Job Search Sites

The Office of Career Services is committed to assisting Marymount Manhattan students and alumni in the job search process. Below are some popular job search sites that may help you prepare your resume, look for positions and compare salaries.

Advertising, Public Relations
Advertising Age: A good place to find advertising jobs.
Careers in Marketing: Areas to explore in marketing, recommended books and links.

Arts & Fashion Related Sites
Actorsite.com: Information on how to become a working actor.
Art Jobs: Jobs in visual arts.
Art Staffing: Offers staffing, consulting and training programs for museums, non-profit organizations, and art businesses nationwide.
Entertainmentcareers.net: Jobs internships and career information in the entertainment industry.
Mandy.com: Great resources and job listings in film production.
Museum Jobs: Site provides international recruitment for museums and galleries.
New York Foundation for the Arts: Site headlines include jobs in the arts, event listing, and opportunities and services for artists.
Smithsonian Institution Office of Human Resources: Listing of Smithsonian Institution vacancy announcements.
New York Women in Film and Television: A nonprofit membership organization, NYWIFT is dedicated to helping women reach the highest level of achievement in television, film, and other moving-image media and promoting equity for women in these industries. It is a part of a network of 40 international women in film chapters, representing more than 10,000 members worldwide.

Music
Music Jobs: Search engine for jobs in UK, USA, and Germany. Performing arts and radio/promotion.
About.com General Links for Music: An updated list of the latest resources in all areas of music.

Fashion
Clothing Industry Jobs: Jobs for both design and merchandising.
Coroflot: Jobs for designers including a small listing of fashion design. National and international jobs.
Fashion Career Center: Jobs in fashion and retail industry, including some design jobs, as well as career advice.
Fashion Net: Jobs and internship postings and advice on how to get a job in fashion.
Women's Wear Daily: List classified ads in fashion, sales, account executives, and management jobs primarily in New York.

Communication and Media
Bookjobs.com: Career opportunities in the publishing industry.
Collegejournal.com: Sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, this site contains job search and resume tips plus market research.
Ed2010.com: A group for young magazine editors seeking dream jobs.
I Want Media: News in media, links to online publications, major newspapers and more.
Journalismjobs.com: Current openings in journalism nationwide.
Mediabistro.com: Site devoted to the publishing world, some job/internship listings.
TV Jobs: Internships with networks and television stations.
Bookwire: links to publishers, articles, and a forum for writers.
Poets & Writers: information, support, and guidance for creative writers

Community and Public Service
Americorps: Volunteer positions (some with stipends) great experience.
Center for Development and Population Activities: CEDPA words hand-in-hand with local partner organizations, and national and national coalitions of organizations to design and implement programs focused on improving the lives of women and girls worldwide.
The Foundation Center: A philanthropy site with many links to grants and funding sources.
Idealist.org: Over 46,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 165 countries, which you can search or browse by name, location or mission.
Network for Good: Network for Good is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using the Web to help people get more involved in their communities.
NY Cares: Take advantage of more than 300 hands-on service opportunities each month- a single, one-hour orientation is required.
Partnership for Public Service: The Partnership works to make the government an employer of choice for talented, dedicated Americans through educational outreach, research, legislative advocacy, and hands-on partnerships with agencies on workforce management issues.
Peace Corps: "The toughest job you'll ever love."
Student Partnership Worldwide: International volunteer positions
Volunteer Match: Dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to volunteer!
VolunteerNYC.org: Search engine to identify volunteer opportunities all around the city, provided by the Mayor's Volunteer Center in partnership with the United Way.

Disabilities and Work
Social Security Administration Work Site: Provides a focus within the Social Security Administration on matters affecting the employment of Social Security beneficiaries with disabilities
US Department of Labor: The Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities mission is to create a coordinated and aggressive national policy to bring adults with disabilities into gainful employment at a rate that is as close as possible to that of the general adult population.

