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Your Career - Online Resume, Your Privacy and Search Engines

ONLINE RESUME WARNINGS

Once you transmit your resume' into the digital realm, you quickly lose control over which and how many people see that information.

Web sites like The Monster Board, Career Mosaic and the On-line Career Center receive up to 150,000 hits a day from people perusing thousands of job postings and resumes. And most major newspapers have put their help-wanted ads online.

Monster.com warns of ID theft February 28, 2003
Monster.com is warning its customers that some job postings may be fakes intended to collect personal information for identity theft. Monster.com advises not to give out any information not related to a job opening, such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers and personal information not related to work history. Job search website such as Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com have come under scrutiny for their privacy practices, prompting the Privacy Right Clearinghouse to ask the Federal Trade Commission to investigate alleged abuses such as selling email addresses and registration information to third parties. Careerbuilder.com offers differing security levels to its customers, and spokeswoman Jennifer Sullivan said she didn't know of any identity theft complaints, though she did not rule out the possibility. Source

ONLINE RESUMES PREPARATION

http://www.provenresumes.com/ - Proven Resumes.com Career Center Resume, cover letter and interviewing tips by Regina Pontow. 23 on-line resume writing and job search workshops available free.

http://www.eresumes.com/ - Rebecca Smith's eResumes and Resources Online tutorials for electronic resumes, cover letters, and a well-trafficked "virtual resume gallery."

http://www.umn.edu/ohr/ecep/resume/ - Interactive workbook designed to make resume writing easier and more effective.

Job Hunting with Online Resume's Do's and Don'ts

Online job application protocols
 
 

HOW YOUR RESUME GETS SELECTED

THE INTERVIEW

 
 

 

FIND A JOB - FIRST LEVEL

 

Students search the web for summer jobs.

Studentjobs.gov, federal government operates a job site,focused on younger workers. GrooveJob.com, Teens4Hire.org, and JobSherpa.com generally list high-turnover, entry-level jobs, many of which are geared toward students and others looking for seasonal employment and flexible hours to fit their schedules.

Education Vendor Directory
Education & Government Salary Survey
Resources for Women Entrepreneurs

Job Boards/Recruiters (Tech & General):

Top Level:

K-12 JOBS

http://www.ajb.org
http://www.aquent.com (has salary and job descriptions also)
www.brassring.com
www.careerbuilder.com
http://www.careerlab.com/letters - Cover letters, follow-up letters, Samples are all here.
http://www.careermag.com - advice on job hunting, writing resumes for those awful computerized scanners, techniques for job interviews.
http://www.careerpath.com - latest want ads from 60 major newspapers and chains around the country.
www.collegegrad.com
http://www.computerjobs.com/
www.dice.com
http://www.ejobstores.com/
www.flipdog.com
www.headhunter.com
http://www.hotjobs.com/
www.hrsjob.com
http://www.htconnect.com - Be a consultant, work out of your house.
www.jobcircle.com
http://www.jobs.com
http://www.jobsleuth.com/
http://www.k12jobs.com - informative web site for educators; at the k-12 level.
http://www.matrix.msu.edu/jobs H-NET - college jobs

www.monster.com - resume builder

Craig's List
Browse through the listings to see what other companies are doing.


http://careers.yahoo.com/

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
They publish salary information for both the U.S. and by state, in cooperation with each state's unemployment insurance division. Look for the Occupational Employment Survey, both at the BLS and via the New York state government's employment office. The latter will give within-state breakdowns by Metropolitan Statistical Area, using on the same data provided to the Feds for aggregation in larger geographic units. EXCELLENT resource, and nobody can argue that it isn't authoritative. Another BLS resource is the Occupational Outlook Handbook, which provides standardized job descriptions, job creation/growth rate projections, educational requirements, skills used, and non-BLS salary information for every occupation code defined by the federal government. The latter may be helpful despite its very general content.

Economic Research Institute
They publish analyses and time-series forecasts of salary information based on data from the U.S Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Although full reports must be purchased, many free services are available online, including statistically valid, projected salaries for TODAY by job title and Metropolitan Statistical Area within state. U.S. data only. Job titles match those from BLS, and include technical writers.

Society for Technical Communication
They publish an annual salary survey for technical writing positions in both the U.S. and Canada. U.S. results are broken down as far as the first two digits of zip code; both U.S. and Canadian data are broken out by region. Note that these surveys are credible enough to be cited by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in their Occupational Outlook Handbook. You can compare STC's prior-year surveys with the current one and get an idea of salary growth rates by region, education level, experience level, etc.

Yale University list of Web sites
Salary and career information. Good source for commercial, government, and academic salary sites.

JobStar list of published salary surveys by profession. Good resource.

http://www.entrepreneurmag.com - Find out how to start your own business

 

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