DeLand, FL - Quintessential Careers, the Web-based career and job-hunting resources guide created by Dr. Randall S. Hansen, associate professor of marketing at Stetson University, DeLand, is launching a new a free career and job-hunting newsletter offering timely and topical tips for springboarding careers. Those who wish to subscribe can do so at http://www.quintcareers.com/QuintZine/subscribe.html.

The newsletter, QuintZine, will be e-mailed every other week and provide readers with informative features in each issue, including a new, exclusive career article, the QuintZine Quintessential Careers Site Award, a collection of the new career and job sites added to Quintessential Careers, links to current questions (and answers) to the "CareerDoctor," as well as other career and job resources.

An occasional feature will be a quick, five-question Q&A with well-known career experts and authors of career books.

QuintZine is for entry-level jobseekers, career transitioners, career counselors, and those involved in career Web sites.

The editor of QuintZine is Katharine Hansen, a writer and instructor at Stetson University. Hansen is author of the forthcoming (April 2000) A Foot in the Door: Networking Your Way into the Hidden Job Market, as well as Dynamic Cover Letters for New Graduates (1998) and co-author (with Randall S. Hansen) of Dynamic Cover Letters (1995), and Write Your Way to a Higher GPA (1997) all published by Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA. She formerly served as chief speechwriter for a high-ranking Florida politician; she was also public information director for a public-health agency and a writer- editor at numerous newspapers and magazines.

Quintessential Careers has won more than 100 awards and honors from the Internet community. It was recently one of five Web sites recommended by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Outlook Quarterly (Summer 1999) in an article about resumes and cover letters. Quintessential Careers is affiliated with PowerStudents.com, the top Website for students, providing vital information on careers, academics, admissions, and student life to high school, college, and career-seeking students. Updated daily, PowerStudents.com combines original content with an unprecedented alliance of more than 25 of the top independent student-oriented Websites. On the network, students can peek into the private diaries of other students, learn admissions and financial aid strategies, search databases of scholarships, college profiles and job listings, find entertainment news and dating tips, and share their thoughts on today's headlines.

Editorial Note: More background about Quintessential Careers can be found at http://www.quintcareers.com/home.html.