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Besides links to internet-based career interest inventories, includes career and job search information, job-hunting advice, networking information and more from the author of the well-known job-hunting guide, What Color is Your Parachute?
One of the most extensive lists of links available. Includes much helpful advice in the introductory sections.
Sponsored by the Department of Labor and state employment agencies. Provides a nationwide job bank plus individual job banks from 2,000 state employment services offices. Illinois jobs listed under: http://www.ajb.org/il/
Search the classified job listings of over 130 local newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, L. A. Times, Miami Herald and others. Provides a menu choice of career field and location, giving information of Web and newspaper postings for jobs that match.The program will search for job listing matches and send them to your e-mail address, if you register. Registration is free.
Search over 20 Internet job-listing sites using one of seven national multi-site searches. Be sure to read the privacy policy on sharing registration and resume information with advertising partners.
Huge job listing, resume posting, and employer information resource.
Site sponsored by Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital listing job openings for people with disabilities.
Full and part time job listings, apprenticeships, internships and co-ops for DuPage County.
Job listings from numerous local newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Sun, Suburban Life, and Pioneer Press.
Register for this job search and resume service for College of DuPage students and alumni.
Many links to local Chicago job listing, career counseling, networking sites and more.
County by county list of area job clubs with address, phone, other contact information and meeting times.
Popular guide to jobs in Chicago-area nonprofit organizations.
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Sign up for a P.J. Scout
Guide to the essentials of how to write a print or electronic resume.
Concise advice on writing the cover letter, with additional links to resources on the web.
Links to checklists, formatting advice, and sample letters on the Quintessential Careers Website. Includes advice on and samples of Thank-you letters.
Not a resume distribution service, but a review site that ranks top resume distributors on the web on the basis of user experience, customer service, cost and other factors.
Links to checklists, formatting advice, and sample letters on the Quintessential Careers Website. Includes advice on and samples of Thank-you letters.
Links to advice on resumes, cover letters, and interviewing for new graduates.
How to write a CV for academic and research positions.
How to showcase your skills and achievements in an employment portfolio.
Links to "how-to-do-it" essays and articles and includes tutorials on producing e-resumes in various electronic formats.
Good advice and links under "Resumes & Cover Letters" and to interviewing web resources under "Network, Interview & Negotiate."
Great site for background information on companies prior to an interview. Provides links to companies that have recruiting sites on the web. Fee charged for full company profile, but much free data, including links to newspaper and trade magazine articles on a company. Also includes links to job listings from company entries.
Ithaca College Library’s step-by-step guide to researching both publicly-traded and privately-held companies using the internet.
Free tutorial on locating high-level company information, financials, company news and more.
Find wage data for over 700 occupations in a specific Illinois county or metropolitan statistical area organized by Standard Occupational Code
Basic salary reports for hundred of job titles in U.S. metro areas that include renter’s Cost of Living estimates for each locality. For job transfers, basic cost of living report available. Premium Salary Report can be ordered for a fee.
Salary Wizard Basic Report estimates salary for hundreds of job categories under 60 job families in major U.S. Metro areas, while Cost of Living Wizard to help job changers learn living cost differences between specified U.S. locations. Personal Salary Report available for a fee.
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