Spectrum's Executive Workbook Step One

Spectrum Life Management
Gino Maccaroni
803.321.5999
1233 Calhoun Street
Newberry SC 29108
spectrumlm@comcast.net
website: http://www.spectrumlifemanagement.com
This manual is the exclusive property of Spectrum Life Management, Inc. Its use is
restricted and contains information which is proprietary. It is not to be reproduced in
whole or in part. 2009
SPECTRUM’S EXECUTIVE CAREER ADAVCEMENT WORKBOOK
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About Gino Maccaroni
SPECTRUM LIFE MANAGEMENT

PROVEN PRINCIPLES FOR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT
Gino Maccaroni is the Founder and CEO of Spectrum

Life Management, has more than 25 years of experience as a marketing
consultant and entrepreneurial strategist providing Senior-level career
advancement management, coupled with artistic and business development
for senior corporate leaders, world-class independent recording artists,
prominent songwriters and entertainers, as well as mid-senior level job
seekers. He has worked with Fortune 500 executives as well as small to
mid-size firms. Gino is a creator and champion of innovative image
projection solutions, consultant-style selling strategies, and Executive Job
Market Intelligence.
Gino is an innovative and highly effective consultant who delivers results in

a multi-discipline environment. He possesses a unique blend of business
experience, insight and practical savvy, whereby, he provides
comprehensive personal and business solutions that improve processes and
operational performance. He is a respected leader with sales, marketing,
communications, restaurant and jazz club operations, public relations and
public affairs experience. He is a motivator who brings high energy,
enthusiasm and creative ideas as well as comprehensive life-coaching,
leadership training and theological and philosophical insight to his clients.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ……………………………………………………………. 4-5
2. Let’s Begin! ……………………………………………………………. 6
3. Know Yourself and Your Career Objectives ……………………………7-8
4. Your Guide to Success: An Overview ………………………………….. 9-10
5. About Your New Spectrum Resume ……………………………………. 11-12
6. 4 Career Defining Questions ……………………………………………. 13
7. Spectrum’s Self-Analysis Worksheet …………………………………… 14
8. Spectrum’s Career Campaign Flow Chart ………………………………. 15
9. Post Your New Resume ………………………………………………….. 16
10. The Value of Uniqueness ………………………………………………… 17
11. Mastering Your Speech ………………………………………………… 18-19
12. Capturing Your Voice …………………………………………………… 20
13. How to Research and Choose Targeted Industries ………………………. 21
14. Career Search on Companies …………………………………………….. 22
15. Using LinkedIn …………………………………………………………… 23
16. Using Directories and Search Engines Sites ……………………………… 24-25
17. Meta-Search Tools …………………………………………………………26-27
18. Career Related Sites ……………………………………………………….. 28-37
19. Industry Research Tools …………..……………………………………….38-40
20. Social Networking Sites ……………………………………………………41-42
21. Recommended Search Engines Sites ………………………………………. 43-44
22. Multi-Industry Professional Resources …………………………………….. 45-73
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This is the beginning of what I hope will be one of the most enjoyable, challenging
and profitable experiences of your professional life. Very few people will ever have the
prescience and opportunity you now have to actively pursue candid and careful
professional guidance and advice with regard to your career. I look forward to our
relationship and to helping you achieve your full career potential.
“The quality of your efforts in this career campaign is indicative of the quality of work
you will do on the job, and many prospective employers will be able to discern whether
you are conscientious in your job based on your job search efforts.”
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
- Confucius
♦ The material presented here is a strategic model for career advancement - a

proven, time-tested-plan of action. It begins with understanding that finding the
"right fit" is a process, a journey of self-discovery. This process starts with
looking within. One should always examine one’s beliefs and practices to ensure
that they are justified, rational and realistic, insofar as they are interconnected
with your personal values, skill set, experience, education and your potential and
vision. A clear, strong approach to securing your next career position must be
logically consistent and substantially comprehensive, designed to aid you in
reaching your highest potential.
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In order for you to reach your highest potential you need to
know and apply the rules and the objectives of the game. You
will also need to know which strategies that will work best at
helping you achieve the goals you desire.
♦ Spectrum’s Strategic Thinking Approach Involves the

Proper Use of Conditional Logic to maximize Your
Success.
♦ Conditional Logic Simply Means that One Condition

Leads to Another – One Event Leads to Another Event.
♦ In Other Words: If P then Q (P~Q)
Spectrum’s Basic Principle:

Your Actions Lead to Your Success
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LET’S BEGIN!
As we begin this process, please accept these initial bits of advice:
GIVE US YOUR BEST!
We begin our work with you by asking you to spend a great deal of time and effort with
the attached copyrighted Self-Assessment forms. The more information you give us, the better
we can come to understand the “real” you. Be very thorough, for the detailed input you are
giving us is vital to your future. You must be honest with yourself and view yourself objectively
when answering each question. Don't inscribe something because you think it is what the job
market expects of you. You'll be cheating yourself. PLEASE, tell it as it is! Then, the Spectrum
advisors can develop a highly individualized career program for you.
STOP TALKING! People who know you would rather not hear that you have been “right sized”
or are entertaining the notion of “quitting the company”... it makes them very uncomfortable.
Your friends, relatives and former employers (i.e., that select group who may have previously
expressed an interest in helping you) are NOT employment agencies. There is very little they can
do to help you at this moment. Not only that, but just by contacting them, they will falsely
assume that you are still locked into your historical career path. Only after the Career Moves
staff starts working with you…gets you focused on realistic career options…and develops a
viable plan of action…will you be able to effectively utilize your network of personal contacts.
DON'T CIRCULATE YOUR OLD RESUME! Putting out your old resume here and there
will only “burn off” prospects who might otherwise welcome your approach once we determine
your next career move and redraft your creative marketing materials.
DON'T ALLOW YOURSELF TO DISCUSS MONEY! Only if you have been offered a
position or are in final stages of salary negotiations with the ideal employer should you reveal
anything about your earnings history; and we will offer some key suggestions as to how best to
respond. An employer’s only reason for wanting that little bit of highly proprietary information is
to beat you down on your asking price!
Once again, we’re grateful to have you as a client. We hope to surprise and delight you
with our efforts.
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Know Yourself
♦ The first step in career planning involves gathering information about yourself to
assist in making a decision about a your next career level. Assessing yourself is a
lifelong process. Your goals may change as you learn more about yourself and your
values, needs, objectives, and other areas of interest. This initial focus will help you
narrow your options and target appropriate employers.
♦ Each and every one of us has our own individual, unique set of skills, talents and
ambitions. Identifying one's skills and talents is essential to your success. A skill is
something you've learned to do. A talent is something you've been born with, or at least
that you seem naturally qualified to do. It's important to recognize the difference
between the two.
♦ You may be skilled at something and still not find it interesting. Chances are,
however, if you are naturally talented at something, there will usually be a corresponding
link between that particular talent and your interests. Put another way: you are more apt
to enjoy doing what you do well naturally than what you have simply been taught to do.
Job Satisfaction
Every job you have ever had, required some tasks you enjoyed and some you dreaded. Not
surprisingly, people tend to perform more effectively when their job tasks and responsibilities
correspond with their career interests. How much satisfaction you derive from work is directly
linked to the match-up between your personal career interests and the scope of a specific job.
Think about what you enjoy doing, what is important to you, and what you do well. Ask
yourself these questions:
♦ What activities do you engage in that bring you the most satisfaction?
♦ What kinds of activities do others ask you to perform?
♦ Were you ever acknowledged, presented with an award, or praised for something you
did?
♦ What skills and talents have you used in the past to achieve goals?
♦ Were you ever told you do certain things better than others?
♦ Think of a time when you felt successful. What were you doing?
♦ What motivates you to jump out of bed in the morning - raring to go?
♦ Was there ever a time that you achieved results that exceeded your/others expectations?
♦ Something you did that made you feel proud?
♦ Understanding the value of the strengths and accomplishments you have gained gives you
an edge during interviews by helping you answer the question, "Why should I hire you".
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Spectrum’s Quick Tips for Career Success
The secret to career success rests on a number of factors:
♦ Identify your career goals

♦ Create an action plan
♦ Be results-driven
♦ Update your skills
♦ Keep on learning
♦ Networking
♦ Find a Mentor
♦ Be positive
♦ Be persistent
♦ Be enthusiastic
Do You Have What It Takes to be Successful?

♦ How do you define success?
♦ Do you think success will make you happy?
♦ Do you believe that success and satisfaction go together?
♦ Do you believe that success and money go together?
♦ When will you know that you are truly successful?
Do you know what kind of career would make you happy? If yes, How committed are you to
achieving your own career happiness?
Now, Imagine You Could Have Any Job You Want!

♦ What type of job would it be?
♦ What kind of people would you want to work with?
♦ Where would it be?
♦ How would you spend a typical day?
Emotional Stability
♦ Evidence has also shown that job satisfaction can profoundly effect one's personal
quality of life as well. Positive attributes such as: emotional stability, security, optimism,
and happiness can play a significant role in achieving one's goals. Finding rewarding and
satisfying work can even prevent illness and disease by maintaining a healthier immune
system!
♦ Knowing what you want from a job is critical in your job search, saving you time and
giving you an edge during interviews. Understanding this important part of your career
profile will allow you to "sell" yourself to employers as the right person for the right job
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THE GUIDE TO SUCCESS
THE KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL JOB SEARCH is knowing what you want and knowing how
to market yourself effectively to get the job you want. All the materials presented to you
throughout the course of your Spectrum campaign is designed to help you reach your highest
potential. The following is a brief overview of your campaign.
1. ASSESS YOURSELF-- Essential to job and career satisfaction is matching your own
unique talents, skills, interests and personality to those job-related tasks and activities that
you find most enjoyable, interesting, and challenging to do. By performing Spectrum’s
various self-analysis, you'll have the opportunity-perhaps for the first time in your career-
to choose the position and organization that is personally satisfying as well as financially
rewarding.
2. RESEARCH-- Identify the companies that have a need you can fill. You will recognize
and identify this through research and speaking to people within the organization. There,
you will learn some of the challenges they are facing or problems they are having. You
can then take this information and think of ways to help them solve these problems. This
is the true value you bring to the employer and what separates you from the other job
candidates.
3. ESTABLISH YOUR FIT-- Seek out introductions to those individuals who are doing
the work that you desire. These "insiders" are familiar with the type of work you want,
and can provide you with excellent sources of information and additional contacts,
ultimately leading you to the job and career you've been looking for. Narrow your list of
employers down to those who have jobs you really want, plus the management and
people you find most comfortable to work with.
4. WRITE A VALUE-BASED SCRIPT ABOUT YOURSELF-- based on your values and beliefs -
- showcasing how valuable your skills, talents and accomplishments would be when
applied to the right company with the right job. Employers' most common complaint is
they cannot find good help. Consider how pleased they will be to find someone who
really wants to do the work they need done.
5. NETWORKING-- The ultimate goal of networking is learning how to develop contacts

with the right people who can advance your career, or refer you to the hiring manager
who has the job you really want.
6. GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR-- Networking creates opportunities to make

contact with decision-makers before a new job opening is formally announced. At the
very least, you will only be competing with a handful of people, rather than perhaps
hundreds of job applicants.
7. CREATE YOUR OWN JOB-- If you show that you can produce results and contribute
to their future goals, employers may design a new position just to take advantage of your
unique talents, skills and experience.
8. SEEKING INFORMANTIONAL INTERVIEWS-- The next step in your career

campaign involves "Informational Interviews." Like everything else in your job search,
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this requires a highly-organized systematic approach. This is when your networking
efforts begin paying dividends.
9. INTERVIEW PREPARATION -- Your value is what makes an employer want to hire

you. Nothing impresses an interviewer more than showing how you can add value and
profit to their bottom line by: increasing sales, saving them money, obtaining more new
customers while retaining existing ones, etc. Prove this during your interview and the job
is yours.
10. INTERVIEW QUESTIONS -- Practice questions and what the employer wants to
know.
11. NEGOTIATION SKILLS -- Accepting a job offer today may require you to
successfully negotiate salary, bonus, commission, stock options and more.
12. THE KEY TO HIREABILITY is researching the company's needs, culture and work
environment and then making the best match of your strengths and personal attributes.
THE KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL JOB SEARCH is knowing what you want and knowing how
to market yourself effectively.
Your Actions Lead to Your Success
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About Your New Spectrum Résumé
♦ Your new Spectrum Résumé is designed to have you come across as an ideal,
superior candidate. It is important that you first know who you are, what your
strengths and weaknesses are before you begin to create marketing material. The
most common mistake that I have found is that most resumes are nothing more
than a chronological history lesson of where a person worked in the past,
including what titles and responsibilities they held. This is a mistake. A excellent
resume should be about who you are, not simply who you worked for.
♦ The French word résumer simply means "to summarize." A résumé is also
known as a curriculum vitæ (CV), which is a Latin term meaning "course of life."
The number one purpose of a résumé is to win an interview. An effective resume
is an advertisement of who you are and it creates a desire for the potential
employer to want to get to know you
♦ Most resumes that I see are completely inadequate. Potential employers may
possibly see hundreds of resumes that, after a while, all seem to blend together.
The number one purpose of your resume is to win an interview. That means
the potential employer needs to know who you are and what core talents you
possess. Basically, it is an advertisment of you, your features and the benefits you
bring.
♦ All of your new Spectrum Marketing Material is designed to be logically

consistent and substantively comprehensive. It creates a visual and mental,
even emotional picture of who you are as a total person. Your marketing material
should not be simply a chronological history lesson of where you have been in the
past, who you worked for and what positions you held.
♦ Think of your material as aromatic incense. It becomes the aromatic-like

impression you wish to leave behind when you send forth your marterial - which
is a refelction of who you are and the value you bring. Make no mistake about it,
it does carry a clear vibration and it does create a fragrance of who you are. It
becomes a vital ingredient in the creation of your overall unique image.
Remember, you don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. Your
written material is the first item a potential employer encounters and, therefore, it
carries a large amount of importance.
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♦ Remember, perception is reality when it comes to marketing yourself. Your
written and verbal presentation affects the potential employers initial perception
about you. That perception raises questions regarding your overall marketability
and value that your bring to the potential company.
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Everything in Life is a Matter of Terminology and Perception
You Should Always be in Control of Your Image Perception
♦ A few good question to ask yourself as you begin to launch your new career
campaign are:
1. What would make someone see you as the perfect candidate?
2. What does the employer really want?
3. What special abilities would this person have?
4. What would set you apart from the rest as being an exceptional candidate?
♦ Putting yourself in the mindset of the future employer is the first, and maybe
most important step in presenting your marketing material. Every aspect of your
material should convey the image to the prospective employer that you are a truly
exceptional candidate for this position. Thus, Spectrum has taken care to create
and craft your material in such a way as to carefully become a reflection of your
overall persona. It is your effulgence. In my mind I think of written material as
an extension of the person it represents. It carries a certain aromatic-like quality,
much like incense. It leaves a fragrance behind.
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4 Career Defining Questions

Please take your time and answer these defining questions. As a new career seeker you
will need to understand who you are and what problems you solve. Only until you have
clearly defined who you are and what problems you solve, will you be effective in selling
yourself.
1. What problems do I solve?

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2. What type of organizations have these

problems?
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3. How do I get in front of them?

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4. What do I say when I get there?

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Spectrum’s Self-Analysis Worksheet Level I
Take the time to answer these questions:

1 What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?
2 What would your dream job be?
3 Are you willing to relocate?
4 What has been stopping you from your dream job?
5 What are you doing that is a waste of time?
6 What aspect of your life is most out of balance?
7 What are you putting up with?
8 How much are you worth?
9 What are you most grateful for?
10 What legacy do you want to leave to others?
11 What is your Ideal Position?
12 What is your sense of purpose in life?
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Spectrum’s Flow Chart
Resume
Marketing Letters
Initiate Contact
Networking
Industry Spot Opps Alumni Networking

Associations, Company Associations Groups Identify Execs in
Tradeshows & Transitions Target
Web Resources
Conferences Fraternities Companies
Web Resources hibberdslist.org _____________
Web Resources *onesource.com ecn.net
*marketingsource.com njbiz.com
Personal feng/teng/meng.org
business.com Network njtc.org Chambers
bizjournals.com
weddles.com tradepub.com
networkingprofes.com of
asae.org gpseg.org Commerce
subscriptionnetwork.net
tsnn.com chemPharma.org
Target Company Informational Interviews
Now that you have an initial idea of your overall campaign – begin to launch your campaign
by posting your new resume on all the various sites listed below.

