Employment

Policies and practices of obtaining work or workers.

Sub-headings:

Job Searching & Employee Recruiting

Resources for individuals searching for employment and recruiters searching for employees.

Resources in this category:

Career Planning at About.com
http://careerplanning.about.com/

Dawn Rosenburg Mckay, author of 5 books on government employment, hosts this About.com site on how to plan your career, covering topics such as the job search, relocating, balancing work & family, employement law, workplace survival, job loss & quitting, diversity, and advising teens (and parents with teens).

CareerLab - 200 Cover Letters for Job Hunters
http://www.careerlab.com/letters/link002.htm

Answers questions, displays both good and poor examples, and gives advice about cover letters.

careers.wsj.com
http://www.careerjournal.com/

Career news, resources and job postings from the Wall Street Journal.

Employment - U.S. Government Consumer Information Center
http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/results.tpl?id1=13&startat=1&--woS...

The Employment section of the U.S. Government Consumer Information Center has online pamphlets covering various aspects of employment such as COBRA and Fair Labor Standards provisions, employee rights under pension plans, OSHA.

Guides for Specific Careers
http://jobstar.org/tools/career/spec-car.php

"These sites are packed with information about planning your career. What kind of training or education is required? What can you earn? What kind of environment will you work in? What's hot? What's not?" A well organized and annotated guide to Internet sites.

Job Descriptions
http://www.job-descriptions.org/

"Job-desciptions.org is the free resource that provides you with job desciptions and job details. Our site currrently contains over 13,000 job descriptions, divided into major categories, then divisions and finally into groups." The site has a Google site search box. Users can view jobs by title or industry.

Job Interview Advice
http://career-advice.monster.com/interview-tips/home.aspx

Gives interview tips on how to prepare, how to act, and how to follow up. You can even test your knowledge with online quizzes about interview preparation and do a virtual practice interview.

JobStar: California Job Search Guide
http://jobstar.org/index.php

"A public library based job search information site." Although the focus of this site is on California, there is much here that will be useful to all job hunters. Includes sections on writing resumes, career guides, and salary information.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/oco/

"The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations."

Riley Guide
http://www.rileyguide.com/

"The Riley Guide introduces you to the online job search, listing many online sites and services that are useful for your job search. We do not post jobs nor resumes but instead point you to the places that do."

Salary.com
http://www.salary.com//home/layoutscripts/homl_default.asp

This web site contains all kinds of information relating to compensation. Their "Salary Wizard" lists salary statistics for hundreds of positions.

SalaryExpert.com
http://SalaryExpert.com/

SalaryExpert.com provides free salary and benefits information for over 30,000 jobs. Choose a job title and a location from a list of cities in the United States and Canada, and find salary and benefits statistics as well buying power comparisons. Also compares local data with national norms. "SalaryExpert.com is the only free-data Internet provider that comes from a veteran compensation consulting firm (BTA). It shows its sources, displays defensible pay levels, is licensed to provide benefit advice, and protects linking sites from liability." Pay access is available for data from 207 countries around the world. The site is available in several languages.

Yahoo! Employment
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/

Search through online resumes, or post your own. Also information on Industry Research, Company Research, Resume Writing, Salaries and Benefits, Credit Reports, Background Checks, Interviews, and Relocation Resources.