The Resume Guide briefly defines the purpose of a resume, describes what information it should contain and offers tips for proper formatting. Also included is a sample resume.
Resume Guide <http://www.lkwdpl.org/classes/jobhunting/resumeguide.pdf>
Job Hunting Is, and Isn't, What It Used to Be
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/business/yourmoney/27shortcuts.html?em
By ALINA TUGEND
Published: New York Times, September 26, 2008. A version of this article appeared in print on September 27, 2008, on page B7 of the New York edition.
This article from The New York Times gives an interesting perspective on how job hunting has changed and how job seekers can most effectively use the internet in their search.
The Top 10 Things You Need to Know about E-Resumes and Posting Your Resume Online
http://www.quintcareers.com/e-resumes.html
Employment Connection <http://www.workforce.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/employment-connection.aspx>
Employment Connection is the collaborative workforce system of the Cuyahoga County and City of Cleveland Departments of Workforce Development. They offer help to both job seekers and employers. This site contains a list of Employment Connection Career Centers located throughout Greater Cleveland where qualified staff will be available to help you.
Cuyahoga Community College – Workforce Solutions <http://www.TrainingOurWorkforce.com>
Workforce Solutions offers short-term courses designed to meet specific employer and employee needs in the Cleveland and northeast Ohio market. Many of the courses and programs provided are based on research into the area's long-term need for specific skills. They offer programs to become certified in computer, medical and law enforcement professions as well as one-day courses in various Microsoft Office programs. Sign up at this website to receive a current course schedule.
LearningExpress Library <http://www.learnatest.com/LearningExpressLibrary/>
LearningExpress Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
LinkedIn.com <www.linkedin.com/>
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site launched in May 2003. With more than 24 million users representing 150 industries around the world, LinkedIn is a fast-growing professional networking site that allows members to create business contacts, search for jobs, and find potential clients. Individuals have the ability to create their own professional profile that can be viewed by others in their network, and also view the profiles of their own contacts. From this network, individuals can learn of and search for jobs, business opportunities, and people. LinkedIn also serves as an effective medium by which both employers and job seekers can review listed professional information about one another. LinkedIn follows strict privacy guidelines -- all connections made are mutually confirmed and individuals only appear in the LinkedIn network with their explicit consent. Other features include paid accounts that offer more tools to find people, and "LinkedIn Answers," a free feature that allows registered users to post business-related questions that anyone else can answer. LinkedIn won two Webby awards in 2007 for services and social networking.
Occupational Outlook Handbook <http://www.bls.gov/OCO/>
This online handbook is put out by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It offers information for hundreds of different types of jobs on the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job and working conditions. Easy to navigate, this is a good site for those entering the work force or considering changing careers.
Northcoast99.com <http://www.northcoast99.com/>
NorthCoast 99 is an annual recognition program that honors 99 great workplaces for top talent in Northeast Ohio. Although not technically a job site, this is a great place to research excellent places to work in Northeast Ohio. Go to Northcoast99.com and click on Winners. Each of the workplaces honored is listed with a link to its own web page. From there, you can search the employment opportunities listed for that particular company or institution.
The following list contains some of the largest internet job-hunting sites, as well as a few specialty or “niche” sites.
CareerBuilder.com <http://www.careerbuilder.com/>
CareerBuilder is jointly owned by Tribune, Gannett, McClatchy and Microsoft Corp. They accept paid postings from employers, and their database has want-ads from around 200 newspapers across the country. As a result, their database is huge, and because of the newspaper origin of many of the postings, you will find more lower-tech and traditionally blue collar jobs listed. Registering with the site allows you to search their database by keyword, field, and location; they offer newsletters and other services.
Monster.com <http://www.monster.com/>
A well-known job-hunting site, Monster has thousands of job listings from all over the U.S. Besides searching these listings by keyword, geographic area, and industry, Monster also has a “Job Search Agent,” a software program that will examine new listings as they are created, and email you with listings that match your criteria. Monster’s basic services are free to the job-hunter, although you must register. It is funded by employers’ job listings and by on-line advertisers (with some pop-up ads).
