University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa

Career Library

Online Career Library through VAULT.Com

The link to the Online Career Library can also be found on UD's Library webpage at

http://www.vault.com/cb/careerlib/careerlib_main.jsp?parrefer=7035

This is funded through the University of Dubuque's Charles C. Myers Library, the Office of Career & Life Services, and the Diamond Program.

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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:

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) www.standardandpoors.com

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

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

Hoovers (Free Basic Company Info) www.hoovers.com

Edgar (SEC & Annual Reports) www.edgaronline.com

Wall Street Research Network www.wsm.com

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

Inc. (Small Business) www.inc.com

Biz Web www.bizweb.com

Companies Online www.companiesonline.com

Fast Company www.fastcompany.com

Red Herring www.herring.com

SEC Information www.wecinfo.com

Thomas Register www.thomasregister.com

Corp Tech 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 www.investools.com

Labor Statistics www.jobstar.org

Business Week www.businessweek.com

Forbes www.forbes.com

Fortune www.fortune.com

Value line 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:

www.simplyhired.com

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

www.monster.com

www.hotjobs.com

www.nationjob.com

www.careerjournal.com