INTERNET JOBSITE LINKS updated 10/26/09
The following are just a few of the many internet job sites available online. These sites are useful for learning about careers, obtaining information about salaries and companies, and for getting a sense of the types of jobs available. However, using the internet by itself is not the most effective way to find a job.
Tips for using the internet for your job search
· DO NOT RELY ON THE INTERNET TO FIND A JOB. Use job websites as one of several strategies to find the right job, not the only strategy.
· Don’t blanket the web with your resume, more applications is not necessarily better. Target specific jobs and companies as opposed to mass e-mailing hundreds of resumes.
· Look at the websites of individual companies or agencies that you are interested in. Websites of professional associations are often very useful as well.
· Do your own search for job sites specific to your discipline or desired career. Usually the smaller or more targeted websites (i.e., focusing on particular industries or majors) are more useful.
· If you see a job posting you’re interested in on a internet site, try to go directly to the employer’s website and apply directly rather than through the job board.
The UIC Office of Career Services does not necessarily endorse any of these sites or support any information found on them.
GENERAL
GOVERNMENT/NONPROFIT
ARTS
BUSINESS/CORPORATE
EDUCATION
INTERNATIONAL
LIBERAL ARTS
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY/ENGINEERING
HEALTH SCIENCES
DON’T FORGET: Career Services also has a variety of job listings IN OUR OFFICE (3050 SSB), look for the orange binders at the back of our library. For the most part, these are different listings than you will see on UICcareers.com.
GENERAL
These websites are some of the largest and most popular sites, they have varying amounts of information from job postings to career advice, salary information, etc.
Best Jobs in the USA Today: www.bestjobsusa.com
A large site with lots of career exploration information as well as job listings. However, also advertises many for-profit services.
Black Collegian www.black-collegian.com
Targeted to Black collegians and all people of color seeking career and self-development information. You'll also find information on study abroad programs, graduate/professionals schools, internships/co-ops.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Labor) http://www.bls.gov/emp/
Official government site with a wealth of information about the labor market in the U.S. and projections for 10 years in the future
Career Builder www.careerbuilder.com
Affiliated with the Chicago Tribune classifieds.
Career One Stop http://www.careeronestop.org/
A publicly funded meta-site for all kinds of career information from wages and employment trends, state labor market conditions, career exploration, and job listings. Components include America’s Career Info Net, and American’s Job Bank.
carouselexpo.com http://www.carouselexpo.com/illinois.htm
A listing of career fairs and company open houses in the Illinois area. This list is not comprehensive but it gives you more options.
Collegegrad.com www.collegegrad.com
Geared toward entry-level jobs for college students and recent graduates.
CareerSite www.careersite.com
A large metasite with lots of information and job listings.
ChicagoJobs.Com http://www.chicagojobs.com/
Major area newspapers have come together to create a comprehensive job board covering the employment scene across 11 counties in and around Chicago. Focuses exclusively on careers in the Chicagoland area.
Chicago Sun Times http://classifieds.suntimes.com
Chicago Sun Times’ Career Section with job search articles and classifieds
College Recruiter www.collegerecruiter.com
A great deal of information on career exploration, job search advice, and job listings.
HotJobs.com www.hotjobs.com
A large and well-known jobsite.
Indeed.com www.indeed.com
Gathers job openings from thousands of sources including: large job boards, small industry specific job boards, local newspapers, and associations.
Job Seeker's Bookmarks http://www.mybookmarks.com/public/Job_Seeker
The site contains resources that address a wide range of topics, including student resources and links to locate employers and to prepare for a job search.
One Source http://www.ilworkinfo.com
The Illinois Department of Employment Security is the most reliable source for information about the state's labor market with a variety of resources for exploring occupations and finding jobs in Illinois. The Career Resources section is particularly useful; click on Career Information System and enter username: ides, password: jobs
JobWeb www.jobweb.com
Sponsored by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, career development and job search help for college graduates.
MetroChicagoJobs.com metrochicagojobs.com
Monster www.monster.com
The biggest job site on the web, which can be both a good and bad thing.
Monstertrak www.monstertrak.com
A source for full-time entry-level positions for college students and recent graduates. To access this website, visit our office (3050 SSB) to obtain the password. This site is affiliated with Monster.com.
