A Resource Page of the St. Joseph the Worker Ministry
Click Here if you need Personalized Assistance or Individual Coaching to aid you through the job transition.
Click Here is you have a disability and need assistance in looking for work.
Click Here if you need a List of Job Search Web sites.
Click Here for a list of other Networking Groups in the area.
Click Here for the archive of Last Month's Ministry Email.
or scroll down if you don't know where to begin . . . .
| Information needed | Suggested Search Strategy |
| I need a few good hits fast. | Google
- fast search, large index. Uses "collective judgment"
to order results. |
| I need to focus my search. |
HotBot SuperSearch - added options: language, media type, page depth. FAST/All the Web - added options: document size. Very large web index |
| I bet this search has been done before. | Ask Jeeves! - database of answers to natural language questions |
| I need a pinpoint search using a unique phrase or word. | Alta Vista - best engine for needle-in-the-haystack, unique word or phrase search (Himalayan cat not cat). |
| I need information on a proper name (a place, person, or object). | A person search on HotBot SuperSearch will retrieve the name in both reversed and normal order (e.g., Picasso, Pablo and Pablo Picasso). |
| I need US government information. | First
Gov - official portal for U.S. government, with links to state and local
governments. Search by keyword, or use subject tree directory. Google's Uncle Sam - searches US federal, state and local government-maintained [.gov & .mil] Web pages. |
| I need salary comparisons. | http://www.infoworld.com/reports/ http://www.careerjournal.com/salaries/ http://www.salary.com/ |
| I need simple reference information (basic facts, current statistics, name identification). |
CIA World Fact book 2001 - recent country facts, data. Information Please - cross-searches almanac, atlas, dictionary, and encyclopedia. xrefer - cross-searches encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri & books of quotations. |
| I need invisible web resources (access to databases not commonly indexed by search engines). | Invisible
Web - drill down a small, high-quality directory list. Resource Discovery Network - full-text keyword search, or drill down a subject directory, of academic databases. ProFusion - subject search, or drill down a directory, of electronic texts and 500 databases. Invisible Web - subject search, or drill down a directory. Large index of 10,000 databases compiled by crawlers and human editors. Complete Planet - search subject, or drill down a subject list. Indexes 90,000 searchable databases Geniusfind - topic-specific databases and search engines Depth of Search: Choosing Invisible Web Databases - small list geared to K-12 |
There is a very good resource available at www.stdl.org/class/jobs. It is a comprehensive information service for people in career transition. It appears to be up-to-date and well maintained by the Schaumburg Township District Library.
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WebMaster: Ronald D. LaCour |
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