Quintessential Careers Site Award:
The Riley Guide
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.
June 26, 2000: The Riley Guide
The Riley Guide, created by Margaret Riley Dikel, is
one of the oldest and most respected career sites on the
Internet. It's a very good guide to job-hunting on the
'Net. And Margaret plans to give the Guide a major
overhaul this week (June 30 is the target date).
New major areas of the Riley Guide are slated to include:
Prepare to Search: includes all career info, counseling
info, help with the Internet. Careers, Union / Trade Assns., Counseling, Self-Assessment,
Handling Job Offers, Internet Tools & Tutorials, Internet Email and ISPs;
Resume Preparation: resume and cover letter info, Preparing Your Resume for the Internet;
Doing the Research: Employer info. Info on relocation and choosing a location. Info on job trends.
Employer Research, International Business Info, News, Business Rankings/Top Employers;
Searching for Work: Job info, plus job search guides and interviewing/networking/references stuff.
Margaret's big article on "Using the Internet in Your Job Search" will be divided into 4 articles
to cover the 4 job search activities. (Jobs, Research, Networking, Resume Prep and Distribution.);
