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This site offers daily news for online job hunters as well as other resources.

A source of information on job hunting with articles on topics such as staying motivated, appropriate attire, finding a health-conscious company, aligning your job with your values, getting the right references, surviving the cold call, job hunting strategies, and more.

Advice on how to conduct a successful job search with resume, networking and interviewing tips.

Information on this site includes answers to users' letters, resume writing tutorials, interview and salary negotiating tips, and access to top career sites.

An article on how to get your job search started with a model time line (published in The Wall Street Journal: National Business Employment Weekly).

This job search guide offers information covering researching the job market and conducting the job search. Other areas covered include assessing skills and interests, and writing resumes and cover letters.

This site from Virginia Tech offers some good resources in the following categories: resumes & vitae, correspondence, email use in the job search, telephone use in the job search, references, finding jobs and employers, face to face with employers, deciding on a job offer, and more.

Advice on how to plan and organize a job search. Site includes .pdf files including: job search schedule, networking log, job lead worksheet, values checklist, goal identification worksheet, resume worksheet, and a reference sheet. Also includes many more tips and articles.

Articles published in the Los Angles Times pertinent to finding a job. Topics include getting the job search started, selling yourself and getting a job you want.

Collection of more than 43 articles related to the job search from The Wall Street Journal, The Journal's Interactive Edition and The National Business Employment Weekly.

Learn better ways to conduct your search in a roundup of tools and tips for finding work on the Web.

Leading recruiter Eunice Azzani outlines how to grow the career of your dreams. Includes following advice: tell a story and practice your four Ps (passion, priorities, planning, perseverance).

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Job Search, Career Resources, and Community features for students (not just MBAs but several current MBA Depot members found the site via this source so I guess MBAs are using it).

LeadersOnline is a quality, full service Internet-based executive search firm from Heidrick & Struggles--one of the world's leading executive recruiting company (in partnership with BusinessWeek). Get email alerts for job postings matching your interests. Also find news and advice, company profiles, and tools.

There's only one place to start you next job search - on the Web. Here's the ultimate guide to writing a great online resume, posting it on the best sites, and choosing the right job.

Executive Job Site for 50K + Positions

Think of CareerOneStop as the Public Broadcasting Service for job hunters. The site is funded by federal grants to states, and operated as a federal-state partnership. The site offers a wealth of nationwide information for the job seeker, the employer seeking to hire, and the already employed person looking to advance their career. For those seeking employment, you'll find job listings from entry level to CEO, and you can post your own resume for others to evaluate. Here also is information on the fastest-growing industries, career clusters, and, if you are lucky in your search, tips on salary negotiation. Employers can sift candidates by location, skills, and a variety of other characteristics. For those looking to enhance their careers, you'll find information on job trends, skill assessment, and education and training opportunities in your industry. The site offers access to America's Job Bank, America's Career InfoNet, and America's Service Locator.

Many candidates conduct job-search campaigns by sending out resumes. An executive recruiter explains why this tactic weakens their chances -- and offers a new approach.

It isn't wrong to seek informational meetings when what you really want is a job. Here's how to advance your career through such exploratory talks.

Headhunters and candidates aim for the same goal: bagging a job. But although recruiters can assist you in finding a position, you'll have to do some homework on your own.

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Despite conventional wisdom you do not want to start your job search with a major resume effort. Shifting your focus away from this dreaded document can actually help land you a position. Take this quiz to test your job-search savvy.

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Published in October 2005, Good, Green Jobs is GreenBiz.com's go-to guide to landing the environmental job of your dreams. The distinction between "mainstream" and "environmental" fields is a thing of the past; find out why your ideal job might be located in an unexpected sector. This briefing is chock-full of resources and tools to help you navigate your job search successfully, from composing a killer resume to nailing that interview.

Learn what recruiters are doing behind the scenes through the holiday season and get some insights into the executive recruiting world.

We frequently hear from job-seekers who are frustrated with job-hunting on the Internet. They have posted their resume on the major job boards or searched for and responded to job postings -- but have heard nothing back from employers.

Let's face it -- the sheer volume of resumes and job postings on the major job boards make it hard for the individual job-seeker to get an employer's attention. The aim of this article is to help you get the most out of job-searching on the 'Net and to make you aware of Internet job-search techniques you may not have known about.

When your job is in jeopardy or no longer satisfying you can build a strong foundation for finding new employment. Here's how.

Learn how to get better results when seeking opportunities online. A roundup of some lesser-known, but effective techniques.

Want a great job? Cut out the middleman and go straight to the players themselves. Here's how.

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It takes a multitiered, multichanneled approach to succeed in a job search. This means a campaign that includes ad responses, executive job lead reports, Internet resume postings and distributions, targeted print mail campaigns, email broadcast campaigns and an intensive networking effort. Here's how to craft your strategy.

Have your eye set on a six-figure salary? Use these tips to identify lucrative opportunities advertised on the Web.

When it comes to connecting with the right job opportunity, timing isn't everything, but it's certainly something. Tuning into industries' and employers' annual recruitment cycles just might give you a decisive edge. That's the consensus of recruiters and employers with fingers on the pulse of seasonal variations in hiring. Here's a quarter-by-quarter summary of how these hiring dynamics play out.