What you must know:


If you think the job market hasn't changed, click here to see which career and job sites no longer exist. (Scroll through the entire page.)

To better work your search, read Job Search Smarts: How To Beat A Tough Job Market & Get Hired

Your job search success depends on whether you really research possibilities and connect with the "right" people who know about positions BEFORE they are posted.




Career XRoads This site is for people who want to know what career and job sites on the Internet are all about. Excellent resource.

Craigslist Not just for San Francisco, but check out craigslist for Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, DC, Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, Sacramento, San Diego, Seattle, Vancouver, Sydney, and Melbourne.

JobStar For California (San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento) - and for New Jersey (Jersey City areas).

Rileyguide From the fabulous Margaret Riley Dikel, a treasure trove of links and information;
this is a don't miss site.



Start by going well beyond Monster and Careerbuilder but check out their offshore job sites such as www.monsterindia.com or http://jobsearch.monster.com.sg/ for Hong Kong and Singapore


Career Journal From the ranks of the Wall Street Journal but not the same jobs.

Dice Are you looking for a high tech contract or permanent job?

Flipdog Another site to find postings and set up agents

Hot Jobs Now owned by Yahoo, good for job seekers of across all areas.

SixFigureJobs For executives.




EntreWorld Entrepreneurship events from the website of the Ewing Marion Kaufman Foundation.

Events Internet IT event calendar plus prior event tapes and conference proceedings.

HR Live Sponsored by J Walter Thompson recruitment advertising, a good site for layoffs AND a job fair calendar.

Techweb IT shows worldwide.




Edgar-Online Financial information from Edgar On-line (not affiliated with the SEC).

NCEO The National Center for Employee Ownership

Yahoo News Take a look at stock option news, including IPO antics, http://biz.yahoo.com/ipo/




IPO Home Provides up-to-date news on IPOs, market commentary, company profiles, calendars of upcoming IPOs and pricings, and foreign IPOs. The site is from Renaissance Capital which provides research on initial public offerings and has analyzed more than 5,000 IPOs.

IPO Monitor Filings, pricings, withdrawals, and wrap-ups on this interesting site. Includes a free weekly newsletter.

National Consortium The National Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (NCEC), a non-profit organization representing more than 60 entrepreneurship centers at leading business schools in the U.S.

NVCA The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) is the trade association that represents the venture capital industry. It is a member-based organization and has a useful event calendar. http://www.nvca.org/events.html

Venture Economics Venture Economics, a division of Thomson Financial Securities Data (TFSD).

Venture Wire Check out "venturewirepeople", a Dow Jones "tell-all" regarding personnel moves in technology startups and venture capital firms.

WorKit Start-up type jobs.

WorKit Events An SF/Bay Area events calendar

Yahoo Biz Mergers & acquisitions activity on Yahoo.

Venture One This Reuters company provides excellent up-to-date data on fundings and trends with excellent data segmentation.

VFinance Provides a 32 page list of over 1000 venture organizations and business plan templates.

Silicon Valley/ Silicon Valley venture capital survey plus a salary survey (2003) for Silicon Valley execs: http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/special_packages/salary_survey/




f#@ked company A whole bunch of failed company gossip.

Startup Failures From start-up failures to creative destruction to archive your tale of woe.

BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics Mass Layoff Data.

Yahoo Daily News More daily yahoo with layoff data.




DOL Department of Labor - Unemployment Information

EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics




EMKF Part of the work of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation's Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership encourages the entrepreneurial spirit in students from kindergarten through community college. The Public Sector and Community Entrepreneurship segment focuses on entrepreneurship in the nonprofit sector, public policy issues related to entrepreneurship and the community infrastructure that supports entrepreneurs.




CEO Express Many links to lead you to solid information across a multitude of channels.

How Stuff Works This is a super site to investigate new technologies and how they fit in. God for the average layman.

Journal List Express A consortium of links for research.

PRNnewswire Get the latest news releases, particularly valuable for researching smaller companies.

Money Central Research stock prices, insider unloading and analyst reviews.

Silicon Valley Inside the reconstituted, still what's left and what is now growing, Silicon Valley economy.




Ecommerce Times "A Week on the Site" fills you in on what happened a year ago . . . Time flies.

M & A Advisor Restaurants, moving and storage, and finance replace dot.com high flyers.

Merger Central Another bunch of merger data shows up here.

Venture Economics New York based and a division of Thomson Financial.

Techies Very busy site, info is confusing.




Federal Jobs Lists 150 separate Federal agencies and links leading to their job listings.

USA Jobs Official job site of the Federal Government. Many (but not all) of Federal jobs via the Office of Personnel Management are listed her.

FedJobs For a fee you can see 100% of Federal Jobs.




FCW Federal Computer Week

GCM Government Computer News

FedBizOpps Government Business Opportunities




HigherEdJobs Search through 7,000+ faculty and staff positions at 900 colleges and universities.


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