Quintessential Careers Site Award:
Internet Career Connection
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.
The Internet Career Connection [ICC] is a service
of Gonyea & Associates, Inc., a Florida corporation
owned and managed by Jim and Pam Gonyea. Gonyea &
Associates opened the ICC on the Web in 1994 as a
means of providing career information and guidance
to individuals nationwide who were not members of AOL (they
had had a career guidance service on AOL since 1989).
The ICC's mission statement notes that "the ICC was developed
with two objectives in mind: FIRST... To help job seekers
and career planners advance their careers and achieve higher
levels of success by providing them with a means of 'connecting'
with career information, career guidance, professional contacts,
and career opportunities. SECOND... To help companies,
organizations, and individuals achieve their business goals
by providing them with an online forum from which they can
publish information about their human-resource needs,
business services and products, and business opportunities."
The site features a Business & Personal Services Directory,
a Businesses For Sale database, Career Bookstore,
Career & Employment Website database, Career Advice Articles,
Career Coaches & Mentors database, Career Focus 2000 Interest
Inventory (an online interest inventory to identify your interests and
occupations that match), a database of Career Guidance Professionals
& Services, Company Profiles, Electronic Resume Distribution,
a database of Franchise Opportunities, job listings in the areas
of Government, International, State Government, USA; ICC Customer
Services Survey, Industry Profiles, a database of Internship &
Volunteer Opportunities, Jobs of the Future, Occupational
Descriptions & Profiles, a database of Recruiters & Placement
Agencies, a Training Programs database, Working From Home Directory,
and a Worldwide Resume Bank.
