Government Job Finder,
3rd edition

Over 2,002 sources of job openings in local, state, and federal government

Table of contents

PLEASE NOTE: This Table of Contents should give you a good idea of the breadth of coverage in the Government Job Finder book. The number after a chapter or section title is the page in the actual book on which that chapter or section starts.

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Preface v

1 Job hunt tools for your successful job search 1

Tools for your savvy job quest 3

The dark side: Patronage 16

Seven steps to job hunt success 19

2 The Internet job search explosion 21

The players in the online game 22

Email 23

The World Wide Web 24

Gopher servers 29

Usenet newsgroups 29

Mailing lists 30

FTP file transfers 31

Bulletin board services 31

Online growing pains 32

Offline resources for the online job search 34

Gateways to launch your online job search 36

3 General sources for local and state government jobs 41

4 Agriculture 55

5 Animal control, aquariums, and zoos 58

6 Code administration and enforcement 61

7 Computers 63

8 Engineering and science 65

9 Environment 71

Environment in general 71

Sanitation/solid waste management 77

Water/wastewater operations 79

10 Fire protection 81

11 Fleet and facilities management 83

12 Forestry and horticulture 85

13 Law enforcement 88

14 Legal services and the courts 93

15 Library services 100

Nationwide job sources 100

Multi–state job sources 105

State job sources 106

16 Media and the arts 110

17 Parks and recreation 114

18 Planning and related fields 118

Planning in general 118

Community and economic development 124

Housing 127

Architects/urban design 129

Landscape architecture 129

19 Political industry 131

20 Public administration 134

Public administration in general 134

Personnel and human resources 137

Finance and accounting 140

Risk management/insurance 142

Purchasing 143

Property appraisal/tax assessment 145

Real estate/property management 147

21 Public health and health care 148

Public health and health care 148

Mental health 156

22 Public safety 159

Public safety 159

Emergency management 161

23 Public works 162

24 Records management and archives 164

25 Social services 166

26 Transportation and traffic 170

Traffic engineering and parking 170

Transit management 172

Transportation planning 173

Airport operations and aerospace 174

Port management 175

27 Utilities management 176

28 Savvy job sources for each state 179

City and state job–finding tools 180

Job sources by state 187

 Alabama   187

 Alaska   188

 Arizona   190

 Arkansas   191

 California   192

 Colorado   198

 Connecticut   200

 Delaware   201

 District of Columbia   202

 Florida   204

 Georgia   206

 Hawaii   207

 Idaho   209

 Illinois   210

 Indiana   212

 Iowa   214

 Kansas   215

 Kentucky   216

 Louisiana   217

 Maine   218

 Maryland   219

 Massachusetts   222

 Michigan   223

 Minnesota   225

 Mississippi   226

 Missouri   227

 Montana   229

 Nebraska   230

 Nevada   231

 New Hampshire   232

 New Jersey   233

 New Mexico   234

 New York   236

 North Carolina   238

 North Dakota   240

 Ohio   241

 Oklahoma   242

 Oregon   243

 Pennsylvania   245

 Rhode Island   247

 South Carolina   248

 South Dakota   250

 Tennessee   251

 Texas   253

 Utah   255

 Vermont   256

 Virginia   258

 Washington   260

 West Virginia   263

 Wisconsin   265

 Wyoming   266

29 Federal government 268

Federal government hiring process 270

Sources of federal jobs 281

Contacting federal personnel offices 289

Directories of federal agencies 296

Resources for federal applications 303

Index 309

Budget–stretching discount coupons 316

Job search resource catalog 320

Reader feedback form 324

About the author 325

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