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Steamtunnels Special: Best Job Search Sites
By Julie Short
Graduation looms. The “real world” will
soon invade your cushy student existence. Face
it—you need a job. You’re not alone though.
Some SO percent of college seniors have yet to
find a job by the time graduation rolls around,
according to the National Association of
Colleges and Employers.
Nowadays, searching online is the only way
to look for work. While employment sites all
otter the same thing, some are
tailored for the new graduate.
A prime example is
ThePavement.com (www.the
pavement.com). If you have zero
work experience (lifeguarding
doesn’t count), this is a great
place to start. Billed as a “career
building site,” ThePavement.com
provides access to a national
database of entry-level and
early-career opportunities, as
well as services that help you
deal with money management, apartment hunt
ing, car buying and more.
JobDirect.com (www.jobdirect.com) targets
a similar audience. Founded by two young
entrepreneurs during a cab ride, this site claims
to understand the new grad’s needs. How? Well,
for one, if you don’t have a resume, you can
build one here. Then, from the minute you fin
ish your resume, JobDirect’s computers will
begin to search for jobs for you. When they
find a job that matches your skills and needs,
you get an email. Employers like
Sun Microsystems, the Peace
Corps and J.P. Morgan search
JobDirect’s database every day
looking for good candidates.
WetFeet.com (www.wet
feet.com) gives you the lowdown
on companies, industries and
careers. More than just a reprint
of the corporate brochure,
WetFeet talks to employers,
anonymous employees and
experts to find out what makes the company
tick. If you’re thinking about working for a big
company, start here. Typical job listings include
Chase Manhattan, Bear Stearns, E*Trade, Coca
Cola, Deloitte Consulting and Xerox.
There’s a site that’s been generating inter
est lately due to its mission to reach job seekers
in the US and beyond. CampusCareerCenter.com
(www.CampusCareerCenter.com) enables stu
dents on campuses throughout the world to
conduct a worldwide job search. The site has
potential, but the seven-step log-in screen takes
10 to 15 minutes to complete.
CollegeRecruiter.com (www.college
recruiter.com) targets college students and
recent graduates with entry-level career oppor
tunities. You click on an occupational field (from
arts to real estate) and then specify a region of
the US, and the recruiter will list job options.
Two sites that link up with college career
centers are eRecruiting.com (www.erecruiting.com)
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tiser). eRecruiting is affiliated
with about 80 schools, while
JobTrak has formed partnerships
with a whopping 1,000 career
centers. To access both sites,
you must be a student or alum
nus from one of the participat
ing campuses. JobTrak has some
pretty impressive stats: more
than 900,000 job openings
were posted on its site in 1999,
and more than 35,000 job-seeking students,
graduates and experienced professionals
access the site daily. Talk to your career cen
ter to determine if your school participates in
either program (don't forget to ask for the
login password).
Two larger job sites are Monster.com
(http://monster.com), which boasts more than
362,226 job openings at any one time, and
CareerPath.com (www.careerpath.com), a com
pilation of Help Wanted ads from the nation’s
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leading newspapers. The downside
of both is that neither is specifi
cally geared toward the undergrad.
However, you can’t beat these for
their breadth of offerings.
Clearly, there are other sites
out there that can be used suc
cessfully to find a job
(www.JobNetwork.com and
www.JobsOnline.com, among oth
ers), but these are mainly web
sites for established profession
als. Quintcareers.com has a list of the 50 best
job-hunting resources, which might be of help
to the novice.
But if the thought of parking yourself in
front of a computer screen for 40 hours a week
is not appealing, there’s always ActionJobs.com.
Here, you can find a job on an offshore oil rig,
at a dude ranch or sailing school, or as a high
rise window washer. The world is your oyster.
Co forth and conquer.
Get Out of Bed
Mr. Wakeup
www.iPing.com
If you absolutely have to get up, alarm clocks
often aren't up to the job. But when the phone
rings, most of us can make it out of the rack. So
register with Mr. Wakeup. They call you at a
predetermined time for free, and even give you
news, traffic info
and a personal
message in the
call. They make
their money
through advertis- 1
ing, so expect to
wait for what you
want to hear. Of
course, you
could just hang
up too.
Music
Rich's Magic Kingdom
www.geocities.com/Paris/Opera/8227/Com
mercials/CommercialsI .html
So you just know you’ve heard that song on
the Mitsubishi commercial, but you don’t
know where? Fear not, the unsurnamed Rich is
here to help. This site is a catalog of the
music from almost any commercial you could
think of: the new Jetta theme song, DeBeers’
"Diamond Music,” the Gap’s musical desecra
tions. The site includes links to samples of
every song listed, just to be sure.
Games
Card Trick Central
http://web.superb.net/cardtrick/index.htm
It’s 11 pm, the Econ final is tomorrow, and
you still have half the book to get through.
What, you worry? Log on to Card Trick
Central, and impress your Prof so much that
he gives you an A anyway. Well, maybe not,
but in case you flunk out and need a way to
make money fast, the site covers tricks from
the most basic techniques (fake shuffles,
palming cards, guessing suits and numbers)
to professional-quality stunts. And for the
real aficionado, there are test questions for
the hard stuff to make sure only “real” magi- '
cians get in. A time-waster supreme, and a
great place to learn some top-notch party
performance art.