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General Guides

Career Guide to Industries (CGI)
Provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "provides information on available careers by industry, including the nature of the industry, working conditions, employment, occupations in the industry, training and advancement, earnings and benefits, employment outlook, and lists of organizations that can provide additional information."

Dictionary of Occupational Titles Index
Includes job classification codes; does not include D.O.T. job descriptions.

LOIS: Licensed Occupation Information System
Database geared towards finding information on licensed professions. Available search options are State Search, Occupation Name Search, and By Reviewing/Licensing Agency.

Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
"For more than 50 years...a nationally recognized source of career information."

Wage Estimates from the OOH
The site includes detailed occupational employment and wage estimates for 334 metropolitan areas. The data is listed in alphabetical order by state and then by MSA. Older info is located here.

Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet
Great guide to using the Internet for jobs. Riley's Guide.


Letter Writing Guides

Introduction Resumes & CV
Introductory site from Colorado College. Explains the difference between resume and a curriculum vitae.

Cover Letters/Letter of Inquiry
Site provided by Colorado College, gives some examples of various letters for business.

Writing Cover Letters For Curriculum Vitae
Another site by Colorado College, this one a guide to writing a cover letter for your CV.


Cost of Living Considerations/Moving Resources/City Comparisons

BestPlaces.net
Site includes city comparisons, city profiles, salary calculators, climate profiles, crime rates, and more. Although limited in the number of cities covered, extremely useful site when you need the low-down on one of the cities available. Includes 1,000 cities in the "City Comparison" feature, and the "Compare the Cost of Living" feature is more inclusive with maybe twice as many listings. Perfect for the person looking for information on large mid-size cities.

Datamasters
Useful site in locating a job and includes such features as a Cost of Living calculator.

Electronic Relocation Guide
This site is part of the American Relocation Network and provides links to online relocation resources such Rent.Net, Directory of Movers, and more.

International Salary Calculator
Cost of living information for hundreds of cities across the globe, Including the U.S. Also available in Spanish.

Moving.com
Yahoo style relocation index. Includes city comparisons, city profiles, colossal report (requires free registration), and tons more.

Move.com
Includes a plethora of useful moving resources.

Salary.com
Includes an excellent range of resources about salaries and benefits. The highlight is the Salary Wizard, which allows you to see whether your salary meets the average in your geographic region, as well as what kinds of salaries you would make in other parts of the country. This info is complimented with a large collection of related salary surveys which includes detailed annotations for each resource. Salary Advice is a complete guide for understanding and negotiating salaries and benefits, including stock options, bonuses, as well as base salaries. On the Homepage, users will also find collections of salary news, advice, and polls.


Job Listings and Assorted Links

Academe this Week
Job listings and article summaries from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Job listings are primarily at universities and colleges. Updated every Tuesday at noon, EST.

America's Job Bank
Search for available jobs by state and occupational category within each state. Data from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Career Magazine

CareerBuilder
A plethora of information about jobs, career guidance, and employers.

CareerJournal.com
Wall Street Journal's job site. Includes thousands of job listings as well as interview and resume advice.

CollegeRecruiter.com
Includes listings for part-time and full-time jobs, internships, and continuing education opportunities. Also used by employers and schools for recruiting purposes. Also includes a resume posting service.

EmploymentGuide.com
Local and National job search engines. Includes an optional email service to send you jobs fitting your career options.

Flipdog.com
Job search engine claiming 500,000+ job listings. Includes salary survey links, salary calculators, and relocation tools.

Gary Will's WorkSearch
A highly acclaimed site featuring numerous articles on employment and business including writing resumes and cover letters. Also has a list of suggested books for reading.

IMDiversity.com
Career & Lifestyle Site For People Of Color. Dedicated to providing career and self development information to all minorities, specifically African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, and Native Americans.

Monster.com
The largest job listing site on the web. Search by company name, location, discipline, industry, job title, or combinations of these. The Online Career Center is now a part of this site.

NATLEX
This site is a database of national labor law, including a number of countries, social security information, and related human rights issues. Indexed by country, subject, or date of texts.

Net-Temps.com
Job agency website that has nice search capabilities and an amazingly large number of job listings.

Spherion Career Center
Job search engine, resume posting service, and email alert service. Registration required for everything but job search.

Top 100 Recruiters
Top 100 of over 3,500 reviewed and evaluated Recruiting Web sites.

TrueCareers
Extensive job hunters index. Includes job search, Virtual Job Fairs, and extensive career opportunities.

Yahoo -- Business: Employment
Career advice and job listings.


Retirement Issues & Aids

Social Security Retirement Page
SSA Retirement Calculators
There are 3 of them here: Easy, Medium, and Detailed.

The first is very simple; Enter the age you'll be by the end of this year and how much you're making. You can choose to see your estimated benefits in either today's dollars or inflated dollars.

The second calculator allows you to enter numbers from your SSA benefits statement and calculate your future benefits using a Java applet. If you don't have Java enabled on your browser you'll get a page of instructions with no calculator.

The third calculator you have to download onto your computer, but it lets you calculate death benefits, enter your estimated earnings every year until your retire and figure out what your benefits will be, etc.