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Guides
for Job Hunters
INTRODUCTION
SECTION
ONE - Job Titles, Job & Industry
Outlook
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TWO - Internships, Employment Agencies, Job
Hotlines, Personnel Services, Executive Recruiters,
Professional & Vocational Information, National
Career Guides
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THREE - Geographic
Directories
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FOUR - Industry-specific Directories
INTRODUCTION
The
books in this bibliography are specifically aimed
at helping job-seekers find companies of interest
to them. - In the first section, you will find
names of materials that describe jobs and
industries in general - what they entail, their
salary range, educational requirements, employment
outlook and so forth. - In the second section are
listed directories of general interest to
job-hunters: books which contain lists of
employment agencies and executive recruiters as
well as national lists of companies which encompass
all fields. - The third section will be helpful to
job-seekers interested in a specific geographical
area. - The fourth section, organized into general
categories of business, lists national directories
useful to job-hunters concentrating on one field of
employment. There are many other kinds of material
at Kirstein which will be helpful as you fine-tune
your search. And once the companies you have
contacted from the sources we've listed
start contacting you, our collection can often help
you obtain additional information on the companies
you will be interviewing with.
SECTION
ONE - JOB TITLES, JOB & INDUSTRY
OUTLOOK
U.S.
Dept. of Labor. Dictionary of Occupational
Titles lists every job in every industry, then
describes in detail what the job entails. A
job-seeker interested in a particular industry
could find what kinds of workers are employed in
that field. A job-seeker interested in a certain
occupation could likewise determine what industries
employ such workers. Career Guide to
Industries discusses, in a few pages each, more
than 40 industries with descriptions of "the nature
of the industry, employment. working conditions,
occupations in the industry, training and
advancement, earnings and benefits, and outlook."
Occupational Outlook Handbook provides
information similar to that in the Career
Guide above, but focuses on individual
occupations (paralegal, telephone installers &
repairers, etc.). Revised every two years, the 250
occupations detailed comprise 85% of
America's jobs.
The American Work Force, 1992-2005 presents
annual growth rate projections by industry and
projected civilian employment changes by occupation
to the year 2005. There are additional charts
listing the fastest growing occupations and
projected job openings by job type.
Occupational Projects and Training Data
presents charts with numbers and ranking of job
openings, ranking of wage earnings, unemployment
rates, availability of part-time work, sources of
training (work-related or academic), and extensive
data on the typical amount of education in a given
occupation. The latter would be helpful in
assessing the rate of potential competition for
openings in each job category.
American Salaries and Wage Survey by Gale
Research Inc. provides more than 38,000 salaries
for more than 4,400 occupational classifications on
the city, county, state, regional and national
levels. The lowest, average and highest wages paid
are indicated. The directory also provides a
detailed bibliography of the over 300 sources used
to compile the information.
SECTION
TWO - INTERNSHIPS, EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES, JOB
HOTLINES, PERSONNEL SERVICES, EXECUTIVE RECRUITERS,
PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL INFORMATION, NATIONAL
CAREER GUIDES
Internships:
a directory for career finders. Following a
brief "how to" introductory section, this directory
lists over 25,000 internship opportunities in a
dozen broad disciplines. Additional materials in
the book are helpful to those seeking specific jobs
or geographical areas in which to work..
Princeton Review Student Access Guide to
America's Top 100 Internships. Following
company descriptions that go on for a couple of
pages apiece, each of the top 100 internships are
evaluated. The appendix includes indexes by field
of interest and other criteria.
Peterson's Internships. Of special
interest in this directory is its listings of 25
internship referral and placement services. Now in
its 16th edition. Peterson's provides more
than 35,000 opportunities in 25 categories of
organization.
Job Hunter's Yellow Pages provides
15,000 American employment services, including
executive search firms, career services, temporary
help and vocational centers and outplacement
consultants. For each company, the address, phone
and fax number, and a contact name are provided.
The contacts of this book are not classified - the
companies are presented alphabetically and
geographically only.
