Job Search

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You'll probably need a job while you're going to college, either to help pay your way or to gain valuable professional experience. And what about your eventual career? The links below can help you do it all- discover your strengths, develop your skills, pick a career and locate an internship. Or you can find a company hiring in your field, draft a resume, plan for the interview and negotiate salary.

According to a recent poll by Investor's Business Daily, eighty per cent of college students plan to use the Internet as a job search tool. So there's lots of expert advice to be had among this collection of WWW resources.

PROCEDURE

Use your WWW browser to access the sites whose URL's are:
AT&T College Network. The "Jobs Station" provides links to other job listing sites, tips on job-hunting from published experts and a search engine to check for jobs listed in your field and community. Lots of graphics here, so look for the text-based links if you're using a command line browser like Lynx.
URL: http://www.att.com/college
Besides the usual job and internship postings, Careers OnLine has job search information specific to the needs of disabled workers, including a database of adaptive technology products and resources, a job accommodation handbook, and a listing of career development resources at the sponsoring University of Minnesota Counseling and Consulting Service.
URL: http://disserv3.stu.umn.edu/COL/
headhunter.net is often cited as the best single job source on the 'Net. Check it out and see what you think.
URL: http://www.headhunter.net/JobSeeker/Index.htm
Explore the sites. Use the bookmark capabilities of your browser to save the site locations for future use.
Use the exit command to quit your WWW browser.

This lesson is part of the series "DO-IT Lessons" developed by the University of Washington. Creation of the series of lessons is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers 9255803 and 9550003. The lessons are now maintained through funds from the State of Washington. The University of Washington holds the copyright to the series of lessons, however ownership of the Internet resources referenced in the lessons may be found at the resource site. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed at these sites are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the University of Washington or the State of Washington.

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