Diversity Resources
Black Collegian: The Black Collegian Online provides cutting-edge information on career resources for Black collegians. Job search strategies, graduate school opportunities, blogs reporting on current issues, career and industry reports are abundantly explored.
Out & Equal Workplace Advocates: Out & Equal™ Workplace Advocates is the pre-eminent national organization devoted to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in the workplace.
Hace-USA: The Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement.
Hispanic Jobs: Bilingual Jobs for English/Spanish-speaking professionals - Opportunities ranging from entry level to executive level nationwide.
Latpro: LatPro is the largest Hispanic & bilingual jobs and diversity career board in the Americas
Lambda Legal: Lambda Legal pursues high-impact litigation, public education and advocacy on behalf of equality and civil rights for the LGBT community, as well as those living with HIV.

Education and Teaching Sites
Academic360.com: A meta-collection of Internet resources for the academic job hunter. Search for academic and administrative positions by function, discipline and location.
Beyond Academe: Alternatives to teaching for historians.
Education America: Thousands of teaching and education job opportunities from public and private schools from across the United States.
The Higher Education Recruitment Consortium: (HERC) has various local branch websites all of which offer great resources to job hunters in higher education. Here are a few links, but do a web search if we don't have a link to a location you're interested in: New Jersey, Northern California, Metro New York and Southern Connecticut, Southern California, New England.
Independent School Placement: Independent school jobs in the NYC area.
CDS International: A non-profit organization that specializes in education and training in diverse fields and in many countries and offers summer internship programs.
AAAS: Search the American Association of the Advancement for science internships and fellowships, including Entry Point! Internships for students with Disabilities in Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science and others.
Research Experience for Undergrads (REU) Program: Funding provided by the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation: Lists program and grant information.
American Psychological Association (APA): Lots of info for those considering continuing education and careers in Psychology.
American Sociological Association (ASA): Ideas for what you can do with a degree in sociology, student membership, and job listings.

Environmental Careers
EcoEmploy.com
Environmental Career Opportunities:Environmental job listings, free email alerts, and biweekly newsletter by subscription.
Greenbiz: Far-reaching expert site with job listings.
Foundation for Sustainable Development: FSD Provides volunteer opportunities and internships for students to work with local communities to develop economic, social and educational systems in nine countries.
Sustainable Careers Institute: Gives general information about the institute and its programs, as well as a list of recommended career development resources.

Business Advice and Resources
Ashoka.org: An influential organization which strives to shape a global, entrepreneurial, competitive citizen sector: one that allows social entrepreneurs to thrive and enables the world's citizens to think and act as change-makers.
Legalzoom.com: Provides templates for creating your own business contracts and other legal paperwork.
The Wall Street Start-up Journal: This site includes a list of unique tools for entrepreneurs including email alerts, interactive quizzes, and tips on a variety of business tasks.
WomensBiz.gov: A publication for women business executives and business owners. Provides the stories of outstanding business women and spotlight their lives.
GlobalExchange: Building an alternative economy.
Social Venture Network: Social entrepreneurs involved in leadership, standard-setting, education, and support.

General Job Search Sites
Alljobsearch.com: Will search multiple job listing sites at one time.
Career Builder: One of the most frequently used sites, other features include company information.
Direct Employers: National employment network of job listings. Searches can be made by keywords, city, or state.
Futurestep: An executive recruiting firm – a good site for alumni.
Internweb.com: Internship search tools for students.
MetroNewYorkJobs.com: Best NYC jobs and careers.
O'Dwyer: Information on careers in Public Affairs, Public Relations, Communications, Media, and related fields. You can get some useful information here without paying for their service.
Vault.com: Advice on internships and jobs from people who have worked at particular companies and in various fields.
Wetfeet.com: Information and advice for jobseekers.
internjobs.com: InternJobs.com is a global database of internships and entry-level positions for students, recent graduates and career changers.
internzoo.com:Search open internships and find tips on cover letters, resume writing and more.

