Career Sites for Information Professionals & Engineers
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IT CAREER SITES - THE CREAM OF THE CROP
Most sites below offer resume and other job application advice, job and resume postings, as well as a host of other services.

ComputerJobs.com - This well-organized site offers much more than job-postings and resumes. The IT resources section features definitions, history, events, publications, and user groups all categorized by skill.

Techies.com covers all aspects of tech careers, from training to career advancement. The "Career Planner" gives salary information, job descriptions, and recommended certifications for various IT career paths.

Cramsession.com - Choose a certification from the red bar to navigate to free study guides, summaries of current IT news articles, and discussion boards.

Information Week Online: Career - The career development section features a salary advisor, career and workplace discussions, trends, and education & training.

Computerworld.com: Careers - The respected tech publication's online site includes a career section with industry news and trends, skills info, career advice, and job postings.

Other job/resume posting sites:

NationJob Network: Computers and Information Technology Jobs

ComputerWork.com

For additional sites check Yahoo!:Computers & Internet: Employment

Engineering Career Sites

National Engineering Resources

American Society for Engineering Education's Career Scope

Engineering Salary Information from TenLinks.com

All Engineering Schools.com

General Career Sites

Google Directory: Careers Directories

LIBRARY E-RESOURCES

ACM Digital Library - In addition to serving as an index for journals, conference proceedings, and other publications published by the Association for Computing Machinery, this site includes free professional development courses.

Safari Online offers searchable full-text of technology manuals & books.

Proquest - For journal, magazine, and newspaper articles on IT careers, search careers as a subject and information technology as a subject

Lexis/Nexis Academic - L/N is a good source of company information

Other databases are available via the Library Toolkit: FastTrack Short List: Technology or the LIAS FastTrack

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Last Updated February 2004
Contact: Judy Lichtman, Reference Librarian
Penn State Lehigh Valley Library
610-285-5028 / jkl1@psu.edu