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Employment Agencies
After completing your resume, the next will be to begin the job search process. There are both job boards listing individual positions, and employment agencies who represent many companies and assist with staffing. Employment agencies tend to be specific to a particular industry or field - find one below that best suits your profession.
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Career Blazers works with you on an individual basis to learn about your career goals and needs. We provide our expertise to find you the position that is just right for you. Our career counselors go the extra mile, providing help on everything from resume writing to tutorials for skills you will need on the job. We work hard to help you get the job.
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Hire Profile is a creative resources firm that brings together the best people, projects and agencies. When the right people are placed into the right environment, brands, portfolios and client relationships thrive.
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Professional Staffing Group is the largest regional staffing firm servicing New England; providing staffing services in the Office Support, Creative, Technical and Finance fields.
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Recruiters filling freelance and permanent jobs for creative and design related positions. Online, offline, print, and interactive fields representing job listings for many Manhattan companies.
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Directory listings for Manhattan temping agencies.
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First Source Staffing is New York City’s only social purpose staffing company providing temporary placement, direct placement, and convertible temp-to-permanent arrangements.
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Directory of New York agencies.
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Online directory of New York agencies.
Helpful Articles
A collection of articles and sites on career development, interview tips and more - be sure to check out the interesting tests to find the career fields best suited to your personality type.
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A great article with tips for graphic design students on finding the first job and tips on how to reduce the stress by providing an overview of the whole process.
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A community of young magazine editors and magazine-editor wannabes who want to learn more about the industry so they can fulfill dreams of landing top editing and writing positions in the the magazine industry.
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The premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind.
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Wall Street Journal executive career site offering excellent articles and resources for all job candidates.
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Career Hub connects job seekers with the best minds in career counseling, resume writing, personal branding and recruiting.
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Professional resume writer offers excellent advice for job seekers - The inside scoop on getting (and keeping) a great job.
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The online companion to What Color Is Your Parachute? by author Dick Bolles. See our books section for ordering the book in print.
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Analyzes your temperament and tells you if you are an Artisan, Idealist, Guardian, or Rational. Your temperament can then be correlated to career possibilities - used by many large corporate human resources departments to analyze candidates.
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Career tools and quizzes from Monster, helping develop job candidates and give them the proper skills to land a new job.
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Yahoo! HotJobs offers advice and insight for job seekers, as well as useful articles and resume resources.
Internships
We understand that finding your first job can be very difficult. At Manhattan Resume we firmly believe in the internship process and want to give our younger customers the best opportunities available. Building real world experience and making connections through internships is an excellent experience that should be pursued by all students.
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Inc.com presents excellent information on how to land a cool internship, golden opportunities for interns, internship horror stories, and more! Inc.com is the online companion to Inc. magazine and is an unrivaled resource for entrepreneurs.
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A community of young magazine editors and magazine-editor wannabes who want to learn more about the industry so they can fulfill dreams of landing top editing and writing positions in the the magazine industry.
Job Boards
The heart of many job searches starts with browsing job boards for available positions. We have gathered many of the popular sites, as well as some job sites more specific to a particular industry. Try searching both general and specific job sites for a position that suits you.
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A job board created exclusively for technology startup companies looking for talented new employees. These are young, dynamic companies looking to create great technologies and businesses that change the way we work and play. Startuply wants to make the whole team–building process as easy as possible with their unique approach to matching positions and candidates.
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The Supporting Cast is the leading provider of staffing solutions in New York City and Washington, DC. Regarded as a boutique agency; one that concentrates on making high-quality temporary and permanent salary-based placements. Excellent content and skill-building tools on the website for job seekers.
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With a client roster which is highly concentrated throughout the greater New York metro area and in key spots across the country, Creative Placement has a superior talent network in all areas of expertise from full time professionals to freelance gurus.
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The Specialty Staff mission is "to provide the highest quality of recruitment, staffing and placement services in the healthcare industry". Known as the leader in quality supplemental healthcare staffing.
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The Creative Group specializes in matching creative talent with the best companies. They provide a comprehensive range of freelance creative, advertising, marketing and Internet professionals to a variety of companies.
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The undisputed leader in talent recruitment for all areas of fashion, design to production including: accessories and apparel design, action sports, home furnishings, corporate retail and beauty. Hundreds of available positions, both freelance and full-time, with leading brands like LVMH, Juicy Couture, Sephora, Rock and Republic, Lancome, Polo Ralph Lauren, Quiksilver, and Target, and many more.
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Indeed is a search engine for jobs - with a radically different approach to job search. In one simple search, Indeed gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from thousands of websites. Indeed.com includes all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages.
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Creative and tech jobs for millions of talented candidates.
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Looking for a job shouldn't be a full-time job! That's why we built the biggest, smartest job search engine on the web. We search thousands of job sites and companies, just so you don't have to.
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Local classifieds and forums for communities worldwide - largely for free, and in a non-commercial environment. Read more about Craigslist: comparison with other job boards | Craigslist fact sheet | FAQ for job posters
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a recruiting blog community portal providing resources for professional recruiters. Articles, discussion and job listings for recruiters.