Job Bank Guide to Employment Services
contains detailed information on 6,000 executive
search firms, employment agencies, temporary help
services, and resume/career counseling services in
the U.S., organized by state, followed by short
essays on resumes and "Basics of Job Winning."
Job Hotlines USA provides voice-mail
telephone numbers (employer hotlines) for more than
1,000 companies and governmental agencies, arranged
alphabetically, by state, and by industry.
National Directory of Personnel Services
includes almost 1,000 for-profit personnel service
firms. Each entry includes basic directory
information, including area of specialization. The
information is organized both geographically and by
specialty.
Directory of Executive Recruiters lists
2,500 firms that assist job seekers in finding
employment. Profiles include general company
information, service offered, and contact person.
Retainer recruiting firms and contingency
recruiting firms are listed in separate sections. A
corporate edition of this directory is available
for companies seeking executive search
assistance.
Personnel Executive Contactbook lists 30,000
human resource and hiring contacts in established
and emerging American companies and government
agencies. It is divided into four sections -
alphabetical, geographical, by SIC number and by
personnel executive's name.
Hoover's Directory of Human Resource
Executives is a directory of human resource
officers for major American companies with at least
$500,000,000 in sales or at least 5,000 employees,
as well as America's fastest growing
companies. Companies are listed alphabetically by
state with additional lists of the top 10-25
employers in each state, and alphabetical industry,
metro area and name of HR executive indexes.
Individual company listings provide company name,
address, telephone and fax numbers, type of
company, CEO, human resources contact, number of
employees and number of jobs added last year.
International Personnel Management Association
Membership Directory includes 65,000 government
agency human resource professionals. The agency
listing is organized by state and level of
government - federal, state, municipal, special
district, university and private industry.
Individual members of the association are listed
geographically by state and alphabetically as
well.
AMA Executive Employment Guide lists firms
providing one or more of the following: executive
search; executive job counseling; executive
marketing; licensed personnel agency; job
registries/job development network services; and
outplacement. Listings include minimum salaries and
whether the firm is willing to interview and
receive resumes from job seekers. In addition,
there are indexes by city and employment
specialty.
Professional Careers Sourcebook contains
detailed bibliographies on 118 professions
requiring college degrees or specialized education
and leads the job seeker to various sources of
information within the following categories: career
guides; professional associations; standard and
verification agencies; test guides; educational
directories and programs; awards, scholarships,
grants and fellowships; basic reference guides and
handbooks; professional meetings and conventions;
and professional and trade periodicals.
Vocational Careers Sourcebook parallels the
preceding directory, and deals with 135 vocational
occupations. In other respects, it is similar to
the Professional Careers Sourcebook.
Job Hunters Sourcebook is Gale
Research's companion to the above two books.
It provides information on 165 professional and
vocational occupations, including the following
listings: sources of help-wanted ads; placement and
job referral services; employment directories and
networking lists; employment agencies and search
firms; handbooks and manuals; and other leads.
There follows many smaller lists addressing job
opportunities by age group, and for women,
minorities, veterans and other groups.
Adams Job Almanac gives a lot of information
on a lot of job search topics. Starting with
chapters on job and career outlooks, it continues
with specific job search strategies, and then, for
about 25 industries, gives the job search outlook,
outlines the state of the industry, describes
leading employers in the field, including common
job openings, education background requirements,
and benefits, followed by an index by state listing
companies and the industry sector in which
they're described in the book.
100 Best Companies to Work for in America
After reading materials submitted by the company,
touring their plants, eating at their cafeterias,
and interviewing as many employees as time allowed,
the authors selected these "Companies where people
thrive." Ratings are based on pay/benefits,
opportunities, job security, pride in work/company,
openness/fairness and camaraderie and
friendliness.
