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- Job Now - View expert resume assistance, live interview coaching and tips, and resources to help start your job search.
Local Career Centers
- American Job Centers - Partnership of organizations, working as a team, to promote a universal approach to providing effective workforce assistance to job seekers and businesses.
- Goodwill Career Centers - They provide free job coaching and services such as resume building. Please visit the website to see the revised COVID schedule.
Jobs in Connecticut
Websites
- American Job Center Career Coach - A mobile classroom which brings career services and computer training to you.
- American Job Center - An online job resource open to everyone, located in Bridgeport, Derby, and Stamford.
- City of Norwalk Job Opportunities
- Customized Cover Letter Writer
- Interview Questions
- Job and Career Resources from Fairfield Public Library
- Simple Cover Letter Writer
Job Application Help
- Introduction to Job Applications
- Practice Online Job Application
- Resources for Job Applicants (from the Windsor Public Library)
Online Job Applications
- About Jobs.com - Job listings divided into several specialized categories; summer jobs, overseas jobs, resort jobs, and internships.
- Career Builder - Find a job, post your resume, and find other resources at this site.
- Career Exploration Links - Discover what different occupations entail in the way of education and work environment.
- Career Journal - This is the Wall Street Journal’s comprehensive career planning site for business people on the move.
- Career Profiles Information - This site offers highly relevant, reliable, and up-to-date career information and job search resources. Learn about the education needed, salary expectations, and job resources for specific careers.
- Career Project - This site provides a brief description of thousands of jobs, and view comments from actual people working them. Also, you can ask these mentors about information on the kind of work they do or money they make.
- Career Zone - This New York State's job site includes information for students about careers, including 300 career videos. Jobseekers can explore jobs and get up to date job postings from America's job bank.
- CareerOneStop - This all-in-one portal provides some of the best job search and career information sites on the web.
- Connecticut Regional Labor Market Information - From the Connecticut Department of Labor, this is a guide of 150 occupations with narrative descriptions, number employed, job openings, salary, training, and a list of training sites.
- National Labor Exchange - If you're looking for a job in Connecticut this is the site for you. Hunt for jobs by type, salary, location or keyword. Create an online resume that can be viewed by prospective employers and find your dream job. If you are an employer register with the job bank and find qualified employees.
- Connecticut Licensing Center (CT-Clic) - State, federal, regional, local, and private resources merge to help your business succeed. Get applications for business licenses in Connecticut.
- CT Jobs - Connecticut's leading metro, suburban, and neighborhood newspapers have joined together to create CTJobs. This local job board offers the most up-to-date employment opportunities from the state's leading employers and provides job seekers with unmatched local coverage, allowing them to search for available positions solely in their area.
- Connecticut Regional Labor Market Information - From the Connecticut Department of Labor, this is a guide of 150 occupations with narrative descriptions, number employed, job openings, salary, training, and a list of training sites.
- DiversityWorking - This site offers a rich selection of services marketed to the communities needing stronger representation in the workplace: wide-ranging ethnic groups, women, gay / lesbian, veterans, mature workers, and persons with disabilities.
- Employment Online Resources - View this comprehensive list of resources and sites that provides researchers with the latest and most comprehensive and reliable information concerning online employment sources and value added related sites, that are available over the Internet.
- USA Jobs - Learn how to find and apply for federal jobs.
- Indeed.com - Search job sites, newspapers, associations, and company career pages all at once.
- Insight into Diversity - Read articles on diversity issues in the workplace.
- Job Hunter's Bible - A companion site to the book "What Color is Your Parachute?," this site contains links to articles, salary surveys, career quizzes, resume help, and job listings.
- Job-Applications.com - Browse hundreds of printable and online applications for restaurants, shops, retail and department stores, pharmacies, grocery stores, and more.
- My Job Applications - Find out the history of the company, what kind of jobs that you can apply for, the benefits, as well as the rating that the average employee gives them.
- LifeWorks - An interactive career exploration web site for middle and high school students, their parents, and teachers.
- Monster - Search for jobs, post your resume, and search for potential employees.
- MyPerfectResume.com - Access this directory of employment and career information sources and services on the internet.
- O*Net - Access occupational information network is searchable by occupation, by skills, and by other classification systems.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook - Searchable by occupation, this website features a printer-friendly version of handbooks in the acrobat reader format.
- Quintessential Careers - View more than 3,500 pages of free college, career, and job-search content.
- Quintessential Careers for Teens - View job resources just for teens.
- Southwestern CT American Job Centers - Job listings for the Southwestern CT area.
- USA Jobs - Learn how to find and apply for federal jobs.
- Vocational Information Center - Explore vocational and technical careers.