National Business & Disability Council www.nbdc.com
Resource on issues related to successful mainstreaming of people with disabilities into the American workforce.
The Riley Guide www.rileyguide.com
A directory of employment and career information sources and services on the internet, designed to help job seekers use the Internet to their best advantage.
Saludos www.saludos.com
Focused on Hispanic professionals and Hispanic-related jobs, including Spanish-bilingual.
Simply Hired www.simplyhired.com
Metasite that searches thousands of other jobs site
SnagAJob.com www.SnagAJob.com
SnagAJob currently has over 100,000 jobs posted on the site nationwide, with employers like The Home Depot, Rite Aid, Boston Market, T-Mobile, Jiffy Lube, and more. Jobs span a variety of industries, including retail, inventory, restaurant, quick service dining, business and personal services, etc.
Informational Interviewing:
-Informational Interviewing tutorial at http://www.quintcareers.com/informational_interviewing.html
Volunteering for experience:
-ChicagoVolunteer.net at http://www.chicagovolunteer.net/index.asp
Salary Information
-Salary.com at http://www.salary.com/
-America's Career Infonet Wages and Trends at http://www.acinet.org/acinet/default.htm?tab=wagesandtrends
TradeVibes http://www.tradevibes.com/company
Discover, find and share opinions and information about cool startups.
Voolkan http://www.voolkan.com/
This new job site has many jobs within it and you can narrow your search by which area of the city or suburbs you want to work in.
GOVERNMENT/NONPROFIT
USA JOBS http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/
The primary website for federal jobs at agencies around the country including FBI, GSA, State Department, NIH, etc. However, each individual agency may also have its own website with career information as well.
Partnership for Public Service www.calltoserve.org
A non-partisan organization dedicated to revitalizing the Federal Civil Service, lots of information about Civil Service jobs in all areas.
Student Jobs www.studentjobs.gov
An introduction to Federal Jobs, including information on co-ops, internships, summer and volunteer work, etc., as well as full-time opportunities.
Idealist.org http://www.idealist.org
Information about nonprofit and community agencies around the world, as well as volunteer opportunities, job, and internship listings.
Opportunity Knocks.org http://www.opportunitynocs.org
Listings of nonprofit jobs and career opportunities
Illinois Job Bank: http://www.ajb.org/il/
Employment information and job listings for Illinois.
NPO.net http://www.npo.net/
Link to nonprofit job opportunities and resources in the Chicago area.
ARTS
A free resource listing all "behind-the-scenes" jobs in the live entertainment industry.
Chicago Creative Directory www.creativedir.com/
Creative Hotlist www.creativehotlist.com
Film, Television, and Theater jobs http://jobsearch.about.com/od/filmtvjobs/Film_Television_and_Theatre_Jobs.htm
Film, television and theater job listings, auditions, employment classifieds and career resources compiled by about.com
BUSINESS/CORPORATE
Crain’s Chicago Business http://www.chicagobusiness.com
Provides daily Chicago business news and lists of top Chicago corporations.
Hoovers Online www.hoovers.com
Provides comprehensive company and industry information. Search by company, people, industry, or recent news.
Wall Street Journal www.collegejournal.com
Job search and career advice for undergraduate, graduate, and MBA students. A very useful and comprehensive site.
Wet Feet www.wetfeet.com
Comprehensive site with business career information. Register for free to use the internship search to locate internship opportunities.
Accountant Jobs Chicago http://www.accountantjobschicago.com/
Register for free, post your resume, and search for Chicago area job openings.
Audit Jobs Chicago http://auditjobschicago.com/
Register for free, post your resume, and search for Chicago area job openings.
Accounting.com http://accounting.com
Search for accounting jobs by location or by company. Also includes links to accounting associations and state CPA societies.
Site for Economics http://www.leprechaun.com/econ.html
List of job searching and industry resources.
UIC Center for Urban Business http://www.uic.edu/cba/cub/
Assists entrepreneurs in starting and growing their enterprises. Website includes valuable information about starting a business.
OneWire Finance www.OneWire.com
Online career management tool that creates precise connections between individuals and opportunities. The world's top financial services firms are currently using OneWire to hire candidates for open positions. To be considered, you must create a profile.
