Quintessential Careers is one of the oldest and most comprehensive career development sites on the Web. It first went online in November 1996. Throughout these 10 years, the mission of the site has remained the same: to provide as much free and expert information and resources for students and job-seekers to aid them in their quest for career direction or a new job. The goal of this site is providing job-seekers all of types -- teens, college students, minorities, women, older workers ... all job-seekers -- with the best resources on the Web -- to empower their career development.

Our brand promise to you: Quintessential Careers: Your career site. Today. Tomorrow. Always.

Founder Dr. Randall Hansen has been identified as one of a select few of "trailblazers who have made the Web an essential job search tool" and whose "early vision brought critically needed organization, creativity and discipline to the untamed Internet." From William E. Montag in Resume Guide for $100,000+ Executive Jobs (Wiley).

Quintessential Careers was first hosted on the Stetson University Webserver, partly because the Webmaster was a professor at Stetson, and partly because the focus at the time was on helping new college graduates find employment. At the time it was called the Quintessential Career and Job-Hunting Resources Guide.

But the mission soon expanded to include all people looking for career direction or jobs. Thus, resources were added for adult job-seekers; teens looking for part-time work, college information, or career information; and special classes of job-seekers that have had to face barriers, including women and other minorities.

Read more of the Quintessential Careers history.

Read our current mission statement.

And resources have continually been added -- and will continue to be added -- on all aspects of job-hunting, from cover letters and resumes, to networking, to interviewing, to salary negotiation. Where there is information job-seekers need, the mission of this site is to find it and report it on the site.

Want an overview of the site? Then visit About the Guide.

Interested in site statistics? Check out some of the numbers in Quintessential Careers Site Stats.

Want to see what we've written about ourselves? The read some of our news releases in our press release archive.

Want to more about the Webmaster of this site? Then visit: About the Webmaster

Interested in advertising on this site? Quintessential Careers is represented by BurstMedia. For information on sponsoring or advertising on this site, please visit our advertising page.

For more general questions, please email the Webmaster.

Currently, Quintessential Careers is a subsidiary -- and a member -- of EmpoweringSites.com.