job Bank
(expires sometime in 2007 due to
loss of government funding)
site
-- employment opportunities.
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America's Jobline
site
-- employment opportunities, including
America's Job Bank's listing, that are
spoken through a touch-tone telephone
instead of read on a computer screen.
This seems to be targeted at blind job
seekers.
This is just an information
listing, it still requires a phone
call to a central number (given
at the time of this writing as
(410 659-9314) to learn the
individual phone numbers for the
various states where this service is
provided.
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America's Learning Exchange
site
-- connecting people to education and
training.
This site is no longer in business,
but carries links to two related
sites that are still
operational.
State of California Government Sites
Table of Contents
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California State Government
site
home page.
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California State
Career and Training Information
System
site
-- Occupational Information grouped by
county, job profiles, local training
providers, and local growth rates,
openings, and some wage information.
This site is no longer in business,
but carries links to related sites
providing similar information that
are still operational.
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California State Community Colleges:
Chancellor's Office
site
home page.
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California State
Department of Personnel
Administration
site
-- Information regarding state
personnel matters.
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California State
Employment Development Department (EDD)
site
home page.
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The California State Employment Development Department
"My First Job"
page
-- provides hints and links on job seeking for high school
students and others entering the workforce for the first
time.
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California State EDD
Job Service Locations by City
site.
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California State EDD
Job Service Locations by County
site.
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California State EDD
Labor Market Information
site.
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California State
Labor Market Information
site.
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California State
Library
site
-- public research.
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California State
Personnel Board
site
(also the state jobs home page).
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CalJOBS
site
-- computer link between employers and
job seekers.
This is the main California EDD
jobsearch services site, and is the
default home page on Workforce
Connection's computers. It allows
access to county by county job
listings throughout California.
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State of California
I-Train
(site)
shows training providers and training type
for job oriented training which the
California Employment Development
Department will fund in whole or in
part. This is sort of awkward to navigate, but
well worth the effort. Open a new browser window
(so you can keep reading these instructions in this
window) to the link above, then click in turn on the
links labeled:
-
In Need of Training
-
Choose a Region => GO
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Click Here to Enter
-
Training List
[For Fresno County, California, at this writing this
short cut
is equivalent to doing all of the above, but links described
this way don't stay valid for very long!]
Various Government Sites within Fresno
County, California.
Table of Contents
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Fresno County Free Library,
Fresno County Resources
Online Directory
site
Fresno County employment services, job training, and
other resources search site. Very powerful tool.
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City of Clovis, California
site
home page.
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City of Fresno, California
site
home page.
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Council of Fresno County,
California, Governments
site
home page.
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County of Fresno, California
site
home page.
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Fresno Area Workforce Investment
Corporation
(formerly Workforce Development Board)
home page
and local employment assistance
links
to other local organizations.
Fresno County, California, Employer Sites
Table of Contents
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Fresno County Office of Education
site
home page.
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Federal Express
site
jobs page.
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United Parcel
jobs
site
home page.
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James A. Smith Transportation
is a nationwide long haul trucking company specializing
in referigerated transport, with a large presence in
the produce growing Central Valley area of California.
Their
site
gives a bit of company history, plus toll free phone
numbers for drivers to check for available jobs.
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Allpages.com
This site's
Fresno Yellow Pages
can be used as a convenient way to identify and locate
local employers by business category. Their
home page
allows searching state by state and within states city
by city all over the US.
General Purpose Job Ad and Resume Posting and Search Sites
Table of Contents
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Best Jobs U.S.A.
site.
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BrassRing
(formerly Westech Virtual Job Fair)
site
-- high tech career resource.
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Career Builder
(formerly Career Path)
site
-- "career management for employers and job seekers" --
this is a META-search engine for job ads, which means
that it searches a lot of other job ad posting sites
besides its own, with a single search, and returns the
results in a nice format -- an essential job ad search
tool for the job seeker, but not a resume posting
site.