Ready for Finance http://www.ready-for-finance.com/
Interested in a career in finance? Ready-For-Finance is your source. Interview skills, summer and full-time job opportunities, industry news, pre-MBA info, advice from experts and more. All introduced by the Toigo Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to helping minorities pursue careers in finance. Get going - get ready for finance.
Riley Guide Job Listings—Finance and Accounting
http://www.rileyguide.com/finance.html
Provides useful links for the actuarial, finance, accounting, investment, insurance, and lending industries.
Financial Jobs http://www.financialjobs.com/
Provides job listings, career information, and links to helpful resources.
Consulting Magazine http://www.consultingmag.com/
Job listings and information about the consulting industry.
Green Book http://www.greenbook.org/
Directory of marketing research firms.
Chicago AMA http://www.chicagoama.org/
The Chicago Chapter of the American Marketing Association provides job listings as well as networking and volunteering opportunities.
Know This: Marketing Virtual Library http://www.knowthis.com/careers/employment.htm
Information about careers in marketing as well as links to over ten internet sites that post marketing-related job openings.
Careers in Real Estate http://www.realtor.org/realtororg.nsf/pages/careers
From the National Association of Realtors.
Society for Human Resource Management http://www.shrm.org/
Includes information on a wide range of human resources areas. Job postings are listed by location, job title and posting date.
EDUCATION
Local
Academy for Urban School Leadership http://www.ausl-chicago.org/
Attracts, trains, and retains Chicago's next generation of exceptional teachers and school leaders.
Chicago Public Schools www.cps-humanresources.org
Information on a career with Chicago Public Schools. Apply online.
Cook County Suburban Regional Office of Education http://www.cook.k12.il.us
Teacher/Administrator Vacancies.
Illinois Association of School Administrators:
http://www.illinoiseducationjobbank.org/pages/
IL State Board of Education http://www.isbe.state.il.us
A statewide vacancy bulletin with links to districts.
K-12jobs.com http://www.k12jobs.com/
A free service listing thousands of teaching jobs and administrative positions at all levels in public, private and religious schools. Plus job fairs listings and many other K-12 job resources.
National Center for Alternative Certification http://www.teach-now.org/
the National Center for Alternative Certification is a one-stop, comprehensive clearinghouse for information about alternative routes to certification in the United States.
Northwest Personnel Administrators http://nwpa.oprfhs.org
NWPA is a consortium of 19 high school districts located north and west of the City of Chicago.
Direct links to each district are available at the site.
Office of Catholic Schools (Chicago) http://schools.archdiocese-chgo.org/
Position announcements and links to Catholic schools and districts in Illinois.
National
Academic Employment Network www.academploy.com
Lists available positions in colleges, primary and secondary educational institutions for faculty, staff, and administrative professionals
Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/jobs/
For those interested in higher education and academia, or with doctoral degrees.
Education America www.educationamerica.net
Education Degree www.educationdegree.com
Includes over 20,000 teacher education degree and certificate programs, offered by over 1,400 colleges and school districts across the US, reviewed and compiled by hand from the college and district websites.
Educational Placement Service www.teacherjobs.com
A large teacher placement service, accredited by Nat’l Association of Teacher Agencies.
Education World www.education-world.com/jobs
Education Employment Center provides Education World's e-mail jobs newsletter and access to non-job-seeking education resources as well.
Footprints www.footprintsrecruiting.com
An ESL teacher placement agency that recruits teachers and university graduates to teach English abroad.
National Minority Careers in Education www.deptofed.org
The site offers resources for education jobs such as education expos (job fairs)/recruitment fairs, and job conferences on a regular basis for employment seekers.
Teach For America www.Teachforamerica.com
The national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools.
UNI Overseas Placement Service www.uni.edu/placement/overseas
The University of Northern Iowa (UNI) Overseas Placement Service for Educators connects international K-12 schools with certified educators year round. Services offered include an overseas recruiting fair, referral services, and related publications.
Escape Artist. Com http://www.escapeartist.com/jobs/overseas1.htm
A wealth of information about living and working in different countries, a great resource even if you don’t find the right job listing here.
