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Lesson 1 - Introduction and General Overview

The Riley Guide - Employment Opportunities & Job Opportunities On the Internet
http://www.rileyguide.com/

Online Hunting 35 Ways To Land a Job Online
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/16/webjobs.html

About.Com Job Research and more...
http://jobsearch.about.com/od/companyresearch/a/jobresearch.htm

Going From Full-Time to Freelance by Doug Berg
http://www.techcareers.com/content/article.asp?articleid=193002452

In With the Old, In With the New by Sacha Cohen
How you can take your old skills and parlay them into new opportunities.
http://dotcom.monster.com/articles/inoldinnew/

Job.Com Job Board, Career Resource Center and more

Sonoma Country JobLink Make a local connection...


SRJC Career Center Read what's available or visit them in person. They offer some great workshops.

Self Assessment Quizzes (Take one of these)

Quiz: What's Your Workstyle? by Barbara Reinhold
http://content.monster.com/tools/quizzes/workstyle/

Is Self-Employment for You? by Pat Boer
http://midcareer.monster.com/tools/self_employment

Career Articles
monster.com offers a large selection of career articles. Visit and read what you like.
http://dotcom.monster.com/articles/

Risk & Reward: Life at a Start-up by Sacha Cohen
http://dotcom.monster.com/articles/startup/

Resources Especially for "Freelancers"
Especially for Freelancers
Many of the links on this freelancer page are also included in the Resources section of the weekly notes. Having the links on a single page should make it easy for you to find them. Feel free to copy the page and have it for reference through the course.


Lesson 2 - Content and Packaging

Resume Tutorial
http://www.acinet.org/acinet/resume/resume_toc.asp

Sample Portfolios

Students from a Previous Semester
[ In no particular order. ]

Nancy G
Ted W
Chaudry A
Ann B
Charles K
Sandy W
Upi S
Shyla O
Shenoa L
Marty G
Liz G
River M
Robert F
Celia S


Lesson 3 & 4 - Self Promotion and Production

Reading Assignments
Not-so-good Design Checklist

So-much-better Design Checklist


Tips on Designing Web Pages:
1-Repetition
2-Readability
3-Don't Try This

Links from the Lesson
Portfolio Site Opening Statement and Resume Job Objectives

http://www.eresumes.com  Rebecca Smith's eresume tutorial

Resume Guidelines

Portfolio Guidelines

Keyword tutorial (Step 9 of Rebecca Smith's eresume tutorial)

ASCII tutorial (eResumeIQ.com tutorial)

HTML/Web tutorial (eResumeIQ.com tutorial)

Scannable tutorial (eResumeIQ.com tutorial)

Adobe Acrobat software
Acrobat Reader software

How to Convert A Web Page to PDF with Acrobat at Adobe.com.

Optimize Images Help Page

3rd party software utilities
PDFzone.Com


Lesson 6 - Job Research

Reading Assignments
Finding Jobs With Job Boards from SunOasis.com

Researching Companies Online

Researching Employers and Industries

Step-by-Step Guide to Researching Companies

Links from the Lesson
Top Web Sites for Job Hunters

Monster.com
Hotjobs.com
Careerbuilder.com
Jobs.com
Dice.com
Nationjob.com
JobWeb.com

Looking for Mr. Site


Lesson 7 - Cover Letter & Final Draft

Top 10 Cover Letter Tips

Quintessential Careers' Cover Letter Samples
http://www.quintcareers.com/cover_letter_samples.html

Quintessential Careers' Cover Letter Tutorial
http://www.quintcareers.com/cover_letter_tutorial.html

JobStar-Cover Letters
http://www.jobstar.org/tools/resume/cletters.cfm

Wharton Cover Letter Guide
http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/wharton/coverletter.html

200 Cover Letters from CareerLab.com
http://www.careerlab.com/letters/link002.htm