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Careerjet
site
-- "Careerjet is an employment search
engine for the United States. It allows you to
search a growing selection of jobsites in one go
saving you the trouble of having to go to each site
individually."
A nicely organized site that allows
usual employer and job seeker activities,
also supports job search "by category". For example,
my Information Technology interest showed almost
5000 job available in that category when I tested
the site.
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Career Mosaic
site
-- resource for employers and job
seekers.
(Actually ends up at the
Headhunter.net
site.)
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Career Magazine
site
-- this is a very impressive site in terms of
functionality and well thought design, though the top
of their pages is a bit busy to get past when you just
want to read the search results.
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Career Mart
site
(possibly defunct).
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CareerMosaic
job ad search and resume posting
site.
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Career Shop
job search and resume posting
site
job search page.
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Career Web
site
job seekers post resumes.
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CollegeGrad
job search and resume posting
site
home page.
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Computerwork.com
job search and resume posting
site
login screen.
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The
Craigslist
home
page offers a lot of community links, including job postings, for the SF Bay area,
and has links (upper right) to other craigslists around
the bay, the state, the country, and the world. A very
nicely and cleanly laid out site.
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Dice
site
-- high tech jobs for computer
professionals.
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The
FlipDog.com
site
offers resume posting and job search and resume search
services, plus a cute logo.
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Get a Job
site
-- not recommended, trashes out your screen
with popup windows. Alternate
HotJobs
master site
to which it leads in a frames environment is
just as bad.
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The
Global Career Center.Com
site
offers full service job seeker and employer resume and
job ad posting and searching services, plus some extra
goodies for the job seeker. Its main focus is
international jobs.
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Hire Quality
site.
This site is now live, but it is
a total waste of time!
It just provides a list of canned "searches" that really
only present you with a set of paid advertising. Being
told, when searching for "job", that eBay was willing to
sell me one was typical.
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Indeed
site
-- accepts a job title and zip code,
returns job listings local to that
zip code; clean, simple, nice, effective.
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Internet Help Wanted
site
-- nice clean site.
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Internet Job Locator
site
-- pretty wimpy.
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Job Options
(formerly E*Span)
resume data base
site
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Job Bank
site
-- employment and resume information
for employers and job seekers.
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JOBcentral
(replaces America's Job Bank which
expires in 2007)
site
US national resume and job ad site.
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Job Factory
site
("one of America's largest job databases"),
includes "JobSpider", a meta search engine.
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Job-Hunt.org
site
-- "The Job Hunter's Super List".
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The
Jobsearchlink*com
resume posting
site
so far only points to other job ad search sites, but
has a nice
list
of them. It is otherwise a pretty full service site
with one unusual feature: the ability to block up to
ten employers from seeing your resume. It also lists
some jobsearch articles of interest to read on its home
page.
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Job Star
site
-- California Job Search Guide
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Jobs Excite
site
-- employment and resume information
for employers and job seekers. Good clean site.
Also very responsive to user needs, fixed a conceptual
problem in their software within a week of my bringing
it to their attention. Thanks, Phet!
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Jobs Online
site.
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The
Job Square
site
provides full resume posting and job search
facilities, with a clean layout and a very
effective search engine.
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JobWarehouse.com
job search and resume posting
site.
Stay away! Enrolled me into a spam mailing list without
my request, and with no email method for unenrolling, on
2002/04/25.
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Lycos Guide: Careers
site
resume posting and job ad search site.
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IMDiversity.com
Diversity Job Bank
(formerly Minorities Job Bank)
site
home page.
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The
monster.com
(formerly The Monster Board)
site
-- for employers and job seekers,
network for careers, resume posting.
Has a great resume entry engine that
makes a prettily formatted resume
without a lot of effort.
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MonsterTRAK
(formerly JOBTRAK)
site
-- career center job listing service.
Specializes in entry level jobs, recent graduate jobs,
and internships (jobs held while in school).
