With new education and training comes the opportunity to improve your career! In an effort to encourage continuous growth and success for our students, below you will find some links to websites that offer job postings and websites that offer salary information.

 
UMass Lowell Office of Career Services
The UMass Lowell Office of Career Services strives to help all UMass Lowell students and alumni who want assistance in reaching their employment goals. Whether you are looking for a part-time job, summer job, or internship to gain experience in your field - or if you are ready to search for a full time professional position - UMass Lowell's Office of Career Services can help you to improve your chances of success.

Major Career Sites

 
Monster.com is the leading global online network for careers, connecting the most progressive companies with the most qualified career-minded individuals. Monster.com is committed to leading the market by offering innovative technology and superior services that give consumers and businesses more control over the recruiting process. Monster.com is a lifelong career network job seekers can use to expand their careers, providing continuous access to the most progressive companies, as well as interactive, personalized tools to make the process effective and convenient. Features include My Monster, resume management, a personal job search agent, a careers network, chats and message boards, privacy options, expert advice on job-seeking and career management and free newsletters.

dice.com is the premier job search website for computer professionals, with thousands of high tech permanent, contract, and consulting jobs nationwide.

Yahoo! HotJobs.com, Ltd., headquartered in New York City's Silicon Alley, was founded by Richard Johnson in 1997. The Internet Business Network (IBN) in Mill Valley, Calif., cites HotJobs.com as one of the Top 5 recruiting web sites in its category of over 3,500 competitors, and awards the company the 1997 Excellence in the Electronic Recruiting Industry (EERI) Award. By excluding headhunters and agencies from our site, we provide real jobs from real companies. This means a job seeker is more likely to find and apply to appropriate jobs. By contrast, our business model focuses on a direct exchange of information between the recruiter and the job seeker. Corporate recruiters post jobs by themselves and receive direct responses from job seekers.

America's Job Bank is a partnership between the US Department of Labor and the state operated public Employment Service. The America's Job Bank computerized network links state Employment Service offices to provide job seekers with the largest pool of active job opportunities available anywhere and nationwide exposure for their resumes. In addition to the Internet, the job openings and resumes found in America's Job Bank are available on computer systems in public libraries, college and universities, high school, shopping malls, transition offices on military bases worldwide and other places of public access.

Launched in January 1996, the website Best Jobs U.S.A. has become the premier employment information center for companies and professionals alike. It's a quick access to the popular Best Jobs Database, filled with thousands of jobs targeting a wide variety of industries. Best Jobs U.S.A. is packed with information on career fairs and employment events throughout the country; and candidates can post resumes directly on Best Jobs U.S.A.

CollegeGrad.com is the #1 entry level job site, with extensive information on careers, resumes, cover letters, interviewing, salary information, employer research and entry level job postings.

 
True Careers works with employers from many industries and geographic regions. They also provide help with resume writing.

Find your next great job at Net-Temps from over 100,000 contract and direct job postings to choose from. Net-Temps is the number one job site for contract professionals and is consistently ranked in the top ten websites with job postings. Net-Temps has all the tools you need to manage your career search. Setup your free Job Seekers Desktop, post your resume, create job agents, search jobs in 14 different career channels, access daily industry news and receive the weekly newsletter full of job search tips and advice.

ComputerJobs.com is the leading Internet-based job search company in its current markets. ComputerJobs.com is solely dedicated to helping computer and information technology professionals find great jobs with companies in need of IT employees. They provide thousands of job listings for candidates seeking jobs in the IT field. Their user-friendly, proprietary website provides IT job seekers and hiring companies a convenient, effective way to connect.

Computer Jobs & Technical Employment in the US & Canada - Submit your resume to a premier computer professional career job center for IT/IS computer programming professionals, including Programmers, DBAs, Analysts, and Network, matching skills to the best jobs nationwide.

General Resources

www.bls.gov - Choose "Publications and Research Papers" then "Occupational Outlook Handbook"

www.erieri.com - Choose "Career and College Planning"

www.jobsmart.org - Choose "Salary Information"

www.salary.com

www.wageaccess.com/ncs/ncs_index.asp - FREE salary information for multi-industries in numerous regions and cities across the United States.
 

Industry-Specific Resources

www.abbott-langer.com/actgsumm.html - Accounting & Finance salary information

www.pohly.com/salary.html - Healthcare salary information