Career Information Sources 

Here are some web addresses of places that you can get information on jobs or searching for them. You will need to have this list in a later lab so you can go look for information for a topic on a career that you may want to consider. Not all of these will be useful to you but they will give you some places to start looking. There is a large amount of information out there and you have to use some judgment in deciding what is useful to you.

Job Web - Comprehensive job search/career planning site. Owned and operated by National Association of Colleges and Employers http://www.jobweb.org/

CareerNet - Listing of high tech jobs http://www.careernet.com/

JobHunter - Comprehensive list of on-line resources http://job-hunt.org/

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics - Labor and Job Statistics http://www.bls.gov/

Occupational Outlook Handbook - All job titles and descriptions of jobs - http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm

Monster Board - One of the largest Internet job boards with jobs postings on it http://www.monster.com

Information Professionals Career Page - Salary surveys, interview skills and resume advice - http://brint.com/jobs.htm

ComputerWorld - Articles on Computer career opportunities, salary surveys, and IT careers http://www.computerworld.com

Software Jobs - Lists of software jobs http://www.softwarejobs.com/

Career Information from ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) - http://info.ACM.org

Computer  and Information Technology Jobs  - http://www.nationjob.com/computers

Hoovers - Source for Company information - http://www.hoovers.com/

Jobsmart - Contains 120 salary studies that are useful for figuring out what your skills are worth - http://www.jobsmart.org

Wetfeet - Information Technology jobs and other job career info - http://www.wetfeet.com/asp/home.asp

 

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