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The
Net-Temps
resume and job ad posting and search
site
is a very popular place for recruiters to advertise jobs.
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The
TechJobsOnline
site
is a full service resume and job ad posting and search
site, having a few growing pains but with big ambitions.
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The
Thingamajob
site
is a full service resume and job ad posting and search
site, a little less formal than most.
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The
US Job Board
site
is a full service resume and job ad posting and search
site.
Localized or Special Purpose
Job Ad and Resume Posting and Search Sites
Table of Contents
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Californiajobs.com
site
home page.
Nice, professional looking site
dedicated to jobs in California.
A special feature is that the site
has "columnists" who write about job
hunting.
Searching for job ads was easy and
successful (for me).
Full service job ad and resume posting site.
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California +Jobs
site
home page. Nice site dedicated to jobs in California.
Being able to see the entire jobs list sequentially is
a good feature, though it may not be practical as the
site grows larger; this lets you find jobs with names
you might not otherwise guess. Full service job ad and
resume posting site.
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Central Valley Jobs
site
home page.
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HotJobs.com
a special site
search
limited to California.
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Public libraries in California provide the
Jobsmart.org
site
with a wealth of easily used resources, and job
specifics for Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego,
and San Francisco.
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Riley Guide, Seasonal, Temporary and Kinda Kool Jobs
site
(rather slow to come up, but the site is live).
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Senior IT Folk
job search
site.
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The
NerdsWanted.com
job search and resume posting
site
seems oriented mostly toward technical jobs, but comes
up with lots when their site is searched.
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Silicon Valley Job Source
site
home page.
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TechExpo "Top Secret"
puts on conventions for seekers of jobs requiring
security clearances, but their
site
often has ways to apply for the same jobs online for
those who cannot attend the conventions.
They occasionally hold one of their conventions in
California.
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Utah Department of Workforce Services
site
(okay, maybe not a job ad site, but definitely
specializing in one local area).
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Valley Hiring Network
site
covering the San Joaquin Valley (Fresno,
Merced, Visalia, Madera, Tulare and Hanford).
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The
VetJobs
site
specializes in jobs for US Veterans (plus spouses and
dependents), but is otherwise a full service resume and
job ad posting and search site for employers and
jobseekers. It is sponsered by the US Veterans of
Foreign Wars (VFW)
organization, with its own site as marked.
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Youth @ Work
site
-- links job-seeking youth with
employers.
Other Information, Online Tools, and
Utility Sites
useful to jobseekers
Table of Contents
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Aerospace Information
site
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Dunn and Bradstreet
employer listings
site
is useful for checking out the financial soundness of a
potential employer, to make sure that the employer will
meet its payroll, for example.
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Employment Review Online
magazine
about job issues.
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Eriss Corp.
site
is oriented toward the tool needs of
the employment agency, not the
individual jobseeker.
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Fresno County Library
Reference Department
site.
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Canned
search
for
truck driving jobs
at the
Google
search engine
main site
-- both an example and a usual higher end Workforce
Connection employment/training possibility.
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Hitch a Ride
State and Local Government
links
from all over the country.
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Hotmail
site
-- free, no software required, e-mail
system. Useful if you need an email
address where employers can contact
you, or to put into resume posting site
forms.
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InfoSpace
site
-- directory to find people, places,
and things.
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jobweb
-- national association of colleges and
employers
home page
and
site map
-- contains links and articles oriented
toward the new college graduate, but
also very useful to other job seekers.
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The
MapQuest
road map and driving directions
site
is very useful for finding employer locations and
figuring out how to get to a job interview, but there
are some data quality control issues; if the mapped
location looks ridiculous, it probably is.
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Mapquest WORLD Atlas
site
is useful for finding locations for overseas jobs.
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Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary
online
site
will help pick a spelling for a word if you put in one
close enough.
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Resume Tutor
site
from the University of Minnesota.
