Online
Job Hunting with the Yakima Valley Libraries
Helping
you navigate through the on-line job hunting process.
These
sites contain links that have been reviewed and are recommended to get you
started on your job hunt.
Yakima:
Yakima
Valley Libraries (Link to Yakima Valley Libraries Careers
and Jobs directory)
Washington
State:
Washington State Library-Hard Times: Resources for Library Users
Top
Employers in Yakima County:
Department
of Social and Health Services
Yakima
Regional Medical and Cardiac Center
Yakima Valley
Community College
Yakima
Valley Farm Workers Clinic
Yakima
Valley Memorial Hospital
Resumes:
Learning
Express Library (Strengthen your job search, interviewing,
and networking skills)
Resume
Workshop (Aids both new resume writers and those who
may have forgotten certain details about resume writing from the Purdue Online
Writing Lab)
Workforce
Explorer (Plan a career at any time in your life)
Local
and National Web Sites:
These
sites are not listed under Yakima Valley Libraries or the Washington State web sites.
But they may prove to be useful in your search.
Bilingual
and Minority Web Sites:
Diversity/Careers
in Engineering & Information Technology
Experienced
Workers:
Federal
Jobs:
Federal Jobs.net (This site
has many options for Civil Service jobs and testing)
Hanford
Jobs:
Overseas
Jobs:
University
of Michigan-International Center (Links to various countries, Peace Corp, and volunteer jobs)
Veterans
Jobs:
Visionary
Jobs: (Jobs with
non-profits, volunteer positions, and adventure type jobs worldwide)
General
Job Help (Tests, Job hunting
tips, Articles, Directories and Advice):
AARP (Resources for those over 50)
Best Careers Resource
Directory (a great starting point for researching
occupations, improving your job hunt and enhancing your career)
Careers
and Career Information (Tools to help job seekers, students, businesses, and career professionals)
CNN
Money (30 best Web sites
for job hunters according to Fortune Magazine)
Experience
Works (A
national, charitable, community-based organization that helps seniors get the
training they need to find good jobs)
Job
Hunters Bible (Official
Site for the book What Color is Your Parachute?)
Job Web (Career and job-search advice for new college graduates)
Microsoft
Office Online (Free self-paced training courses for Office
programs)
Occupational
Information Network (The nation's primary source of occupational
information)
Quintessential
Careers (50 best job
posting sites (job boards) for job-seekers)
Riley Guide (Introduces you to the online job search, listing many online sites and
services that are useful for your job search)
Self
Sufficiency Calculator (A
free on-line resource to help you reach self sufficiency and beyond)
Prepared for you by:
Cynthia Garrick – Reference Services Librarian
Julie Graham – Technical Services Assistant
Shelley McMickell – Public
Programs & Resources Specialist