Job Seekers Handbook

Where to find job listings, including job search engine sites, jobs listed by location and type of job, how to job search and apply online, confidential job searching, building your career, social networking, personal branding, and job search tips and advice.

• How to Find a Job
• Job Listings
• Job Search Tips

Here's information on the best ways to apply for jobs, where to look for jobs, how to apply for jobs, and the best sites to use to job search.

• Sample Job Applications
• Job Application Tips

Are you ready to interview? Once you have been selected for a job interview, it's important to prepare properly. That means practicing interview questions and answers, dressing in appropriate interview attire, and, after the interview, sending thank you letters to your interviewers.

• Job Interview Questions and Answers
• What to Wear to a Job Interview
• Phone Interview Etiquette
• Job Interview Thank You Letters

Here's all the information you need to create effective job search correspondence, including resume, cover letter, and curriculum vitae writing resources, job search email messages, resume and cover letter samples, thank you letters, resignation letters, and all the other letters you will need to write to job search effectively.

• Resume Samples
• Letter Samples
• Cover Letter Writing Tips
• Resume Writing Tips

Information on wages and salary, negotiating salary, paycheck and salary calculators, minimum wage, overtime, and other compensation issues.

• Salary Negotiation
• Salary Requirements
• Salary History

There are some types of employee benefits that are mandated by law, including minimum wage, overtime, leave under the Family Medical Leave Act, unemployment, and workers compensation and disability. There are other types of employee benefits that employers are not required to offer, but choose to provide to their employees.

• Types of Employee Benefits
• Employee Benefits Questions and Answers
• Evaluating Employee Benefits Packages

Frequently asked employment questions and answers, including workplace issues, resumes and cover letters, job applicant advice, unemployment and more FAQs.

Here is information on what you need to know about employment law when you're job searching or when you lose your job - wages, background checks, required employment forms, unemployment and other related information.

• Employment Law
• Employment Forms
• Employee Rights

Sometimes, we leave our job by choice. At other times, we are forced to move on because we're laid-off or fired. Here's what you need to know about leaving your job including how to handle a termination or lay-off, how to resign, retirement, how to say goodbye to co-workers, along with sample letters and job loss advice.

• How to Quit a Job
• Resignation Letters
• Unemployment
• How to Handle a Termination

 

Here's advice on references for job searching including who to ask for a reference, types of employment references including personal and professional references, how to list references, when to give references to employers, reference checks, and sample reference letters and lists.

• Employment References
• Requesting References
• Sample Reference Letters
• Personal and Character References