job-hunting articles divide into three basic categories

JobHuntersBible.com: Newsletter Archive

All job-hunting articles divide into three basic categories:
WHAT, (What do you want to do?)
WHERE, (Where do you want to do it?)
and HOW (How do you get hired there?)


My Parachute Picks:

WHAT do you want to do?
1998 Career Guide: Find Your Career
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/beyond/bccguide.htm
Written particularly for college students or would-be college students, this guide from U.S.News and World Report lists "the hottest jobs of the year in 20 different fields" and has career outlooks for those jobs; it also lists related job-listing sites and associations, for each career. Very Nice! This guide has a number of other interesting articles, such as "Job search on the Net," "Part-time career paths" and "Estimated Starting Salaries for Graduates."

When the normal lists don't interest you, and your searching for something really different, check Unusual Jobs.

For additional help with the WHAT question, look in the Research section of this Guide, under Research Sites: Career Fields

WHERE do you want to do it?
Informational Interviewing
http://danenet.wicip.org/jets/jet-9407-p.html
This important technique, serving as an alternative to the traditional job-hunt, is explained and discussed at this site; while they make the technique a bit more complex than it needs to be, this site still provides a good overview.

For additional help with the WHERE question, look in the Research section of this Guide, under Research Sites: Geography and Research Sites: Companies.

HOW do you get hired there?
Careers.wsj.com
http://www.careers.wsj.com
Under the heading "Job-Hunting Advice," this site has a number of articles about the HOW: Including how to react after losing one's job, plus other HOWs: Making a career change, relocating, searching, networking, using resumes and interviewing. While the articles are aimed at executives and management, their advice should be useful to all job-hunters. Taken from the Wall Street Journal's archives (among other places), these articles are on this relatively new Web site, under the leadership of Tony Lee, a former editor of WSJ's National Business Employment Weekly. (The one negative: The way that frames are used on this site drives me nuts. Some other users of the site have reported a similar reaction. Hopefully, however, you will love them.)
Virtual Interview
http://campus.monster.com/tools/virtual/
Monster.com's Career Center has a famous virtual interview exercise. It gives you the opportunity to practice a hiring interview, by offering you questions with multiple choice answers, and then telling you whether or not you chose the best answer. If you did not, it gives you a chance to try and choose a better answer the second time around. While some of the questions are cute, in the case of the more serious questions, personally I didn't think any of the answers they offered was the correct ones to give! The exercise needs: "None of the above" as an option, after each question. But, taken with a grain of salt, the exercise is fun to do, and you should learn some things by practicing.
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