ONLINE JOB BANKS LIST
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POST YOUR NEW SPECTRUM RESUME TODAY
GENERAL SITES MORE GENERAL SITES TECHNOLOGY

123Hire Preferred Jobs SITES
4Jobs ProHire
America's Job Bank Recruiters Online AwesomeTechs
America's Job Source Resunet CNET.com
Bakos Group Resume Net http://www.jobserve.us.
Best Jobs USA Resume Galaxy ComputerWork
Best Job Listings Resumes2Work Dice
BrainHunter SmartHunt IT Classifieds
CareerBuilder (w/ Agents) Talent Spider ITJobs.Net
CareerPark thingamajob.com LookTech
Careers2000 Vault NerdsWanted
CareerShop Operation IT
Employer Index TechEmployment.com
Employmax DIVERSITY SITES Tech-Engine
ExBoss CareerWomen TechJobsOnline
Fresh Jobs Diversity TekFreeq
Help Wanted Net DiversityInc (w/ Agents)
Help Wanted Site
Hire Hand
DiversityJobSite
DiversityJobSource
REGIONAL SITES
Horizon Career EmployDiversity Atlanta JC Jobs
HotJobs WorkplaceDiversity
HotResumes
Job.com (w/ Agents) OTHER NICHE
JobAdventure ACCOUNTING/FINANCE SITES
JobAnimal
JobOrb SITES Absolutely Health Care
JobsExcite Accounting.com JobWerx (Manufacturing)
Jobvertise AccountingClassifieds TechJobsCafe (EDA Engine
JobWarehouse AwesomeAccountants
Job-E (w/ Agents) American Bankers Career Zone
Job Bank USA BankJobs
Job Island CareerBank (w/ Agents) EXECUTIVES
Job Toaster FinancialPositions ONLY ($100,000/yr
JobsCity.Net JobsInTheMoney
Kakoon and up)
Mega Job Sites
Monster SALES PROFESSIONAL ExecuNet.com
Ladders.com
MyCareerSpace
MyCareer
SITES 6 Figure Jobs
ExecSearches
National Job Bank A Career in Sales
HundredK
Nation Job HeadquarterSales
H&S Leaders Online
Net-Temps Marketing Hire
Marketing Power
Sales Jobs (w/ Agents)
Sales Job Daily
SalesClassifieds
SalesHeads
TigerJobs
TopSalesPositions
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THE VALUE OF UNIQUENESS
♦ Create a Unique Perception of your Absolute Value
Most people only know how to present a chronological breakdown

of their history, i.e., who they worked for and what they have done;
To achieve your highest potential, one needs to presents

themselves as an achiever, one who enhances business, delivers
solutions, improves process, drives profits to the bottom line;
This is done by knowing your value and projecting the proper

impression! This involves selling the sizzle before the steak. By
creating a clear perception of your value, you image projection
translates to higher offers, better culture, proper growth and
progression in the job market;
♦ Projecting Your Core Competences: The Value of Uniqueness
The starting point for understanding core competences begins by understanding that
businesses must have something that customers uniquely value if they're to make good
profits.
Businesses, as well as individuals, with nothing unique to distinguish them from their
competition, are doomed to compete on price: The only thing they can do to make
themselves the customer's top choice is drop price. And as other businesses do the same,
profit margins become thinner and thinner.
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Master Your Speech
• Choose the words that most appropriately describe your responsibilities:
Accelerated Edited Renegotiated Represented

Accomplished Educated Reorganized Researched
Achieved Effected Managed Reshaped
Acquired Eliminated Manufactured Resolved
Activated Employed Marketed Responded to
Addressed Enabled Mastered Restored
Administered Encouraged Mobilized Revamped
Advanced Energized Modified Reviewed
Advised Enforced Monitored Revised
Advocated Engineered Motivated Revitalized
Allocated Enhanced Negotiated Revived
Analyzed Envisioned Nominated Satisfied
Anticipated Established Normalized Saved
Applied Estimated Obtained Scheduled
Appointed Evaluated Officiated Secured
Appraised Examined Operated Selected
Appreciated Exceeded Ordered Served
Approved Executed Organized Serviced
Aspired Exercised Oriented Set up
Arranged Exhibited Originated Settled
Assessed Expanded Overcame Shaped
Assigned Experienced Overhauled Showed
Attained Extended Oversaw Simplified
Audited Extracted Officiated Solved
Avoided Facilitated Operated Sparked
Broadened Finalized Ordered Specified
Budgeted Financed Organized Sponsored
Built Forecasted Oriented Stabilized
Calculated Formulated Originated Staffed
Captured Formalized Overcame Standardized
Centralized Founded Overhauled Started
Clarified Framed Oversaw Stimulated
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Collaborated Fulfilled Participated Streamlined
Combined Generated Perceived Strengthened
Commanded Governed Perfected Stretched
Completed Guided Performed Structured
Composed Handled Piloted Studied
Conceived Headed Pinpointed Substantiated
Concluded Helped Pioneered Succeeded
Conducted Hired Placed Suggested
Connected Identified Planned Summarized
Consolidated Implemented Pleased Supervised
Constructed Improved Popularized Supported
Consulted Improvised Prepared Surpassed
Contributed Increased Presented Surveyed
Controlled Induced Presided Sustained
Converted Influenced Prevented Tailored
Cooperated Initiated Processed Taught
Coordinated Innovated Procured Terminated
Corrected Inspected Produced Tested
Created Inspired Programmed Tightened
Cultivated Installed Projected Traded
Decentralized Instituted Promoted Trained
Decided Instructed Prompted Transacted
Decreased Insured Propelled Transferred
Defined Integrated Proposed Transformed
Delegated Intensified Proved Translated
Delivered Interpreted Provided Trebled
Demonstrated Interviewed Published Trimmed
Designated Introduced Purchased Tripled
Designed Invented Re-established Uncovered
Detailed Invested Realized Undertook
Determined Investigated Reconciled Unified
Devised Judged Recognized Used
Directed Justified Recommended Utilized
Discovered Keyed Recruited Verified
Displayed Keynoted Redesigned Widened
Distinguished Launched Regulated Withdrew
Distributed Led Reinforced Won
Documented Lightened Rejected Worked
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Capturing Your Voice
Useful Phrases: The following phrases may help you organize your accomplishment
statements for both resumes and employment correspondence. When choosing the phrase
that best describes the situation, read it over once or twice in the context of the sentence
to be certain that the selection is correct, and that the phrase reads well.
An important part of developing and projecting your core unique image is using the
precise words and phrases that best reflect who you are.
• Acted/Functioned as...
• Consistently...
• Company engaged in...
• Contracted/Subcontracted by... to...
• Covered assigned territory consisting of...
• Demonstrated expertise in...
• Extensively trained in...
• Extensively involved in...
• Ensured maximum/optimum/minimum...
• Exceeded by...
• Honored as...
• Initially employed to/Joined organization to...
• Interacted heavily with...
• More than . . . years' extensive/Diverse experience in...
• Newly established company/Entity engaged in...
• Proven track record of/in...
• Provided technical assistance to...
• Promoted to...
• Promoted from... to...
• Reported to/Reported directly to...
• Specialized in...
• Selected as/Elected to...
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How to Research and Choose Targeted Industries
Using the Internet for Research: how to find information on the Internet, what tools are available,
how best to use them.
The Key to a Successful Job Hunt
It is a rare job-hunt that does not require some research. And, as salary level rises, as the required
experience and skill set of the applicant goes up, as the responsibility inherent in the prospective
job increases, so does the amount of research required to identify the field, the job, and the
company you would most like to work for, and the person there who has the power to hire you. In
a world where the Internet is accounting for more and more job-hunting activity, this means that
you must be able to identify your skills, research the fields and industries where your skills can be
used, locate the companies in those industries near you, and identify the companies you are
interested in working for.
The Research area of your campaign is divided into two parts:
♦ Using the Internet for Research: how to find information on the Internet, what tools are
available, how best to use them.
♦ Job Hunting related research on the Internet --- where to find information that will help
your job hunt specifically, such as company research, salaries, fields, and moving. You
can follow these links to whatever interests you most right now:
Your Research should include the following steps:
1. Talk to people: Find people who work for or know about the organization. This
could be people you meet at a career fair, family members, neighbors, parents of
friends, students who graduated ahead of you, alumni contacts — VT CareerLink
is Career Services' alumni networking database — you can search it for alumni
contacts working for particular organizations.
2. The employer's web site: If you know the URL for an employer's web site, go
there. If you don't know the URL, do an internet search on the organization
name (don't forget to spell it correctly). Obviously some employers' web sites
will be more helpful / informative / useful to you than others. If the web site
posts jobs and/or the organization invites email from job seekers and/or accepts
resumes online, this can save time in your job search.
3. The University Libraries have resources for research. One example is the
Dow Jones News Retrieval Service — online service provides access to a variety
of business databases consisting of stock quotes, market averages and company
and industry news from such periodicals as the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and
the Washington Post; ask a library staff member for assistance if you are not
familiar with research tools.
4. Call or write the organization and ask for information. This is perfectly
appropriate to do, especially if the organization is small and/or you simply cannot
find information about the organization through other sources. If you have an
interview scheduled with an employer, the employer should have already
provided information (web site, brochures, etc.); if not, by all means, ask for this.
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Career Search On Companies
• Hoovers Online: Excellent company and industry profiles.
• EDGAR Database: Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System.
• MorningStar: The most important online source of stock information.
• Web100: Largest American and Global companies based on revenue.
• Itools: Generic search tool.
• Business: Company profiles and company company news by industry.
• Thomas Regional: Company research by product and industry.
• Top 1000 Companies In Canada: Compiled by Report On Business Magazine.
• 100 Best Companies For Working Mothers
• Employers Of Choice 500: From BestJobsUSA.com, include a lot of other surveys and
information like Forbes 500, Fortune 500, Inc 500, Best Place To Work In IT, etc.
Career Search On Industries And Occupations

• Redherring: High-tech, business, and new media information.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook: From bureau of labor statistics.
• WetFeet: Career Profiles, Industry Profiles, Company Profiles, Insider's Guide.
(Recommended)
• Plunkett Research: Market trend, statistics, technology and leading companies
• Occupation Information Network: Comprehensive occupation and skill database.
• America's Career Info Net: Extensive online career resource library.
• Vault Career Library.
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Using LinkedIn
Leverage the power of your LinkedIn network!
Get the most out of LinkedIn by starting with these three easy steps.
Own a profile that truly represents you.
• List your current and past positions & education along with your tenure there.
This helps the right people and opportunities find you.
• Add a profile photo– people never forget a face!
• Add a summary paragraph. Think of it as your professional elevator pitch.
Ensure your connections represent your “real-world” network.
• Use webmail import to see, in seconds, all the people you know who are already
on LinkedIn. You can then select who you wish to invite to join your trusted
network.
• Upload a contacts file from Outlook, Palm, ACT!, or Mac Address
• View our list of your colleagues and classmates that are already on LinkedIn.
With a profile and connections that truly represents you and your “real-
world” network, you’re all set to get the most out of LinkedIn.
• Post a question on Answers and tap into the experts you’re connected to and the
entire LinkedIn network. With a professional community of 20+ million, this is
the perfect place for those tough questions.
• Look up someone’s profile before you meet with them. Learn their background
and see who you know in common to get off to a fast start.
• Search for Service Providers and select based on trusted recommendations from
people in your network. Anonymous web searches to find providers are a thing of
the past.
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Using Directories
There are places where you will find hundreds to thousands of links to Web sites, organized by
subject; these are called "Directories". Unlike Search engines, where results are determined by
software, directories are organized by human hand. Also unlike search engines, directories are for
browsing. They are hierarchically organized by subject; you start with a general heading and
move towards more specific groupings. Conversely, a search engine looks for data that will fit
with certain keywords, regardless of subject (except for search engines that use clustering
technology; see the search engine section for an explanation). Directories are for when you kind
of vaguely know what you are looking for, but need some ideas to help you narrow things down;
or when you are looking at general subjects, such as careers, sports, movies, space flight - like
that. (Though there are specialized directories as well.)
When you are looking for data on the Internet, directories are often the best place to start. Even if
you don't find exactly what you are looking for, the subject categories themselves can help you
with ideas on what keywords to use with search engines. Also, like search engines, there can be a
lot of variation between different directories, so visit more than one.
Also, you will find two types of Internet directories: open and closed. On open directory sites,
you can suggest sites to be included; at some directories, Web sites can even pay to be listed. At
closed directories, the entries are vetted by professionals, usually librarians, so the quality of the
data you find will tend to be much better.
InfoMine
Infomine is halfway between a directory and a search engine. When you tender a query, rather than kick back pertinent
Web pages, it will return resources — databases, libraries, directory sites, and so forth — where you are likely to find
the kind of information you are looking for. You can specify the types of resources you want to search; in many cases,
you can also browse through the resource types.
Open Directory Project

The largest directory on the Web. As the name implies, this is an all-volunteer project with thousands of people
involved. On the one hand, this allows the directory to gain its large size, but it also means that some entries may not be
as current as you might hope.
Resource Discovery Network

The largest directory on the Web. As the name implies, this is an all-volunteer project with thousands of people
involved. On the one hand, this allows the directory to gain its large size, but it also means that some entries may not be
as current as you might hope. As an example of the site’s depth, check out the Careers page at
www.dmoz.org/Business/Employment/Careers/
Librarian's Index to the Internet

Another closed directory, and probably the best on the Net. Entries have the date that they were last looked at by one of
the directory staff, so you will know how recent their site descriptions are.
Internet Public Library

Another excellent directory. Not always a lot of depth here, but the entries tend to be current and authoritative, and
worth checking out for your research.
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Yahoo!
One of the best known sites on the Internet for many reasons, Yahoo! still has the best directory for a commercial site.
As you know, Yahoo! also has a search engine, and you can limit your search with Yahoo!’s search engine to the
Yahoo! directory.
As an example of the difference between commercial and non-commercial sites, compare the Career page at Open
Directory, and Yahoo!’s Career Counseling page.
Search Engines
The Internet is like a huge library with no card index and no titles on the book spines. You
can't ever know everything that is there, at any given moment. And so --- imperfect though it may
be --- the best tool we currently have for finding specific information on the Internet is the Search
Engine. To use search engines effectively, it is important that you understand how they work ---
and why sometimes, the data you receive has been paid to be put in front of you, regardless of its
relevance. To that end, I have a few links for you to investigate:
Web Searching Tutorial

This is one of the best tutorials on Web Search engines that I have found. Easy to understand, yet very complete.
University of South Carolina - Basic Search Tips

A quick intro on how to formulate search queries. There are links to finding more in-depth information, if you like.
Best Search Engines

Some Search engines are better at finding certain types of data. Here are the ones I believe
to be the best:
Google
Google has come to dominate the Search engine arena on the Web; mainly because it does what it does better than the
others. In this case, “better” means that it is faster; that the results it offers are more likely to be relevant to your
request; and that it will not mix in commercial results with the legitimate data.
As excellent as Google is at searching, there’s more to be found there; visit the site’s main index at
www.google.com/options/index.html to see what is available.
Ask
A sort of merger between former sites Ask Jeeves and Teoma, this database is not as large as Google or Yahoo!, but
they rank search results differently than most; this alone makes them a useful site to visit. Along with results returned,
there is a "Narrow your Search" area, with suggestions for refining your search when the first results are not specific or
relevant enough
Yahoo!Search
It seems likeYahoo! has been around since the Internet itself. When using Yahoo! Search, you may choose for it to
search the Web, Yahoo!'s own directory (Yahoo! has long been one of the largest portals to the Web), the Yellow
Pages, and other categories.
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Meta-Search Tools
A meta-search engine is one where your query is submitted to a number of search engines;
then a few of the returns from each are combined into a list of results. In practical terms, they are
tools that cut broadly but not deeply. If you want to get a quick overview of what's available for a
certain search query, then a meta-search engine may be okay.
Dogpile
Among the search engines that Dogpile uses are Google, Teoma, Yahoo!, and Ask, as well as directories such as
Looksmart and the Open Directory. There are other engines and databases it uses to return a certain amount of
commercial results. Dogpile is one of the ethical sites where sponsored results are clearly marked as such.
Beaucoup
A little different than your basic meta-search engine, Beaucoup queries, and returns results from, Google, Yahoo!, Alta
Vista, Fast, Ask Jeeves, Lycos, MSN, Wisenut, Hotbot, and AOL Search, and tells you from which one each of its
results came.
Clustering
One of the most popular methods for ranking search engine results involves linking: how
many other web pages link to this one? The theory being that if a certain page has a lot of other
sites linking to it, that alone validates the data on the page in question. And of course the converse
may be true: if no one links to it, maybe the online community doesn't think the data there is so
great.
Clusty
Clusty is a meta-search engine that allows you to choose the way your query results are clustered. Do you want it
grouped by topic? By source? By URL? Like many search engines, sponsored results are at the top of the list, but they
are clearly labeled and separated from relevant results.
Mooter
Mooter's clusters are presented as a graphical formation resembling the spokes of a wheel. You can choose one of the
spokes, where the clusters are broken down even further: it's pretty interesting
Kartoo
This site takes the graphical presentation of clusters one step further; if you have Macromedia's Flash player installed
(easy enough to get if you don't, and installation is more or less automatic once you agree to the legal stuff), Kartoo
also uses a graphical interface to show you not only the various clusters, but it also draws lines showing the various
relationships between the clusters. Kartoo is not the fastest search engine on the Web; but it does have some neat
features that I encourage you to explore.
Specialized Search Engines

The Search engines that I have recommended so far are all generalized search engines, with large
databases. However, there are a lot of smaller, specialized search engines out there. Remember, it
is not the technology that that characterizes the various search engines so much as their
databases; it follows, then, that for a specialized search, you don't need specialized technology as
much as you need a specialized database. Here are a few:
A Collection of Special Search Engines

A large list of special search engines and searchable directories. I am continually amazed at the riches on this site.
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All Search Engines
.From a list of all U.S. Government web servers, to where to do a reverse phone number lookup, to hundreds of career
sites; there is a HUGE amount of stuff here.
Search Engines.com
Not a Search engine in itself, but a way to find the specialized search engines; kind of a search engine for search
engines. Another cross between a directory and a search engine; a directory of search engines, maybe. Search engines
on the site are organized in many ways, and you can find engines that are specific to certain countries or continents,
engines that specialize in certain subject areas, and so on.
General Research
Sometimes, you need to do some basic research for your job-hunt - that is, you need to find data
that does not specifically relate to the next company you are going to approach, or the like. In
such a case, you will need to turn towards the general research tools on the Net:
RefDesk
This is what you'd call a "meta-research" page; it seems like every possible Web resource is here. On their home page,
without scrolling (what I call "above the fold"), you can do searches through Google, MSN, their own database, or do
lookups in Mirriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus
About.com
About.com is different than most of your research resources on the Net, in that every entry was compiled and written
by actual people, specifically for this site. In fact, almost 500 people, writing on thousands of subjects. Excellent and
authoritative
Beyond the Web: Usenet & Newsgroups

Although not as useful for direct research as it is for developing contacts, you can still get some
value from Newsgroups - which have nothing to do with news. Rather, these are discussion
groups, kind of like chat rooms. Each is on a different subject; everyone is allowed to post
whatever they want on that subject, and everyone in the world can read what has been posted.
Google NewsGroups Page

I will warn you now: most of what is on Usenet is absolute tripe. People's opinions about this or that, flames (where
someone is harshly ridiculed for having posted something others disagree with), bad data, old data, false data, worthless
data tripe. But there is so much stuff there, that even if only 1/10th of one per cent of it is valuable information -
probably just about right, proportion-wise, I think - then that still means there is a huge amount of useful information to
be had. In fact, if we take Google's figures, and apply my worthwhile to worthless ratio, that still leaves about a quarter
million pages of good stuff.
Google's Groups FAQ

