Remedy Online Job Hunting Sites
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Local Job Hunting Tools
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Remedy-Tyler  |
| Still the ONLY web site in Tyler for job hunting that is updated daily and includes only really open jobs, not generic job titles or generic job categories. Over 180 unique job seekers visit our web site a day (making it one of Tyler's leading web sites for daily traffic!). |
Tyler Junior College's Career Services  |
| Bryan Baker, TJC's Career Services Director, has a comprehensive web site for helping students find good jobs. Mr. Baker regularly referes good students to Remedy Intelligent Staffing. Remedy also regularly holds job fairs at TJC. |
UT Tyler's Career Services  |
| Krista Richardson, UT Tyler's Career Services Director, does a great job of helping UT Tyler students find good work. UT Tyler frequently refers good students to Remedy Intelligent Staffing. |
| Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce |
| The mission of the Tyler Area Chamber of Commerce is to promote the economic well-being and the quality of life of all citizens in Tyler and Smith County. Job seekers can use this site to research the companies that call Tyler home. |
| Tyler Economic Development Council |
| The TEDC promotes economic growth in Tyler. This site provides job seekers with access to helpful information on local employers, wages, and the community. |
| East Texas Better Business Bureau |
| The BBB includes information about local members. Remedy is proud to be a BBB member. Job hunters and companies exploring temporary help services, like Remedy, can check out these BBB publications online: "Choosing the Right Temporary Agency for Your Business"; "Tips on Employment Services"; and "Tips on Using a Temporary Services Agency." |
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Career Exploration
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| Occupational Outlook Quarterly |
| The US Government's quarterly magazine on occupational issues is especially valuable this issue. In this issue, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has developed projections of occupational employment, industry employment, and the labor force through 2008. |
| Quintessential Careers |
| Comprehensive job advice site. Great online tutorials for resume development, interviewing, and more! |
| Career Women |
| Helping women achieve success in their careers and lives. |
| Work 4 Women |
| A site that encourages women to seek careers in non-traditional occupations for women. Nontraditional Occupations (NTOs) are jobs in which 25 percent or less of the workforce is female. |
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Job Humor
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| I Should Be Working |
| Take a break at ISBW for online games, jokes, and categorized links to the best non-productive websites. |
| Copier Madness |
| Ever wonder where those humorous jokes that others copy and pass along at work come from. Well, this web site is certain to be involved somehow. |
| Humor Bin |
| A wealth of job-related and other humor. |
| Dilbert Zone |
| A bunch of fun stuff to do... visit the TV zone, see the cartoon strip of the day, etc. |
| Schmooze and Grow Rich |
| Check out the video on how to arrive to work and the postcard collection. The Pesky Boss game can also be a challenge. |
| Dobhran's Humorama |
| Tired of sending out forwarded jokes with scads of ">>>" every line? Send these hand-picked humorous Greetings instead! All PG rated or cleaner. No vulgar jokes. Plenty of redneck and lawyer jokes, plus many, many other jokes. |
| Alligators and Motivators |
| There's an old tale that has as its punchline: "When you're knee deep in alligators, you don't have time to drain the swamp!" This site is offered in hopes that hearing about other people's 'alligators' may make your own seem less fierce, and that hearing how others have 'drowned the swamp' may provide inspiration for you to solve your own problems. |
| Brainbench Fun Tests |
| Want to have some fun testing your knowledge of trivia? Go to this site and take one of several fun tests, including tests of your knowledge of Gilligan's Island, Dilbert, rock 'n' roll, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. |
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Career Assessment
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| Self-Directed Search |
| The Self-Directed Search will help you to discover which three RIASEC types you are most like. Then it will help you determine which occupations or fields of study are likely to match your individual type. It costs $7.95 online, but it delivers a wealth of good information. |
| The Keirsey Temperament Sorter II |
| The Keirsey Character Sorter is designed to identify different kinds of personality. It is similar to other devices derived from Carl Jung's theory of "psychological types," such as the Myers-Briggs, the Singer-Loomis, and the Grey-Wheelright. |
The Platinum Rule  |
This FREE self-evaluation will identify your dominant behavioral style and offer advice on how to be more compatible with other styles different than your own.
