Burlington County College Library
with campuses in Pemberton & Mount Laurel

Job Hunting??
Listed here you will find some of the best online resources for finding the perfect job for you:

*America's Job Bank - Nationwide listings of approximately 250,000 different jobs. A service of the United States Department of Labor and state Employment Service offices.
*BCC Job Placement Services - Burlington County College's online job search. Great local job listings!
*Career.com - Searchable jobs database, including a feature which allows you to search for jobs for new graduates. Also has online virtual job fairs, employer profiles, and Resume Builder, which allows you to create a resume either for your own use or to post to the Career.com site.
*CareerBuilder.com - Allows you to search over 40,000 newspaper employment ads from six major cities.
*Jersey Job Guide - Employment listings for Central NJ (including Burlington County) and Pennsylvania. Also supports online resume submission.
*New Jersey's Job Bank - Allows you to search by job classification/title and allows you to electronically submit your resume from MS Word. Excellent site!!!
*Monster Board - Allows you to search a database of over 48,000 jobs in different fields or to post your resume.
*Occupational Outlook Handbook - Online version of this very important career guidance publication, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
*State of New Jersey Employment Information - A terrific resource for New Jersey jobhunters and employers.
*Phillyjobs - Very popular (sometimes slow) site containing some excellent listings, searchable by heading and location.
*Job Hunter's Bible- A great resource to bookmark! This page offers a good collection of links to job posting sites, as well as links to useful newsgroups and mailing lists
*Quintessential Careers - This site allows you to search for employment both locally and nationally. It also contains a national college search feature.
*South Jersey Classifieds - The Courier Post's online classified section. Updated daily.

8 MYTHS ABOUT JOB HUNTING

MYTH 1 - If you can't find the right job, it doesn't exist.
A typical - but inaccurate - conclusion drawn by frustrated job hunters. According to studies by a major foundation and the Federal Employment Service in California, over 85% of job vacancies are not available through traditional resources like newspaper ads, civil service notices, federal or state employment agencies, private agencies or search firms. Nevertheless, there are millions of professional and executive job opportunities. A recent survey by the National Federation of Independent Business revealed that small businesses alone had one million available positions.

MYTH 2 - Most people know how to conduct a job hunt.
Most people job hunt by sending out resumes, the most common - and ineffective - method. Standard resumes produce one inquiry for every 85 resumes a company receives, yet only half of the inquiries results in an interview. That's only one interview for every 170 resumes. The average company conducts 10 interviews before making a single offer; that's only one offer for every 1,700 resumes received. The bottom line - 1,699 resume senders are rejected for every one person offered a job.

MYTH 3 - Employment agencies have plenty of jobs.
It's a startling fact: less than 7% of all professional, managerial and executive opportunities are ever listed with agencies. What's more, surveys reveal that the average agency will see only 1 out of every 20 individuals who contact them. The others don't match their active job list.

MYTH 4 - Employment agencies market job hunters to companies.
Once upon a time, that might have been true. But today's agencies are in the business of filling vacant positions for companies. There's a big difference! Companies buy loyalty by paying commissions to employment agencies. So, rather than marketing job hunters to companies, agencies try to fit individuals into well defined vacant positions.

MYTH 5 - The 'want ads' are where to look for jobs.
Millions of job hunters shop the local classifieds every day without realizing that each ad for professional and executive openings draw from 200 to 500 applicants. And for most jobs, there will always be someone who sounds better than you. Besides, jobs advertised in papers today account for less than 3% of the jobs out there.

MYTH 6 - Employers have all the power.
It's true they have the power to hire and fire, but you have the power of choice. Many job hunters postpone effective job screening until after they're hired, find out their jobs aren't what they hoped, and end up quitting. With hiring costs escalating across all industries it's important to remember that employers need good people as much as you need them.

MYTH 7 - The higher up you go, the more secure your job will be.
Things just don't work that way. More than 500,000 middle managers and senior executives got the ax in the past decade. According to Business Week, the chances are 1 in 3 that you'll lose your job, and those odds increase as you move up the ladder.

MYTH 8 - The best-qualified people get the best jobs.
Not necessarily. The people who get the best jobs are the ones who know how to get hired then put their knowledge and skill to work.

Statistics published by B.H. Assoc.

College Guides

*Black Excel: The College Help Network - A college admissions and scholarship service specifically for African-American students. Includes The Black Excel Quick Reference Guide to Historically Black Colleges, with college profiles, SAT scores, alumni associations and contact people.
*College Source - CollegeSource offers a small, yet highly useful collection of links ot assist college bound students in choosing the right school for them. You'll find links ot virtual college tours, widely accepted "common applications", and even connects you to the U.S. Dep't. of Education's guide to understanding and affording college educations.
*Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Comprehensive list of links to historically black colleges and universities in the U.S.
*Peterson's Education Center - From the publishers of the Peterson's guides, information about many different schools and colleges, as well as other types of educational programs.

Financial Aid

*FinAid, the Financial Aid Information Page - Comprehensive collection of links to many different sources of financial aid information, including links to searchable scholarship and fellowship databases.
*SallieMae - Lots of useful information on obtaining college financial aid, including Financial Aid 101, college planning calculators, lists of low cost lenders and much more.
*U.S. Dep't. of Education Student Guide - This link will take you to the downloadable Student Guide to Financial Aid published each year by the Dep't of Education. This document explains the student financial aid programs the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid (FSA) office administers.

Updated: 1/23/08