Posted in Career Advice Generation Y Recommended Resources Women on January 14, 2008 at 11:35 am
Happy Monday! Here are five new resources for college students and young professionals. As always, please let me know if you have additional resources to recommend.
Go BIG Network
Interested in working for a start-up company? This is the site for you. The Go BIG Network is an on-line marketplace that connects the start-up and small business community. Check out the job board feature to search for current opportunities.
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Idealist.org Career Center
If the nonprofit world is your thing, the Idealist.org Career Center is the place to find your dream job or find resources to continue growing in your nonprofit career. Don’t miss the online nonprofit career guides, developed by the Idealist.org College and University Career Services Advisory Board.
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PINK Magazine
My first job out of grad school was at the now-defunct Working Woman magazine. PINK is the first publication to fill the void. PINK is a magazine for women who are at the top–or heading to the top–of their careers. I’m a subscriber and I have written a few articles for the magazine. Be sure to visit the online Knowledge Bank, which is full of resources for career-minded women.
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ReputationDefender.com
Find anything scary when you Google yourself? If so, this service can help. ReputationDefender.com is a paid service that will search out all online information about you and then, in the company’s words, “destroy, at your command, all inaccurate, inappropriate, hurtful, and slanderous information about you and/or your child using our proprietary in-house methodology.” Hopefully you won’t need this service–but, if you do, it’s nice to know it exists.
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ScienceCareers.org
Science Careers, a website of Science magazine, helps to match qualified scientists with jobs in industry, academia and government. The site is full of resources for job seekers, including job listings. Check out: 1) the message boards, featuring career development advice; 2) the how-to guides for writing a science career resume; and 3) various online career development booklets—all free!
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@ zak – thanks, I’ll check these out!
I think I’ve mentioned jobvent.com before. I just discovered http://www.trenchmice.com, which covers corporate gossip.
Lindsey, I’ve heard about ReputationDefender.com in the past, and I’m really curious about the tactics they use to “destroy” information online? Let’s suppose they pay (or threaten?) the original content creator into taking the harmful material down. Won’t it still live in the search engines’ cache? Couldn’t you still find it through a search on archive.org? Granted, it would be more difficult to find that information, but not impossible for someone who was willing to do.
So, it just has me wondering … how do they do it?
Thanks for all your wonderful suggestions Lindsey! I look forward to reading each and every one of your blogs!
~Mollie
Thanks for these great sites Lindsey! All your information you post up here is wonderful and SO helpful!! Thanks for your work..
~Mollie
“So you’re going to take a cube job with slow Microsoft, bureaucratic Oracle, or with some boring financial company? C’mon! Do you want spend all of your life wearing modest habits of charcoal grey,..”
http://www.oogalabs.com/about, The ooga CEO says something different.
I think college graduates should spend a lot of time researching what their future jobs would be like to see if they actually like it.
Check out this site, http://www.jobdud.com , it has job reviews of what particular jobs are like so you can make the informed decision if you would working there or not.
@ Miriam – Thanks for the post. I am a fan of your blog too and will add you to my blogroll. Looking forward to sharing more!
Lindsey
I wanted to thank you again for the useful information and advice and let you know that I linked to you in my latest blog about virtual networking. I’m a regular reader and appreciate your approach to the job search!
Take care,
Miriam Salpeter
http://www.keppiecareers.com
http://www.keppiecareers.wordpress.com