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| Kingdomality |
| Fun, but likely not real helpful, assessment of your "midieval" personality. |
| Career Key |
| A FREE assessment aimed at helping job seekers make smart career decisions. |
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Job Hunting eZines
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| Career Magazine |
| More information helpful to job seekers and recruiters both. |
| Workforce Online |
| Great weekly eZine for everyone involved in HR.. job seekers to employment professionals. |
| Hard At Work |
| Overall eZine about work, including job hunting. |
| Advancing Women |
| Advancing Women is a B2B hub, and business resource destination offering online an array of technology, services, and support for Women Business owners. Advancing Women targets female business executives who are seeking quick access to efficient and cost-effective business solutions. Check out the career and workplace channels. |
| Working Wounded |
| WorkingWounded.com is "a place of refuge, a place to have fun, a place to be alone or to visit with friends." Bob Rosner, the site's author, likes to think of it as “Adding insight to injury.” The popular Working Wounded column cuts through the hoo-haw and gives solid advice on a variety of workplace issues. |
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Training & Development
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| Learn It Online |
| LearnItOnline is a service that gives you access to a library of online computer training courses. We deliver a realistic, interactive simulation of the software environment right to your desktop, so it looks and feels as if you were running the actual software. LearnItOnline delivers fully interactive software training to your desktop anytime and anywhere. Use it to learn new skills, as a just-in-time reference at work, or as a post-class review tool. |
| Blackboard |
| Blackboard.com is a FREE service that enables instructors to add an online component to their classes, or even host an entire course on the Web. Without knowing any HTML, you can quickly create your own CourseSiteTM - a Web site that brings your learning materials, class discussions, and even tests online. |
| Free Skills |
| This site currently hosts over 200 full online training courses - Over 35,000 pages of professionally developed, high quality content pages. |
| Online Small Business Administration Classroom |
| The Small Business Classroom is an on-line resource for training and informing entrepreneurs and other students of enterprise. It is a new -- easy to use -- dimension in entrepreneurial training. The classroom is designed to educate and provide interactive business guidance on a variety of topics to many types of students. Besides "traditional" small business clients, the on-line classroom will benefit high school and college students, individuals with time and travel limitations, people with disabilities, international business resources and others. |
| What Is? |
| whatis® is a knowledge exploration tool about information technology, especially about the Internet and computers. It contains over 2,000 individual encyclopedic definition/topics and a number of quick-reference pages. The topics contain about 12,000 hyperlinked cross-references between definition-topics and to other sites for further information. We try hard to keep it up-to-date. |
| e-Learning Center |
| Whether it's certification training for A+ or MCSE, training in motivation or negotiation, or Microsoft Office tutorials, you can find the training solution you need at this site. |
| Barnes & Noble Online University |
| Barnes & Noble has combined your passion for knowledge with their love of books, music, software, and video to bring you the future in learning. Sign up for a variety of FREE online courses, including promising courses in relevant areas for job seekers (e.g., networking, communication skills, company research skills, and job hunting). |
| Free Edu |
| FreeEdu.com is an Internet-based learning company whose goal is to offer free online education to the general public. Through free access to hundreds of online courses — from kindergarten through postgraduate – FreeEdu.com will establish the ‘Net’s most extensive e-education environment. Current courses concentrate on technology and business skills that lead to professional certification and enhanced employment potential for students. FreeEdu.com’s objective is to build the largest "e-education" community on the Internet. |
| A Beginner's Guide to Effective e-Mail |
| We receive so many poorly written e-mails that we are convinced nearly everyone could benefit from this site. This is not a document on the mechanics of sending email - which buttons to push or how to attach a photograph. Those details are different for every different email software package, and are better handled by manuals for the program. This document instead focuses on the content of an email message: how to say what you need to say. don't think of this as email etiquette (commonly called netiquette) because these guidelines don't merely show you how to be a nice person. These guidelines show you how to be more efficient, clear, and effective. |
| Take A Class.Com |
| This is the web's finest site for continuing education and personal development! We provide the ultimate learning resource for adults, identifying opportunities and offerings for: professional development; continuing education and learning; and learning as a path to life enhancement and personal growth. |
| CEO Express |
| As information has proliferated, technology has become more complex, and jobs have become more competitive and time consuming, executives have sought ways to make their lives easier. CEOExpress Company addresses the growing demands on professionals and their firms for tools to help them save time and work more productively. |
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Resumes
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| Showcase Your "Home Run" Accomplishments |
| Written records of your work results, achievements, successes, and accomplishments are the heart of your marketing campaign. They explain the essence of your "track record." You will use your written accomplishments in at least three places: the resume, marketing letters and face-to-face meetings. |
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Employer Research
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| Fortune 500 |
| In an era obsessed with pint-sized enterprises rich in potential and little else, the FORTUNE 500 remains the ultimate yardstick of real corporate achievement. A single measure has always determined membership in the 500: revenues. |
| Web 100 |
| The Web100 tracks the largest American and international companies on the Web (ranked by revenue), listing these corporate giants along with their Fortune® 500 and Global 500 rankings. |
| Fortune Ten Most & Least Admired Companies |
| You hear the same complaint everywhere, in virtually every business: We can't attract enough good employees. The Fed warns that tight labor threatens to make inflation worrisome again. Yet the ten Most Admired Companies attract far more applicants than they need, by an even greater ratio (on average) than Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For. |
| Information Week 500 |
| Each year, the InformationWeek 500 analyzes and ranks the most innovative corporate users of information technology. |
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Community Research
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| Money Magazine's Best Places to Live in America |
| A strong economy, good schools, cultural and recreational opportunities, and safety -- on the streets, in the air and in the drinking water. Together they make these cities the favorites of Money Magazine. |
| Home Fair |
| Thinking about relocating? Check out this site to compare locations on cost of living, safety, salaries, etc., and to explore the positive and negative features of potential job locations. |
| Virtual Relocation |
| When it comes to moving, this site puts you in the driver's seat. Its objective information, relocation tools, and resources can help you accomplish your move, whether you're dreaming about a new place to live, moving, or settling into a new location. |
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Career Trends & Challenges
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| US News Career Guide |
No one has ever seen a job market like this one. Companies and CEOs are growing richer, but the average employee is getting puny raises. This year, 17 million American workers will quit for new, better-paying jobs. Should you be one of them?