Answers basic questions about Google's groups and how to access them.
Slyck's Guide to the Newsgroups

A multi-page tutorial about newsgroups; some parts are little advanced for most people. Use the "next" and "previous"
buttons at the bottom of each page to navigate.
Ibiblio's Usenet Help

More than anybody ever wanted to know about Usenet.
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Career Related Web Sites
Careers in Accounting
http://www.aicpa.org/nolimits/index.htm
Careers in Advertising
http://www.siu.edu/~aaf/career.html
Careers in Advertising and Public Relations

http://www.careers-in-marketing.com/ad.htm
Careers in Aerospace
http://www.careervoyages.gov/aerospace-main.cfm
Careers in Aging
http://www.careersinaging.com/careersinaging/
Careers in Agricultural Economics

http://www.aaea.org/career/careercentral/brochure.cfm
Careers in Agriculture
http://www.marketplaceforthemind.state.pa.us/m4m/cwp/view.asp?a=3&q=150398
Careers in the Allied Health Fields

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2322.html
Careers in Animal Health Behavior

http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/help/careers.html
Careers with Animals

http://www.arkanimals.com/ark/uac_index.html
Careers in Anthropology
http://www.aaanet.org/profdev/careers
Careers in Applied Mathematics

http://www.siam.org/careers/thinking.php
Careers in Applied Psychology

http://www.wcupa.edu/_ACADEMICS/sch_cas.psy/career.htm
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Careers in Aquatic Science
http://aslo.org/career/aquaticcareer.html
Careers in Archeology
http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/anthro/dlcfaq.html
Careers in Architecture
http://www.careersinarchitecture.net
Careers in Art History

http://arts.ucsc.edu/divarts/boards/arthist/tips/career.html
Careers in Art Therapy

http://www.special-ed-careers.org/career_choices/profiles/professions/art_ther.html
Careers in Astronomy
http://www.aas.org/education/careers.html
Career in Automotive
http://www.careervoyages.gov/automotive-main.cfm
Careers in Aviation
http://www.faa.gov/education_research/education/careers
Careers in Aviation and Aerodynamics

http://wings.avkids.com/Careers/index.html
Careers in Biology
http://www.aibs.org/careers
Careers in Biotechnology
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/CC/
Careers in Botany
http://www.botany.org/bsa/careers/
Careers in Business and Finance

http://www.khake.com/page13.html
Careers in the CIA

https://www.cia.gov/careers/index.html
Careers in Chemistry
http://www.chem.duke.edu/~bonk/Careers/ChemCareers.html
Careers in Child and Family Policy

http://cfp.igpa.uiuc.edu
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Careers in Chiropractic
http://www.amerchiro.org/content_CSS.cfm?CID=750
Careers in Civil Engineering

http://www.asce.org/public/think_career.cfm
Careers in Clinical Laboratory Science

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/CC/ACLS/index.html
Careers in Computing
http://computingcareers.acm.org
Careers in Computer Science and Related Fields

http://www.khake.com/page17.html
Careers in Construction
http://www.chooseconstruction.org
Careers in Corrections
http://www.state.nj.us/corrections/careers.html
Careers in Cosmetology
http://www.thehighschoolgraduate.com/editorial/USbeauty.htm
Careers in Counseling and Psychotherapy

http://www.noctrl.edu/academics/departments/psychology/department_site/Careers.Coun
seling.htm
Careers in the Culinary Arts
http://www.culinary-careers.org/culinary-careers.html
Careers in Deafness
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/133.html
Careers in Dentistry
http://www.ada.org/public/careers/index.asp
Careers in Dietetics
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/CADE_2412_ENU_HTML.htm
Careers in Earth Science

http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/career
Careers in Ecology
http://esa.org/education_diversity/explore.php
Careers in Economics
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http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/students/Careers.htm
Careers in Engineering
http://www.discoverengineering.org
Careers in Environmental Journalism

http://www.sej.org/careers/body.htm
Careers in the FBI

https://fbijobs.gov
Careers in Fish and Wildlife Management

http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/ndwild/career.html
Careers in Food Safety

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/careers.html
Careers in Food Science and Technology

http://www.ag.uidaho.edu/fst/careers.htm
Careers in Foreign Language

http://www.harding.edu/forlang/Careers.html
Careers in the Foreign Service
http://www.careers.state.gov/officer/index.html
Careers in Forensic Psychology

http://www.wcupa.edu/_ACADEMICS/sch_cas.psy/Career_Paths/Forensic/Career08.htm
Careers in Forensic Science

http://www.aafs.org/default.asp?section_id=resources&page_id=choosing_a_career
Careers in Funeral Service

http://www.nfda.org/careers.php
Careers in Genetic Counseling

http://www.nsgc.org/career/index.cfm#as_a_profession
Careers in Genetics and the Biosciences

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/education/careers.shtml
Careers in the Genetics Field

http://genetics.faseb.org/genetics/gsa/careers/bro-menu.htm
Careers in Geography
http://www.aag.org/Careers/Intro.html
Careers in the Geosciences
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http://www.agiweb.org/workforce/brochure.html
Careers in Gerontology
http://www.geron.org/StudentOrg/careers.htm
Careers in Health Administration

http://www.auburn.edu/HA/ha-do.html
Careers in Health and Medical Science

http://science.education.nih.gov/LifeWorks.nsf/feature/indexhtm
Careers in Health Management

http://www.healthmanagementcareers.org/
Careers in Health Physics

http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/hpcareers.html
Careers in the Helping Professions

http://keep2.sjfc.edu/faculty/tspitzer/helpingProf99.htm
Careers in Herpetology
http://www.asih.org/herpjobs
Careers in Historical Archaeology

http://www.sha.org/students_jobs/career_types.htm
Careers in Historic Preservation

http://www.preservationnation.org/resources/faq/information-sheets/careers.pdf
Careers in History
http://www.historians.org/pubs/careers
Careers in Homeland Security

http://www.careervoyages.gov/homelandsecurity-main.cfm
Careers in the Horse Industry

http://agriculture.truman.edu/careers/eq_caree.htm
Careers in Horticulture
http://www.ashs.org/careers/
Careers in Human Resource Management

http://www.shrm.org/foundation/undergrad
Careers in Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology

http://simhq.org/careers/career_information.aspx
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Careers in Information Technology
http://www.careervoyages.gov/infotech-main.cfm
Careers in Intellectual Property Law

http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/careers.html
Careers in Interior Design

http://www.careersininteriordesign.com/
Careers in Journalism
http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=2
Careers in Languages
http://lrc.wfu.edu/careersinlanguages
Careers in Law
http://www.abanet.org/careercounsel/archive.html#pracarea
Careers in Libraries
http://www.becomealibrarian.org
http://www.librarycareers.org/ala/education/careeroverview/careers.cfm
Careers in Life Science

http://www.the-aps.org/education/k-12misc/careers.htm
Careers in Marine Biology & Oceanography

http://hopkins.stanford.edu/careers.htm
Careers in Marine Mammal Science

http://www.marinemammalogy.org/strat.htm
Careers in Marine Science

http://oceanlink.island.net/career/career2.html
Careers in Marketing
http://www.marshall.usc.edu/web/marketing.cfm?doc_id=2890
Careers in Math
http://www.coolmath.com/careers.htm
Careers in Mathematics
http://www.math.purdue.edu/jobs/career.php
Careers in the Mathematical Sciences

http://www.ams.org/careers
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Careers in Medical Transcription
http://www.mtdaily.com/faq.html
Careers in Medicine
http://www.aamc.org/students/considering/careers.htm
Careers in the Microbiological Sciences

http://www.asm.org/Education/index.asp?bid=1272
Careers in the Military

http://www.todaysmilitary.com/careers
Careers in Music
http://www.berklee.edu/careers/default.html
http://www.menc.org/careers
Careers in Music Therapy

http://www.berklee.edu/careers/therapy.html
Careers in the Music Business

http://www.ascap.com/jam/read_about/careers.html
Careers in Nanotechnology
http://www.nano.gov/html/edu/careers.htm
Careers in Nursing
http://www.discovernursing.com
Careers in Oceanography
http://www.oc.nps.navy.mil/careers.html
Careers in Oceanography, Marine Science and Marine Biology

http://ocean.peterbrueggeman.com/career.html
Careers in Optometry
http://www.opted.org/info_faq.cfm#1
Careers in Orthodontics
http://www.braces.org/healthcareprofessionals/orthodonticstaff/staff-careers.cfm
Careers in Paleontology
http://www.priweb.org/ed/lol/careers.html
Careers in Parasitology
http://asp.unl.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27
Careers in Pathology
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http://www.aamc.org/students/cim/pub_pathology.htm
Careers in Photojournalism
http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/students/entering_the_job_market
Careers in Physical Anthropology

http://www.physanth.org/careers/AAPAcareer.htm
Careers in Physics
http://www.physics.org/careers.asp?contetid=381
Careers in Physiology
http://www.the-aps.org/careers/careers1/ugrad.htm
Careers in Plant Pathology

http://www.apsnet.org/careers/careers.asp
Careers in Podiatric Medicine

http://www.apma.org/careers.htm
Careers in Political Science

http://www.apsanet.org/section_516.cfm
Careers in Primatology
http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/resources/careers/
Careers in Professional Athletics

http://www.ncaa.org/library/general/career_in_pro_athletics/2004-05/2004-
05_career_pro_athletics.pdf
Careers in Psychiatry
http://www.aamc.org/students/cim/pub_psychiatry.htm
Careers in Psychology
http://www.psywww.com/careers/
Careers in Public Health

http://www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=728
Careers in Public Relations

http://www.prssa.org/jobcentermembersite/resources.aspx?Id=2
Careers in Radiology
http://www.radiologyinfo.org/content/careers/careers.htm
Careers in Real Estate

http://www.realtor.org/realtororg.nsf/pages/careers
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Careers in Social Work
http://www.helpstartshere.org/Careers.html
Careers in Sociology
http://www.asanet.org/page.ww?section=Careers+and+Jobs&name=Careers+in+Sociolo
gy
Careers in Soil Science

http://soils.usda.gov/education/facts/careers.html
Careers in Space
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/index.html
Careers in Sports Dietetics

http://www.scandpg.org/sports_dietetics.php
Careers in Sports Medicine & Exercise Science

http://www.acsm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home_Page&TEMPLATE=/CM/Cont
entDisplay.cfm&CONTENTFILEID=98
Careers in Sports Psychology

http://www.wcupa.edu/_ACADEMICS/sch_cas.psy/Career_Paths/Sports/Career07.htm
Careers in Statistics
http://www.amstat.org/careers/
Careers in Teaching
http://www.njn.net/workforce/careersindemand/teaching.html
Careers in Television and Film

http://web.princeton.edu/sites/career/data/IndustryGuides/TV_Film.pdf
Careers in Technical Writing

http://technology.monster.com/articles/writing
Careers in Toxicology
http://www.toxicology.org/ai/apt/careerguide.asp
Careers in Travel
http://www.astanet.com/education/edu_becoming.asp
Careers in Trees
http://www.urbanforest.org/treecareers
Careers in Turf Management
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http://www.nzstito.org.nz/careers%20new.html
Careers in Underwater Welding

http://www.aws.org/education/plunge.html
Careers in Veterinary Medicine

http://www.avma.org/careforanimals/animatedjourneys/aboutvets/becomingvet.asp
Careers in Welding
http://www.aws.org/education/career.html
Careers in Wildlife Management

http://wildlife.state.co.us/Jobs/CareerPaths
Careers in Zoology
http://www.seaworld.org/career-resources/info-books/zoo-careers
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INDUSTRY RESEARCH AND ASSOCIATION LISTINGS:
TradePub.com
ASAE
Business.com
JOB BOARDS:
Direct Employers
Job Sniper
GOVERNMENT SITES:
State & Local Gov. on the Net
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chamber of Commerce
Census Bureau
FINANCIAL PUBLICATIONS:
Fortune 500 List
Forbes 500
Inc. 500
Forbes Top 500 Private Companies
Forbes Best 200 Small Companies
Fortune 500 CEO List
Forbes 400 Richest People
Global Fortune 500 List
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Forbes Most Powerful People
EXCHANGES:
NASDAQ
S & P 400
American Stock Exchange
S & P 500 MidCap
S & P 600 Directory
Qnews
COMPENSATION:
Salary Information Part 1.
Salary Information Part 2
Salary.com
Compensation And Human Resources Consulting
ARCHIVES:
EDGAR Archives
EDGAR database of Corporate Information
COMPANY RESEARCH:
Hoovers Online (Capsules only)
Wall Street Research Net
CorpTech
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COMPANY LISTS:
TechWeb 45,000 Tech Companies
American Business Information
BizWeb
OTHERS:
Accounting Web
Newspapers Online Top 10
BackWeb
ClariNet
PointCast
Associations on the Net
Newspapers U.S.
Yahoo's Corporate Directory
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Career and Social Networking Sites
Social and professional networking sites you can use to enhance your career and assist
with your job search.
Best Social Networking Sites
Social networking sites you can use to enhance your career and assist with your job
search.
Social Media MarketingReach Bloggers, Podcasters & More With Vocus Social Media
PR.www.vocus.com/socialmedia
Social NetworkingBuild business relationships with social networking

technologieswww.relationshipcurrency.com
Career Job SiteA Revolutionary Online Job Service Turn the Tables, Be the
Hunted.www.jobfox.com
LinkedIn
How to use the full power of LinkedIn to job search, including effectively use your
connections and using all the information available on LinkedIn when you're applying for
jobs.
Facebook
Should you use Facebook for professional networking, and, if so, what is the best way to
use it?
MySpace
MySpace is a social networking website offering users the opportunity to connect through
personal profiles, blogs, groups and other features. MySpace is one of the most popular
social networking site, and currently has over 100 million accounts.
Ning
Ning is an online service to create, customize, and share a social network. Users have
used Ning to create online social networks about tons of subjects, including jobs and the
job search.
Twitter
Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service utilising instant messaging,
SMS or a web interface. Twitter is open ended and people and companies use it in a
variety of ways, including to job search.
Doostang
Doostang is an invite-only community founded by a Stanford MBA and an MIT engineer,
that connects young professionals to career opportunities through social networking.
85 Broads
Women who are students or alumnae of 85 Broads undergraduate or graduate partner
schools are eligible to join 85 Broads, a powerful network that connects a community of
intelligent, motivated, and successful women around the globe.
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Jobster
Create a profile that includes a YouTube-hosted video information about your
background, tags, and a personalized url you can use to share your digital resume with
employers.
MyWorkster
Professionally network with students, graduates, and employers. Plus resume posting and
job search tools.
Ryze
Network to grow your career and to find a job. Free networking-oriented home page and
messaging.
Yahoo! Kickstart
Yahoo! Kickstart is designed to connect college students, recent grads, and alumni with
internships, jobs, career advice, and mentoring, as well as for alumni employers to source
candidates.
Alumni Networking
Contact the Career Services or Alumni Affairs office at your college or university to find
alumni career networking contacts.
Alumni.Net
Find fellow alumni from company, high school, univeristy, and other organization
affiliations.
Bright Star
Bright Circles alumni community lets current and former employees from leading
companies and organizations stay in touch.
Classmates.com
Find high school, college, military and workplace (in the Work and Careers Directory)
connections. Friends and colleagues are ideal job search networking resources.
Fast Company - Company of Friends
Company of Friends is a community of self-organizing groups of business leaders and
innovators. Members help each other improve their careers, companies, and communities.
Friendster
Friendster is a social networking site where you can meet new friends and connect with
old ones, stay in touch and browse to find people with similar interests.
Meet-Up Work and Careers
The Meet-Up social networking site enables users to find groups of people with interests
that match theirs. Check the Work and Careers category or browse a variety of other
topics.
Monster Networking
Register with Monster to search for job search networking contacts by keyword,
occupation, company, school or location. Keep track of career networking contacts and
messages. Additional benefits (for a fee) like Instant Messaging for VIP Members.
Vault Message Boards
Online discussion forums for a variety of career topics, undergraduate and graduate
schools, industries and companies. These are an excellent sources for networking to find
career and company information.
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SEARCH ENGINES
Top Job Sites

The top job sites for online job seekers and how to incorporate them into your job search.
Job Search Engines
Use the job search engines to search the top job banks, company sites, and online newspapers. There are a variety of
job search engine sites that will search all the online job sites to capture new job postings
America's Job Exchange
America's Job Exchange (America Job Exchange or AJE) connects job seekers to national job openings all fifty US
states and four territories.
RECOMMENDED Job Search Engine Sites
Indeed.com
Indeed includes millions of job listings from thousands of web sites, including company career pages, job boards,
newspaper classifieds, associations and blogs. Any job search can be saved as an email alert, so new jobs are delivered
daily. Job seekers may also search job trends and salaries, read and participate in discussion forums, research
companies and even find people working for companies of interest through their online social networks.
SimplyHired.com
SimplyHired searches thousands of job boards, classifieds, and company sites. Advanced search options include type of
job, type of company, keyword, location and the date the job was posted.
LinkUp.com
LinkUp is a job search engine that searches jobs on company sites. The job postings are from small, mid-sized, and
large company career sections, and are updated whenever the company web site is updated.
Jobster
Seach for jobs posted by location (city, state, zip), keyword, vicinity, and best match. Advanced search options include
state, city, radius from a city, date posted, and multiple keywords or a phrase.
JustPosted.com
JustPosted also searches the web for postings. Job seekers can search by position title, city and state. Matching job
leads are returned instantly via browser or email.
RiseSmart
RiseSmart is a job site that offers a Concierge service (for a fee) for job seekers who are looking for positions in the
100k+ salary range.
More Job Search Engine Sites

Additional job search engine sites, as well as job search engines from the top job sites like Monster and HotJobs.
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Indeed.com- A Meta Search Job Engine
Indeed.com is a very solid job search engine. Unlike Monster, you cannot submit your resume from Indeed.com, but
the job search engine more than makes up for that by being a meta search engine of many of the major job search
engines and job search boards out there
FedWorld-Find a Federal Government Job

Think of FedWorld as your gateway into the huge world of US government jobs. You can do a detailed federal job
search here, and FedWorld also offers the serious federal job searcher the opportunity to search FirstGov, search and
view Supreme Court decisions, and view GS pay rate schedules.
CareerBuilder- One of the Largest Job Search Engines