Foreign Labor Certification Data Center
http://www.flcdatacenter.com/
The Foreign Labor Certification Data Center is the location of the Online Wage Library for prevailing wage determinations, and the disclosure databases for the temporary and permanent programs. You can also find out which companies have applied to hire H1-b candidates.
Overseas Jobs http://www.overseasjobs.com/
Includes information about jobs, internships, part-time, and temporary jobs around the world.
International IT Jobs
http://www.iitjobs.com/
This site focuses in IT jobs in the United States and other countries throughout the world. More than 5000 jobs are listed.
A liberal arts degree teaches you many transferable skills that can be applied to a variety of jobs. Thus it is difficult to designate sites that are specifically for LAS graduates. Instead we encourage you to look at sites that fit the type of job you are interested in pursuing. These may include sites for jobs in general, in business, in social services, in government and nonprofit organizations, and in the sciences, as well as positions located nationally and internationally.
Career and Job Exploration:
-JobProfiles.org at http://www.jobprofiles.org/index.htm
-Occupational Outlook Handbook at http://www.bls.gov/oco/
-America's Career Infonet at http://www.acinet.org/acinet/
-O*NET OnLine at http://online.onetcenter.org/
-Illinois Career Information System at http://www.ilworkinfo.com/icrn.htm
Click on Internet CIS, entire ID iletc and password: etc99
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY/ENGINEERING
Chem Jobs http://www.cen-chemjobs.org/
Affiliated with the American Chemical Society, the premier resource for Chemistry careers information.
ComputerJobs.Com www.computerjobs.com
A large site with computer-related job postings and career information.
Dice http://www.dice.com
Technology jobs and related information.
Engineer Jobs www.engineerjobs.com
A basic job listing site of engineering jobs.
Engineering Jobs www.engineeringjobs.com
Information on engineering jobs, employers, and links to related sites.
Jobs In Logistics http://jobsinlogistics.com
Find careers in Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation, Freight Forwarding, 3PL, Distribution, Purchasing and Manufacturing
Mathematical Association of America http://www.maa.org/students/career.html
Career and employment resources for mathematics students
Next Wave www.nextwave.org
Affiliated with Science magazine, career resources for scientists of all levels.
Operation Jobs http://www.operations-jobs.com/
Comprehensive list of operations, production, and transportation jobs.
Science Jobs http://www.sciencejobs.com/myjobs/myjobs.action
Job Seekers can search for vacancies, store resumes, register for our Jobs Email Alert service, and apply for jobs online in the science fields.
Tech-Centric. Net http://www.tech-centric.net/
Tech-Centric.net is a leading technology job portal, providing students and graduates thousands of daily openings throughout the country, FT, PT, internships and co-op related jobs.
HEALTH SCIENCES
American Public Health Association’s Career Mart http://www.apha.org/career/
Career information and job postings.
Association of American Medical Colleges http://www.aamc.org/students/considering/start.htm
Information about medical careers and advice about getting into medical school.
Public Health Employment Connection http://www.sph.emory.edu/ASPH/index.html
Association of Schools of Public Health employment information center.
Health Care Jobs Online http://www.hcjobsonline.com/
America’s Healthcare Resource http://www.healthcaresource.com/
Named best healthcare job-hunting site by the American Hospital Association.
Hospital Jobs Online http://hospitaljobsonline.com
Over 20,000 jobs in hospitals, including 3 specialty areas of nursing, allied health, and M.D.s
Medzilla http://www.medzilla.com
Jobs in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, science, medicine, and healthcare.
Pam Pohly’s Net Guide http://www.pohly.com/links.shtml
A great collection of healthcare employment resources and links.
Therapy Jobs http://www.therapyjobs.com
Job postings and career resources for all “therapy” areas: speech, physical, occupational, respiratory, radiation, massage, and music.
GovMedCareers http://www.GovMedCareers.com
A comprehensive site devoted exclusively to healthcare professionals in the government sector.
If you do not find a relevant job site from the above list, there are many more out there, these are just a few. You may want to do a more specific search by using Google/Yahoo/Your preferred search engine, using keywords of the types of industries and jobs you are looking for.
But again, remember: the internet is not the best way to find a job, there is no substitute for in-person networking and following individualized job search strategies! We also have a variety of job postings in binders in our office.
Call Career Services at 312-996-2300 to find out how we can help!