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| On the Edge of the Digital Age |
| The digital revolution is real and is starting now. Here's your chance to learn about the new technology, listen to the visionaries, peer into the future. (Published in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune). |
| Monthly Labor Review |
| Established in 1915, Monthly Labor Review is the principal journal of fact, analysis, and research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor. Each month, economists, statisticians, and experts from the Bureau join with private sector professionals and State and local government specialists to provide a wealth of research in a wide variety of fields—the labor force, the economy, employment, inflation, productivity, occupational injuries and illnesses, wages, prices, and many more. |
| Best Years |
| So how do you find a new job at midlife? What if you must change not only jobs but careers? |
| The 21st Century Corporation |
| New leaders, new visions, new priorities: Are you ready for the workplace of the future? Excellent double issue of Business Week (August 27, 2000). |
| Stress at Work |
| The nature of work is changing at whirlwind speed. This 1999 booklet, published by the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) highlights knowledge about the causes of stress at work and outlines steps that can be taken to prevent work stress. |
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Interviewing
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Career Success
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| How To Retire |
| Strategies for building a smart portfolio, forecasting your living costs, choosing a second career, and lots more. |
| Savings Tools |
| The American Savings Education Council, in an effort to create a better understanding of savings issues, is developing user-friendly educational materials to educate Americans on the need to save, assist individuals in setting their savings goals, provide basic steps to follow to achieve savings goals, answer frequently asked questions, and direct individuals to other sources of information. Selected materials are available in hard copy as well as online. |
| National Partners for Financial Empowerment |
| The National Partners for Financial Empowerment (NPFE) is a growing coalition of consumer and community organizations, corporations, business organizations, federal, state and local governments, and non-profit groups dedicated to helping improve personal finance skills, including money management, saving, investing and credit in United States today. Certainly, your career is not a success if you don't retire with money in the bank. |
| Envision: Life After College |
| As thousands of college students graduate and merge into an already-swelling economy, many are fighting for jobs in one of the tightest job markets ever. But the transition from campus to cubicle only begins with the job search. There are apartments to rent, loans to pay off, cars to buy, to name a few. WomenCONNECT.com and USATODAY.com offer you "Envision: Life After College" as a guide to taking these next big steps in life. (July 13, 2000; USA Today) |
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Job Hunting
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| Job Hunter's Bible |
| This site is designed as a supplement to the top selling job hunting book by Dick Bolles - "What Color Is Your Parachute?". It includes numerous links to helpful job hunting information. |
| Job Star |
| Looking for a job or planning a career? You're in the right place to start your career, plan your job campaign or negotiate a good salary. This is a very comprehensive site produced for Californians, but useful to everyone. |
| Ask The Headhunter |
| America's Employment System is broken and almost everything you know about job hunting and hiring is wrong. Throw away your resume or job description and Ask The Headhunter. This comprehensive site provides information of value to job seekers and employers. |
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Compensation & Benefits
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| Salary.Com |
| Salary.com is the leader in online compensation information for individuals, business managers and human resource professionals. Salary.com provides accurate, authoritative compensation data and content online, at no charge. Based in Wellesley, Mass., Salary.com offers the most in-depth coverage of salary information over a comprehensive set of industries and thousands of job titles. The Salary Wizard, Salary.com's flagship compensation tool, lets users research what a job should pay in three quick steps. |
| Wage Web |
Free salary data online for over 150 benchmark positions.
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| Economic Research Institute |
| Review projected Occupational Employment Statistics compensation based on 1998-2000 data. The OES survey data is a non-copyrighted U.S. survey. |
| Salary Quiz |
| A baker's dozen salary questions to see what you know (or don't) about negotiating your salary. |
| Job Star Salary Tools |
| Salary surveys and much more. Check out the Salary IQ self-test and salary negotiation strategies. |
| Texas ComputerJobs.Com: Salary Surveys |
| What are your IT job skills worth in today's rapidly changing technology field? On this site are some of the current online salary surveys and related articles. |
| Social Security Retirement Planner |
This Social Security retirement planner will help you find more information about your Social Security retirement benefits and how they will affect your retirement plans.
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