Featured Quintessential Careers Resource:

Featured Employer Resource:

HrGOpher -- a great tool for employers and human resource professionals to find more than 50,000 categorized links in 85 top-level categories on all issues related to the workplace -- from crisis management to workplace safety to diversity issues. Also includes links to current HR news. Free to users.

Resources for Employers:

AHI’s Employment Law Resource Center -- provides publications and free information covering aspects of employment law and Human Resources Law, designed to help keep managers and executives from making mistakes that could lead to fines and lawsuits.

Ascentis: An HR Management Solutions Firm -- creator of HROffice, an innovative human resource and benefits management system (HRMS). Provides an integrated human resources software package for small to medium-sized businesses.

Benefits Alert -- a free resource for employee benefits news and information on topics ranging from 401(k) and group health plans to COBRA and FMLA administration. You'll find useful employee benefit articles, tips, links, and reference resources.

BountyJobs.com -- provides employers with unparalleled access to a huge pool of talent through a system that provides access to thousands of professional headhunters.Employers pay only when their jobs get filled.

The Brentwood Group, Inc. -- providing research and recruiting to companies and executive search firms in all industries.

B2B CFO --serving mid-market companies (revenues up to $75 million) that want to increase cash, profitability, sales and company value. B2B CFO offers a network of CFOs nationwide to work on a part-time basis for clients that don't need a full time CFO.

Building Teams -- provides team-building workshops and helpful articles for corporate training, team building and leadership development.

CareerLab: Recruiting & Hiring -- a good article on how to develop a well-planned hiring project.

DRoster Employee Scheduling Software from Kappix -- manages employees’ shifts, rosters, availability times, including rule-based scheduling. Kappix offers a free fully functional copy of DRoster, suitable for organizations of all size, needs and industries, unlimited in time and including scheduling support.

eEmpACT Software -- staffing software (complete front and back office human capital management solution) for the staffing, recruiting, healthcare, and consulting markets.

Employers Choice Online -- offers a complete range of pre employment background screening services to employers of every size and industry throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and abroad -- in just about any area, including vendor and nanny screening.

Employment Background Investigations (EBI) -- provides employee background checks, drug testing, and occupational healthcare solutions. Average delivery of information results is under 48 hours.

Hire the Best -- a good article from the Denver Business Journal about interview techniques that can separate prime candidates from 'wannabes.'

HR-Guide -- provides an extensive listing of links to Websites of interest to human resources professionals and students... a portal for HR resources.

HRLady.com -- a great site for all things related to human resources, including hundreds of human resource articles, on subjects from resume precautions, to hiring and retaining employees, to welcoming new employees. No cost.

HR-Software Network -- a collection of links to Web-based software resources for human resource professionals and students. Categories include: applicant tracking, benefits administration, job posting, payroll, performance appraisal, training and development, and more.

Human Resource Executive Online -- offering targeted news, columns and features, HR search functions and more. Topics include: human resources, labor relations, benefits, training, staffing, recruiting, leadership, motivation, and more.

The Human Resource Store -- a Chicago-based human resources organization of consultants, recruiters, trainers, etc., which provides recruiting, training, and consulting services to employers and posts jobs for candidates seeking employment. Some free information and workshops, as well as a good collection of links.

Human Systems Development -- provides exit interviews, employee surveys, customer surveys, background checking, executive coaching, and more.

Innovative Employee Solutions (IES) -- a 100% woman-owned company that provides payroll and benefits administration services to companies throughout the U.S. IES assumes responsibility for paying taxes, insruance, and selected fringe benefits.

Liberty Screening Services -- performs pre-employment background screening and drug testing for companies through out the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada, specializing in pre-employment background services, drug testing, criminal records, credit reports, and education and employment verification.

Media Partners -- provides high-quality corporate training videos on a variety of subjects, including: diversity, harassment, leadership, customer service, management, motivation, sales training, and sexual harassment.

Mercer Human Resource Consulting -- an HR portal for Asia, where human resource professionals can find news links, key resources, and useful links to many sites related to HR management in Asia. Free.

Organizational Culture Center -- works with emerging or establishing organizations' leaders by engaging and training them to understand workplace culture and to assume their responsibilities as the cultural leaders of their own individual subcultures.

Quintessential Careers: The Best Job Web Sites -- a collection of the best full-service employment and recruiting sites on the Web.

Quintessential Careers: Career Assessment Resources -- a collection of assessment resources on the Web -- for both employees as well as for employers. If you are looking for self-evaluation tools, this is the place to find the best.

Quintessential Careers: Recruiter Directories & Associations -- if your company is thinking of using recruiters or executive search firms in the hiring process, find the largest directories and other recruiter resources in this section of our site.

RecruiterSeek.com -- a place for employers and recruiting professionals to connect with each other online, where employers can post open contract and full-time recruiting positions, and recruiting professionals can post your resumes, profiles, and availability. Free.

Recruiting Software by BlackDog, Inc. -- from BlackDog, Inc., a complete staffing software solution -- including resume software and resume database for resume search and applicant tracking.

Retention Connection -- providing employers (executives, managers, and human resource professionals) with a wide range of tools to control employee turnover, this site offers dozens of products and services to help you to build employee retention, workplace stability -- and profits.

Salestestonline.com -- provides a valuable tool for anyone charged with hiring, promoting or managing sales people: an online test that measures the personality traits, temperament and motivational fit of your sales applicants-quickly, accurately and reliably. Proven effective with clients worldwide.

SearchFirm.com -- claims to be the largest free marketplace connecting corporate recruiters with leading executive search firms from around the world. Designed to help hiring managers and executives responsible for a company's recruiting programs to locate search firms specializing in more than 50 particular areas of interest.

Selecting Winners -- a consulting and training company that helps oganizations with hiring, selection, reference checking, assessment, and interviewing.

Selection.com -- where employers can do job applicant background checks quickly and easily (using a cost effective information verification program) online, helping you make the best hiring decision.

Society for Human Resource Management -- the organization for the human resources profession, offering education, and information services.

Work & Family: A Work-Life Clearinghouse -- where you can find information and resources related to all issues related to developing a workplace that is both supportive and effective. A fantastic resource for both employers and employees. Free and fee-based.