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Career planning & jobsearch strategies
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UK jobsearch strategy resources
- Adecco - UK site, includes small CV, dress for success sections and interview tips
- A Better Career - although it is written around CV preparation, it provides a very practical approach to career management and preparing for jobsearch, also including producing CVs, including sections on understanding your value in the job market, sending the right messages about yourself, designing your CV, what to say and what to avoid and reviewing your career. Online career management and CV appraisal tools. Also useful advice on cover letters
- Career Dressing - advice on dressing for interviews and business (UK site), however, you should research your company or organisation also, to check on appropriate dress wear
- Career Management Advice - from ASE, good career planning information and advice including large section on psychometric testing, with guides and sample questions
- Careersoft - range of jobsearch information and advice, including CVs, action planning, interviews, finding vacancies, self-assessment, career links to useful organisations by job title, also their product information, mainly for schools and young jobseekers
- Career Solutions - UK site with wide range of useful jobsearch tips, including jobsearch strategies, problem solving, coping with job loss, self-employment and other related issues, alongside marketing information for their publications and services
- CareersWEB - excellent helpsheets and resources from University of London colleges
- Creative Job Search - an excellent comprehensive online guide to jobsearch skills, including jobsearch preparation, self - assessment, CVs and resumes, cover letters, employment applications, choosing references, networking, telephone contacts, choosing advice and guidance services, internet strategies, using advice, tips, interview preparation, negotiating tips, starting a job, using information, case studies and worksheets, network logs and diaries, key words, charts, checklists, sample interview questions, resume critiques
- Employment Service - UK government site, has useful, clear sections on jobsearch strategies and suggestions for further reference and activity, also information on European vacancies
- Ensuring a smooth transition - tips for moving from one job to another, including resignation letters, the week before, the first few days, from jobpilot.com
- femail - jobs and careers - articles, guides, tips and quizzes on careers and jobsearch from the Daily Mail site
- FTCareerPoint - articles, news, discussions, online tests on jobsearch, career management, working and business education, from the Financial Times
- Graduate Careers Online - range of advice and information on applications, CVs, interviews, selection procedures, testing provided by University of Manchester Careers Service
- JobFizz - good careers advice for IT professionals at different stages in their careers but useful for all professional careers
- JobSmart - US site with links to jobsearch information including career guides, CVs/resumes, hidden job market, US salary surveys
- JobWeb - key US site with resources, guides, ask the experts and information for students and staff (National Association of Colleges and Employers - US)
- Labour mobility - includes online tips for working in another country, a questionnaire to test your "successful expatriate skills", also cultural management differences between countries
- Monster Career Centre - guidance, articles and experts online jobsearch skills, career development, salaries and benefits, work issues, employers' profiles, also specialist career and occupational communities
- Negotiating your salary and other benefits - tips on choosing the right time and what to consider, from jobpilot.com
- Newmonday.com - general career news, advice, jobsearch skills, questions and answers, including section on redundancy, legal and salary issues, working abroad
- Online Recruitment - magazine for recruitment and human resource (HR) professionals involved in internet recruitment, selection of articles online, promoting good practice in online recruitment
- Reed Personnel Services - UK site, includes help and advice, company factfiles, research and quizzes, salary calculator, online tutorials require registration
- SRG - jobsearch, good careers and jobsearch advice for scientists in Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and other Healthcare industries, also information on UK working regulations, temporary and contract work, recruitment fairs
- totaljobs.com - wide range of sectors, including not for profit organisations, also company director search, analysis of UK market sectors, salary check, career health check and graduate career match, legal rights at work, women returners section, issues at work, graduate advice and temporary jobs, working abroad
- University of Hull Careers and Appointments Service - advice on career choice and planning, including evaluating job offers, useful advice on interviews
International jobsearch strategy resources
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Becoming an active career manager - article on making use of internet technology, especially job agents and general agents online
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Career Consulting Corner - includes interesting interviewing tips and questions to ask, CV information not really appropriate for the UK, American occupational information, career articles
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Career Development Manual - University of Waterloo - self-assessment, occupational research, decision-making, and other jobsearch strategies
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Career and Job-related Tutorials - Quintessential Careers - very comprehensive US site with tutorials on cover letters, guide to Internet jobsearch, informational interviewing, interviews, CV and resume writing, salary negotiations
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Career Journal - jobhunting advice, career management, careers articles and questions and answers from the Wall Street Journal
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CareerPerfect
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Creative Job Search - an excellent comprehensive online guide to jobsearch skills, including jobsearch preparation, self - assessment, CVs and resumes, cover letters, employment applications, choosing references, networking, telephone contacts, choosing advice and guidance services, internet strategies, using advice, tips, interview preparation, negotiating tips, starting a job, using information, case studies and worksheets, network logs and diaries, key words, charts, checklists, sample interview questions, resume critiques
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Employment Search Readiness Inventory - simple online test to check if you have considered some basic issues for jobsearch, site also has a links to other career and jobsearch websites
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Ensuring a smooth transition - tips for moving from one job to another, including resignation letters, the week before, the first few days, from jobpilot.com
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JobSmart - US site with links to jobsearch information including career guides, CVs/resumes, hidden job market, US salary surveys
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JobWeb - key US site with resources, guides, ask the experts and information for students and staff (National Association of Colleges and Employers - US)
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Labour mobility - includes online tips for working in another country, a questionnaire to test your "successful expatriate skills", also cultural management differences between countries
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monsterTRAK - general jobsearch advice and information with a US focus, includes virtual interview
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Negotiating your salary and other benefits - tips on choosing the right time and what to consider, from jobpilot.com
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Newmonday.com - general career news, advice, jobsearch skills, questions and answers, including section on redundancy, legal and salary issues, working abroad
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Purdue University Center for Career Opportunities - large listing of Internet sites for jobseekers and employers, also jobsearch manual including advice on interviews
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Rebecca Smith's eResumes and Resources - excellent resource on electronic resumes and on-line jobsearch, including tutorials and articles, (not about writing the orginal CV or resume)
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What Color is Your Parachute - JobHuntersBible.com - supplement to the annual publication, includes good links, articles, many of them US based
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WetFeet - good careers, company and country information including articles, information and tests on job hunting strategies, self-assessment, career and industry profiles, comparisons, career newsletters, US and international salaries, interviewing, CVs and resumes, managing your career, including information for freelance workers
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