Career Guide/Dun's Employment
Opportunities is divided into seven sections -
employers alphabetically, containing the most
information, followed by indexes of employers
geographically, by industry, and by branch office
location , disciplines hired geographically,
employers offering work/study/internship programs,
personnel consultants by state, and lastly, a
9-page "finding a job" section. Within each
company's description are sketches of
disciplines hired, benefits and career
opportunities.
Professional's Private Sector Job
Finder contains 2,500 job sources, beginning
with a list of general job sources such as ads in
print, database services and directories, followed
by the same categories listed by specialty. Also
included is an extensive list of job sources by
state and an essay on cover letters, resumes and
job interviews.
National Job Bank lists companies by state,
providing a contact name, brief
company/organization profile, number of employees,
jobs commonly available, educational background
sought, training programs, fringe benefits, last
year's hiring/layoff activity, and number of
projected near-term hiring. Following the
geographical lists are company indexes by state and
by industry.
Job Seeker's Guide to Private and Public
Companies purports to provide details on
companies not often found in other directories,
such as corporate culture, number of entry-level
positions filled annually, employment eligibility
requirements, benefits, application procedures, and
average number of applicants for internship
positions - 31 data categories in all. The
listings, in fact, often give a less complete
picture, but there are still 17,000 companies
covered in the most recent edition.
America's Fastest Growing Employers
profiles 700 companies which meet these minimum
requirements: revenue growth over 20% for the last
3-5 years; 1990 revenues over $10,000,000; over 50
employees; in business for more than four years; no
layoffs within 24 months. The company descriptions
are fairly brief, but include a few lines on "How
They're Growing/Recent Developments." There
follows a long essay entitled "10 Industries for
the 1990's, an Economic Survey," and a
shorter "Job Search Primer."
SECTION
THREE - GEOGRAPHIC DIRECTORIES
Job
guides that are limited to one particular
geographic area are represented at Kirstein by
three series of books.
How to Get a Job in... Kirstein has the
Atlanta, Greater Boston, Chicago, Metro NY, San
Francisco Bay, Seattle/Portland, Southern
California, Washington DC, and Pacific Rim
editions. All books follow the same format,
providing ten chapters on job search strategies
before even getting to the company listings. Kinds
of lists included in the first part of the book are
local means of transportation, libraries, area
counselors and consultants, colleges offering
vocational testing/guidance, social service
agencies, small business centers, resources for
women, professional resume preparers, books of
resume writing, interviewing and career strategy,
directories of regional and area employers,
newspapers, business magazines, trade journals,
job-hunting related publications and hotlines,
networks, clubs, societies and associations,
employment agencies, executive search firms,
government agencies, sources for part-time and
temporary employment, and even crisis center
information fort those who run out of money before
they've; landed a job. The company listings,
typically about 1500 divided over forty industry
classifications, provide name, address, telephone
number and sometimes the name of a contact person.
Within each industry classification are also found
lists of professional organizations, publications
and directories in the field. The Pacific Rim
edition lists American, domestic and international
companies for each country, as well as hotels and
non-profits and a list of foreign-language schools
in the U.S.
Job Seekers Sourcebooks at Kirstein cover
Los Angeles and Southern California, Boston and New
England, Chicago and Illinois, Northern Great Lakes
and the Southern Atlantic Coast. These books
present large lists of employment agencies,
recruiters, and executive recruiters by industry
specialty, then lists of databases, networks,
referral services, career consultants, and
outplacement and resume preparation services. There
is plenty of advice, mostly in the form of
"do's and don'ts" and one-line tips,
but there are no employers listed - just middlemen
of various sorts.
Adams Job Bank Books at Kirstein cover
Boston and Metro New York. Starting with a
discussion of resumes and strategies, there follow
big lists of employers. (New York has 7700.) For
large companies, address, contact name,
description, common positions, educational
background, benefits, headquarters location,
operation at the local facility, special programs
(i.e. internships), number of employees (local and
total), and locations elsewhere in the U.S. are
provided. Small company listings have address and
phone number only.
