Recommended Employment Databases

***Search Jobs & Career Fairs by State Databases

Job Central's National Labor Exchange provides information regarding employment opportunities and career fairs through each state's workforce development site  http://www.jobcentral.com/states.asp

***UD's Affiliation (NACE Link)  

National Association of Colleges and Employers Job Database http://central.nacelink.com/index.php

***Tob Job Databases 

America's Job Bank http://www.ajb.dni.us/

Career Builder http://www.careerbuilder.com/

Career Mosaic http://www.careermosaic.com/

Career Path.com http://www.careerpath.com/

Head hunter.net http://www.headhunter.com/ or http://www.headhunter.net/

Hot jobs.com http://www.hotjobs.com/

Job Options.com http://www.joboptions.com/

Jobs.com http://www.jobs.com/

JobTrak.com http://www.jobtrack.com/

Monster.com http://www.monster.com/

Nation Job Network http://www.nationjob.com/

***Top Employment Search Engines/Databases on the Web (recommendation by the Iowa Association of Internships and Cooperative Education & Career Counseling Professionals of Iowa)

Search Engines

To find information you seek, there are many search engines available. However, google commands about 80% of internet searches. The engines reduce your search time for various topics related to your search including industry, company, and career-related information. Some of the popular search engines include:

http://www.google.com/

http://www.excite.com/

http://www.msn.com/

http://www.lyycos.com/

http://www.infoseek.com/

http://www.yahoo.com/

Blogs

The latest craze seems to be the blogs and discussion boards where you can share information and access expert (and not so expert) information on every topic under the sun. A blog is like a personal journal and is short for web log. They contain content, commentary, links and contacts. To find blogs that mention an organization you may be researching, use one of the search engines and look for the organization's name and the word "blog".

Networking Sites

These sites such as Linkedin are useful to advance your networking and access people who work in industries and companies and who may otherwise not be available to you for networking.

Company Data Bases

The publisher sites for company information are excellent for gathering information on public, as well as, private companies and non-for-profit organizations. Some are free and som fee-based. The best known are:

Dunn & Bradstreet (fee based ratings) www.dnbmdd.com/mddi

Standard & Poors (Stocks & ratings) http://www.standardandpoors.com/

http://www.netadvantage.standardpoor.com/NASApp/NetAdvantage/index.do

Moody's (Stocks & Bonds) http://www.moodys.com/

Hoovers (Free Basic Company Info) http://www.hoovers.com/

Edgar (SEC & Annual Reports) http://www.edgaronline.com/

Wall Street Research Network http://www.wsm.com/

Forbes (Business & Finance) www.forbes.com/200best/

Inc. (Small Business) http://www.inc.com/

Biz Web http://www.bizweb.com/

Companies Online http://www.companiesonline.com/

Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com/

Red Herring http://www.herring.com/

SEC Information http://www.wecinfo.com/

Thomas Register http://www.thomasregister.com/

Corp Tech http://www.corptech.com/

Industry Information Sites

Industry information can be found in many association sites. The following are survey and statistical sources along with business rankings:

Industry Surveys http://www.investools.com/

Labor Statistics http://www.jobstar.org/

Business Week http://www.businessweek.com/

Forbes http://www.forbes.com/

Fortune http://www.fortune.com/

Value line http://www.valueline.com/

NAICS - North American Industry Classification System http://ww.census-gov/.epcd/www/naics.html

Web Crawlers

There areinnumerable job sites and web crawlers to help minimize the time you spendsearching through these sites for potential opportunities that match your background and job goals. That is a good thing because you can expend all your waking hours on surfing the net for job leads! The problem with that strategy is you would not have any time to follow-up on them. With web crawlers, you can reduce your time investment and focus on networking and following -up on potential leads. A couple of user-friendly crawlers forjob leads include:

http://www.simplyhired.com/

http://www.indeed.com/

Career and Job Sites

There are a vast array of career sites sponsored by independent soruces, universities, associations, geographical regions, and publishers. Many also have associated job boards. In addition, there are many separate job boards. Theweb crawlers can minimize your time on these sites; however, there may be some industry-specific, job/career-specific, or executive and college levelssites that are particularly useful to you. These you may wish to routinely check, or they may incorporatea webcrawler to send you listings in your area of search. In addition, many of these sites contain salary information useful in negotiations. Following are some popular sites:

Career sites

http://www.monster.com/

http://www.hotjobs.com/

http://www.nationjob.com/

http://www.careerjournal.com/

www.ajb.dni.us/

http://www.wetfeet.com/

http://www.headhunter.net/

http://www.jobbankusa.com/

http://www.vault.com/

http://www.ceweekly.wa.com/

http://www.net-temps.com/

http://www.classifieds.yahoo.com/

http://www.craigslist.org/

http://www.career.com/

http://www.careermag.com/

http://www.brassring.com/

http://www.careerpath.com/

http://www.cweb.com/

http://www.careerbuilder.com/

http://www.computerjobs.com/

http://www.computerwork.com/

http://www.dice.com/

http://www.efinancialcareeres.com/

http://www.employmentguide.com/

http://www.helathecareersnetwork.com/

http://www.jobsinthemoney.com/

http://www.latpro.com/

http://www.marketingjobs.com/

http://www.talentzoo.com/

http://www.truecareers.com/

http://www.vetjobs.com/

http://www.workopolis.com/

http://www.weddie's.com/

Executive Level:

http://www.execunet.com/

http://www.netshare.com/

http://www.6figurejobs.com/

http://www.theladders.com/

http://www.executivetalent.com/

College Level:

http://www.snagajob.com/

http://www.teens4hire.com/

http://www.collegerecruiter.com/

http://www.campjobs.com/

http://www.summerjobs.com/

http://www.craiglist.com/

Geographic-Specific:

http://www.accessdubuque.com/

http://www.corridorcareers.com/

http://www.iowajobs.org/

http://www.smartcareermove.com/

Compensation Research:

http://www.salary.com/

http://www.salaryexpert.com/

http://www.wsj.com/

Search Consultant Sites:

http://www.kennedyinfo.com/

http://www.tapc.org/

http://www.recruitinglife.org/