Resources for Investing Your Time in a Career

In the last 16 months, more than 5 million people have lost jobs in the U.S. We’ve hit the highest unemployment rate in 25 years. If you find yourself searching for a job for the first time in years, let me give you some resources to get you started. Job searching is time-consuming, and there are so many resources to search through. But I have a couple of links to websites that will help you save time.

All you have to do is type in the job title you’re seeking and the city you’re interested in, and the site does all the work for you by providing an extensive list of jobs with that title or similar titles from thousands of job databases including monster.com, Craigslist, hotjobs, and CareerBuilder. It will also provide actual company website listings, so this makes your job search so much easier. Try these sites:

Now consider when you’ll find the time to actually interview. A lot of companies nowadays are first screening applicants through an initial phone interview. Also, depending on your dream job, you may have to travel to another city for your interview. Here are a couple of cool sites to check out:

And here’s a site that provides numerous options for career testing:

After you’ve taken a career assessment test and received your list of potential jobs that fit your criteria, research jobs that sound interesting by visiting the Occupational Outlook Handbook on at http://www.bls.gov/oco/.