Parachute Picks -- Gateway Sites
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If you were to start from scratch, find your favorite Internet search engine and ask it to do a search on the keywords: "careers," "jobs," "employment," "resumes," "job listings," "career counseling" and the like, you would end up with a sizeable list.
But you don't need to start from scratch. Fortunately, a lot of people have already done this search for you.
Their results are posted at the following large, gateway job sites:
The Riley Guide![parachute](/wp-adv/classifieds/images/icon.gif)
This is the best by far. If I could only go to one gateway job site on the Web, this would be it.
But there are others, as well, which have done a fine job of putting together summary lists of what's available. We'll start with:
JobHunt: A Meta-list of On-Line Job-Search Resources and Services
This site has its own rating system for career sites.
Career Paradise -- Colossal List of Career Links
This is sponsored by Emory University's career center ("Career Paradise") in Atlanta, Ga. This site also has its own rating system, called the CareerMeister Rating, on two scales: functionality and artistic impression. The listings are amusingly described.
Magellan -- Jobs
This search engine's employment section rates its sites in a really helpful way. I like it.
Job Search and Employment Opportunities: Best Bets from the Net
I don't agree with some of its selections (as "Best"), but it is very comprehensive.
Career Resource Center
It lists more than 11,000 links to jobs, employers and business, education and career service professionals on the Web, plus 6,000 other career resources (including Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom as well).
Infoseek Guide -- Jobs & Careers
This search engine's jobs and careers section lists "similar pages" for each item. Great idea.
Yahoo! Employment
These search engines change their navigation about every three minutes. If this doesn't take you where you want to go, go to their home page and select.
Lycos/Point Top 5% Careers
This is one of those sites that tries to choose the best in each category. Their criteria for choosing the "Top 5%" related to "Careers & Jobs" depends on: content, presentation and experience. You, of course, want the top five percent to be based on effectiveness in finding a job. Keep this difference in mind as you explore this list.
That concludes my listing of the large gateway sites for job hunting on the Internet. Visit the ones you are curious about, and when you are done, choose any of the five sections of this guide by going to the top frame and clicking on where you want to go.
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