Career counseling? Yes, career counseling. Maybe as part of your separation your former company is paying for retraining, career counseling or assistance in finding a job. After you’re done rolling your eyes it won’t hurt much to look in to the resource. Besides if you’re not paying for it… Even if you do have to pay for it, knowledge is power. Check it out. Many career counseling services have great websites for training, resume building and samples, researching companies and industries and how-to find a job classes, job hunting assistance and other training. Some of the stuff on sites is free, take advantage of it. Other stuff is going to cost you some money. You know your situation and what may help. You decide what to do. Surf some sites and see what you find.
Career Counseling -
CBL - career and life coaching resources
Live Career - free career test
Career Coach - career, advancement, burnout coaching
Career Planner - career assessment test, costs money
Career Voyages - a U.S. Gov site for career planning
CarrerInfoNet - is part of CareerOneStop, lots of resources
Discover A Career - another career assessment test which costs money
Career Assessment - and another career assessment test for bucks
Quintessential Careers - lots of good resources
Search Firms, Headhunters and Recruiters –
Directory of Headhunters - headhunters by state
Ask The Headhunter - http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/ information about headhunters
Association of Executive Search Consultants - professional association for search executives
Recruiter Network - you can post resumes, recruiters can review resumes
Headhunters - you can search for a job or recruiter
Recruiterlink - links job hunters and recruiters
Find a search firm - just that, helps you find a search firm
Resume Arrow - a service that will place your resume with Recruiters for a fee.
A Job Hunter's Guide To Recruiter Code Words - what recruiters say about job hunters.
A Job-Hunter's Guide To Executive Recruiters - what is the recruiters job?
Assessment Websites - links to assessment websites
Myers Briggs - personality types
Know Your Type - more Myers Briggs stuff, free test
Humanmetrics Jung - the Jung typology test
Career Development eManual - University of Waterloo has self assessment and other resources
Keirsey Temperament - the Keirsey Temperament Sorter is used by many companies for personality assessment testing
Small Business BC - seminars, services, some free some cost
SaskNetWork - self employment information
Entrepreneur.com - if you are interested in your own small business or a franchise you might want to start here