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US Works Central Valley
site
this is the more general type of entity of which
Fresno's Workforce Connection is an instance, and
focuses on the California Central Valley area instead
of just Fresno County.
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XE.com
This currency conversion
tool
seems to cover all the world's currencies, is useful for
converting wages offered in other countries to a familiar
currency.
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Yahoo's
List of Employers
by name
link
page.
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Yahoo Mail
site
-- free, no software required, e-mail
system. Useful if you need an email
address where employers can contact
you, or to put into resume posting site
forms.
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Yahoo! Maps
site
-- driving directory.
Newspapers or their help wanted classified ads online
Table of Contents
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Fresno Bee
Classified Employment Ads
site
online.
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SF Gate
(San Francisco Chronicle and San
Francisco Examiner) Classified Ads
site
online.
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The Newspapers of California
site
is "mine", and has a list of other lists of California
newspapers, followed by my list sorted in order by the
name of the town served, followed by the name of the
newspaper where a town has several.
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The Paper Boy
site
(world wide newspaper index).
Job information link list sites
Table of Contents
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Duet
information site job ad links
list.
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The
Wilson Mar
site
lists not only links to information about telecommuting
jobs, but has an excellent set of links to general job
search information.
Employer information link list sites
Table of Contents
Here you can learn about employers both to see if you'd like
to work for them, and also to prepare you for interviews so
you'll know something about the employers beyond their name.
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America's Career Infonet
Employer
Locator
allows search by name, industry, or (employee)
occupation. Part of this splendid much larger job search
site
sponsored by the US Department of Labor.
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CareerPark
link
list
to employers. Not a long list, but extremely nicely
done for the individual employers.
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CollegeGrad.com
link
list
to employer information tools. Several huge databases
of employer information. Entry level jobs are a main
emphasis.
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Desktop Engineering Magazine
has a long
list.
of profiles of employers in the specialized are of
engineering, but they have all kinds of jobs at such
companies. The list is so set up that if there are
active jobs, you need to go through a job ad to see the
profile, which is a bit awkward, but the profiles are
well done once you get there.
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Fortune Magazine
has online business pages; check out the company listings on
the left side of
this page.
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Hoover's Online
search
site
for information about employers, with search tools.
This is a massive, highly regarded site.
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JobFit.com
participating employer
lists
for information about employers, organized by state.
Nice concept, needs much more information entered into
the existing slots in individual employer listings,
but gives the basics in a well organized way.
Private Placement Agencies
Table of Contents
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ePeople
site
Matchmaking service for IT employers
and IT workers.
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Oya's Recruiter's Guide
site
provides a well regarded list of recruiters.
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TechStaff
site
A Supplier of Job Employment Services
-- The Technical Placement Specialists
Freelance, moonlighting, and work-at-home jobs
Table of Contents
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Cosource.com
Cooperative Market for Open Source -- a
site
for placing requests for proposals and
corresponding proposals for development
of Open Source software.
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COBOL Job Shop
site
for COBOL Tele-Programmers.
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ITmoonlighter
job ad search and resume posting
site
for matching information technology professionals
to jobs. For more general moonlighting jobs, see
their parent organization
A2Zmoonlighting
at its own job ad search and resume posting
site
-- at least part of the services involve a stiff "10%
of project size" fee to the potential employee once the
job is taken.
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Moonlighting Services
site
provides a job ad and resume posting and search service
for moonlighting and other part time jobs. Currently a free
service.
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TelecomCareers
site
where, again, employers with jobs are matched up
with jobseekers with resumes.
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The
UBidContract.com
site
matches contractors to contract jobs on an auction basis.
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HomeJobsPlus
site
offers good advice about how to create your own home
job, but also links to lots of companies offering work
at home jobs. Be very careful of these latter, according
to government studies, almost
all
"work at home" offerings are scams that take your
money rather than paying you money.
This page, maintained by
Kent Paul Dolan
xanthian@well.com
,
was last updated
20070822
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