Government and Politics
Central Intelligence Agency: Database of jobs available at the CIA. Listings can be navigated through various career paths.
Federal Job Search: Job listings are well organized by region, pay rate, keyword, and industry. You have to register to see job descriptions.
Partnership for Public Service: A non-partisan organization dedicated to revitalizing the federal civil service. Provides information about federal jobs and internships in student-friendly language. It also offers guidance to help students navigate other sites.
USAJobs.gov: USAJobs is the federal government's main website for job postings. Jobseekers can search through all currently available positions by salary, location, key words and job type.
Foreign Policy Association: Provides independent publications, programs and forums to increase public awareness of, and foster popular participation in, matters relating to those policy issues. Also includes a job board where you can search to find internships, job and volunteer opportunities and if you would like to be notified of new job and internship postings you can also sign up for their weekly Global Jobs Newsletter.
United Nations: Information on employment at the United Nations.
The New York County District Attorney's Office: The D.A.'s office has the responsibility and authority to investigate and prosecute crimes in the borough of Manhattan.
Campus Progress: Internships in public policy, human rights, politics, journalism, government, peace and justice, environment.
New York City Department of Health, Health Research Training Program

Graduate School Research
GradSchools.com: A directory of schools.

International Health
World Health Organization (WHO)

Jobs/Professional Development
Association of Women in Science (AWIS): Check out the career development section. There you will find information on AWIS internship and scholarship programs, and links to other opportunities.
MedHunters: free job board for healthcare professionals, in addition to listing healthcare jobs from across the USA, Canada, and overseas, the site includes articles on self-assessment and career strategy, as well as entertaining and informative articles of interest to all types of healthcare professionals.
American Institute of Biological Sciences): The Careers in Biological Sciences section covers what biologists do, how students/grads can prepare for a career in the field, what the future job outlook is for biologists, the salaries biologists make, and more.
American Chemical Society: Advanced Career Tools from the ACS Department of Career Services.
ChemJobs: Site has listing of chemistry, pharmaceutical, and biotech jobs. The classifieds and careers site of Chemical & Engineering News offers tools, resources, and expert career advice to help new and experienced chemists reach their professional goals.
Medzilla: Listings for biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medicine and related fields
ORAU: The Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Internship Program provides opportunities for qualified undergraduate and first year graduate students to receive hands-on experience in a real-world setting that prepares them to become part of tomorrow's workforce in engineering, computer science, health physics, meteorology, chemistry, physics, biological sciences, environmental sciences, emergency management, public health, epidemiology, accounting, finance, audit, communications, graphic design, human resources, and instructional technology.
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU): REU program supports active research participation by undergraduates students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs.
H-Net Job Guide for Social Sciences and Humanities

Public Health
American Public Health Association (APHA): links to science and practice programs, publications, advocacy efforts, news and publications, job resources.
Public Health Jobs: this site is a service of the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) Employment Council; you can search resources and other career links.
Social Work Job Bank: The new social worker's online job board and career center. Offers current job listings, resume posting, and more.

International Opportunities
O_Hayo Sensei: Teaching jobs in Japan.
Jobs in Thailand: General information regarding work in Thailand, as well as links to job opportunity websites and classified sections in Thai newspapers.
Find a Job in Africa: Includes job searches, resume advice and posting, and a hottest jobs section by country.
German American Chamber of Commerce: Services include Personnel Consulting and Career Services: from internships to top positions.
French American Chamber of Commerce: Has a frequent schedule of events and well developed student and young professional training programs. Also has listing of internships and links.
American-Scandinavian Foundation: Promotes international understanding through educational and cultural exchange between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
Career Jet: Canadian jobsite featuring both Canadian and international positions.
One Small Planet: Contains virtually every country in the world and provides some information on work, study, volunteer and travel programs available.
Transitions Abroad: Resource for work abroad, study abroad, cultural travel overseas, and international living.
US Department of State Office of Overseas Schools: Provides links to international schools by region, training programs, employment opportunities, lists of international topics and issues, and general information.
Foundation for Sustainable Development: FSD Provides volunteer opportunities and internships for students to work with local communities to develop economic, social and educational systems in nine countries.

Not-For-Profit Job Sites
Orion.org: A link for environmental activism and networking.
Idealist.org: Information about jobs in the non-profit and public sector
Professionals for Non-profits: A temporary/placement agency, located in NYC specializing in non-profits.