Human Resource Management
Information Online

Internet Job Boards

• AgCareers focuses on jobs in the agriculture field.
• America's Job Bank is a service of the United States Department of Labor and state public Employment Service Agencies. It provides job seekers with the largest pool of active job opportunities available anywhere. For employers it provides rapid, national exposure for job openings. There is no charge to either employers who list their job vacancies nor to job seekers who utilize America's Job Bank to locate employment.
• CareerBuilder is a searchable database of the classified help wanted ads from dozens of newspapers from across the United States.
• Career Path Coach Midwest Virtual Job Fairs provides the ability for job seekers to contact companies directly by using the CPC Virtual Job Fairs.
• EngineerJobs focuses on jobs for engineers and technical professionals.
• HigherEdJobs focuses on jobs in the higher education job market for both faculty and staff positions.
• HotJobs allows employers to post job openings and it allows job seekers to search the job listings, post their résumés, and apply for jobs.
• HR.com focuses on jobs in human resource management.
• JobCentral employment search engine is owned and managed by DirectEmployers Association, Inc., a non-profit employer association.
• JobWeb is from the National Association of Colleges and Employers. This site provides an electronic gateway to employment information.
• LegalStaff focuses on jobs in the legal profession, including attorneys, law clerks, paralegals, legal administrators, and related professionals.
• MavJobs.com is the job board for students and alumni of Minnesota State University Mankato.
• Medzilla focuses on medical-related jobs, including biotech, pharmaceutical sales, health care, and medical careers.
• Minneapolis StarTribune Working is an employment search tool for both job seekers and employers.
• Monster.com is a huge collection of job listings. This site is one of the market leaders among the Internet job search sites.
• MonsterTrak.com is a job search service that focuses on the college graduate labor market. Job listings range from internships for college students to part-time and full-time employment opportunities for college graduates. Companies can post their job openings and people can post their résumés. It is a division of Monster.
• Net-Temps is an employment portal targeted specifically to the contract and temporary employment markets. The Net-Temps résumé bank includes hundreds of thousands of résumés. Job seekers can post résumés and search for jobs at no cost. Recruiting firms pay a monthly fee to subscribe to Net-Temps.
• Phoenix Link focuses on interim and full-time management jobs for experienced executives and technologists.
• RetiredBrains.com focuses on retired people who want to return to work.
• RxCareerCenter focuses on jobs in the pharmaceutical industry, including pharmacy and pharmacist jobs.
• Senior Job Bank focuses on jobs for senior citizens (which they define to be people older than 50).
• ShowBizJobs focuses on jobs in the entertainment business.
• SouthernMinnesotaHelpWanted.com is a website for both job seekers and recruiters that focuses on Southern Minnesota.
• Top 100 Electronic Recruiters provides links to the best on-line recruiting sources. This valuable service is provided by Interbiznet.com: The Internet Business Network, which also provides other useful information on electronic recruiting.
• TrueCareers provides a searchable database of jobs, focusing on professional jobs that require a college degree and experience.

Pay Information Online

• Bureau of Labor Statistics National Compensation Survey provides data on occupational wages for localities, geographic regions, and the nation. Users of the National Compensation Survey can Create Customized Tables by searching the National Compensation Survey database by area, occupation, and work level (which is essentially the Point Method of setting pay).
• ERI Economic Research Institute offers research database software applications and reports relating to area wage and salary differentials, salary survey position pay, area cost-of-living differentials, and other human resource and demographic information relating to employee pay and relocation planning.
• Salary.com is an excellent source of information on compensation issues. This site includes the Salary Wizard, which allows the user to get market pay information for specific job titles and geographic locations. The site also includes salary news, salary advice, and other valuable items.

HRM Information Sources Online

Here is a wide variety of sites with information on human resource management (including industrial and labor relations). These sites will help both employers and employees find answers to employment-related questions.

• America's Labor Market Information System (ALMIS) produces labor market information and tools in a variety of media and formats for use by job seekers, employers, and workforce development professionals.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Labor responsible for collecting information on the labor market. This site makes BLS data available via the Web. Available information includes data, the economy at a glance, surveys and programs, publications, and research papers.
• Corporate Watch is a site "committed to exposing corporate greed." The site tracks alleged abuses of workers by corporations, including issues such as the treatment of workers by US companies in overseas plants and reports on labor conditions around the world.
• Department of Labor is the official Web site for the US Department of Labor. This site has valuable information for both employers (including small businesses) and employees. The site features eLaw, which explains employment and labor law (including Equal Employment Opportunity law and safety laws from OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration). Employees can explore issues such as the family and medical leave issues.
• Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Labor with the mission to ensure that all Americans have access to the resources they require to successfully manage their job lives, and that U.S. businesses have access to the skilled workers and training resources they need to successfully compete in a global economy.
• FirstGov is the Web portal to the US Government.
• HR Internet Guide provides thousands of links to websites and software resources of interest to Human Resources professionals and students. A wide variety of topics are covered, including recruitment and selection, compensation, benefits, training and development, HRIS, safety, and law/legal.
• ILR Home Page at Cornell University for lots of useful resources on Human Resource Management.
• Legal Information Institute is a site provided by Cornell University's Law School. This site is one of the best sites I've found for information on laws.
• National Labor Relations Board is the official site for the NLRB, a government agency dealing with unions and labor relations. This site features access to numerous official documents and case reports, which are of use to both unionized employers (or employers in a union organizing campaign) and employees.
• O*NET - The Occupational Information Network is the U.S. Department of Labor's replacement of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT), which is a comprehensive database that identifies and describes occupations; worker knowledges, skills, and abilities (KSAs); and workplace requirements for jobs across the country in all sectors of the economy.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook is the U.S. Department of Labor's guide to career options and outlooks.
• PAQ Position Analysis Questionnaire is a structured job analysis questionnaire that measures job characteristics and relates them to human characteristics. PAQ has been used since 1964 for reliable and defensible job analysis.
• The Salary Calculator allows you to determine the salary you would need to make in a new city, based on cost-of-living differences.
• Society for Human Resource Management represents the interests of more than 67,000 professional and student members from around the world. SHRM provides its membership with education and information services, conferences and seminars, government and media representation, and publications that equip human resource professionals for their roles as leaders and decision makers within their organizations.
• Society for Human Resource Management - Minnesota State Council has information about SHRM in Minnesota, including events, local chapters, and volunteer opportunities.
• Southern Minnesota Area Human Resource Association (SMAHRA) is the Southern Minnesota chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management.
• WorldatWork used to be the American Compensation Association. WorldatWork is the source for compensation, benefits, and total rewards information.
• Workforce Online is a Web site designed for HR professionals. It provides ideas, solutions, and trends.
• U.S. Supreme Court Decisions from Cornell University's Legal Information Institute.

For additional Web sites with information related to human resource management, please see my Bookmarks page under the heading Human Resource Management or, for law-related issues, Law and Government Sites and Misc. Databases. Note: I no longer update my bookmarks. However, some of the links still work.

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