Lesson Plans 5

Website

Go down to my Parachute Picks

By Richard Nelson Bolles

An Outline of This Guide There are five ways in which the Internet can be helpful to job hunters or career changers: As a place for you to search for vacancies, listed by employers (often called job listings). As a place to post your resume. As a place to get some job-hunting help or career counseling. As a place to make contacts with people who can help you find information or help you get in for an interview at a particular place. As a place to find information or do research on fields, occupations, companies, cities, etc. I have used these five headings (Job Listings, Resumes, Career Counseling, Contacts and Research) as the outline for The Net Guide. How To Navigate This Guide The top window or frame on this page stays the same as you navigate around in The Net Guide. As you can see, it will always give you instant access to the various parts of the guide: This introduction page Includes my first set of Parachute Picks -- these for the large indexes of job-hunting sites on the Net that I have called gateway sites My evaluation and recommended sites for: job listings resumes counseling contacts research A quick reference page with just the links (all the sites listed on the above pages) Links to the front pages of WashingtonPost.com and to the section What Color Is Your Parachute: Job Hunting Online Whatever you choose will be displayed in this bottom window or frame that you are viewing -- which acts as though it were your browser within The Net Guide. Please note: Job-hunting sites listed below when displayed in this bottom window/frame are not part of WashingtonPost.com. They appear here as they would in any browser; their content is the responsibility of the sponsor of that site. If there's something (good, bad or otherwise) that you think we should know about, please e-mail us at parachute@washpost.com. For our non-frames version, click here. Going Back How do you go back to an earlier page or site in this bottom window or frame? If you are using Netscape Navigator 2.0 or earlier, hold down your mouse button (PC users: use your right mouse button) and choose the "Back" option. If you are using Netscape Navigator 3.0, you need only choose the "Back" button that appears in the upper left-hand corner of your browser, just as you normally do. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer, you use the "Back" button that appears in the upper left-hand corner of your browser, just as you normally do. Parachute Picks -- My Personal Rating System There are approximately 11,000 sites on the Internet that deal with jobs, careers or job-hunting. The number grows weekly. I have listed the most useful sites that I know of (but, in spite of my spending as many as seven hours a day on the Internet, I'm just sure there are a lot of good sites that I know nothing about). All sites listed here are better than average, in my opinion. Of these, I've selected a few that are especially good sites within their category and given them a parachute symbol: = I think, for job-hunting purposes, this is one of the best sites on the Net, in its category (The categories are: gateway sites, job-listing sites, resume sites, career counseling sites, contact sites and research sites.). Sites with a parachute are my Parachute Picks Plus, if you will. Let us begin with the large indexes of job-hunting sites on the Net that I have called "gateway sites." Parachute Picks -- Gateway Sites       Back to top 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 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. Back to top

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