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- Articles - Hundreds of
employment-related articles on topics ranging from networking to resume writing to salary negotiation tips to reminders not to bring your pet lizard with you on interviews.
- Ask the Experts - Ask a question. Get answers from dozens of the country's leading career experts. Shy? Use the keyword search in the upper right corner of every page to see if your question has already been answered. With hundreds of questions and thousands of answers already posted, chances are that you picked a good time to be shy.
- Background Checking - With thousands of resumes to choose from, employers often select from pre-screened candidates first, as these job seekers appear more serious in their job quest and commitment. Pre-screening by the job seeker saves the employer valuable time and money, putting pre-screened candidates above the
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- Blogs - Career-related insight, articles, thoughts, advice, questions, and the occasional ramblings by the staff of CollegeRecruiter.com, students, graduates, employers, admissions experts, career counselors, resume writers, financial aid experts, and your Aunt Bertha.
- Bookstore - Books
written specifically for the users of CollegeRecruiter.com on topics such as networking, interviewing, resume writing, and finding an internship. Buy one today, read it tonight, and have infinite wisdom tomorrow.
- Career Consultation - An affordable one-on-one custom program designed to provide you with the focus, tools, and techniques to define and achieve your career goals. Your career coach will design an action-oriented, results-based path to quickly bridge the gap between where you are in your career and where you want to be. And in this kind of consultation, you won't have to lay down on a couch and describe why you hate your mother.
- Cartoon of the Day - Brighten your day with a career inspired cartoon! Check back each day as we will be providing you with fresh cartoons daily throughout the year. Oh, and is if this isn’t enough of a waste of your time, we have a really easy-to-use “send to a friend” so that you can waste their time too.
- Email - While
'FootballFan@freemail.com' might be fine for communicating with your friends, it is not going to excite a potential employer, and it certainly won't convey the sense of professionalism that you need to stand out from other applicants. Use your free CareerMail email address to boost your level of professionalism and market your core skills. Choose whatever email address you want, from JohnDoe@careermail.com to EngineeringGrad@careermail.com.
- Games - For those who would rather stumble home, assemble puzzles, and snowboard than read all the great articles about, well, never mind.
- Got Student Loans? - Student loan consolidation is a free federal refinancing program designed to help students and graduates like yourself manage their student debt and avoid loan default.
- Healthcare Insurance - Looking for a
new job or being in between jobs can leave you without health insurance. Unlike some of the other descriptions on this page, this is no joke.
- Industry Magazines - Free trade
publication magazines about the industries of your choice. No hidden or trial offers and no purchase necessary. Really. The publishers of these magazines make more money from having more subscribers, so they're willing to provide our users with free subscriptions.
- Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment - Find out what motivates you and find the perfect job. Then swap assessments with your friends and ridicule them.
- Personal Portfolio -
The quick and easy way to distinguish yourself from the competition. Add a cover letter, references, links, and other important information about you and your professional skills to give you the edge. And they're so great looking they make resumes look like yesterday's trash.
- Podcasts - Let's not lie. Listening to or watching a career-related podcast isn't as much fun as listening to or watching your favorite tunes or videos. But if they help you get a great new job faster, then you'll be able to afford to buy new tunes. That's our story and we're sticking to
it.
- Relocation Center - Moving to a new city, perhaps as part of a witness protection program? We've got all of the resources right here for you, other than the fake nose and mustache.
- Research Industries - Industry specific career channels with a wealth of information tailored to your career goals. Select a career channel to research industry information, search jobs, and build your portfolio. And check out the neat graphs showing the number of jobs and resumes being posted over the past few months. Very slick.
- Resume Distribution - If you
are looking for ultimate exposure, let us distribute your resume directly to companies that want to hear from you. If you thought that we were going to advocate another type of exposure, then you're at the wrong type of site.
- Resume Writing Help - Do you
have an "elevator pitch" resume? On average, hiring managers scan individual resumes for fewer than 20 seconds, so if you think that hiring managers enjoy nothing better than attempting to infer the career ambitions of hundreds of applicants to dozens of job openings, then this is the right service for you.
- RSS Feeds - are for those who
like to push rather than pull. Use the latest technology to be immediately notified of new job postings that match your interests. We can send to you daily summaries of all of the new jobs in your geographic or occupational area of interest. And we won't even charge for the shipping.
- Salary Report - Although we won't tell you how much your neighbor makes, we will provide you with accurate, up-to-date salary data matched to your profile. By the way, your neighbor doesn't make as much as he says he does.
- Scholarship Finder - We'll help you research, apply to, and win hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships. And, best of all, this is absolutely free.
- School Finder - Find the best schools for you in two easy steps. First, let us know what type of program you're looking for. Second, choose to receive free information from the schools that we identify as being good matches for your goals. Third, well, there is no third.
- Stafford Student Loans - Next to being born into a wealthy family, Stafford Loans are the most widely sought after education loans sponsored by the federal government. Why? Well, it sure isn't because they're incredibly exciting. Rather, it is because a Stafford Loan is a great, low-cost way for you to obtain the extra aid you need in order to meet college expenses. A federal Stafford Loan is an affordable lending alternative to other high-interest financing options.
- Student Loan Consolidation - Heard the joke about the two economist friends who are walking down the street and one sees a dollar bill one the sidewalk. When he tells his friend, the friend calmly dismisses the observation by explaining that if there were a dollar bill laying there, someone would already have picked it up. Well, consolidating your student loans is like picking up free money. Rather than making payments on different loans to different lenders at different interest rates, you combine all of your loans into one and that new loan has a lower rate of interest, so you get the convenience of only having to make one loan payment and you can save hundreds of dollars per month because of the lower interest rate. Of course, that assumes that you're not the skeptical economist.
- Videos - If you are looking for some information about a specific type of job or are just curious about other career paths, we have hundreds of career videos for you to browse through and watch. But do pick-and-choose, because no one should have to watch all of them.