CareerBuilder offers job searchers the ability to find a job, post a resume, create job alerts, get job advice and job
resources, look up job fairs, and much more. This is a truly massive job search engine that offers a lot of good
resources to the job searcher; I especially appreciate the list of job search communities.
Dice.com-Technology Job Search Engine

Dice.com is a job search engine dedicated to only finding technology jobs. Dice also offers those job searchers with a
security clearance the ability to search on ClearanceJobs.com, "premier Internet job board focused exclusively on
candidates with active or current security clearances."
America's Job Bank-A Mammoth Job Search Engine

America's Job Bank is one of the largest job search engines on the Web today. With almost two million jobs in its
sizable database at the time of this writing and more than fifteen thousand new jobs being posted almost every day,
America's Job Bank is a must-have job search engine. Search by job title, keyword, military, or job number.
Yahoo Hot Jobs-A Personalized Job Search Engine

Yahoo Hot Jobs is linked to your Yahoo ID (if you have one), so once you're signed into Yahoo, you're signed into Hot
Jobs. You can search by location with Hot Jobs, my personal favorite, and you'll be able to see all the jobs in your
general area in the column to the left. Any job search can be subscribed to via RSS; you can add it to "My Yahoo" or a
personalized RSS reader (such as Bloglines).
SimplyHired - Simple Job Search Engine

SimplyHired has been one of my favorite job search engines now for a while; mostly because of their SimplyFired
contest. SimplyHired also offers a very unique job search experience; the user "trains" the job search engine by rating
jobs he or she is interested in. SimplyHired also gives you the ability to research salaries, add jobs to a job map, and
view pretty detailed profiles of various companies. I highly recommend SimplyHired.
LinkedIn.com-A Social Networking Job Search Engine

LinkedIn.com combines the best of two worlds: the ability to scour the Internet for jobs with its job search engine, and
the opportunity to network with like-minded friends and individuals to deepen your job search. From the site: "With
LinkedIn, you find the people, jobs and services you need through the people you know and trust, while you strengthen
and extend your existing network." Finding a job all too often is about who you know, and LinkedIn.com does a great
job of addressing this.
Craigslist - Community Classifieds Job Search

Technically, craigslist.com is not a job search engine, but I would be extremely remiss if I did not include it in my list
of Top Ten job search sites. Find your community and find jobs - and the jobs posted on Craigslist tend to be some of
the most eclectic, truly interesting jobs around on the Web.
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Multi-Industry Professional Resources
Looking to expand your online job hunt beyond the big boards? Web sites and email lists dedicated to
postings in specific fields can supplement your search. Here's a look at niche job boards and email
newsletters from around the Web. (Some links may require registration or subscriptions.)
If your goal is to work for a nonprofit organization or an employer serving the nonprofit sector, you'll
find an array of resources listing openings on the Web.
One of the largest nonprofit boards we found is idealist.org, which is a partner of CareerJournal.com.
About 100 new jobs are added daily and the site averages about 4,500 jobs from entry to senior level.
They pay annual salaries ranging from $15,000 to $150,000, says Charlotte Jones Voiklis, manager,
external relations for Action Without Borders Inc., a New York City nonprofit, which runs the site.
Search for openings in such categories as community building and renewal, energy conservation,
foundations and fundraising coalitions, prison reform and disaster relief. The site, which is available in
French and Spanish, also lists internships and volunteer opportunities, plus a calendar of nonprofit
career fairs.
You'll find mostly senior and midlevel jobs at nonprofit

Nonprofit Professionals' organizations at ExecSearches.com. Eight to 10 new
Salaries jobs are added daily and between 180 and 200 jobs are
usually listed. They pay from $40,000 to $180,000 in
For a snapshot of compensation for annual salary, according to F. Jay Hall, client-services
nonprofit professionals, see manager for the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based job board.
CareerJournal.com's Pay Table. Openings are listed in 45 categories, with the bulk in
social services, children and youth, and advocacy, he
says. Job hunters can post an executive portfolio for fees ranging from $19 for 30 days to $125 for 360
days. Portfolios include a unique Web address and tabs linking to pages listing resume, photo,
references, contact and other information. In addition, the site offers a 50-minute resume and cover-
letter critiquing service for $95 by phone or $125 in person.
To target exclusively senior-level jobs, check out CEOupdate.com. About 300 jobs are generally listed
after first appearing in a print newsletter called "CEO Job Opportunities Update." Published every
other Thursday, the newsletter typically lists between 100 and 140 new jobs, reports Lynn McNutt,
managing editor of the Alexandria, Va.-based job-posting service. Only positions paying a minimum
annual salary of $50,000 are listed, and most jobs pay in the $75,000-to-$200,000 range, she says.
Advertisers include trade associations, professional societies, foundations, cause-oriented groups and
executive-search firms. Subscriptions to the newsletter and Web site cost from $90 to $300.
Jobs at international, family, community and corporate foundations can be found at the Council on
Foundations' Web site, cof.org. About five new jobs are added weekly, and the site averages around
100 jobs, according to Gabriela Schneider, media-relations coordinator for the Washington, D.C.-
based association. It's free to search the job listings, but nonmembers are charged $10 to post resumes.
Association jobs are listed at asaenet.org, the online home of ASAE (formerly the American Society
of Association Executives) & the Center for Association Leadership. Between 12 and 16 jobs are
added daily and about 425 jobs from entry to senior level are generally listed, according to Marta
Hayes Trice, manager, career services, for ASAE, which is based in Washington, D.C. The site offers
a resume-writing service for $229 and three monthly 30-minute career-coaching sessions by phone for
$280. You also can complete a career-assessment questionnaire and receive a 30-minute phone
consultation on the results for $124.
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Many regional associations list jobs at their Web sites. For example, at MarylandNonprofits.org, the
online home of the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations, you'll find a broad range of
nonprofit jobs in Maryland and nearby metropolitan areas. About 20 new jobs are added weekly and
100 jobs are generally listed. They range from entry to senior level and pay between $20,000 and
$175,000 in annual salary, reports Peter Berns, executive director of the Baltimore-based association.
For jobs at grant-making associations in the Big Apple and nearby areas, check out nyrag.org, the
online home of The New York Regional Association of Grantmakers. Up to five new jobs are added
weekly and about 15 jobs are generally listed, reports George Lowin, administrative assistant for the
professional society.
A list of more than 20 state-association Web sites advertising nonprofit jobs can be found at the
National Council of Nonprofit Associations' online home, ncna.org.
Here's a roundup of other sites advertising nonprofit jobs, each listing more than 200 openings, from
entry to senior level, from a variety of employers:
• nonprofitOyster.com
• OpportunityKnocks.org
• JobsatNonprofits.com
• nonprofitjobs.org
• DeepSweep.com
• philanthropy.com/jobs
• PNNOnline.org
The following are sites advertising nonprofit jobs that list fewer than 200 openings, also from entry to
senior level:
• nptimes.com
• IndependentSector.org
• CharityChannel.com
• PhilanthropyJournal.org
• fdncenter.org
• NonprofitCareer.com
• DotOrgJobs.com
• NonprofitCareers.org
For additional job listings in the nonprofit sector, check out past blog entries on environmental-
education and museum sites.
Sites That Post Openings for Katrina Evacuees
Several Web sites have sprung up with postings from employers eager to hire those left jobless by
Hurricane Katrina. Here's a roundup:
Craigslist.org, the hub for a network of 175 local classified-ad Web sites, lists jobs from employers
throughout the U.S. seeking to recruit Katrina survivors. More than 1,000 ads for jobs from entry to
senior level are posted, reports Jim Buckmaster, chief executive officer of the San Francisco-based
network. To find jobs in a particular location, choose from a list of cities on the site's homepage, and
search the job listings using the keyword "Katrina." A section called "Katrina Relief" lists temporary-
employment opportunities.
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Contractor Lang's Heating & Air Conditioning in Hilton Head Island, S.C., is advertising openings for
seven technicians on craigslist. Like many employers hoping to hire Katrina evacuees, the company
will pay relocation expenses for new hires and their families, including up to 120 days of housing. To
apply, call collect: 1 (843) 681-6824, or complete an online form at langsheatingandair.com. At least
two years of experience is required for heating- and air-conditioning-technician jobs and a minimum
of five years for refrigeration-technician jobs, says Mike Covert, a systems engineer at Lang. "The
least we could do is offer people in this business a chance to start over again," he says. The company
hasn't received any applications yet, he says.
Ads for a broad range of jobs are on katrinajobrelief.com. More than 50 industry associations and
trade groups across the country are inviting their members and others to post jobs for evacuees at no
cost. Job hunters can post their resumes at the site for free. During a recent visit, we found about 2,850
ads, most (about 700) from Florida employers. Salaries range from minimum wage to about $100,000
annually, says Andrew Banever, president of JobTarget Inc., a New London, Conn., technology
company that runs more than 300 niche job boards and is publishing katrinajobrelief.com. Most
positions are in health care and skilled labor, he adds.
Katrina evacuees can find openings at jobsearch.org/katrinajobs, a site from America's

Job Bank (jobsearch.org), a job board published by the U.S. Department of Labor. The
site is also advertising temporary clean-up, recovery and reconstruction positions that are
open to all job seekers. Employers can post ads at no cost, and during a recent visit we
found about 37,000 jobs in a variety of fields. It's free to post your resume and store
cover letters. The site offers job-search tips on topics such as interviewing and evaluating
job offers. In addition, the site can be translated into seven foreign languages including
Spanish, Italian and Japanese.
A database of staffing agencies that have pledged to help Katrina survivors find jobs can be found at
americanstaffing.net, the online home of the American Staffing Association. Search among
approximately 7,500 firms nationwide that fill jobs in health care, office/clerical, technical,
information technology, professional/management and industrial occupations. Jobs include full- and
part-time positions from entry to senior level, and many firms provide career services, such as resume
and interview preparation, says Reem El-Khatib, public-relations coordinator for the Alexandria, Va.-
based trade group.
Job-board publisher Hospitality Careers Online Inc. in Vancouver, British Columbia, is inviting
hospitality and retail employers to list jobs at no charge on katrinahospitalityjobs.com. During a recent
visit, we found more than 65,000 postings for jobs from entry to senior level. Advertisers include
restaurants, resorts, hotels, retail companies and executive-search firms.
Job hunters in Houston might want to check out HoustonEmployment.com, a site inviting Houston
companies committed to employing Katrina survivors to list openings for free. During a recent visit, a
page dedicated to "Katrina employment relief" postings had about 200 ads for jobs in a range of fields.
They pay salaries ranging from minimum wage to about $85,000 annually, says Jerry Kowalchik,
founder and chief executive officer of the site's Houston-based publisher, Employocity Ltd.
HoustonEmployment.com typically lists more than 1,000 jobs in 20 fields, most in health care and
accounting/finance.
AttorneyAssist.org lists jobs, housing and office space for law professionals displaced due to
Hurricane Katrina. The site is from the Atlanta Bar Association and ads are free to post. During a
recent visit we found about 90 listed. Katrina evacuees can post a brief profile about their
employment, housing or other needs.
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Job seekers in Birmingham, Ala., might want to visit BirminghamEmployment.com. This site, also
from Employocity, has a page inviting Birmingham employers recruiting Katrina survivors to post
jobs at no cost. About 100 jobs are listed in fields such as sales, transportation, hospitality,
information technology, engineering and others.
At laworks.net/jobs, the Web site for the Louisiana Department of Labor, a page listing employment
opportunities in the state has a search category near the bottom called "Hurricane Katrina." It includes
about 200 jobs in a variety of industries. Narrow your results by searching for openings in a specific
parish, district or other specific area.
Memphistravel.com/jobs, the site for the Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau, has an alphabetized
list of about 100 local employers offering jobs for Katrina evacuees.
Sites That Cater to Food-Industry Pros
If you're hungry for a job in the food business, a number of niche sites want to satisfy your appetite.
To locate opportunities from a wide variety of employers, including supermarkets, produce growers,
manufacturers, marketing firms, wineries, restaurants and more, log onto FoodandDrinkJobs.com
from staffing agency EatUpDrinkUp.com Inc. in Chicago. Up to 12 new postings are added daily, and
during a recent visit we found more than 200 jobs listed at a range of levels. Openings are in
accounting, sales, brokerage, catering, advertising, logistics, research and development, food science
and more than 25 other fields.
You'll find only senior and midlevel positions at

Food Professionals' Salaries foodmanagementsearch.com from recruiter Food
Management Search Inc. Five to 10 new jobs are added
For a snapshot of compensation for daily, and the site averages around 100 jobs. They pay
food professionals, see CareerJournal.com's between $50,000 and $150,000 in annual salary, reports
Pay Table. Joe Cresci, president of the Springfield, Mass.-based
recruiter. Advertisers include manufacturers, specialty
retailers, supermarkets, restaurants and executive-search firms.
Scott Slicho, 26, began searching the ads at foodmanagementsearch.com in March. He was a
marketing coordinator at a large restaurant company in Dallas for nearly two years and wanted to
advance his career. He applied for one job -- an account-executive position at an ad agency with food-
industry clients -- and was offered an interview later that day, which he accepted. The following week
he was hired at an annual salary about $5,000 more than his previous job. He expects to be promoted
to account supervisor within three years, he says.
For food-manufacturing jobs, check out careersinfood.com, where about 100 new postings are added
daily and around 4,000 ads are generally listed. They range from entry to senior level and pay from
$40,000 to $150,000 in annual salary, says Wade Palmer, president and partner of the Springfield,
Mo.-based job board and a food-industry recruiter. Complete a questionnaire that provides employers
with details on the kind of employment you're seeking and peruse profiles of more than 300
companies advertising jobs on the site. You also can network with industry professionals through the
site's message board.
Produce jobs can be found at producecareers.com from executive-search firm Produce Careers Inc.
About 30 new jobs are added weekly and more than 200 jobs are generally listed. Most are midlevel
and senior positions paying between $40,000 and $250,000 in annual salary, reports David P.
Stornetta, president and owner of the Arroyo Grande, Calif.-based recruiter. Search among more than
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20 career fields, such as buying/purchasing, engineering, finance, information technology and sales, as
well as 15 industry sectors including brokerage, farming/ranching, food service, processing and
growing/shipping/packaging.
If food science is your specialty, check out foodscience.com from executive-search firm OPUS
International Inc. About five new jobs are added on Fridays and about 30 jobs generally are listed.
Most are senior and midlevel positions paying between $65,000 and $150,000 in annual salary, says
Suzanne Scully, an OPUS recruiter. Opportunities are mainly for research and product-development
scientists, food technologists and processing engineers. All jobs require a degree in food science and
are from the firm's clients, whose names are not disclosed. They include ingredient and product
manufacturers, as well as grocery retailers specializing in desserts, baked goods, snack foods,
beverages, breakfast foods, food service and meat.
For jobs that will satisfy your sweet tooth, bookmark jobs.ecandy.com from the National
Confectioners Association. Since launching in August, about eight jobs have been listed by both
members and nonmembers of the Vienna, Va., trade group, reports Susan Fussell, its director of public
relations. Jobs range from entry to senior level and are in fields such as human resources, quality
assurance, food science, finance and others. Among the postings is an ad for an associate scientist at
Cadbury Schweppes PLC's confectionary division in Morris Plains, N.J. The job entails developing
and assessing confectionary products and requires a bachelor's degree in food science, food
engineering or chemical engineering, plus two years of related experience.
Openings at food-engineering and technology companies can be found at asabe.org, the Web site for
the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. The St. Joseph, Mich.-based
educational and scientific organization began posting jobs in a range of levels earlier this month and
currently 16 are listed. Search among categories such as aquaculture, food and process engineering,
education and consulting.
Hotel Pros Bookmark These Sites
Checking into career opportunities at hotels? A host of sites cater to job hunters in the lodging
industry.
The largest hospitality job board we found is hospitalityjobs.hcareers.com from Hospitality Careers
Online Inc. based in Vancouver, British Columbia. About 80% of the openings are at hotels and hotel-
management companies, according to David Curry, founder and executive vice president of the job-
board publisher. The site lists how many new jobs have been posted in the past 45 days in the U.S.
(about 7,200) and world-wide (about 75,000), plus how many employers are advertising jobs (about
25,000). Read company profiles, some of which include maps of hotel properties, and sign up for a
monthly career e-newsletter featuring interviews with human-resources managers at hospitality
companies.
Bryan Reichelt, 25, applied to several hotel jobs at

