Articles
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- Fitness for the Mind: Dealing with Negative Beliefs That Hold You Back
- Increasing Personal and Career Effectiveness
- Coping with Stress
- Emotional Intelligence: What It Is and What It Can Do for You
- Why People Don't Follow Through...and What You Can Do About It
- Communication: Skills That Improve Performance
Career Websites
- Department of Labor’s Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)
The Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) is a recognized comprehensive listing of occupations with brief descriptions. Useful for getting a definition of a little-known occupation. Last updated 1991, and replaced by O*Net, below.
- O*Net Online
Comprehensive listings and definitions of occupations. Find information about occupations, match your skills to occupations, and other tools.
- Department of Labor’s Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
For hundreds of different occupations, the OOH provides very helpful information to help you make career decisions. A valuable resource.
- Monster.com
Offers jobs available listed by company, industry, location, salary. Search jobs, use career tools, get career advice.
- CareerBuilder.com
Job listings and career information.
- SimplyHired.com
Large database of available jobs, searching multiple job boards simultaneously.
- MarketingJobs.com
Positions available in marketing and sales.
- Vault.com
Job search and matching service.
- Salary.com
Offers a tool to gather compensation and salary information by occupation and location.
- SoloGig.com
A job board for freelance jobs and projects.
- SnagAJob.com
Job board for part-time and hourly employment.
- WomensJobList.com
Job board dedicated to women.
- Self Directed Search
Take an inexpensive yet helpful career assessment online, and receive guidance for your career direction.
- Cover Letter Library
Sample cover letters for a variety of job-seeking situations.
- Career Perfect
Resume writing services, advice, sample resumes.
- Job Description Tool by Career Planner
A useful tool for finding descriptions of specific careers, offers descriptions of 12,000 occupations.
- JuJu Job Search Engine
Search jobs by category, company, or location.
- Princeton Review
Career profiles and information.
- CareerOneStop’s Toolkit
Career information and tools, occupation information, career exploration information.
- Career Zone–Pennsylvania
Career information and tools for researching occupations.
- Career Zone–New York
Although it states it is about careers in New York, much of the information is universal. Many job profiles.
- Job-Hunt.org
Online job search guides and comprehensive listing of useful Internet-accessible job-search resources and services on the Web for job seekers.
- Job Hunter's Bible
The official online job search resource hosted By Dick Bolles, author of "What Color is Your Parachute." General information about job-seeking and career exploration.
- LinkedIn
Find your next job through your network.When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional accomplishments. Your profile helps you find and be found by former colleagues, clients, and partners. You can add more connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you.
- Idealist.org
Job bank focusing on non-profit organizations.
- NonProfitJobs.org
Job board for non-profit organizations.
- Inquirer.com Jobs
Search available jobs from the Philadelphia Inquirer, plus job listings nationwide.
Recommended Reading List
Click on the book cover or title for more information about each book.
- What Color Is Your Parachute?
- by Richard Nelson Bolles
- Take Yourself to the Top
- by Laura Berman Fortgang
- Working with Emotional Intelligence
- by Daniel Goleman
- The Power of Full Engagement
- by Loehr and Schwartz
- Now, Discover Your Strengths
- by Buckingham and Clifton
- Getting Things Done
- by David Allen
- Power Networking
- by Fisher and Vilas
- Super Job Search
- by Peter Studner
- Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type
- by Paul D. Tieger
