Job-Guy’s Best Research and Networking Tools
This page is intended to provide resources to support a well-rounded career campaign that includes both reactive (chasing) and proactive (being chased) strategies.
Note: if you find yourself using only the first two groups of links, you are firmly in reactive mode and are likely missing ~80% of the opportunities.
Job-Guy helps clients optimize approaches to the 20% of the jobs that are available through Internet job boards, newspapers and employment agencies while expediting access to the unpublished job market that accounts for the other 80%. If you haven’t yet found the best job at the best pay the best way, contact the Job-Guy today for a complimentary assessment of your existing career campaign strategy.
In the meantime, view Job-Guy's top tips here and help yourself to our favorite links:
Search for jobs on the web:
- “Best of the best” job board #1
- “Best of the best” job board #2
- Direct links to major company jobs pages
- Projects and freelance work
- Seasonal work
- Entry level college grad site
- Government job information
- Technical
- Bioscience
- Non-Profit & volunteer
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Law
- Education
- Flexible Jobs for Life Balance
Recruiters:
- Really hard to find recruiter directory
- Pharmaceuticals Recruiter: Job-Guy friend, Center Street Search
- Finance Recruiter: Job-Guy friend South Shore Staffing
- Retail Recruiter: Job-Guy friend Recruiting Specialists
- Administration Recruiter: Job-Guy friend Buckingham Personnel
- Marketing Recruiter: Job-Guy friend HR Associates
- Sales Recruiter: Job-Guy friend Target Consulting
- Manufacturing Recruiter: Job-Guy friend Baldwin Recruiting
- Heathcare Recruiter: Compass Consulting Group
Locate job tools by state:
- State by state job search tools and sites
- Networking groups by state
- List of professional associations by state
- National Job Fair Directory
Find information on international careers and business:
- International relocation directories and tools
- International currency converter
- Import / export & international
- Economic data by country
Assess salary requirements and benefits:
- Salary surveys and converter
- International currency converter
- Health benefits trends survey
- Equity & stock options
Determine long term employability:
Clarify career options:
- Myers Briggs Type Indicator
- And options to go with it
- Interactive Career Assessment tool #1
- Interactive Career Assessment Tool #2
Research companies & people:
- Phone directory / reverse directory
- Best companies to work for
- Real life employer reviews
- Fastest growing companies
- Public company SEC filings
- Industrial search engine
- Company capsules
- Company information
- Import / export & international
- Find obsolete websites and other digital media
- Free Industry Newsletters
- Sortable employer list
Build a professional network:
- E-networking
- Social networking and company info site
- List of professional associations by state
- Networking groups by state
- Big city professional networking groups 1
- Big City professional networking groups 2
Develop a Personal Brand:
- The godfather of personal branding Tom Peters
- Job-Guys's favorite personal branding author Peter Montoya
- Excellent resource for personal branding for careers (with tools) William Arruda and Kristen Dixson
- Gen Y Personal Branding Expert Dan Schawbel
Start and build a business:
- Business plans and start up advice
- On line legal tools
- Venture capital research site
- Executive Coach: Job-Guy friend Collaborative Networks
Marketing Materials
- Free Business Cards
- Photo/Logo Postage Stamps
- Professional Résumé or bio
- Create a blog
- Submit articles for publication
- Investigate/register a domain name
- Promotional products: Job-Guy friend ESP Solutions
- Web site construction: Job-Guy friend Vaxa Creative
- Build a LinkedIn profile