Hotel Professionals' Salaries hospitalityjobs.hcareers.com in late 2004. He was a
front-office manager at a limited-service family hotel in
For a snapshot of compensation for Hershey, Pa., and wanted to advance his career. He
hotel professionals, see CareerJournal.com's received about 40 invitations to interview, accepted
Pay Table. around half and landed four job offers. In February, he
joined a large, upscale corporate hotel in King of
Prussia, Pa., as a front-office manager, earning $10,000 more in annual salary, plus residency in a
company-owned three-bedroom home.
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To find openings at a wide variety of hotel properties, including luxury, chain and independent hotels,
log onto hoteljobsnetwork.com. About 25 new jobs are added daily and 500 jobs from entry to senior
level are generally listed, reports Adam Hardie, owner of the Owings Mills, Md.-based job board.
Management and executive jobs, which make up the bulk of the listings, pay up to about $250,000
annually. You can store up to five resumes and cover letters and peruse profiles of more than 200
employers that advertise jobs on the site. You also can complete a questionnaire to provide employers
with your hotel-employment history.
For jobs at upscale full-service hotels and hotel-management companies, such as Omni Hotels Corp.,
bookmark HospitalityOnline.com. About 50 to 100 new jobs are added daily and the site averages 900
to 1,000 jobs. Half are management and executive positions paying between $40,000 and $250,000 or
more annually. The most common postings are for management jobs in sales, food and beverage, and
rooms, says Tom Ferree, chief executive officer of the Seattle-based job board. Ads include highly
detailed job requirements and company profiles.
Senior-level hotel jobs paying a minimum annual salary of $75,000 are listed at bristolassoc.com, the
online home of executive-search firm Bristol Associates Inc. Five to eight new jobs are added twice a
month, and 10 to 20 jobs generally are listed, according to Kelly Nelson, vice president of the Los
Angeles-based hospitality recruiter. Positions most frequently posted are vice president of operations,
vice president sales/marketing and general manager, he says. All jobs are from the firm's clients --
mainly full-service hotel-management companies -- and their names are not disclosed. Submit your
resume to be considered for opportunities that aren't listed.
For links to ads for hotel jobs posted throughout the Web, check out hospitalityjobsblog.com, a blog
from job board CareerMetaSearch.com based in Lake Worth, Fla. About 20 new jobs are added daily,
and 40 typically are listed, says Jason Gorham, chief executive officer. Nearly half are for mid- and
senior-level positions at hotels and hotel-management companies, and they pay from $40,000 to
$90,000 in annual salary, he adds. Post a short write-up about yourself on a page called "Hospitality
Job Seekers," by emailing info@careermetasearch.com with "hospitality blog" in the subject line.
A new board in this niche is HospitalityResourceNetwork.com. Since launching in July, about five
new jobs have been added daily, and more than 40 positions from entry to senior level are listed in all.
About 90% of the jobs are at hotels, and they pay salaries ranging from $8 an hour to about $80,000
annually, according to a spokesman for the Anaheim, Calif.-based site. You can store up to five
resumes and track how many times they've been viewed by employers.
Mostly midlevel positions are listed at hospitalitycareernet.com, a site from HVS Executive Search, an
executive-search firm. Up to two new jobs are added daily, and about 150 jobs generally are listed.
Approximately 80% of the advertisers are hotels and hotel-management companies, reports Douglas
Rosen, vice president of the Mineola, N.Y.-based recruiter. Properties range from small independent
hotels such as Campton Place Hotel in San Francisco to large international chains like Mandarin
Oriental Hotel Group based in Hong Kong. Search among more than 30 career fields, such as
finance/accounting, general management, human resources, entertainment and sales.
A Blueprint of Boards for Commercial Real-Estate Pros
As the commercial real-estate market continues to improve, so does the demand for skilled candidates
to fill openings in this niche.
For opportunities in a variety of industry sectors, including appraisal, mortgage lending, brokerage
and property management, check out real-jobs.com. Five to eight new jobs are added daily and 300 to
400 jobs are generally listed. They range from entry to senior level and pay between $28,000 and
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$250,000 in annual salary, reports Norm Miller, director of the real-estate center at the University of
Cincinnati, an affiliate of the nonprofit job board. Advertisers include real-estate investment trusts,
developers, leasing and brokerage firms, appraisers, property-management companies, mortgage
lenders, nonprofits, retailers and executive-search firms. You can post your resume at no cost, but note
that it can be viewed by all registered users.
Realestatejobs.com, from executive-search firm

Commercial Realtors' Salaries Gillham, Golbeck & Associates Inc., also lists a broad
range of openings, and not just at the executive level.
For a snapshot of compensation for The majority are in commercial real estate and the most
commercial real-estate professionals, see common are analyst and property manager, according to
CareerJournal.com's Pay Table. Rick Gillham, president of the Dallas-based recruiter.
Three to five new jobs are added daily and 20 to 25 jobs
are usually listed. They pay annual salaries ranging from $40,000 to $200,000, he says. The site
maintains a record of all jobs you apply to and can store multiple versions of your resume.
Many industry trade groups advertise employment opportunities at their Web sites. Groups that belong
to the SelectLeaders Real Estate Job Network, such as the Commercial Mortgage Securities
Association and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, post their job ads to one
board, pooling their listings together. Most are senior and mid-level positions in commercial real
estate. Between 200 and 250 new jobs are added monthly and 400 jobs are generally listed. They pay
between $60,000 and $200,000 in annual salary, according to Susan Kane, director of sales for the
New York-based network, which formed in April. Search by industry sector such as hospitality,
industrial, mixed-use and office, as well as by job category, including appraisal, finance brokerage,
historic renovation, loan origination and underwriting.
If you're seeking jobs at Realtor associations, bookmark realtor.org, the online home of the National
Association of Realtors. Up to two new jobs are posted every Monday and the site averages about five
jobs at both commercial and residential organizations, reports a spokeswoman for the Chicago-based
trade group. The most common positions are executive officer, communication director and
government-affairs director, she adds.
You'll find mostly midlevel career opportunities at RealEstateBestJobs.com. About 25% of the
postings are in commercial real estate, says Carolynn Monaco, president of the job board and
recruiting service in Hawthorne, N.J. Twenty to 100 new jobs are listed daily and more than 400 jobs
are currently listed. They pay annual salaries ranging from $35,000 to $100,000 or more. Search
among such job categories as appraiser, attorney/legal, home inspection, mortgage companies, real
estate and title companies.
Live in the Big Apple? The Association of Real Estate Women lists mostly commercial real-estate
jobs in the New York metro area at its Web site, arew.org. Between 10 and 15 new jobs are added on
Fridays and about 30 jobs are typically listed. Most are senior and midlevel positions paying a
minimum annual salary of $50,000, says Amy Applebaum, president of the New York-based trade
group. Members can post their resumes at no cost; nonmembers are charged $25. Annual membership,
which is also open to men, is $550 and includes eight luncheons and discounts for members-only
events.
A Blog for Marketers
If you're searching for a job in direct, online or new-media marketing, bookmark

MarketingHeadhunter.com, a blog from Atlanta-based executive recruiter Harry Joiner. Up to five
new jobs are added weekly and about 30 jobs are generally listed, says Mr. Joiner, who launched the
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blog a year ago as a forum for ideas and analysis on trends in marketing. Jobs are mostly senior and
midlevel positions paying between $80,000 and $200,000 in annual salary, he says. A weekly feature
of the blog is " 'A' Player of the Week," a brief write-up about an unidentified job hunter who Mr.
Joiner interviews, including a link to his or her resume sans the candidate's name and employers. To
be profiled, email harry.joiner@gmail.com.
Click here for more niche marketing job boards.
Adding on for Accountants
For mostly senior and midlevel accounting jobs, log onto cpa2biz.com, the online home of CPA2Biz
Inc., an accounting-information provider and the marketing arm of the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants. A recent search turned up 150 jobs, which pay between $50,000 and $200,000 or
more in annual salary, according to Melissa Rothchild, CPA2Biz's director of marketing. Advertisers
are mostly corporations and public-accounting firms, plus some government agencies and academic
institutions.
Click here for more niche accounting job boards.
A Job Board for Latinos
LatPro.com features jobs from employers seeking Hispanic and Spanish-speaking applicants. Between
20 and 100 new jobs are added daily and about 6,000 jobs are generally listed. Approximately 15% of
the jobs require fluency in Spanish or knowledge of Latin-American culture, says Eric Shannon,
president of the Weston, Fla.-based job board, which is available in Spanish and Portuguese.
Click here for more niche diversity job boards.
Marketing Pros Can Tap These Career Sites
Employers hiring marketers have their choice of specialty job boards to help spread the word about
employment opportunities.
A wide range of marketing posts from entry to senior level can be found at MarketingJobs.com. About
200 new jobs are added daily and between 400 and 4,000 jobs are usually listed. They pay $30,000 to
$150,000 or more in annual salary. Search among 14 categories including online marketing,
promotions, market research, business development and communications. Advertisers include
corporations of all sizes, plus academic institutions, nonprofits and executive-search firms, says Debra
Rabin, national sales manager for the Naples, Fla.-based job board.
If you're hunting for market-research jobs, check out

Marketers' Salaries ResearchInfo.com, where one new job is added daily
and 85 jobs are typically listed. Jobs are from entry to
For a snapshot of compensation for senior level and pay $40,000 to $100,000 in annual
marketing professionals, see salary, reports Scott Spain, chief technology officer at
CareerJournal.com's Pay Table. iResearch.com, an online marketing-research company
in Washington, D.C., that co-publishes the job board
with Venture Data LLC in Salt Lake City. You can post your resume at no cost but bear in mind that
the site allows anyone to access its resume database.
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Sandy N. McNeill, 28, began applying for jobs listed at ResearchInfo.com in June. She was a director
of market research at a market-research firm in Washington, D.C., but wanted to move to a warmer
climate. Within two weeks she received seven interview invitations, including one with Cunningham
Field & Research Service Inc. in Ormond, Fla. The firm hired her in July as a manager of market
research in its Miami office. By switching jobs, her salary increased about 30%, she says.
Ms. McNeill says she also used the Marketing Research Association's Web site, mra-net.org. About
two to four new market-research jobs are added weekly, and 20 to 25 jobs from entry to senior level
are typically listed, says Sara Howe, editorial assistant for the group in Rocky Hill, Conn. The site
charges $25 to post a resume, but there's no fee to list a brief ad describing the type of job you're
seeking and how you can be reached.
For jobs in database, interactive and direct marketing, log onto the-dma.org/jobbank from the Direct
Marketing Association. About 100 new jobs are added monthly and the site averages 150 jobs. Search
among 37 career fields, including business/planning development, interactive media and
merchandising. Advertisers include companies, nonprofits and executive-search firms, according to
Stephanie Hendricks, director of public affairs for the New York-based trade group. The site also lists
contact information for executive-search firms that specialize in direct marketing.
The Marketing Career Network, an alliance of trade and professional associations for marketers,
powers job boards for its nine members' Web sites, including the American Marketing Association's
marketingpower.com. The same jobs are on each site, where about 35 new postings are added daily
and around 325 are generally listed, reports Peter DeLegge, principal at MarketingHire.com, a job
board in the Marketing Career Network from online trade magazine "Marketing Today." A variety of
marketing jobs from entry to senior level are listed and they pay $30,000 to $200,000 in annual salary.
Jobs from clients of executive-search firm Crandall Associates Inc. are listed at
crandallassociates.com. Up to 10 new jobs are added once every two weeks and 20 jobs are typically
listed. Most are senior and midlevel, paying $50,000 to $250,000 in annual salary, says Wendy
Weber, president of the New York-based recruiter. Common jobs listed are circulation director, vice
president of marketing and database manager, she adds. Job hunters who register with the site by
completing a brief profile and submitting a resume at no cost receive a free copy of the firm's annual
direct-marketing and telesales salary guide usually sold for $45.
Marketing jobs at public-accounting firms are listed at the Association for Accounting Marketing's
Web site, accountingmarketing.org. One new job is added daily, and 10 to 20 jobs are listed on
average. They range from entry to senior level and pay $30,000 to $150,000 or more, says Ashley
Mercurio, membership coordinator for the Kansas City, Mo.-based trade group. Membership is
required and costs $250 annually.
Bankers Bank on These Sites
Job-hunting bankers can invest their search efforts in a number of sites catering to their industry.
For positions at banks of all types, as well as service providers such as brokerages and credit-card
issuers, check out BankJobs.com. Between 50 and 100 new jobs are added weekly and about 1,000
jobs from entry to senior level are typically listed. They pay annual salaries ranging from $30,000 to
$200,000, though most positions fall into the $50,000-to-$100,000 range, reports Shannon Austin, co-
founder of the Brentwood, Tenn., job board. The most common positions listed are branch manager,
mortgage banker and private banker, she adds.
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A broad range of opportunities for banking
Bankers' Salaries professionals also are listed at BankJobSearch.com, a
job board from BAI, a financial-services-industry
For a snapshot of compensation for training and research company based in Chicago.
bankers, see CareerJournal.com's Pay Table. During a recent visit we found 184 jobs from more than
25 employers including banks, credit unions, insurance
companies and credit-card issuers.
The online home for American Banker, a daily trade newspaper, carries postings mostly for senior
executives. Since it began listing jobs in January, the site has added one to two new ads daily, and it
averages eight jobs. They pay a minimum of $70,000 in annual salary, according to JoAnne Kao,
classified account manager for the New York-based publication from SourceMedia Inc. Advertisers
include retail, commercial and private banks as well as executive-search firms.
To find credit-card related jobs, log onto creditcardjobs.net. Up to 25 new jobs are added daily and the
site typically lists 75 to 100 jobs. Search among nine specialties including debit cards, merchant
services and transaction processing, plus more than 40 career fields such as compliance, database
management, fraud control and bankruptcy. Advertisers are mostly retail banks and credit-card
companies, plus some commercial banks. Jobs range from entry to senior level and pay $20,000 to
$200,000 in annual salary, according to Mike Burgess, president of the year-old Norcross, Ga.-based
board.
Commercial banks are the majority advertisers at iHireBanking.com, and positions most frequently
posted are for loan specialists. Up to five new jobs are listed daily and about 125 are generally posted.
Jobs range from entry to senior level and pay $20,000 to $300,000 in annual salary, says Don
MacFadyen, general manager of the board, which is part of iHire LLC, a network of job sites based in
Angola, Ind. The site offers a free resume-blasting service to employers in your area.
Web sites for many national and state banking associations advertise jobs. For example, America's
Community Bankers, a national trade association, typically lists two to four jobs at acbankers.org.
They're posted by the group's more than 1,000 members, which include savings banks, savings and
loan associations, cooperative banks and commercial banks, plus about 200 affiliates, which are
companies that provide services to its members. Jobs range from entry to senior level, reports Jim
Eberle, vice president of public relations for the Washington, D.C.-based association.
Members of the Georgia Bankers Association list up to five new jobs a week at gabankers.com. They
include banks, thrifts and related employers in Georgia. Ten to 20 jobs from entry to senior level are
generally listed, with lending positions being the most common, says Joe Brannen, president of the
Atlanta-based group.
The American Banking Association also advertises jobs at aba.com, but not all postings are for
banking positions. The site's job bank is powered by CareerBank.com, a Rockville, Md.-based board
for finance and accounting professionals, and the same jobs are listed at both sites. Ditto for the jobs
listed at New York Bankers Association's Web site, NYBA.com.
Toting Up Sites for Accountants
When you start looking, the number of sites cater to job-hunting accountants can add up. Here's a
roundup of the ones we found worth noting.
You'll find a wide variety of opportunities at iHireAccounting.com, where six to 10 new jobs are
added daily and about 250 postings from entry to senior level are generally listed. You must submit a
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resume to access the ads and complete a brief assessment form to apply for jobs, which pay annual
salaries from $20,000 to $500,000, says Don MacFadyen, general manager of the board, which is part
of iHire LLC, a network of job sites based in Angola, Ind. Advertisers include small and midsize
corporations, public-accounting firms and government agencies. The site offers a free resume-blasting
service to employers in your area, plus telephone support weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Accounting jobs at corporations make up the bulk of the

Accountants' Salaries listings at Accounting.com. Twenty to 30 new jobs are
listed daily and the site averages 1,000 jobs from entry
For a snapshot of compensation for to senior level at any given time. They pay annual
accountants, see CareerJournal.com's Pay salaries ranging from $20,000 to $300,000, reports Ryan
Table. Cahill, founder and president of the Stewart, Fla., site.
Tax accountants might want to visit TaxTalent.com, which lists jobs in 15 categories. About five new
jobs are added daily and between 200 and 250 jobs are typically posted. Advertisers are corporations,
plus some government agencies. Jobs pay between $50,000 and $250,000 in annual salary, says Tony
Santiago, president of the Mount Pleasant, S.C.-based job site. Its meaty customized ads distinguish
this site from others like it. They describe in detail daily responsibilities, attire requirements,
advancement opportunities, benefits and other employee perks, such as food-service facilities.
Have your heart set on working in a specific location? Localaccountingjobs.com lists opportunities in
the following metros areas: Boston, Cleveland, Detroit, Atlanta, Columbus, Ohio, Cincinnati/Dayton,
Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Up to 25 new jobs are posted daily and the
site generally lists about 200 jobs. Advertisers are corporations and public-accounting firms. Jobs
range from entry to senior level and pay $50,000 to $90,000 in annual salary, says Randy Samsel,
president of the Beachwood, Ohio-based job board. The most common listings are for internal
auditors, public accountants and controllers, he adds.
Accountants in the Washington, D.C., area may be interested in dcaccountingjobs.com. Three to five
jobs are added daily and about 50 to 100 positions are generally listed. They range from entry to
senior level and pay between $35,000 and $150,000 in annual salary. You can search by county for
postings from more than 250 local employers, including corporations and public-accounting firms,
reports Kevin Kelly, partner of the McLean, Va.-based job board. A standout feature of this site is its
resume-posting service, which allows users to upload photos and insert Web coding, a plus for job
hunters hoping to make their resumes pop with graphics, colors or fonts.
CareerBank.com is the hub of a network of more than 2,000 related sites for accounting and banking
and finance professionals. Between 15,000 and 20,000 jobs are typically posted, which pay from
$40,000 to $300,000 in annual salary, according to Robert Epstein, co-founder of CareerBank, which
is based in Rockville, Md. Among the sites in the network is forensicaccountingjobs.com, which
carries the same ads as CareerBank.com. During a recent visit we found 170 jobs listed that match the
keyword "forensic" at both sites.
Want to teach accounting at a college or university? The American Accounting Association in

