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The Main Sites

Quintessential Careers
Quintessential Careers is where job-seekers start their job search. One of the oldest and most comprehensive career-development sites on the Web, its mission is to be your ultimate career, job, and college site, offering free expert career and job-hunting advice (through articles, tools, tips, and tutorials), as well as links to all the best job sites. Quintessential Careers also publishes the biweekly e-zine, QuintZine, which offers readers a number of exciting and informative career development- and job- (and job-hunting) related features. Career topics covered include mastering the job search (on and off the Internet), writing attention-getting cover letters and resumes, mastering the art of interviewing, strengthening and broadening your network of contacts; understanding salary negotiation and achieving salary/compensation success, changing careers, choosing a college -- and choosing what to study in college, and much more. Special sections on Quintessential Careers for teens, college students, and all other job-seekers (by industry, geography, and job-seeker type) makes this site a comprehensive resource for all. Now with more than 2,500 pages of career and job-hunting content!

The Career Doctor
The Career Doctor is all about empowering job-seekers. Dr. Hansen offers his opinion and advice, as well as provides tips and leads to resources on and off the Web that can help solve your college, job, and career-related problems and concerns. Questions the Career Doctor has answered include: high school and college students concerned about choosing a college major; job-seekers looking to make a career change; issues related to relocating to another city or town; former military transitioning to civilian work; deciding about going to graduate school or returning to college; problems with particular areas of job-hunting; gaining an understanding of salaries, benefits, and compensation packages; understanding and mastering the different types of job interviews; and much more! And to get individual help to complex problems, there is now career coaching with Dr. Hansen or Katharine Hansen's online career clinic.

10CareerStories.com
10CareerStories.com is the story of Quintessential Careers, the Web's comprehensive empowering career development and job site for all job-seekers, established to promote the Quintessential Careers 10th anniversary of being one of the top career preparation and development sites on the Web. Visitors will find lots of "10" facts, stories, events, and more.

MyCareerBlast.com
MyCareerBlast.com is designed to fit the special needs of individual students and job-seekers, with sections specially tailored for the student looking to attend college, the job-seeker looking for the "right" career, the individual looking to make a career change; the student looking for a summer job or internship, the student looking for the first job after graduation, the person contemplating graduate school, the entrepreneur considering freelancing or starting a home-based business, and the job-seeker looking for his or her next job. Because individual people have different needs based on their situations, this site was created to give you easy access to the specific resources you need for the specific circumstance you are in in your life.

Quintessential Careers Press
The publishing division of Quintessential Careers, currently publishing college, career, and job-search e-zines and e-books. You can be assured that any publication published by Quintessential Careers Press will be the same top-notch material found in the articles, tutorials, and tests and quizzes of Quintessential Careers.

Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters
Quintessential Resumes & Cover Letters is a professional career marketing and job-search correspondence service for those job-seekers who want to take their cover letters and resumes to the next level. Services include critiques and suggestions for current cover letters and resumes, as well the development of entirely new resumes and cover letters -- from scratch or from your existing documents. The founding partners of Quintessential Careers, each established career experts with more than 15 years of employment, job-hunting, and career development experience, are the trusted career experts who form the staff of Quintessential Resumes and Cover Letters. We've written and produced job search correspondence for hundreds of careers and professions. Chances are we’ve created resumes and cover letters for people in your career. We guarantee your satisfaction.

Quintessential CVs
Quintessential CVs is the premier North American source for:

• Curriculum Vita (CVs) for Academic jobs: College/university teaching and administrative positions.
• CVs for Scientific jobs: Research and all types of science-oriented jobs.
• CVs for Medical jobs: Physicians, nurses, and more.
• CVs for International jobs: Whether you seek a position in your own country or any other country around the world, we can prepare an English-language CV for you that conforms to the CV traditions of your target country or countries.

We guarantee your satisfaction.

The Quintessential Careers Job Board
The Quintessential Careers Job Board is rated as one of the top job sites on the Web, where job-seekers can search for jobs and post your resume -- for free. With our job board, job-seekers from all industries and occupations and at all levels of experience can easily search for jobs. You can search by keywords, industry focus, and location. You can also easily register for a job-search agent that will email you jobs that match your search focus. And, of course, job-seekers can post your resume for a more passive job-search style. We also have many other resources for job-seekers, such as resume distribution, continuing education, industry magazines, and much more.

Quintessential Careers Speakers Bureau
If you need a speaker for your career-oriented conference or event at your college or organization, the Quintessential Careers Speakers Bureau can help! Our quintessential experts can provide presentations/workshops on a variety of career-related topics, including: how to write a dynamic cover letter, job-hunting in times of uncertainty, job interviewing strategies, networking and informational interviewing, using key marketing tools in the job market, developing career portfolios, utilizing transferable skills, developing a winning resume, and more.

A Storied Career
A blog that explores intersections among various forms and uses of storytelling, including storytelling for organizational entry (getting a job), journaling, organizational storytelling, Writing to Learn, and keeping a Weblog (Blogging). A Storied Career has its roots in Katharine Hansen's PhD program, and it is intended that its scope will expand well beyond the program and be of interest to folks fascinated by all sorts of traditional and postmodern uses of storytelling.

MyCollegeSuccessStory.com
Succeed in college. This Website is designed to empower college-bound and current college students to study better and achieve greater academic and career success. Includes tips, tools, resources, and stories from high-achieving students.

EnhanceMyWriting.com: Indispensable Writing Resources
The ultimate writing site, where you'll find everything on and off the Net that you could possibly need in writing or researching a paper, including links to all sorts of reference material, links to writing labs, links to Web search engines, and links to writing-related Web sites.

EnhanceMyVocabulary.com
A free site dedicated to helping you build your vocabulary -- for personal, professional, career, or educational (test-prep) success! It includes tons of resources to help you build your vocabulary for a better future!

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