EMR Online

Linda Kosmin Langford
IEEE EMS Board of Governors

It is swift and convenient to navigate the Internet in search of employment. Online job banks publicize timely help wanted announcements and invite free resume postings. Many provide other added-value features associated with career planning. These can include salary calculators, interviewing advice, networking chat rooms, subscriptions to e-mail discussion forums, articles about employment trends, certification requirements, and announcements of career fairs. Some sites enable researching industry information and business profiles. Most offer rapid connectivity to other Web pages that enhance the job quest. For instance, there can be links to electronic help wanted advertisements in newspapers and magazines, as well as to job-vacancy listings on professional society bulletin boards or at university placement office Web sites. Some resources offer e-mailings of weekly job opportunity alerts and advice-oriented newsletters. The examples of shared electronic resources in the information pathfinder below are intended to assist, guide, and accelerate processes of a associated with both job searches and recruitment.

Advanced Resumes and Career Strategies
http://www.advancedresumes.com/tips/links.html
Serves as a portal site. Provides rapid connectivity to a growing list of online resources for job seekers including reference checks, resume evaluations by certified professional resume writers, company research resources, and links to newspapers worldwide.

Agency Search U.K.
http://www.agencysearch.co.uk
Maintains International directory of employment agencies and recruitment consultants that can be searched by job type, geographical location, contract or permanent position type and keywords. Entries supply agency contact information, company profiles, and links to Web sites.

AnalyzeMyCareer.com
http://www.analyzemycareer.com
Stresses the advantages of applying psychometrics to career assessment and selection. Provides vocational testing tools to uncover aptitudes, intelligence, interests, and personality traits.

America's Job Bank
http://www.ajb.org/seeker/new/
Offers online access to over a million nationwide job listings and posted resumes. Searches can be geographical by state, as well as by job categories, keywords, and military occupational codes. Links are provided to employer home pages, classified newspaper advertisements, and job vacancy postings by the United States Office of Personnel Management.

Business Week Online (BWOL)
http://www.businessweek.com/careers/index.htm
Under the category Careers, it offers insights and advice to spur careers of middle and top management. Represents a collaborative effort by publisher McGraw-Hill and executive recruiters Heidrick & Struggles, developers of LeadersOnline.

Career Planning
http://careerplanning.about.com/careers/careerplanning
Serves as an overview site covering information about occupations, career choices, employment strategies, resume development, and executive recruiters. Articles and essays address issues such as diversity, mentoring, job loss, unemployment malaise, and job markets. Links are provided to professional societies, trade publications, and classified advertisements.

CareerBuilder, Inc.
http://www.careerbuilder.com/index.cfm
Facilitates access to information about job opportunities and career strategies from over 75 sites across the Internet. Tools are made available to assist with managing online resumes, cover letters, and job leads. Web recruiting services have access to applicant pools at sites categorized by diversity, geographical location, and industry.

Careers on Lycos
http://www.lycos.co.uk/dir/Careers/Recruitment
Provides Web links to firms throughout the world that provide headhunter and other employment services, with emphasis on the United Kingdom.

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Career Network
http://chronicle.com/jobs
Posts weekly job vacancies in academia. Also features informative articles on related topics such as tenure, career growth in non-profit institutions, resume construction, salary comparisons, and roles of sabbaticals.

Engineering Central
http://www.engcen.com
Targets United States job opportunities in chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, manufacturing, and mechanical engineering. Computer/IT jobs are also listed. Added-value features include entry- level job postings, project consultant opportunities, home pages of information resources for engineering disciplines, and engineering related software/shareware (e.g., analysis, control, design).

Findarticles.com
http://www.findarticles.com
Delivers free and immediate access to the full-text of articles from over 300 journals and news services. Many publications cover career development. Most are indexed back to 1998. The search engine supports topic, keyword, and Boolean operators. Links are provided to source periodical Web sites.

Headhunter.net
http://www.headhunter.net/JobSeeker
Consolidates information about recruitment and career services worldwide. Provides links to want ads. Maintains a resume database and provides e-mail alerts compatible with job seeker profiles. Supports offline career fairs. Facilitates writing cover letters, designing resumes, and completing job applications.

JobFactory
http://www.jobfactory.com
Serves as an international portal to over 1,000 online newspapers, 23,000 job referral sites, and 1,000 recruiter sites. Posts particulars for over 3,000 telephone joblines. Maintains an employer Web address directory and provides direct links to their job postings. Added-value features include salary calculators, information about vocational schools, and links to disability rehabilitation programs.

Kennedy Information
http://www.kennedyinfo.com/ourprods/prodframes.html
Focuses on career-oriented information. Provides free online examples of its fee-based Web databases, print directories, and newsletters. Products track detailed information about recruitment agents (a.k.a., headhunters), consultants, outplacement firms, and sources of venture capital.

Labor Law Posters
http://www.govdocs.com/posters
Furnishes at-a-glance, timely United States federal and state compliance requirements for equal employment opportunity, minimum wage, and OSHA.

Mapping Your Future
http://mapping-your-future.org
Provides comprehensive advice about colleges, financial aid, work-study programs, and early career a planning strategies. Hyperlinks speed access to in-depth information and online application forms.

Monster.com
http://www.monster.com
Serves as an international job-search and comprehensive career services site. Facilitates recruitment and hiring processes. Invites job seekers to format and post resumes, network by participation in discussion forums, personalize online searching tools, and subscribe to employment-oriented newsletter. Provides detailed company profiles.

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2000-2001 Edition
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/
The United States Bureau of Labor provides full text access to this electronic version of their biannual print publication. Is a compendia of detailed -information about vocations, work environments, training perspectives, salary potentials, and employment prospects. Provides comprehensive coverage of occupations including professional, administrative, and trade categories.

Science Web: Career Descriptions
http://www.scienceweb.org/can/careers/describe.html
Defines scopes of professions. Explains roles and responsibilities such as key work activities, suggested education and training, career opportunities, and industry insights.

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