Is There a Web Site with Local Job Information? Indeed, There IS!

Bufkinite@evpl — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:47:00 GMT

Some of the most popular workshops being offered at the library recently have involved how to polish your resume, or sharpen you interview skills. With the tight job market, even highly skilled and trained people are getting all of their job-hunting tools sharpened, and are ready to take the next step. Now, where can they go to find information on local job opportunities?

Indeed.com, the second largest employment web site in the world, has a website about Evansville area employment opportunities, which aggregates all the information they have about employers, companies, jobs, and employment resources in one easy-to-navigate interface. The top section, "Popular Jobs and Salaries," provides a bar-graph style comparison of different jobs based on how much they pay, while lower sections list links to Evansville companies that are currently hiring, as well as links to pre-selected searches, such as production jobs, or clerical jobs.

Once you have performed a search for jobs, and have a list of jobs, you can limit it further in a number of ways. You can limit it to within 5 miles of your location, by salary range, by company, or by any combination of these and many other criteria.

This site is listed on our Useful Websites web page, where a huge variety of resources, selected by librarians for accuracy, timeliness, and dependability, are sorted and classified for your convenience. For instance. the Indeed.com web site is listed under both "Job Search" and "Employment Information and Services."

Check it out!

Free e-book on personal finance

googler@evpl — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:24:00 GMT

The Simple Dollar, a personal finance blog that I've seen cited many times, is giving away a 50-page PDF, "Everything You Need to Know About Personal Finance on Just One Page." Definitely worth the 4.4 MB download, it starts off (just as it says) by giving you one single page of core advice on earning, spending, and investing, then fleshes it out over a mere 49 pages.

Of course, the Library offers a huge number of personal finance books, including many titles recent enough to take the current financial situation into account. Some of the titles published in 2009 include:

Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy by Stephen Leeb
The Cure for Money Madness: Break Your Bad Money Habits, Live Without Financial Stress--and Make More Money! by Spencer Sherman
Suze Orman's 2009 Action Plan
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Out of Debt by Ken Clark
Gimme My Money Back: Your Guide to Beating the Financial Crisis by Ali Velshi
The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even the Toughest Times by Jean Chatzsky
J.K. Lasser's Guide For Tough Times : Tax And Financial Solutions To See You Through by Barbara Weltman
Enough: Discovering Joy Through Simplicity and Generosity by Adam Hamilton

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Is There a Web Site with Local Job Information? Indeed, There IS!

Free e-book on personal finance