Job Search on the Internet

Cabrillo College Library

Just California; Just This Area

Career Sites

Resume Sites

Privacy

Salaries

Explore Careers

Guides

Company Info

Local Workshops

Career Exploration

To get to this Page on the Internet

First: Go to this Web page

If you're not already there, go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
Click on Internet Links
Click on Jobs
Under Career Guidance, click on Job Search on the Internet

Just California; Just This Area These Web sites offer information about jobs in California, or in the local area. You'll find that you have to register at most of these, but the registration is free.

General labor market information

Virtual Career Center from Workforce Santa Cruz County. You can sign in as a guest if you don't want to register. To do that: Click on click here to register. On the next screen, select Option 3 - Try us out.

CalJOBS from California's Economic Development Department
MontereyBayHelpWanted.com "Long name, amazing results"
SantaCruzJobs.com
Santa Cruz Online Jobs Listings
Bay Area Jobs for San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley

Also: CaliforniaJobJournal Includes lists of job fairs (click on "job fairs"). Updated news about jobs.

Directly related to Cabrillo Student Employment and Job Placement at Cabrillo College. And it's good to become familiar with what's offered at the Cabrillo College Career Planning Center. Also: explore the resources linked to the Library's Jobs & Careers Internet Links Web page.

Career Sites Typically, you can search a jobs database at a career site by keyword, category, and job location. Applicant submits materials directly to the employer, mentioning that the job was brought to their attention because it was posted at such-and-such a career site. "Every person of working age should make friends with at least one career site" is the advice that job counselors give you. Career sites often offer these additional services:

tips for writing resumes
salary calculators
employer profiles
industry overviews
relocation guides
career assessment tools
lists of job fairs
email notification of relevant job listings

Most require registration (free) to take full advantage of their services.

The biggest ones are Monster.com and Yahoo!Careers (they recently absorbed HotJobs). Others CareerBuilder.com and FlipDog.com

Curriculum Vitae (CV) and Resume Writing

ResumeTutor from Univ. of Minnesota
Resume Writing from Online Writing Lab at Purdue
Writing Curriculum Vitae from About.com
Writing Effective CVs and Cover Letters from UC Riverside
Thinking of putting it on the Internet? Riley's Guide has a guide to Preparing Your Resume for the Internet. Career Builder has a place to write and post your resume (as do the Career Sites listed above).

And, now, the worrisome side
Internet & Privacy Issues
Monster.com warns false job postings could lead to identity theft Dated 2/27/03.
Monster's own pages: Safe Job Searching || Protect Your Personal Info

Salaries
SalaryCalulator Estimate the value of a salary given the living area compared to an area you're used to.
There's also a Cost of Living and Salary Calculator.

Exploring Careers
Career Voyages Explore career options - "whether you are in high school, have graduated, have a vocational certificate, have a 2-year or 4-year college degree, or have knowledge and skills acquired through training centers, on-the-job training, or work experience. Be in demand by knowing about high growth jobs with better wages and a brighter future."

Guides
America's Career InfoNet Important for its "wages and trends" and state profiles (over on left of opening screen). For example, for any state, you can check to see what the fastest growing and highest paying occupational sectors are.
JobStar California -- Job Search Guide
Occupational Outlook Handbook Excellent information about most occupations; from U.S. Dept. of Labor. Updated annually.

Finding out about Companies
OK -- you've gotten some good leads on several jobs, or maybe you've even been offered one! How can you check out the company? Use these resources:
Company Research from BusinessWeek (Need to look up the stock symbol for a company? -- Go to NYSE.com and click on Symbol Lookup, on right near the top)
Hoover's Online Subscribers get full information, but you can get brief info without subscribing.
And from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Getting Info About Companies

Local Workshops
Cabrillo Career Connections at Cabrillo College gathers together in one place information about workshops and classes and other events
Career Workshops offered by the Cabrillo College Career Planning Center
Fast Track to Work has info about local job search workshops

Career Exploration and Gateway Sites
Riley Guide A comprehensive job search site
What Color Is Your Parachute? aka JobHuntersBible.com

Want to set up a way of communicating among yourselves? Go to QuickTopic and give them your email address and the name of your group. It really is very easy. Those of you in the group can bookmark your Web discussion page, and you can exchange information and learn from each other. Suppose you're exploring a career site, and find that one has much better chat rooms than another. Share that information with others!

To get to this page on the Internet

Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu
Click on Internet Links
Click on Jobs.
Under Career Guidance, click on Job Search on the Internet

Topsy N. Smalley; last rev. 10/03