An award for the quintessential college, career, and job sites.
Quintessential Careers honors one career or job site each issue of
QuintZine
with the Quintessential Careers Site Award in recognition of quintessential efforts in helping job-seekers.
CareerPerfect offers lots of information
for job-seekers, much of it free, some of it for
a fee. The site provides advice on career planning
and testing, with descriptions of various types of assessments.
My Personal Profile is the site's own low-cost assessment and
CareerPerfect also offers the free Work Preference Inventory.
The job-seeker can also find a section on Job Search Advice
and Strategy, as well as access paid resume-writing and
resume-distribution services. The site offers discussion
forums and an Ask the Counselor feature. There's also advice
on résumés, e-résumés, cover letters, government applications,
and CVs, with tutorials and samples. Other tools and topics include
salary surveys and cost-of-living information, relocation
tools and calculators, interactive tools and calculators,
career and job-search checklist, employment trends,
goal setting for success, burnout, unemployment, age issues, and
powerful interviews. Finally, CareerPerfect offers a section of
interviewing advice with sample follow-up letters.