Sarasota, Fla., lists jobs in accounting education at its Web site, aaahq.org. About five to 10 new jobs
are added daily, says Deirdre Harris, an administrative services subcontractor for the accounting
education, research and practice nonprofit. During a recent visit we found more than 250 jobs listed in
such specialties as auditing, cost accounting and government accounting.
Getting Your Foot in the Door at Defense Contractors
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Defense companies are clamoring for candidates with security clearances, but these door-openers are
hard for most job hunters to come by. Here's a rundown of sites devoted to postings at defense
contractors, most with ads open to applicants without these special government clearances.
DefenseJobsBlog.com carries only openings that don't require security clearance. The blog links to
posts for senior-level defense-company jobs from other employment sites. About 20 new positions are
listed daily and 40 to 60 jobs are posted on average. They pay annual salaries from $50,000 to
$110,000, reports Jason Gorham, chief executive officer of Careermetasearch.com, which publishes
the blog. The Lake Worth, Fla., firm also publishes SecurityClearanceJobsBlog.com, which posts
similar jobs that do require security clearance, says Mr. Gorham.
Intelligence and surveillance pros, engineers, systems analysts and linguists can check out
IntelligenceCareers.com. About 80% of the site's jobs don't require security clearance, reports Bill
Golden, chief executive officer of the site's publisher, Intelligence Careers Inc. in Prince William, Va.
About 800 new posts are added daily. Advertisers are mostly private-sector employers, nonprofits and
executive-search firms.
The National Defense Industrial Association publishes a job bank at defensejobs.com. Advertisers are
primarily defense contractors, but you can find postings from government agencies and academic
institutions. Approximately half of the jobs require security clearances, says Thomas Nordby, assistant
vice president of business operations at the industry association, which is based in Arlington, Va. Up
to 10 new positions are listed weekly, and around 70 jobs typically are posted. They include only mid-
and senior-level posts and pay between $60,000 and $200,000 in annual salary, he says. The site also
features a calendar that lists the six to seven job fairs that the association hosts annually nationwide.
DefenseTalent.com supplies the postings for the career pages of a network of 26 defense-industry-
related Web sites. About 85% of the positions listed require security clearances. They're advertised by
mostly defense contractors and aerospace and homeland-security companies. Between 100 and 200
new jobs are added daily, and the site averages 2,000 positions from entry to senior level. Annual
salaries range from $40,000 to $150,000, though the average salary offered to candidates is $115,000,
says Dave Germond, chief executive officer of the Riverview, Fla.-based job board.
Among the sites in the network is RFcafe.com, a site for radio-frequency (RF), wireless, science and
engineering professionals. Its message board offers additional job postings. Executive recruiters and
corporate human-resources managers post one to two new jobs there weekly, some requiring security
clearances, says Kirt Blattenberger, an RF system and circuit-design engineer who co-publishes the
site with his wife Melanie in Kernersville, N.C.
Those who have security clearances will find plenty of ads on ClearedConnections.com and
ClearanceJobs.com. ClearedConnections posts jobs from only classified government contractors
requiring security clearances for employment. Twenty to 100 new positions are added daily and about
1,000 positions usually are listed. An additional 30,000 to 50,000 jobs that the Reston, Va.-based site
is trying to fill aren't listed for security purposes, says Robert Esti, site's founder and president. To be
considered for these opportunities, post your resume through the site's secure submission function, he
says.
ClearanceJobs is a site from the information-technology job board Dice.com that targets IT and
engineering professionals with security clearances. About 2,500 new positions are added monthly, and
1,500 jobs are listed on average, reports Evan Lesser, co-founder and director of the site, which is
based in Urbandale, Iowa. The jobs, from entry to senior level, pay annual salaries ranging from
$30,000 to $200,000. Government contractors post the majority of jobs, with the remainder from
federal agencies, executive-search firms, private companies, nonprofits and academic institutions. The
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site also provides free resume critiquing from certified resume writers who will post your resume on
the site for you.
Finally, we found the most positions by far listed at the Web site of the U.S. Department of Defense,
dod.jobsearch.org. During a recent visit, a search of all jobs in the U.S. produced more than 35,000
results. Jobs from entry to senior level are in more than 40 career fields, including health care, law,
sales, finance and transportation.
Where Wall-Street Pros Test the Market for Their Skills
As the bull market in the financial-services industry continues to run, a variety of sites are recruiting
employees.
For a broad range of opportunities from entry to senior level, check out eFinancialCareers.com.
(eFinancialCareers.com is a partner of CareerJournal.com.) About 200 new jobs are posted daily in
more than 30 categories, including asset management, trading, hedge funds, equities and derivatives.
Around 5,000 positions are typically posted, about half in the U.S. and the remainder mostly in
Europe, according to Ian Brown, editor of the London-based site, part of the Financial News group of
companies, which also publishes Financial News, a weekly industry newspaper.
Omar Merhom, 24, used eFinancialCareers.com, when he began job hunting in January after deciding
to switch to a career in financial services, he says. Within two days of applying for a senior-specialist
job posted on the site, he was invited on the first of five interviews at Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. In
March the New York investment bank hired him into its liquidity and risk-management division. He
says his salary increased about 20% over his previous pay in his former job as a business-analyst at
human-resources consulting firm Hewitt Associates Inc.
For jobs in quantitative analytics and trading, financial

Wall Street Professionals' engineering and risk management, bookmark
Salaries QUANTster.com. Since launching in May, about 40
new positions in these specialties from entry to senior
For a snapshot of compensation for level have been added weekly, reports Jim Varriale,
financial-services professionals, see publisher of the New York-based site. Most require
CareerJournal.com's Pay Table. advanced degrees and pay annual salaries of $100,000
or more. You can complete an anonymous profile for
distribution to the site's members, which include top search firms and financial-services companies, he
says. The site will email you if an employer requests your resume.
To locate jobs across the globe, log onto roberthalf.net, where Menlo Park, Calif.-based staffing firm
Robert Half International Inc. links to its divisions which fill jobs in 11 countries. Common financial-
services positions posted include business analyst, hedge-fund administrator, mutual-fund manager
and foreign-exchange specialist. Jobs pay annual salaries ranging from $40,000 to more than
$200,000, says Michael Weiss, public-relations manager for Robert Half's U.S. division.
If you're targeting the kind of senior-level positions that recruiters fill, you'll find them at banking-
financejobs.com, a job board from The National Banking & Financial Services Network, a group of
65 search firms that specialize in financial services. Ten to 50 new jobs are listed every Monday, and
the site averages about 400 jobs, reports Bob Cozzens, chief executive officer of the Virginia Beach,
Va.-based group. Most ads are not posted anywhere else, he says, and jobs pay an average annual base
salary of $92,000.
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Like many industry associations, the Securities Industry Association has an online job bank, making
SIA.com a good stop for job hunters. The site lists jobs from more than 300 broker-dealer and
securities firms. About five new positions are posted weekly, says Phyllis Cassar, vice president,
director of Internet services for SIA. About 100 jobs are listed at any given time, she adds.
For branch-level sales and sales-support personnel, including registered reps, operations and other
securities pros, there's BrokerHunter.com. About 30 new jobs are added daily, reports Steve
Testerman, president of the Atlanta-based job board. More than 2,000 positions from entry to senior
level generally are listed, and most pay commission-based salaries, he says. Advertisers include about
400 financial-services companies and a dozen search firms.
The CFA Institute's Web site, CFAinstitute.org, lists seven to 15 new jobs daily for chartered financial
analysts. Positions most frequently posted include equity analyst, equity researcher and portfolio
manager, according to Charles Deale, head of society services for the Charlottesville, Va.-based
organization. More than 275 jobs from entry to senior level typically are posted, and they pay from
$40,000 to $350,000 or more in annual salary, he says. Free access to the listings is restricted to
members, but pending members can view the jobs for fees ranging from $47 for three months to $147
for a year. (Financial analysts must pass an exam and fulfill other requirements to become a CFA
member.)
To target jobs at hedge-fund companies, log onto the Web site for Hedge Fund Intelligence LLC, a
London-based publisher of four industry newsletters. During a recent visit we found 10 jobs listed in
various locations world-wide.
Where Solo Writers Go Online to Find Assignments
Whether you're an established writer or just starting a writing career, you'll find an array of Web sites
advertising free-lance writing opportunities.
Eric Strauss, a 34-year-old audio-production professional in San Diego, says he started subscribing to
Freelance Daily in January to find writing jobs to supplement his income. Mr. Strauss, who says he
had no prior professional writing experience, says he's landed three so far, earning about $300 per
assignment.
Freelance Daily, an e-newsletter, lists 30 to 40 new jobs in each issue, publishing Monday through
Friday, says Boston writer Dave Copeland, its publisher. Assignments come from magazines,
newspapers, Web sites and corporations and range in pay from $10 to $75 an hour, or 10 cents to $3 a
word. Annual subscriptions cost $29.95.
FreelanceWriting.com lists 30 to 40 new free-lance jobs daily, according to the site's publisher, Brian
Konradt, a free-lance journalist in Surfside, Calif. On Tuesdays, the site links to an additional 20 to 30
ads from other job boards. Its writing jobs typically pay from 10 cents to $1.50 a word, and editing
jobs average $15 to $25 an hour, he says. You can post a profile describing your expertise, education
and experience for employers to review.
To target free-lance jobs at magazines and book publishers, log onto WritersWeekly.com, which
profiles opportunities from six employers a week. You'll learn about their free-lance editorial needs,
pay rates, contact information, circulation figures, response time and other details, says Angela Hoy,
publisher of the Bangor, Maine-based career-services provider. Its free weekly e-newsletter offers
links to 10 to 20 ads for free-lance writing and editing jobs recently posted on other job sites.
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Guru.com, a site for soloists of all stripes, has plenty to offer writers. About 30 new jobs are added
every day to its writing, editing and translation section, which has more than 300 jobs at any given
time. These range in pay between $50 and $10,000, says Inder Guglani, chief executive and founder
of the site, which is based in Pittsburgh. Registration is free, but you must specify your location and
skills. You'll be able to access ads from employers seeking applicants with your skills or in your
location, but to view the full range of postings in a given category, you'll need to pay for a
subscription. The editorial section costs $75 for three months or $150 for a year. Following the
completion of any assignment you land through the site, you'll be charged a fee: 5% of your payment
for subscribers; 10% for nonsubscribers.
Writing and translation jobs are among the categories at elance.com from Elance Inc., a software
company in Mountain View, Calif. A recent visit turned up about 200 jobs in this category.
Membership is required, and fees vary, depending on the category and type of subscription you
choose.
The majority of jobs at tjobs.com, a job site catering to telecommuters, are free-lance assignments, and
about 20 to 30 new writing and editing jobs are listed daily, according to publisher Sol Levine in
Mundelein, Ill. Annual membership is $15.
Some job boards geared to full timers also offer services and postings for independents. For example,
mediabistro.com, a New York-based job site, has a "Freelance Marketplace" that lets free-lancers list
their expertise and showcase work samples. A recent visit found about 20 free-lance job postings.
A recent search for free-lance opportunities at JournalismJobs.com, which is operated in partnership

with Columbia Journalism Review magazine, produced more than 25 listings. Advertisers include
Web-site, newspaper, magazine and newsletter publishers, as well as radio and TV stations,
nonprofits, educational institutions and public-relations firms.
Another site to check out is JournalismNext.com, a Bethesda, Md.-based job site for minority media
pros founded by former Washington Post reporter, Eric Wee. Our search turned up about 20 free-lance
writing and editing jobs.
Counsel for Legal Pros Seeking New Career Opportunities
Looking to raise the bar on your job search? An assortment of Web sites list career opportunities for
legal professionals.
Case in point: AttorneyJobs.com posts jobs from a wide

Lawyers' Pay range of employers. About 1,000 new positions are
listed weekly, and more than 6,000 jobs typically are
For a snapshot of compensation for posted at any given time, reports Richard Hermann,
corporate lawyers, see CareerJournal.com's president of Federal Reports Inc., the site's Washington,
Pay Table. D.C., publisher. Most advertising employers prefer
applicants with law degrees. Jobs span a pay range from
$35,000 to $300,000 annually, he says. One feature that sets this site apart is that its ads for
government jobs include the ability to download the application forms that these positions commonly
require, saving you the trouble of hunting them down on your own.
Tired of being an attorney? In addition to traditional lawyer jobs, EmplawyerNet.com offers postings
for a range of other positions that require legal backgrounds. About 500 new positions are added daily
to its database of approximately 4,000 jobs. Membership is $14.95 a month for lawyers and $7.95 a
month for law students. Discounts are available to alumni and students of more than 100 law schools,
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says William G. Seaton, president and chief executive officer of the Los-Angeles-based career-
services provider. About 200 new jobs a day are accessible to nonmembers, he adds. Members also
can network with one another through the site and start specialty email lists. Another perk is its list of
recruiters who specialize in lawyer placement and their contact information.
Laura Maechtlen, 29, found her first two jobs after graduating from Boston University School of Law
in 2002 through Emplawyernet.com. She used the site to find her current job as an associate attorney,
joining an international law firm that specializes in labor and employment law in April. She earns an
annual salary in the mid-$100,000 range, she says.
LawyersWeeklyJobs.com might be a good resource when you're on the move. The Web site combines
job ads from legal newspapers in Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Virginia and Rhode Island, as well as a national paper. An average of 500 new jobs from entry to
senior level is listed every Friday, says Scott Ziegler, advertising director for Lawyers Weekly Inc. in
Boston. Advertisers are executive recruiters, law firms, corporations, nonprofits, educational
institutions and other employers.
If you're interested solely in jobs at law firms, that's what you'll find at HeadHunt.com, from The
Counsel Network, a Vancouver-based search firm. Postings are for jobs in both Canada and the U.S.
Five to 10 new positions are added weekly, ranging in annual salary from $75,000 to $100,000 for
junior associates to more than $1 million for senior partners, says Warren Smith, a recruitment
consultant at the Counsel Network. Call the firm at 1-800-COUNSEL for a free career consultation.
Those who specialize in intellectual-property and Internet-related law can check out
techlawadvisor.com/jobs. Attorney Kevin Heller in Marlton, N.J., began posting jobs on his blog in
January and posts two to five leads a week that he learns about from recruiters in his personal
network. He also links to employment ads he finds online. He says job hunters are welcome to post
brief profiles about themselves for employers to review as well as share job leads by emailing
techlawadvisor@gmail.com.
Targeting senior-level corporate-law jobs? The Web site for Corporate Legal Times, a monthly
magazine based in Chicago, posts two new jobs a month and about 25 in all are posted on average,
according Robert Vosper, the publication's executive editor.
More Job Boards for Lawyers
Some job sites list thousands of positions for law professionals. Among them is lawcrossing.com from
Juriscape, a career-services company in Pasadena, Calif. The site carries ads for more than 78,000 law
jobs, including more than 11,000 added in the past week. Monthly access to the database is $19.95.
At eattorney.com, more than 3,000 jobs for attorneys and law students are listed. The site is from
LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, a client-development company for law firms in New Providence, N.J.
You'll find about 2,500 law jobs posted on lawjobs.com, a job board from media company ALM in
New York. (Lawjobs.com is a partner of CareerJournal.com.) Also listed are more than 54,000 law-
related job ads from a variety of sources on the Internet.
Where New Positions for M.B.A.s Are Advertised Online
A host of career sites are targeting job hunters with master's degrees in business administration
(M.B.A.). Proof of graduation or current enrollment isn't required at the ones we visited.
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To find mostly senior-level contract positions paying between $85 and $200 an hour, fill out a
member profile at MBAGlobalnet.com, an online career-services provider in New York. You'll
receive a monthly e-newsletter listing three to 10 jobs, including some full-time positions paying
$100,000 to $200,000 in annual base salary, says founder and CEO Rob Steir. You'll also be notified
immediately by email about openings that closely match your background. Most jobs are in the U.S.,
despite the site's name.
Mr. Steir, a 1991 graduate of Northwestern University's

M.B.A.s' Salaries Kellogg School of Business and a former online-
marketing professional, says he secures leads from
For a snapshot of compensation for company recruiters in his personal network. The leads
M.B.A.s, see CareerJournal.com's Pay do not disclose company names or contact information.
Table. To apply for positions, you must email your resume to
MBAGlobalnet.com, where it will be screened for
relevancy before being forwarded to employers.
Dimitri Costopoulos, 58, landed a year-long consulting position in April at a large consulting firm in
Minneapolis through MBAGlobal.net. It was the first job he'd applied to since signing up for the
service about a year earlier. A 1983 M.B.A. graduate of New York University's Stern School of
Business, Mr. Costopoulos says he earns between $80 and $120 an hour and that the job could become
permanent. Previously, he held temporary consulting jobs in New York.
At MBACareers.com, you can search for jobs from entry to senior level, including ones that don't
require M.B.A.s. Anywhere from 50 to 1,000 new positions are added a week, according to Lisa
MacKenzie, marketing director for the site, which is published by Career Exposure Network in
Portland, Ore. Between 500 and 1,000 jobs are listed at any given time in more than 25 industries and
40 career fields, she adds. Store up to five resumes and cover letters as well as save jobs that interest
you in an online folder.
For jobs overseas, check out MBA-Exchange.com, where about 80% of postings are for jobs outside
the U.S., reports Bilal Ojjeh, founder and chief executive officer of Internet Exchange SA, a Geneva-
based Internet company that publishes the site. About 500 new jobs are posted a month, and at any
given time there are around 1,500 jobs listed ranging in annual base salary from $80,000 to $200,000,
he says. Some postings are accessible only by job hunters who identify themselves as students or
alumni of business schools that employers choose to accept applications from. Store up to five
resumes and read profiles describing several of the more than 800 employers that post jobs there.
The National Society of Hispanic M.B.A.s lists about 150 to 200 new jobs a month at its Web site,
NSHMBA.org, according to Ana Herrera-Malone, marketing and development director at the Irving,
Texas-based nonprofit association. More than 500 jobs are listed at any given time for entry level to
senior positions, she reports. To access the listings, you must become a member, which costs from $20
to $60 a year, and includes discounts to networking events and a two-year subscription to Latina
Magazine, among other benefits.
Jobs are also listed at the Web site for the Chicago-based National Black M.B.A. Association,
NBMBAA.org. During a recent visit we found more than 1,000 jobs listed, from internships to senior
level, in 20 career fields including accounting, engineering, human resources, legal and health care.
Sites for Women, But Men Are Welcome on Most, Too
You don't need to be a member of the fair sex to take advantage of the numerous job boards and
networking sites popping up for women. Most of the ones we found say they also welcome men.
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WomensJobSearch.net posts about 10 to 20 positions a week, according to Brian Kirk, managing
partner of LC Kirk & Co., an executive-search firm in St. Louis, which runs the site. Though the firm
specializes in financial-services recruiting, the site lists about 5,000 jobs at any given time in a range
of industries. Jobs are from entry to senior level, paying $25,000 to $200,000 or more in annual salary,
he says.
You can post your resume at no cost, but there's a charge to have yours listed among those at the top
of search results. Fees start at $5.99; the more you pay, the higher it will be listed. Men can post their
resume and apply to jobs.
Love sports? WomenSportsJobs.com lists more than 1,000 ads for mostly mid- and entry-level jobs.
About 100 are added a week, according to Becky Heidesch, chief executive officer of the site's parent
company, Women's Sports Services LLC, a career-services organization for women in the sports
industry and related fields in Huntington Beach, Calif. Advertisers are sports-related companies and
employers seeking women applicants with an interest in sports, she says. Membership, required to
search postings, is also open to men. It costs $99 a year, which includes career counseling and
discounts to in-person networking events.
For sports-related jobs at the mid- to senior level, visit WISCNetwork.com, which Women's Sports
Services launched earlier this month. About 1,500 jobs are already on the site, some also posted on
WomenSportsJobs.com. About 150 to 200 new positions are added weekly, says Ms. Heidesch.
Annual membership for the service is $129. Men are welcome to join.
For jobs at colleges and universities, check out the Web site for the National Women's Studies
Association, NWSA.org. Jobs are not limited to women studies, and you need not be a woman to
apply. Six to eight new jobs are added a month and the site typically lists about 20 to 25 in all, says
Allison Kimmich, executive director of the College Park, Md.-based nonprofit. Jobs are from entry to
senior level and typically pay between $35,000 and $70,000 in annual salary, she adds.
DCWeb Women, a professional organization in Washington, D.C., for women interested in new
media, is the sole women-only site that our search for popular women-oriented job boards turned up.
Its online registration relies on the "honor system," says Mary Fumento, its president. (Applications
with masculine-sounding names get a follow-up email, she says.) Its Web site, DCWebWomen.org,
hosts a free list serve with one to two leads a day for jobs in new media at companies nationwide,
among other information. Members receive emails when new information is posted or in a daily
digest.
Michelle Hoffman, 39, learned about her job as a recruiter at the Washington, D.C., office of The
Randstad Group, an international staffing firm, through the list serve two years ago. Since then, she's
used it to recruit more than 20 women into full-time and contract jobs in new media.
For additional job sites catering to women, check out past blog entries for diversity, consulting and
human-resources sites.
Where Consultants Can Look Online for New Gigs
As the job market for consultants rebounds, job hunters will find a host of sites that offer a mix of ads
for both contract work and full-time jobs at consulting firms.
You don't have to be a woman to swap job leads and other tips on Women in Consulting's email
discussion list. Membership isn't required, and you can receive emails when new information is posted
or in a daily digest. Most jobs are for contract positions, from entry to senior level, says Deborah
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Henken, president of the San Francisco Bay area nonprofit. Subscribe to the list by sending a blank
email to wic-community-subscribe@womeninconsulting.org.
Tracey Jones, 36, subscribed in March 2004 and six