For
more local directories, see our handouts
Directories
of Companies in
Massachusetts
and Other
Local and Regional Business
Directories
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In addition, Kirstein offers several directories of
foreign job opportunities. In Jobs in Russia and
the Newly Independent States are chapters on each
of the 15 republics, an overview of job
opportunities, tips on travel and living in the NIS
and lists of American companies operating in the
NIS, divided into 24 categories of industry.
Getting Your Job in the Middle East similarly
introduces working life in the area, then provides
name and American and Middle Eastern addresses of
U.S. companies in professional, technical,
petroleum, mining, health care, food, agriculture,
and educational fields, followed by individual
country overview with companies currently operating
there. The European Employment Directory contains
alphabetical listings of Europe's largest
companies and the European operating units of
American firms, with address, phone, sales and
number of employees, industry and key contacts.
Major European executive search firms and
newspapers are listed by country. There is also a
list of U.S. language schools arranged by
state.
SECTION
FOUR - INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC
DIRECTORIES
Directories
which list companies in a specific industry abound
in Kirstein. For a partial list, consult the
bibliography titled
Kirstein's 100 Most Popular Business and
Industrial
Directories.
We collect job-hunters directories which deal with
specific professions or fields as well as
directories which provide company data but
concentrate less on employment issues. The latter
would be especially helpful for follow-up
interviews. There are several directories here
which describe America's largest employer -
the government:
Lauber's Government Job Finder covers
English-speaking countries worldwide with an
extensive section on the U.S. Starting with 50
professional specialties (i.e. housing, human
services, and labor relations), it provides the
names of sources of job ads in print, job services,
directories and salary surveys for each field, with
details about each source. A later chapter lists
local sources for local and state jobs, arranged by
state (not by industry), including job hotlines as
well as printed sources. The final 100 pages
provide pointers on government job-search
processes, domestic and foreign, with resume,
interview and contact tips.
Mr. Lauber calls Dennis Damp's Book of
U.S. Government Jobs "the place to start if you
want to work for the federal government." There are
chapters devoted to specific issues such as
overseas, veteran and postal service hiring, as
well as civil service exams (including sample
questions), and a national and regional agency
contact list. A checklist in the appendix guides
the job seeker through the entire application
process, which has led other reviewers to suggest
that Damp has provided a "map" through that
"labyrinth/maze."
Krannich's Almanac of American Government
Jobs and Careers starts with charts which
define the government job market - agencies in the
ascendancy or decline, employment figures and so
forth. Details of individual federal departments
follow, from the executive through the legislative
and judicial branches. Guidelines are offered
(college majors sought, occupational titles, etc.)
and contact address and telephone numbers are
provided. A general discussion of state and local
job opportunities completes the book.
Kirstein has three Peterson's Job
Opportunities directories: Business the
Environment and Engineering and
Technology. Each starts with an essay
describing the industry and strategies for success
in landing a job in the field. The bulk of the
directories are alphabetical lists of employers,
including address, description, founding date,
sales, number of employees, expertise needed and
contact name. There are indexes by industry,
geographic location and hiring needs. The editions
for business and engineering and technology also
contain some long, very detailed profiles of major
employers.
Susan Cohn's Green at Work, after a
few pages of introductory materials, goes on to
"career profiles," in which the career path of
individuals representative of typical job titles in
"real life" companies are explored. Cohn suggests
that job hunters use these people's
experiences to help form an idea of what green job
options a person has available in developing
his/her own job. The corporate directory which then
follows names companies with address and telephone
number, what the company does and their
environmental programs and projects.
Taft's Finding a Job in the Non-profit
Sector presents an "overview of employment
trends in the sector together with valuable
job-hunting tips specific to the sector" and
"directory listings with contact and other
employment-related information for approximately
5000 of the largest non-profit organizations in the
U.S." There are more detailed facts on the 1,000
largest NPO's, including "benefits and
special attractions." There are activity and
geographic indexes, as well as an informative
section entitled "Forty-two Action Steps for
Seeking NPO Jobs."
D.Huson
2/97
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