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NETWORKING AND JOB SEARCH RESOURCES
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Salary: One of the most frequent questions I hear is what salary should I expect. Sometimes people have unreasonable expectations and others, they lowball themselves believing employers will be more interested in hiring them if they are cheaper to hire (WRONG) For one variable, check out salaries in your specific location.
For up to the minute advice that may even be location specific, check out the Examiner.com contributors in your state. For an example, start here: Seattle Examiner.com.
Guidance for managers who want to become executives can be found on JobMob.
The Riley Guide - A constantly updated resource for on-line research and advice. An excellent place to begin your research.
Use LinkedIn Groups for job search:
Devon James -Boutique Northwest recruiting firm does retained recruiting for high tech employers on the West Coast. Target clients are grouped within arenas of software, media, wireless, mobile, and green technologies, and a typical candidate will be in the compensation range of $120K+ with 7-25 years experience.
Interview Studio – Candidate Profiling tool that incorporates all due diligence about a candidate upfront on one screen. InterviewStudio Showcases include a traditional resume, peer endorsements, links to social networks, any Google information about the candidate, the results of a professional assessment test, demographic and preference information from the candidate, and a full video interview. Candidates can build their own showcase and send to any employer or recruiter.
Spin_strategy – Tim Tyrell Smith offers advice and commentary on the typical job search. His style is breezy and informative.
Job Mob - JobMob is a blog dedicated to bringing together job seekers and jobfinders to find jobs. Straight-talking advice based on real world experience with lots of humor thrown in. Good resource for career/job related links. Israeli based, but definitely globally effective.
Single Minded Women is an eclectic site with a career section that features articles, links and advice.
Escape from Corporate America - Advice to help transition from corporate to alternative employment.
Hoovers – Detailed information on businesses by local, specialty and more. Financial information, size and names of key executives are listed.
bizjournals - Business Journal publications for many locations. Both on-line and hard copy publications are a rich resource about the business community in 41 locations.
Yahoo! Finance – National coverage of business.
Value Line - Provides valuable financial information about corporations.
LinkedIn – Resource to discover who knows the people you want to know.
The Public Register’s Annual Report Service (PRARS) - Obtain annual reports. Requests are processed within 24 hours and are shipped free of charge.
idEXEC – An online global database of executives at the world’s most important public, private, non-profit, and government organizations.
dnbsearch.com – Source of information on private companies-from the billion-dollar giants down to mom-and-pop operations.
Forbes.com – The Largest Private Companies – Forbes’ list of the largest privately held companies. Provides detailed financial information and names of executives.
craigslist – A peek at who is hiring locally. Don’t use it to connect, only to discover.
headhunters.com – A portal for candidates to find recruiters in their specialty and direct links to companies who are hiring.
Echelon Magazine – An online magazine that publishes articles on GLBT finance, economic development, workplace advocacy, corporate diversity, education, employment and explores the ever evolving GLBT marketplace.
www.echelonmagazine.com/jobs/ – GLBT friendly job board sponsored by Echelon Magazine
www.outandequal.org – Their mission is to educate and empower organizations, human resource professionals, Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and individual employees through programs and services that result in equal policies, opportunities, practices, and benefits in the workplace regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, or characteristics.
www.kirksnyder.com – Kirk’s business leadership book, The G Quotient , received wide acclaim since its release in June 2006 focusing attention on the rising profile of gay executives in Corporate America.
www.amazon.com/Lavender-Road-Success-Career-Community/dp/1580084966 Kirk Snyder’s book, Lavender Road to Success has been hailed by critics as the definitive career guide for the GLBT community. Product Description: Based on a groundbreaking study of more than 300 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender alumni, Lavender Road To Success is the first career guide written specifically for the gay community. Identifying how the right career decisions can level the workplace playing field, the author presents a personal and comprehensive look at the career paths of gay professionals, giving voice to those who have experienced both success and failure as a direct result of their career decisions.
WetFeet - Information on companies, salaries and other career important data.
Deloitte – Search to discover the fastest growing companies in your location.
Indeed – Offers information on jobs and typically strips out the job board or other advertiser.
glassdoor.com – Employees talk about their employer.
konnects.com – Professional social networking.
Spoke.com - Online bio on professionals. This is one of many sites that grabs what it can about you from the Internet and creates a bio. It is imperative to visit all these sites to correct your bio. New ones pop up every day. The casual reader has no idea of the validity of the information. We can’t stop them from aggregating but we can make sure the information is accurate. If they charge membership, contact them directly and ask that your name be removed. One complication is many people share your name. This is just one of the unfortunate issues for which there is no solution other than to make sure your name is out there in enough other places to cancel out the bad ones.
DooStang.com – For networking and job opportunities.
Careers at Microsoft - listing of jobs, codes and departments at Microsoft
Google – Research resource extraordinaire.
OWL – Writing support from Purdue University. Notice especially the section on writing for job search. You can’t find more accurate or clearer assistance with your writing, grammar and word choice.
Job Search Debugged -Job search tools that work. Coaching, tools and books for six-figure income executives and technology leaders.
Job Search Blog- An abundance of good advice for people in pursuit of $100,000+ jobs.
Jibber Jobber is exactly the sort of organizational tool all job seekers need. An order of magnitude more useful for job search tracking than any spread sheet. In JJ’s own words: “JibberJobber started out as a job search spreadsheet to track and organize a job search, and quickly evolved into a long-term relationship manager for your personal career management.” Worth a good look IMHO.
simply hired is a template for most job search engines. The site aggregates results from major job websites, newspapers, company websites, associations and other online sources. Employers cannot post jobs. Site is strictly for job seekers. Users can search by occupation, job title or location.
Juju – A job search engine that sorts by job title and location
Jobs online – A job search engine that sorts by job title and location
Job Volume – A job search engine that sorts by job title and location. Includes Govt Jobs.
hound requires sign up but will send out opportunities.
Jobpier requires log in and user information.
Be sure to watch Hot Blogs for timely and useful posts.
Want to know why you need newsfeeds for classy marketing? Read this.
Online Beat for a list of unique job search engines.
The Brazen Careerist makes a good point about why you need to blog.
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