Consultants' Salaries months later applied to a temporary job she saw posted
there. She was soon hired as strategic lead-generation
For a snapshot of compensation for program manager at Azerity, a Web-based software
consultants, see CareerJournal.com's Pay provider in Milpitas, Calif. She's now renegotiating her
Table. contract for a year, which she says she expects to
include a substantial increase in her annual base pay,
which is between $75,000 and $100,000.
Among the niche sites for consulting jobs our research turned up, Top-Consultant.com had the most
listings. More than 550 jobs were listed, about a third based in the U.S., with the rest mostly in the
U.K., according to Paul Chantry, co-founder of Zambeasy.com Ltd., a London Web publisher which
produces the site. About 20 to 30 new positions from entry to senior level are added daily, and
advertisers are employers of all sizes in more than 20 industries. Jobs pay $30,000 to $300,000 in
annual base salary, says Mr. Chantry.
You also can submit your resume for review by 10 executive-search firms, which are partners of
Zambeasy. You'll be contacted if your background suits any jobs they're filling, many of which are not
advertised on the site, notes Mr. Chantry.
Consulting Magazine, a bimonthly publication from Kennedy Information Inc. in Peterborough, N.H.,
typically posts more than 60 job ads on its Web site, consultingmag.com. About eight new positions
are added weekly and most target senior consulting pros for jobs paying annual base salaries of
$100,000 or more, says Brian Cuthbert, the magazine's associate publisher.
There's no search function; you must scroll through a list of employers and click on their logos to
learn about current openings. Icons flag the firms that Consulting Magazine named as being the best to
work for.
The Association of Management Consulting Firms had six consulting jobs posted at its Web site,
amcf.org, when we recently checked it. One to two new jobs in the $100,000 annual salary range are
added every month, says Betsy Kovacs, president of the New York-based nonprofit. Most aren't
advertised elsewhere, she adds.
Online Leads for High-Paying Positions
Job hunters after high-paying positions will find several sites ready to supply leads -- but unlike most
job boards, the majority charge their customers money to use them.
Among them is TheLadders.com, posting only jobs with annual base salaries of $100,000 or more. To
search the listings, you must sign up for membership, which starts at $25 a month and includes a
weekly e-newsletter on job hunting. Annual subscribers also receive a 15-minute resume consultation
by phone. About 5,000 new positions are listed every Monday, and there are about 40,000 jobs in all,
says Marc Cenedella, president and chief executive officer of the New York-based job board. Postings
are taken down after eight weeks, he says. For a preview, the site provides free access to 2,000 job
postings that are two-weeks old.
Netshare.com, an executive-networking organization based in Novato, Calif., also sets a $100,000

minimum base salary on the jobs it will publish. Membership in Netshare, which is a business partner
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of CareerJournal.com, runs from $37.50 a month to $395 annually. Members also have access to
networking forums, in which job leads and other tips are swapped via list serve. The site adds about
75 to 100 new positions daily, says Kathy Simmons, Netshare's chief executive officer.
In October 2004, Joe Capes, 38, landed a job he learned about from a former co-worker he contacted
through Netshare's marketing-and-sales forum. Mr. Capes was director of business development at
Northeast Engineers & Consultants Inc., a civil-engineering and construction-management company
in Middletown, R.I., but wanted a higher-paying job with more responsibility. His former colleague
had been contacted by a recruiter for a job that didn't suit him, so he told the recruiter and Mr. Capes
about each other. The recruiter agreed to forward Mr. Capes's resume. Soon after, he was invited to
interview for the job -- vice president of sales and marketing at Premium Power Corp. in North
Andover, Mass. He was subsequently hired, and his salary increased by more than 50%, he says.
ExecuNet.com, another executive-networking organization with online and offline forums, also has a
site that offers job listings for professionals at the $100,000 and above annual-income level.
Membership starts at $39 a month and includes a resume critique.
You won't have to pay to use 6FigureJobs.com, another site that advertises jobs paying an annual base
salary and bonus of at least $100,000, but you do need to be a member. While membership is free, it's
open only to those who complete an application that shows they have previously earned at least
$100,000 a year and have six or more years of professional work experience, says Steve Purello,
general manager at the site's publisher Workstream Inc., a provider of human-resources-management
software in Ottawa.
About half of the postings at 6FigureJobs.com cite a preference for candidates who have had their
credentials verified by a background-check company, says Mr. Purello. Verifications Inc. in
Minneapolis, a partner of 6FigureJobs.com, offers background certification starting at $70. If your
resume is certified by Verifications, when you apply for positions through the site, it will be marked
with a gold seal, alerting employers that your background has checked out. Employers also will see
the seal in the list of search results they get when they search the site's resume database. Job hunters
using other background-check services can refer employers to their background-check results on their
resume but won't have the gold seal.
For jobs in the $70,000-plus annual base salary range, check out ExecutivesOnly.com, a job board
published in Warwick, R.I. Choose from subscription rates ranging from $160 for three months to
$290 for a year. Most deals include a resume critique and career analysis by phone. Annual
subscribers also can have their resumes distributed to up to 100 executive-search firms that post jobs
on the site.
Sarbanes-Oxley Experts Should Investigate These Sites
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) has been a boon for professionals skilled in financial auditing
and reporting. And so, too, for Web sites recruiting these job candidates.
Among them is insideSarbanesOxley.com, a year-old Web site published in Portland, Ore. Employers
and executive-search firms post about five to 10 new jobs a week at its discussions board, according to
co-publisher Toby Lucich, a business-controls manager at an energy company. You'll also find links
to ads for jobs at other job boards. They're mostly in the U.S., from entry to senior level, and pay
annual salaries between $50,000 and $100,000, says Mr. Lucich.
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Seasoned SOX pros seeking jobs in the Houston area
Sarbanes Oxley Pros' Salaries should check out the Web site of recruiter Eastman
Consulting Group, which lists jobs from its mainly
For a snapshot of compensation for Houston-based clients at its Web site. More than half of
Sarbanes Oxley pros, see postings are for mid- to senior-level positions requiring
CareerJournal.com's Pay Table. SOX experience and paying between $40,000 and
$225,000 in annual salary, according to Mike Eastman,
chief executive officer. About five to seven new jobs are posted weekly, and about 18 jobs are
currently listed.
Job hunters are invited to complete a candidate profile at the site. The firm's recruiters will contact you
if your background matches a search assignment, Mr. Eastman says.
Chris Ozment, 39, says he completed a profile in July 2004, and five months later he was invited to
interview for a job as a plant controller and purchasing manager at the Bayport, Texas, manufacturing
plant of FMC Corp., a chemical company based in Philadelphia. He got the job, leaving a position as a
senior financial analyst at NALCO Chemical in Houston where he'd gained SOX experience, he says.
Members of the Sarbanes-Oxley Discussion Group, a free online-networking forum, swap job leads
through an email list hosted by Yahoo! Inc., along with other information. Sign up to receive
messages as they are posted or one daily email. Most are leads for mid- to senior-level positions in the
$65,000 to $120,000 salary range, says Sanjay Anand, the group's chairman. About 20 to 40 messages
are posted monthly, he says. The forum is sponsored by The Sarbanes-Oxley Group, a training,
certification and networking organization based in Clifton, N.J.
SOX-related jobs also can be found at AuditProfessional.com and AccountantAuditor.net. The sites
are among the 87 accounting and finance job boards in The 4jobs.com Network in Philadelphia, a
partner of Yahoo, which supplies some of the postings. About 300 new jobs from entry to senior level
are added daily to each site, says Rich Milgram, the network's chief executive officer. Combined, the
sites list about 25,000 jobs in all.
Post your resume at either site for free -- no need to post twice since it will go into a resume database
for the whole network that employers search all at once. For a fee, you can have your resume
highlighted for 60 days and listed among the top documents in the virtual pile. (Pay $10, $20 or $30.
The more you pay, the higher yours will be listed.)
Recruiting Recruiters
Recruiters can find about 15 to 20 new jobs posted daily at erexchange.com, according to Scott Baxt,
marketing director for the Web site's publisher, Electronic Recruiting Exchange Inc. in New York.
Advertising employers are mostly corporations (versus search firms) and the jobs pay annual salaries
ranging from $50,000 to more than $100,000, he says.
Where HR Pros Hire Their Own Online
Even human-resources professionals need some help finding work. The Human Resources Network is
a group of HR pros who share leads on jobs that pay a minimum of $100,000 annually and aren't
advertised. George Crosby, a semi-retired HR consultant in Coopersville, Mich., publishes about 50 to
75 new leads in a twice-monthly e-newsletter, he says.
Membership is $160 for four months. A single-issue trial membership is $40, which is pro rated
toward membership if you join. Members are required to regularly contribute leads, says Mr. Crosby.
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WorldWIT, a Boulder, Colo.-based online networking
HR Pros' Salaries organization primarily for businesswomen, hosts free
email discussion lists for HR pros in Colorado and
For a snapshot of compensation for Illinois. Members send in job leads, which go out in a
human-resources professionals, see daily email, along with the lists' other discussion
CareerJournal.com's Pay Table. postings. (To subscribe to the Illinois list, email hril-
subscribe@topica.com, and to join the Colorado list,
email HRColo-subscribe@topica.com.)
Debra Spangler, 43, landed a job earlier this month that she learned about through WorldWIT's Illinois
list, which she joined two years ago. She began job hunting in March after her previous employer, a
home-building company, changed her executive-recruiter job. She's now manager of work-force
development at LifeSource Inc., a blood bank in Chicago, earning an annual salary in the mid-
$80,000s.
If you haven't visited SHRM.org lately, the Web site for the Society for Human Resource
Management in Alexandria, Va., check out its newly redesigned jobs section. The industry's largest
association offers more search options than most HR job sites -- certification, salary ranges, education,
industry, specialty and more. Between 75 and 100 entry to senior-level jobs are added daily (more
than 1,200 jobs are currently listed), says Nancy Benoudiz, SHRM's classified-sales manager.
To target jobs in compensation and benefits, log onto the Web site for WorldatWork, an association
based in Scottsdale, Ariz. (formerly the American Compensation Association). About three new jobs
are listed daily, and there are typically about 120 in all, says Monica Casillas, business-development
program specialist at WorldatWork. They're posted from mainly U.S.-based Fortune 1,000 companies
and search-firm recruiters. While most ads don't disclose salaries, the jobs pay between approximately
$80,000 and $120,000 a year, she says.
It's free to search the listings. WorldatWork members can post short write-ups about themselves for
employers to view. (U.S. membership is $295 a year; fees vary for members outside the U.S.)
Recruiting.com, a two-year-old blog on recruiting-industry trends, started listing corporate-recruiter

jobs earlier this month. Publisher Jason Davis, a recruiter in Toronto, learned about the half-dozen
jobs he's posted so far from recruiting pros who read his blog. He recently began soliciting job ads
from employers and hopes to post two to three new job postings a day.
If you're not actively job hunting but are interested in what's out there, you may want to fill out a
candidate profile at hrcareerpage.com, the Web site for San Diego search firm BCA Executive
Recruiters. You'll be contacted if your background matches a search assignment for one of its 20
clients, which include Fortune 500 companies, according to the site. The firm specializes in searches
at the director, vice president and manager level for generalist, organizational-development and talent-
acquisition positions.
Cutting Through Clutter to Find Government Gigs Online
If you're looking for work with the U.S. federal government, Uncle Sam wants to make sure you know
about them. All of them. And all about them. USAJOBS, a Web site from the U.S. Office of Personnel
Management in Washington, D.C., posts about 500 to 800 new openings daily, advertising about
15,000 total, says Claire Gibbons, the site's program manager. All federal agencies are required to
advertise vacancies there, although some are excluded for security purposes, she says.
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Be prepared to read -- a lot. The postings, which include salary ranges and application deadlines, are
detailed and lengthy, and many have special instructions, says Ms. Gibbons. For example, you may be
required to complete a questionnaire or write an essay to test for what's known in government-speak
as "KSAs" (knowledge, skills and abilities).
Though the volume of information in the ads can be intimidating, the site has the same search-by-
category functions and free email alerts as other job boards.
Joyce Goodale, 36, subscribes to federaljobsearch.com so she doesn't have to sift through the dense
ads at USAJOBS. Its abridged listings make it simple to find a match, she says. A subscriber since
2001, she landed the first job she applied to -- patient-services assistant at the Department of Veterans
Affairs in Manchester, N.H. -- and keeps tabs on new jobs in her field via email alerts. Subscriptions
run from $39.95 for a year to $12.95 for a month.
The site, published by software company MissionSoft in Charlottesville, Va., lets visitors view job
listings without their application instructions. Web surfers familiar with federal job postings can use
the teaser to learn about new jobs, then visit most agencies' Web sites to find the application
instructions on their own. It's also free to receive daily email job notifications.
HRSjobs.com also emails abridged federal-job announcements to its subscribers. The daily service
costs $12 for three months or $24 for a year. The job alerts, from HRS Automated Solutions Inc., a
Vienna, Va., technology-consulting firm, are email only -- the site doesn't post jobs online. (New users
can sign up for a free seven-day trial.) You'll receive job announcements that match the criteria you
choose -- up to 12 search combinations. The postings, based on information from agency Web sites,
include links to agencies' employment pages where job hunters can submit applications.
If you know which government agency you want to work for, visit federaljobs.net for a list of links to
the career centers at 142 agency Web sites. It's published by Dennis Damp, a retired airport manager
and author of "The Book of U.S. Government Jobs" (Bookhaven Press, 2005).
Where Sales Pros Can Find Good Job Leads
Browsing around the Web for a new sales job? Salesjobs.com sells job seekers on its postings by
loading them with lots of information -- much more than the typical online job ad. Postings include
such details as the size and type of employers' customers, average sales cycle and travel requirements.
They also disclose base salary, first-year earnings potential, benefits and whether a car allowance is
available. More than 60,000 mid- to senior-level jobs are posted from U.S. search firms and employers
in 29 industries, including software, entertainment, automotive and food and beverage.
When applying for jobs, you'll be asked to provide time

Sales Pros' Salaries slots for when you're available to interview, should you
be invited. Within 48 hours of applying, you'll receive
For a snapshot of compensation for an email confirming that your application was received,
sales professionals, see CareerJournal.com's with a link to the employer or search firm's Web site
Pay Table. and driving directions to its office.
There's no charge for posting a resume in a plain-text format. For $9.95 a month, you can upload your
file using the site's software, which highlights your name in bold and red. Your document also will be
listed at the top of its resume pile, at least for a while. Bear in mind that about 120,000 other job
hunters currently pay for the added exposure, according to Eric Martinez, the Newport Beach, Calif.-
based site's vice president of business development. (The site currently carries about 250,000 resumes
in all.)
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Want to work in pharmaceutical or biotechnology sales? Search firm Medical Sales Associates Inc. in
Arlington Heights, Ill., posts jobs from its U.S. clients at its site msajobs.com. Employers' names
aren't disclosed and applications are screened by the firm's recruiters. About 25 to 40 jobs are posted
on the site at any time, but "they're ones you won't find anywhere else on the Internet," says Cathy
Bialy, president of the search firm.
The firm also invites job hunters to submit their resumes to its database. Last month Ms. Bialy
searched the database by keyword for professionals with experience selling cardiovascular products.
She found Misty Moore, 31, of Little Rock, Ark., who had sent in her resume when job hunting nearly
three years earlier. Ms. Moore emailed the firm an updated copy and soon landed three interviews for
medical-sales positions. One led to an offer for a primary-care sales representative job in Mequon,
Wis., at Schwarz Pharma AG, a Germany-based pharmaceutical company. She accepted and now
earns an annual base salary of around $50,000 and is eligible for a quarterly performance-based bonus.
Ms. Moore also used MedZilla.com and recommends it for sales jobs in the biotechnology,
pharmaceutical, medicine and science fields. Nearly half of its approximately 10,000 postings are in
sales, says Frank Heasley, chief executive officer of the Marysville, Wash.-based Web site.
For sales jobs at computer and telecommunications companies, log on to technicalsalesjobsblog.com,

from CareerMetaSearch.com, a job board in Lake Worth, Fla. About 20 to 30 new jobs are posted
daily, mainly from U.S. employers, says Jason Gorham, chief executive officer. Most positions pay
from $40,000 to about $100,000 in annual base salary, plus commission, he adds.
The blog also lets job hunters post a short write-up about themselves on a page called "Technical
Sales People Looking for Work," a section similar to newspaper "Positions Wanted" ads. To post your
ad, write to info@careermetasearch.com with "sales blog" in the subject line.
Electrical Engineers Tap into These Online Resources
If you're looking for electrical-engineering jobs, blogger Chris Wright, 38, in Hampshire, England,
lists about 400 at yaps4u.net, which is short for "yet another problem solved for you." He started the
blog in October 2004 while home on medical leave from his senior systems-test-engineer job after a
waterskiing accident. He'd heard of pending layoffs at his company and, about six months later, the
rumor became reality. Meanwhile, he'd been searching for jobs, but hasn't applied to any, since
upcoming back surgery could keep him off his feet for months. He admits to holding back ads he's
interested in, but each week he adds about 20 new jobs from employers world-wide, including the
U.S. There's no search function and the newest postings are listed first.
Mr. Wright secures job leads from six search-firm