Yahoo! HotJobs <http://www.hotjobs.yahoo.com/>
This site was acquired by Yahoo! in 2002. Yahoo! HotJobs' services are free to job seekers and include posting up to ten versions of a resume. Job searches can be saved, allowing ongoing results to be emailed to the user. Job seekers have the ability to pull up statistics that feature the number of times an employer/recruiter reviewed their resume and a complete history of sent cover letters and resumes. The “HotBlock” feature allows applicants to block some or all of HotJobs' companies from viewing their resumes.
Indeed.com <www.indeed.com/>
Indeed gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from thousands of websites; includes all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages; and continues to add new sites every day. With the familiar look and feel of general search engines, Indeed makes it easy to drill down by keyword and location to jobs that fit your requirements precisely. You may save your searches and have jobs delivered to you by email alert, MyYahoo, or other RSS feed readers.
SimplyHired.com <www.simplyhired.com/>
A job site with a sense of humor, SimplyHired offers job listings, e-mail alerts, RSS feeds, and information on job market trends and salaries. They also offer a forum to communicate with other job seekers and links to MySpace and Facebook. You can even search for jobs that will let you bring your dog to work (click on Special Searches).
USAJobs <http://www.usajobs.gov/>
This is the official job site of the United States Federal Government. It offers job listings as well as information on government career exploration, opportunities for people with special needs and the ins and outs of how the Federal government maintains its workforce.
Ohiomeansjobs.com <http://www.ohiomeansjobs.com/>
This site, run by the state of Ohio, has compiled electronic job opportunities from all of the major commercial job boards, niche industries, national and Ohio fortune 100 companies, and state of Ohio jobs into one location.
Ohio Hiring Management System <http://careers.ohio.gov/>
This site was created by the State of Ohio as a tool to search for state government positions. Updated with new positions daily, this site also contains information about Civil Service Examinations.
Cleveland.com <http://www.cleveland.com/jobs/>
Cleveland.com contains the current day’s news, classifieds (careers, autos, real estate, etc.), sports, and local coverage from The Plain Dealer. From the main page, click on JOBS to search employment opportunities and research career information and resources.
Craigslist.org <http://www.craigslist.org/>
Craig’s List contains local classifieds and forums for more than 500 cities in over 50 countries. It is community moderated, and largely free. To check on jobs listed in the Cleveland area, open the site and click on Ohio, which will lead you to a list of cities in Ohio. Click on the city you wish to work in. From there, it is easy to search by job category.
Ohio Job Prospector <http://www.jobprospector.com>
This site must be reached through the Lakewood Library’s web site lkwdpl.org. Job Prospector is designed to help individuals explore careers in Ohio; their goal is to retain and attract a talented workforce for Ohio. This is a good site for research, particularly helpful for recent college graduates. Job Prospector contains detailed regional and city information integrated into every career profile in the system. The majority of career data in Job Prospector comes from their own research staff and is hand-picked to provide a variety of interesting career choices.
Jobaccess.org <http://www.jobaccess.org/>
The goal of JobAccess is to enable people with disabilities to enhance their professional lives by providing a dedicated system for finding employment. By posting job opportunities, employers not only exhibit an open door policy but also demonstrate their responsiveness to affirmative action by genuinely recruiting qualified persons with disabilities.
Beyondmotherhood.com <http://www.beyondmotherhood.com/>
Beyondmotherhood.com was created by a Cleveland-area woman as a launch pad for women who want more than the title "mom." The site is a niche job board specializing in helping mothers leverage their education and experience, while providing them with flexible opportunities. It connects employers with the "untapped" workforce, stay at home mothers.
Idealist.org <http://www.idealist.org/>
This is a good site for those looking for work in a nonprofit organization. The Idealist Career Center offers job listings in the nonprofit sector and career resources with links to educational programs, fellowships, internships, career fairs, salary surveys and information on working abroad.
WARNINGS
Many of the job listings on Monster, Careerbuilder, and other job sites are not for actual jobs; they are advertisements placed by agencies and recruiters. Avoid answering these ads-disguised-as-jobs. When you click on the “job” listed, it will often take you to a site for an employment agency, where they want you to submit your resume so that they can build up their own data base of job seekers. The best way to ensure that you are applying for an actual job is to go to the website for a particular company or institution and apply to them directly. Also, when you post your resume on a job board, you generally lose control over what happens to it after that. Read the privacy policy very carefully before you post.
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