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Find local jobs and employment listings here. Powered by Monster.com, Flipdog gives you access to the largest database of jobs and the most helpful career development tools.
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A community of young magazine editors and magazine-editor wannabes who want to learn more about the industry so they can fulfill dreams of landing top editing and writing positions in the the magazine industry.
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A leading career website for technology and engineering professionals, and the companies that seek to employ them, in the United States.
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With over 200,000 active jobs under management, Data Frenzy is the leading job distribution (or job aggregator) and resume management company.
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Software developers network with career postings for IT related fields
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Job postings for creative, marketing and publishing professionals, from the creators of Ad Age magazine.
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The communication industry's premier site for news, trends and jobs in advertising, marketing, media and web jobs.
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Careers and community for media professionals - Excellent resource for before and after finding your new job.
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Exclusive network for executive jobs, committed to the career-long success of the $100K+ executive. Career & executive recruiting solutions, online search tools and other resources.
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The most comprehensive source for $100k+ jobs, all in one convenient job search engine - executive level jobs only.
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Search jobs, talk about work, and build your career network.
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Comprehensive online resource for job postings.
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Yahoo! site featuring job postings and career tools
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The largest job search, employment and careers site - the advice and resources section of this site is a great resource for anyone.
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Excellent online resource for job postings.
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Yahoo! site featuring job postings and career tools.
Other Resources
Other sites and references that have been useful to some of our customers at Manhattan Resume in the past. These may be useful in your particular situation, or provide some interesting information for you.
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PayScale is a market leader in global online compensation data, providing accurate data on salaries based on personal reports. With the world's largest database of individual employee compensation profiles, PayScale provides an immediate and precise snapshot of the job market. Our patent-pending real-time profiling system indexes custom employee attributes (such as industry-specific certifications) and specific job titles for every industry.
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Razume is your online guide to the job search process. We know first hand how hard it is to find a job. That's why we created Razume with one specific goal: To make the job search process fun and easy. How do we do this? By providing you with all the tools, resources and guidance you need to find and land your perfect job. We are your guide and trusted advisor through the job search process.
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The WageSlave blog from the AOL Jobs Team offers job market news, job hunting advice and a little bit of office humor.
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Resume distribution services, employment directory, resume posting, job board and other job search tools
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Google email accounts - free signup for a new, professional mail account.
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Career quizzes, online test prep, college and grad school information.
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Excellent analysis comparing your job profile to the salary and benefits of people in your location with similar skills and experience.
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Multiply your job opportunities by posting on up to 75 job boards simultaneously.
Recommended Reading
Below are a collection of books we recommend - they cover a variety of material and could be helpful to readers in any stage of their career.
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My Reality Check Bounced!: The Gen-Y Guide to Cashing In On Your Real-World Dreams
Dorsey's follow-up to Graduate to Your Perfect Job is a how-to guide for struggling young adults seeking to kick off a career or achieve a long-term goal. Through real-world examples and prescient lessons-including instruction in making human connections and facing fears of failure-Dorsey underscores the importance taking responsibility for one's own success, pursuing dreams without hesitation and turning obstacles into advantages. With short, easy-to-follow anecdotes and analyses, plus numerous guided exercises, this is a useful, practical guide for anyone sick of their own excuses.Available for only $11.20 | Buy this book
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
Unabashedly inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling The Tipping Point, the brothers Heath—Chip a professor at Stanford's business school, Dan a teacher and textbook publisher—offer an entertaining, practical guide to effective communication. Drawing extensively on psychosocial studies on memory, emotion and motivation, their study is couched in terms of "stickiness"—that is, the art of making ideas unforgettable. They start by relating the gruesome urban legend about a man who succumbs to a barroom flirtation only to wake up in a tub of ice, victim of an organ-harvesting ring. What makes such stories memorable and ensures their spread around the globe? The authors credit six key principles: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions and stories.Available for only $16.50 | Buy this book
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The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
This meticulously researched book, which grew from a much buzzed-about article in the Harvard Business Review, puts into plain language an undeniable fact: the modern workplace is beset with assholes. Sutton (Weird Ideas that Work), a professor of management science at Stanford University, argues that assholes—those who deliberately make co-workers feel bad about themselves and who focus their aggression on the less powerful—poison the work environment, decrease productivity, induce qualified employees to quit and therefore are detrimental to businesses, regardless of their individual effectiveness. He also makes the solution plain: they have to go.Available for only $15.63 | Buy this book
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2008: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-Changers
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world. A favorite of job hunters and career changers for more than three decades, it continues to be a mainstay on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to Business Week to the New York Times, where it has spent more than six years, and has been translated into 12 languages. The 2008 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for changing readers' lives. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, PARACHUTE is, to quote Fortune magazine, "the gold standard of career guides."Available for only $12.89 | Buy this book
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
"The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life," writes Malcolm Gladwell, "is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do." Although anyone familiar with the theory of memetics will recognize this concept, Gladwell's The Tipping Point has quite a few interesting twists on the subject.Available for only $10.19 | Buy this book
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. The key is to rely on our "adaptive unconscious"--a 24/7 mental valet--that provides us with instant and sophisticated information to warn of danger, read a stranger, or react to a new idea.Available for only $10.87 | Buy this book
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