Best free career advice websites
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). These sites are generous with free advice, and they also offer fee-based services and products.
My consistent reaction to Donna Svei’s career advice is, "Yes, I agree with her!" Svei is a former recruiter whose specialties are writing executive resumes and LinkedIn profiles. She helps 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. It’s an information hub for employers, job seekers, and recruiters.
The site offers a job board with 8 million job listings, 4 million salary comparisons, millions of company reviews written by employees, and a “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.
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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Originally published 2013-09-14 on VocationVillage.com. I continually update this page, so the suggestions vary from year to year.
