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[Careers Online] Employment Opportunities
The internet is being used more and more to search for job opportunities and many services have been developed to help people find employment (usually with no fee for the job seeker) and help employers find potential employees (typically requiring a fee to be paid by the potential employer).

Although many of the services are for professionals or job-seekers with considerable experience, exploring these services can help you and your friends learn what are the hot employment areas, what companies are looking for workers, how you might compete for such jobs, and what qualifications you will need to be able to get the job listed.

The Job-Link database has been designed specifically for people seeking new jobs or careers. You can submit your personal profile.

National Career Search Career Magazine retrieves all the job postings that are listed by internet newsgroups. The postings are searchable by location, job title or the skills required. Employer profiles are included along with articles related to the business of job seeking.

If you are seeking a job in the United States, a good source is America's Job Bank. You will also be able to find links here to employment services in each state. Provides information on more than 100,000 jobs in the U.S., mostly in the military and federal government. This service has been rated one of the best on the internet.

For jobs around the world, check out the CareerMosaic database. You can search for jobs by a variety of criteria and also read profiles of the world's leading companies.

A highly interactive site that matches user profiles to job openings is E-Span. You can complete a form describing your education, experience, salary requirements, desired position, and other resume data. Employers post job openings and may list screening questions.

If you want to fill-out a structured resume or search for an online job centre, try Intellimatch.

A free resume referral service is available from the Internet Employment Network and they also have a large database of all occupational categories.

For professional jobs there is an Online Career Service that matches professional talent with the industry's hottest employers.

JobBank USA - A great website that specializes in providing career information including job and resume database services to job candidates, employers and recruitment firms in the U.S. and worldwide. A highly-rated service that is useful for entry-level job seekers and includes a take-off point for experienced workers is the JobWeb. Job listings are updated on a daily basis.

While not an interactive job opportunity system, The Occupational Outlook Handbook provides a hugh database of job descriptions.

For more technical oriented jobs as well as a good listing of business and commercial information useful to the job seeker, try JobHunt.

Job City is a multimedia learning system developed in Florida that teaches career awareness for grades 4-8 through reading, writing, social studies, fine arts, math and science activities and experiments. Download the Mac or DOS version of their software package.

One of the advantages of the internet is that there are sites such as the one you are using right now that organize and bring together various resources. PC Computing Magazine has accomplished this task with their Career and Job Search page. In addition to finding the sites already provided in this list, you can also access:

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