Electrical Engineers' Salaries recruiters with whom he's developed relationships
during his 20 years in electrical engineering. They don't
For a snapshot of compensation for disclose their clients' names, but do list salaries, which
electrical engineers, see CareerJournal.com's range from £35,000 to £60,000, he says.
Pay Table.
Electrical Jobs, another blog launched in October 2004,
features jobs from mainly U.S. employers and search firms, plus links to ads for electrical engineers at
job boards such as Monster. It's published by Carolina Highlands Information Services, an
information-service company run by Patricia Michael, an engineering professional in Raleigh, N.C.
(She also publishes jobs blogs for aerospace, civil, chemical, mechanical and other engineering
disciplines.) The home page shows the 10 most recent postings, while the rest are archived by month.
Salaries range from about $35,000 for entry-level jobs to about $200,000 and higher for senior
positions.
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Electrical engineers also may want to visit ElectricalEngineer.com, a Web site from Career
Marketplace Inc., a network of job boards in Canton, Ohio. During a recent site visit, more than 400
jobs were posted. You might see titles such as spacecraft-systems engineer or lab-test engineer, but all
require electrical-engineering backgrounds, says Andrew Hammer, vice president of Career
Marketplace. About 10 to 15 new jobs are added daily, offering salaries from $40,000 to $150,000, he
says.
At interEC.NET, a job site for all types of engineers, you'll find a section dedicated to electrical
engineers. About two to three new jobs are posted daily, says Nidhi Lal, an engineer in San Francisco,
one of two volunteer publishers of the site. Posters include companies, recruiting agencies and
government institutions from all over the globe. Salaries are not listed, but jobs range in annual pay
from $50,000 for entry-level jobs to about $150,000 and higher for senior posts, he adds.
Where to Find Diversity-Minded Employers
If you want an employer that seeks diversity in hiring, consider bookmarking DiversitySearch.com.
About 1,000 mostly U.S.-based employers regularly post jobs there in 40 different career fields,
including accounting, engineering and sales. Jobs range from entry to senior level and pay annual
salaries from $20,000 to $200,000, says Eric Semon, senior account manager for the site, which is
published by Career Exposure Network Inc. in Portland, Ore.
It's free to search (by keyword, industry, location or job category) and to post your resume for
employers to view. You also can store up to three resumes and three cover letters on the site at no
cost. Other freebies include weekly e-mail alerts announcing new jobs, plus an online folder for saving
postings that interest you.
Career Exposure Network also publishes CareerWomen.com, which posts jobs from employers
seeking women applicants and offers the same free services as its sister site.
The career center at goldsea.com, a general-interest site for Asian-American professionals, posts jobs
from about 50 employers (mostly U.S.) courting this demographic. It typically carries around 1,200
job ads, from entry to senior level, says Sam Lee, associate editor of the site, which is based in
Malibu, Calif. Search jobs by employer or keyword, or choose from a list of 12 career fields.
Searching is free, as is registering for e-mail alerts announcing new jobs in categories of your choice.
To find employers that work toward women's advocacy, visit the Web site for the Feminist Majority
Foundation, a nonprofit based in Arlington, Va. Its career center lists more than 100 jobs from mostly
U.S. nonprofit organizations, such as the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence in Boston.
Search jobs by region, title or keyword and post your resume at no cost. Sign up for free e-mail job
alerts, sent on Fridays.
Karen Wolfe, 22, a 2003 graduate of the College of William & Mary, used the site to job hunt after
learning about it from fellow campus pro-choice activists. "I targeted feminist organizations and ones
that would need Web developers for their Web sites," says Ms. Wolfe, who has bachelor's degrees in
computer science and women's studies. She wound up landing a job on the site in August 2004 and is
now one of its Web developers.
For jobs in academia, check out Affirmative Action Register. More than three quarters of the
employers that post there are U.S. colleges and universities seeking a diverse pool of applicants, says
Lucy Knapp, assistant editor of the site, which is published in St. Louis, Mo. About 125 new jobs,
from entry to senior level, are added on the 20th of each month. There's no charge to review the
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database. Search jobs by state or field, including administration, faculty, librarian, engineering,
research, medical and others.
Librarians Bookmark These Sites
Where would Batgirl look for a day job? The librarian by day, superhero by night, might check out the
Web site of Library Associates, a recruiter based in Beverly Hills, Calif., that posts jobs it's filling for
clients. Visitors typically will find about 20 jobs at any given time, says Deborah Schwarz, the firm's
president. They may range from library technician to library director, and usually are at corporate,
medical, law and federal libraries in the U.S. Salaries may range from $15 an hour to $70,000 a year,
she says. Employers' names aren't revealed -- a common search-firm practice. View ads and post
resumes on the site at no charge.
Caroline Thomas, 32, of Arlington, Va., says she posted

Librarians' Salaries her resume on the site in August 2004 after being laid
off from a cataloging job at Folger Shakespeare Library
For a snapshot of compensation for in Washington, D.C. Five months later, recruiters at the
librarians, see CareerJournal.com's Pay National Association of Home Builders in Washington
Table. who had seen her resume on the site hired her for a
temporary cataloging job. The resume also caught the
eye of a recruiter at the U.S. Administration on Aging in Washington, and in March she was invited to
interview for a full-time technical-services librarian job there. She won the spot and earns an annual
salary in the range of $37,000-$43,000.
Ms. Thomas also had posted her resume at the Web site for the Special Libraries Association, a
nonprofit in Alexandria, Va., but no interviews resulted, she says. The site's job bank usually has
about 40 ads, says Karen Santos Freeman, SLA's director of communications. Posting a resume on
this site is free, as is searching its job bank. Jobs can range in annual pay from the mid $30,000s to
more than $100,000, she says.
Another site for job-hunting librarians is LISjobs.com, published by Rachel Singer Gordon, a part-
time librarian in Villa Park, Ill. Jobs are listed in reverse-chronological order and most expire after
two months.
Employers from all over the globe post on LISjobs, but most are in the U.S. The majority of
employers are public and academic libraries, but a variety of others use it, such as aerospace-and-
defense company Raytheon Co. in Waltham, Mass. There's no charge to view ads, which include
notices for internships, as well as positions such as chief technology officer. A six-month resume
posting costs from $10 to $40, depending on the format you send the document in.
Libraryjobpostings.org links to dozens of other librarian-job sites, though it doesn't post jobs. (Its
publisher Sarah L. Johnson, a librarian at Eastern Illinois University's Booth Library in Charleston,
Ill., combined efforts with Ms. Gordon to post jobs at LISjobs.com in 2003.)
Too busy to search the Web? Have job postings sent to you by LIBJOBS, a free e-mail job-
notification service for librarians and information pros. It's from the International Federation of
Library Associations and Institutions, a nonprofit in The Hague, Netherlands.
The daily e-mails list about a dozen mostly U.S.-based positions, says John M. Day, its manager, via
e-mail. Employers include university, medical, corporate and public libraries. Search firms also can
post jobs. Most ads don't reveal pay, and annual salaries can range from about $25,000 to $125,000,
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he notes. Ads are archived at the association's Web site and are free to view (search by date or
keyword).
Score a Gig with Videogame Companies
Getting paid to play videogames sound like a dream job? Blue Fang Games LLC in Waltham, Mass.,
needs a quality-assurance test engineer for its Zoo Tycoon 2 and other games. Gamasutra.com is
posting this and other jobs from companies such as Electronic Arts Inc., Rock Star Games Inc.,
Nintendo Co. and Ubisoft Entertainment SA. The site posts about 150 new jobs a month and each are
live for 30 days. They range from midlevel positions such as tools-support technician to higher-level
roles such as development director.
Most listings don't disclose salaries, but they generally range from $50,000 to $200,000 annually, says
Aaron Murawski, account manager for the site, which is published by CMP Media LLC, a multimedia
company in Manhasset, N.Y. Search by company, title, job description or location. The site is free to
registered users. There's no charge for posting your resume or for signing up for a weekly e-newsletter
with new ads.
The Web site for Datascope Recruitment, a London-based firm that recruits for videogame companies,
posts jobs from its search clients -- many in the U.S. A recent site visit found more than 100 midlevel
and senior openings, paying $60,000 to $100,000 a year, in categories from artists to programmers, as
well as business-side roles such as sales, legal and accounting. About 20 to 30 new jobs are posted
daily and ads are removed once the jobs are filled. Most include pay, detailed job descriptions and
location. The catch: None disclose employers' names -- a common practice of recruiter sites.
Applicants must e-mail their resumes to Datascope. There's no charge to view postings or receive
daily e-mails announcing new openings.
Gamesindustry.biz bills itself as the world's largest job board for the interactive-entertainment
industry. A recent search produced 58 pages with about 16 jobs each. There's no charge to search the
site by keyword, location, type (permanent, contract or both) or category (there are 13), and annual
salaries range from $25,000 for entry-level jobs to $120,000 for senior positions. It's free to post your
resume for recruiters to view and receive its weekly e-newsletter of new jobs and industry news.
The site is published by Eurogamer Network Ltd., an online-game-technology company based in

Brighton, England, but it carries ads from numerous videogame makers and for jobs all over the globe.
For journalists who cover videogaming, there's gamespress.com, a site from Games Press Ltd. in
Feltham, England. A recent search resulted in more than 1,000 postings from employers world-wide
(The granddaddy on this site was dated March 2003.) Notwithstanding its name, the site isn't limited
to editorial roles and advertises a range of jobs such as programmer, marketing manager and artist.
Search in 13 job categories. Or choose among eight employers and recruitment firms such as OPM
Response Ltd. in Essex, England, whose site also posts jobs from its clients.
Jobs on Display for Museum Pros
Museum professionals can check out what's on exhibit at aam-us.org, the Web site for the American
Association of Museums (AAM), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. Postings cover curatorial,
education, fund-raising and other common museum roles. A recent search showed more than 100
openings, from entry to senior levels and for jobs all over the world. There's no charge to search the
database, but AAM members receive e-mail alerts for new listings. Members also can post their
resumes. Individual-membership fees are based on income and range from $50 for those earning less
than $30,000 a year to $140 for those earning more than $60,000 annually. Students pay;$35 a year.
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Nelly Silagy Benedek, 42, says she found her current job as director of education at the Jewish
Museum in New York through the site last fall. She also got job tips from the New York City Museum
Educator's Roundtable, a fee-based networking group for museum educators in the New York area
who share job leads via e-mail. Annual membership is $30 for individuals and $20 for students.
Despite its promising name, a recent search of MuseumJobs.com, a free site published in Argyll,
Scotland, produced just 25 postings in all -- five in the U.S. and 18 in the U.K. In addition to
museums, employers advertising included the Walt Disney Co. in Glendale, Calif., and Bloom Fine
Art & Antiques, a Brooklyn, N.Y., retailer. The site also provides free e-mail alerts for new listings.
The current job count is lower than average, says Paul Clough, the site's account manager. It usually
has 60 or 70 positions, but it's the end of the financial year in the U.K., he says.
Sites dedicated to jobs at nonprofits also can be a source of museum-job postings. A recent search on
"museum" at idealist.org produced more than 50 museum jobs. The site, published by New York-
based nonprofit Action Without Borders Inc., allows visitors to search listings at no charge and sign
up for free e-mail alerts for new postings by job category, area of interest and location.
A recent search of nptimes.com, from the Nonprofit Times newspaper, yielded two openings at
museums. There's no fee to search the site and jobs are posted by employers from all over the globe.
This site also offers free job alerts by e-mail.
Natural Resources for Environmental Educators
If you're a natural fit for a job managing a park with hiking trails, an arboretum and a nature center, try
EE-link.net, a Web site from the North American Association for Environmental Education, a
Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. The site is posting this job, at Indianapolis's Holliday Park, and a
range of roles in environmental education. Day camps and universities are among the employers who
recruit on the site. Be prepared to scroll -- there's no search function. There recently were 10 pages of
ads, each with about 25 full- and part-time positions from entry level to top management. About eight
new jobs are posted daily and ads expire after three months unless otherwise noted, says Mary
Ocwieja, the site's project assistant. There's no charge, and you can sign up at no cost for twice-
monthly e-mail new-job alerts. A more user-friendly version of the site, which may include a resume-
posting option, is expected to launch in June, says Ms. Ocwieja.
Environmental educators also can pay for a subscription to Environmental Career Opportunities, a
twice-monthly e-newsletter published by ecojobs.com, a firm based in Charlottesville, Va. Each issue
links to a password-protected page at ecojobs.com and shows a list of more than 500 postings (about
half are new and half are from the previous issue), according to Betty Brubach, the site's publisher.
There's no search function, but postings are divided into nine categories, newest ads at the top.
Research labs, camps, zoos and gardens are among employers hiring. Subscriptions range from $29
for two months to $129 for one year, or if once a month will suffice, $19 to $80, respectively. Job
hunters can get a free sneak preview at ecojobs.com of a few new postings every day -- the site carries
about 125 in all. Most jobs require a minimum of a bachelor's degree and salaries range from $20,000
to $120,000, says Ms. Brubach.
Live on the West Coast? The Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education, a volunteer-run
nonprofit, lists about 100 jobs in California and nearby states. Employers include schools, camps and
parks, and jobs range from entry to senior level. New jobs are posted daily and old ones are archived.
The site doesn't have a search function, but lists seasonal and full-time jobs separately. Salaries range
from $100 a week to $125,000 a year. Many lower-paying positions come with on-site housing and
meals, says Maggie Wolfe, the site's Webmaster.
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East Coasters can search the postings at the Massachusetts Environmental Education Society's Web
site. There's no charge for viewing them. A recent visit found ads for about 25 jobs in the state and
surrounding region (none older than February 2005). Only a handful of positions are full time; the rest
are part time or seasonal.
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Spectrum Life Management

SPECTRUM’S EXECUTIVE CAREER ADAVCEMENT WORKBOOK

SPECTRUM LIFE MANAGEMENT

Gino Maccaroni is the Founder and CEO of Spectrum

Gino is an innovative and highly effective consultant who delivers results in

1. Introduction ……………………………………………………………. 4-5

2. Let’s Begin! ……………………………………………………………. 6

3. Know Yourself and Your Career Objectives ……………………………7-8

4. Your Guide to Success: An Overview ………………………………….. 9-10

5. About Your New Spectrum Resume ……………………………………. 11-12

6. 4 Career Defining Questions ……………………………………………. 13

7. Spectrum’s Self-Analysis Worksheet …………………………………… 14

8. Spectrum’s Career Campaign Flow Chart ………………………………. 15

9. Post Your New Resume ………………………………………………….. 16

10. The Value of Uniqueness ………………………………………………… 17

11. Mastering Your Speech ………………………………………………… 18-19

12. Capturing Your Voice …………………………………………………… 20

13. How to Research and Choose Targeted Industries ………………………. 21

14. Career Search on Companies …………………………………………….. 22

15. Using LinkedIn …………………………………………………………… 23

16. Using Directories and Search Engines Sites ……………………………… 24-25

17. Meta-Search Tools …………………………………………………………26-27

18. Career Related Sites ……………………………………………………….. 28-37

19. Industry Research Tools …………..……………………………………….38-40

20. Social Networking Sites ……………………………………………………41-42

21. Recommended Search Engines Sites ………………………………………. 43-44

22. Multi-Industry Professional Resources …………………………………….. 45-73

♦ The material presented here is a strategic model for career advancement - a

♦ Spectrum’s Strategic Thinking Approach Involves the

♦ Conditional Logic Simply Means that One Condition

♦ In Other Words: If P then Q (P~Q)

Spectrum’s Basic Principle:

GIVE US YOUR BEST!

♦ Identify your career goals

Do You Have What It Takes to be Successful?

Now, Imagine You Could Have Any Job You Want!

THE GUIDE TO SUCCESS

5. NETWORKING-- The ultimate goal of networking is learning how to develop contacts

6. GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR-- Networking creates opportunities to make

8. SEEKING INFORMANTIONAL INTERVIEWS-- The next step in your career

9. INTERVIEW PREPARATION -- Your value is what makes an employer want to hire

Your Actions Lead to Your Success

♦ All of your new Spectrum Marketing Material is designed to be logically

♦ Think of your material as aromatic incense. It becomes the aromatic-like

You Should Always be in Control of Your Image Perception

1. What would make someone see you as the perfect candidate?

2. What does the employer really want?

3. What special abilities would this person have?

4 Career Defining Questions

1. What problems do I solve?

2. What type of organizations have these

3. How do I get in front of them?

4. What do I say when I get there?

Take the time to answer these questions:

2 What would your dream job be?

3 Are you willing to relocate?

4 What has been stopping you from your dream job?

5 What are you doing that is a waste of time?

6 What aspect of your life is most out of balance?

7 What are you putting up with?

8 How much are you worth?

9 What are you most grateful for?

10 What legacy do you want to leave to others?

11 What is your Ideal Position?

Spectrum's Executive Workbook Step One

Spectrum's Executive Workbook Step One

Most people only know how to present a chronological breakdown

To achieve your highest potential, one needs to presents

This is done by knowing your value and projecting the proper