15 Career Advice Sites You Should Know About
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Guilherme Ribeiro There are thousands of sites out there filled with career advice. From figuring out what you want to do and effectively networking to helping you get paid what you deserve, these sites can help you not only land a job you love, but do it better than everyone else. (See also: 25 Awesome Websites to Help You Get a Job)
For Beginners
Don't know where to start? If you're straight out of college and feel like you need a place to grasp the basics, these sites are perfect places to begin.
Job Searching at About.com
There are lots of basics on About.com's Job Searching Site; it's a good place to start and get a little bit of everything nailed down. If you have no clue about writing a resume or what happens on an interview, this is a good primer.
Businessweek: Managing Your Career
Businessweek's Managing Your Career site has a variety of articles and really nice sections along the right-hand side, like articles from the Harvard Business Review. Overall, it’s like the next step up from the About.com site with lots of general advice.
Brazen Careerist Blog
A great source of advice geared towards young professionals and college students. They’ve got great insight on relatively new issues like social media and networking in a digital age. Sample Post: How to Take That Dream Trip While Boosting Your Career
Salary Comparison Sites
Whether you're looking for a new job or want a raise at your current one, it's crucial that you know what the market is paying. Otherwise you're guessing — and if you try to negotiate without any solid data, you aren't going to make a good case. These sites have the best salary information out there.
Salary.com
Salary.com has a bunch of stuff on it, but the reason why it’s great is that getting a salary estimate for a specific job is very fast. Type in the job name and your city, and you’re done.
Glassdoor.com
This site is similar to Salary.com, only Glassdoor has a job-search engine better integrated into their site. You can also read about each company, its interview process, and reviews by other candidates. It's Salary.com on steroids.
Payscale.com
Their content is a little better than Salary.com, but the reason you’re here is to get another data point and an idea of what a position is being paid in your city. Payscale asks you for more information before spitting out the number, but it's still worth it.
Indeed.com
They have some cool trending charts that are pretty interesting, but (again) the reason I like Indeed is because it’s very fast and easy to get a salary estimate by simply entering the position and the city — maybe the fastest of the bunch.
Networking
Some people think of networking as something sleazy — doing a favor in exchange for another favor. Networking is simply knowing people and being known in exchange. These sites are the best way to add new contacts and keep in touch with your current connections.
People don’t think of Facebook when they think of networking (they pair LinkedIn with work and Facebook with play). But that’s the wrong mentality to have when it comes to networking. Networking is about socializing, and that’s what Facebook is all about.
LinkedIn.com
Until you clean up your Facebook profile, LinkedIn is a great way to expand your work contacts. From your former classmates to employees at the company you’d like to work for, you’ll likely find a way to add some valuable contacts to your network.
Your Alumni Network
Google the school you graduated from (grad or undergrad, it doesn’t matter) followed by “alumni network.” Now sign up and follow the instructions to verify you’re an actual alum. Most schools will have a tool that allows you to search other alums and connect with them. Having a school in common is a great buffer to starting a mutually beneficial relationship.
Work Hacks
These are some great sites with fantastic career advice.
Lifehacker
Lifehacker is all about finding ways to create shortcuts that make us all more productive, and their career section is filled with helpful tips. Sample post: How to Use LinkedIn to Increase Your Hirability
Tim Ferris's Four Hour Workweek Blog
Tim doesn’t update as frequently as other sites, but this is a great place to shake you out of the everyday. It's always good to be a little bit “out there,” and Tim does that well. Sample post: 8 Steps to Getting What You Want Without Formal Credentials
The Corner Office (From The New York Times)
One of my favorite features out there, the weekly Corner Office column interviews a high-level executive to find out what they’ve learned and how they’ve achieved success. It's incredibly insightful and the inspiration for my own Ninja Employee Newsletter. Sample Post: Fostering a Culture of Dissent
Workawesome
Like Lifehacker, Workawesome focuses on practical content — things you can do right now to make your job better and boost your career. From dealing with coworkers to saving time, they have something for everyone. Sample post: How to Deal with Difficult People
I Will Teach You To Be Rich
Ramit isn’t shy about telling you what works and what’s a big waste of time. His blunt style might not jibe with some, but his honesty and intense focus on results is refreshing. The site sounds like a scam, but he’s anything but. Sample post: How I Helped a Friend Find Her Dream Job...Twice
Did I miss any good ones? Please mention your favorite career sites in the comments!
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This is quite the mix of high-quality resources, Carlos! We like that you mentioned some "beginner" tools, as well. We're sharing this list on our Twitter feed today!
One of the best Job Crawlers out there is SimplyHired.com. It not only pulls jobs from corporate websites and allows you to do fantastic targeted searches, it also connects to LinkedIn and Facebook with the "Who Do I Know" feature so that you can network your way into a job interview.
I think the most important thing is to be natural. I usually don’t take an interview as an interview. I mean I am enjoying its process by taking it as a sincerely face to face conversation. To figure out what the interviewer wants to hear before keeping talking about your ideas. As an old Chinese saying goes, “Do think before act”. Then, I think be relax is really helpful to eliminate the nervousness. Also, here I recommend another interview tips that is given by an insider expert. Yesterday I repost it on Facebook, and one of my friends was like “omg, why I didn’t see earlier.. I was so struggling with the interview.” So please click the here to take a glance! http://www.argopoint.com/management-consulting-case-interviews-advice-tips/
Hi Carlos, thanks for sharing such job search sites. These sites will really help the candidates in their job search. You can also recommend diversityworking. Lots of employers post their company's job with detailed description.
I've recently come across a good career site - http://www.careerexperts.co.uk/
There's some pretty useful advice on there!