Best free career advice websites
Updated 2024-07-28. Originally published 2013-09-14 on VocationVillage.com
With so much information online, it can be tough to identify the best career advice websites. I spend a ton of time reading about career development including job search advice, so here are five of my favorites (alphabetized rather than ranked):
Of all the people who give career advice online, former recruiter Donna Svei is someone where my consistent reaction is, "Yes, I agree with her!" Svei's specialty is writing resumes and LinkedIn profiles to help job seekers maximize how well their marketing materials serve to open employment doors for them.
CareerBliss is an online career community with the goal of helping people find happiness in their workplace and career. They are an information hub for employers, job seekers, and recruiters.
They maintain a job board with 8 million job listings, 4 million salary comparisons, and millions of company reviews written by employees. They are known for their “Bliss-Score,” an evaluation of job satisfaction, pay scale, and overall employee satisfaction.
Hannah Morgan, aka, Career Sherpa, is a nationally recognized author and speaker and job search strategist. Career Sherpa’s mission is to educate professionals on the new rules of proactive and strategic job search through the website’s articles and presentations. Career Sherpa helps job seekers with advice on resumes, online visibility and personal branding.
Winner of multiple Webby Awards, glassdoor is a great site for researching jobs, careers, salaries, and companies.
While some critics say that only unhappy employees or dissatisfied job seekers leave reviews on sites like glassdoor, it is still valuable to look for trends in what people are saying. If 10,000 people say the work-life balance at a company is terrible, I wouldn't gamble that they are all wrong. I'd definitely listen and if you decide to work there, anyway, at least you will make that decision from an informed perspective.
The online Occupational Outlook Handbook is published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. If you pay taxes to the U.S. Government, here is one of the best uses of your tax dollars. This is often the first source I check if I want to know more about a traditional career path. The published info does not include unusual or cutting-edge careers, but all the predictable careers are included and for those occupations, there is a good amount of information given and suggestions for where to find out more.
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