State of the Month:

California  

This month’s excerpts from the Professional's Job Finder are job sources for the State of California. These sources will get you to jobs in the business world or private sector. These are just some of the job sources presented in the book on pages 440 – 444.

Even if you're not looking for private sector work in California, this should give you a good idea of the sort of job sources for individual states that appear in the each of the Job Finder books.

Locate jobs throughout California on the Internet at URL: http://wwwedd.cahwnet.gov/ and selecting “Job Service” and then “America’s Job Bank.”

JobSmart: California Job Search Guide is now JobStar (Bay Area Library and Information System) free. On the Internet go to URL: http://www.jobstar.org/ and behold its wealth of job resources, focused on San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, and Los Angeles. Try not to be overwhelmed. To find job openings in California, choose the appropriate link under the “Get to Work” column .You’ll find links to scores of job banks that list jobs of all types as well as a link to sites where bulletin board services with job ads are listed.

There’s still more at JobStar. You can get the phone numbers for over 500 job hotlines, mostly for private sector companies. That’s not all folks! You can find links to over 300 salary surveys by picking “Salary Info.” There’s also solid advice offered on all aspects of the job–search process.

Job–search newsgroups serving the Bay area:

news:ba.jobs.offered (job vacancies)
news:ba.jobs.contract (contract positions)
news:ba.jobs.resumes (resume database)

Jobs & Careers Newspaper (1480 Oddstad Dr., Redwood City, CA 94063; phone: 415/329–9121) biweekly, $25.95/annual subscription, $14.95/six months, $7.95/three months, also available free from blue newspaper boxes scattered throughout the San Francisco area. You’ll find 300 to 400 job ads in the typical issue, 95 percent of which are for positions in northern California. You can also access most of these jobs on the Internet at Jobs & Careers Online! Go to URL: http://jobscareers.com/jobs and click on the “Jobs & Careers Online” button. Then choose between broad occupational groups such as technical, part–time, administrative (secretarial, clerical, bookkeeping, office support), medical, financial, sales, management, and general. Once you are in a specialty, you are given an opportunity to email or fax your resume to the operators of this site where it will be kept on file for three months. Your resume is sent to an employer if it matches the qualifications required for a position the employer advertises here. You can access a database of the companies that use this service by picking “Hot Links to Companies.”

How to Get a Job in the San Francisco Bay Area (Surrey Books; available from Planning/Communications’ Job Quest Catalog Online on this web site) $17.95, 390 pages, 1998. This easy–to–use book tells you whom to contact for job vacancies at thousands of private sector companies throughout the San Francisco Bay area and Sacramento (includes name, address, phone, and hiring contact where available). Just as importantly, it gives you details on the local chapters of professional and trade associations you may wish to join for networking purposes or which may publish a periodical with jobs ads or operate a local job service. It also includes information on local job hotlines, the Internet Web sites of many local companies, and local trade magazines plus career consultants.

The San Francisco Bay Area JobBank (Adams Media Corp.; available from Planning/Communications’ Job Quest Catalog Online on this web site) $16.95, 486 pages, 2000, 16th edition. Includes a list of 5,000 major employers in the Bay Area including whom to contact at each about job vacancies. Entries include names, addresses, and phone numbers; many include a brief description of the company. Also included is a list of professional employment services, the addresses of the local chapter of many professional and trade associations, and profiles of many private sector occupations.

Virtual Job Search’s Online Center. Free. Go to Internet URL: http://www.vsearch.com/ and select “Current Openings” to access this database of scores of jobs located mostly in southern California. Positions tend to lean toward designers, marketing, multimedia, engineers, artists, and producers. You can place your resume in their resume database electronically by choosing “Introduce Yourself.” You can opt to keep your name confidential.

Job–search newsgroups serving southern California:
news:la.jobs (job database for the Los Angeles area)
news:sdnet.jobs (job database for the San Diego area)

LA Online (Suite 7, 1332 Hermosa Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA 90254; phone: 310/372–9364) free. Dial 310/372–4050 with your modem to access this bulletin board service that includes a small job database. Select “General Classifieds” where you’ll find the “Employment” section divided into three areas: job–direct, job–agency, and job–out of state. This service is converting to a Web site that may be operational by the time you read this. Check it out at URL: http://www.laonline.com.

How to Get a Job in Southern California (Surrey Books; available from Planning/Communications’ Job Quest Catalog Online on this web site) $18.95, 1999, 449 pages. This easy–to–use book tells you whom to contact for job vacancies at thousands of private sector companies throughout southern California. Just as importantly, it gives you details on the local chapters of professional and trade associations you may wish to join for networking purposes or which may publish a periodical with jobs ads or operate a local job service. It also includes information on local job hotlines, the Internet Web sites of many local companies, and local trade magazines, plus career consultants.

The Los Angeles JobBank (Adams Media Corp.; available from Planning/Communications’ Job Quest Catalog Online on this web site) $16.95, 537 pages, 2000, 16th edition. Includes a list of information on 8,700 major employers in the metropolitan area including whom to contact at each about job vacancies. Entries include names, addresses, and phone numbers; many include a brief description of the company. Also included is a list of professional employment services, the addresses of the local chapter of many professional and trade associations, and profiles of many private sector occupations. Covers all of southern California, including San Diego, not just the Los Angeles area.

To locate Job Service Offices, contact the Employment Development Department (P.O. Box 826880, MIC 62, Sacramento, CA 94280–0001; phone: 916/653–0707). You can also locate these offices on the Internet at two locations: URL: http://www.ca.gov/ and selecting “Hello, May We Help You?” and then picking “Agency Index;” and at URL: http://wwwedd.cahwnet.gov/, by picking “Job Service” and then choosing “List of EDO JobService Locations.”

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