The Riley Guide is a directory of employment and career information sources and services on the Internet. It is primarily intended to provide instruction for job seekers on how to use the Internet to their best advantage, but recruiters and other career service industry professional will find information here to help them also.
Occupation Information Network
O*NET, the Occupational Information Network, is a comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics. As the replacement for the dictionary of occupational titles, O*NET supports public and private sector efforts to identify and develop the skills of the American workforce, and provides a common language for defining and describing occupations and job requirements.
Americas Career InfoNet: Career development test site offering career guidance to job seekers.
American Association for Training and Development: Workforce training and workforce development resources for professionals in the career development industry.
American Labor Market Information System (ALMIS): Occupational job outlook and workforce development information at the America's Labor Market Information System (ALMIS) plays an essential role in streamlining and integrating the maze of career resources programs that seek to serve the employment and workforce training needs of Americans. ALMIS is developing, primarily through the efforts of consortia of states, an interactive infrastructure of national application systems, i.e., America's Job Bank (AJB), America's Talent Bank (ATB), America's Learning Exchange (ALX), and America's Career InfoNet (ACINet), that are logically connected by technical standards and a common language, i.e., O*NET coding. These national systems are being supported by various additional efforts undertaken by consortia leading to common state application development and standardized approaches to LMI. ALMIS offers more than information for the planning of employment and workforce training programs. ALMIS offers direct access by anyone--employers, job seekers or students--to state-of-the-art information services. In the same way that One-Stop Career Centers provide one-stop access to services, ALMIS offers one-stop access to job outlook information.
American Society for Association Executives: Career resources and job outlooks at this site which is dedicated to advance the value of voluntary associations to society and to support the professionalism of the individuals who lead them.
American Staffing Association: The American Staffing Association represents the $66 billion U.S. staffing industry. Members offer a variety of services, including temporary help, permanent placement, temporary-to-permanent placement, long-term and contract help, managed services (often called "outsourcing"), workforce training, human resources consulting, and PEO arrangements, in which a staffing firm assumes responsibility for payroll, benefits, and other human resource functions. Search for free examples of job descriptions and guidelines for writing job descriptions.
American Society for Training and Development: Workforce Development and Workforce Training resource site. ASTD is the world's premier professional association and leading resource on workplace learning and performance issues. ASTD provides information, research, analysis and practical information derived from its own research, the knowledge and experience of its members, its conferences, expositions, seminars, publications and the coalitions and partnerships it has built through research and policy work. ASTD's membership includes more than 70,000 people, working in the field of workplace performance in 100 countries worldwide.
Business Coalition for Workforce Development: Workforce Development and Workforce Training information.
Community Development Society : Workforce development at the Community Development Society. The Community Development Society represents a variety of fields, including: academic institutions, citizen groups, finance, healthcare, local and regional government, public agencies, and utilities.
Council for Urban Development: Resource for help in designing and implementing workforce development programs.
Econdata.net: Occupational outlook handbook or looking for the dictionary of occupational titles. EconData.Net, an occupational outlook resource is designed to help practitioners, researchers, students, and other data users quickly gain access to relevant state and sub-state socioeconomic data. The site aims to be a convenient, comprehensive first stop for anyone searching among the vast, disparate array of public and private data sources on the Web.
Job Hunt.org: Free sample of job descriptions and job outlooks for job seekers.
National Alliance of Business: The National Alliance of Business spearheads the corporate community's efforts to increase achievement at all levels of learning and workforce training. To meet this goal, the Alliance, along with the business community it represents, partners with policymakers and educators to raise public awareness, inform policy and stimulate action.
National Association of Workforce Development Professionals: Workforce Development resource site with a mission to be the national voice of the profession.
Society for Human Resource Management: The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management and workforce development. Representing more than 165,000 individual members, the Society serves the needs of HR professionals by providing the most essential and comprehensive set of resources available i.e., workforce training. As an influential voice, SHRM is committed to advancing the human resource profession to ensure that HR is an essential and effective partner in developing and executing organizational strategy.
Workforce Excellence Network: The Workforce Excellence Network represents the next generation of quality efforts for the workforce development system to foster unparalleled levels of quality services to its customers, workers, and employers. The purpose of the Network is to engage state and local workforce development organizations in a voluntary process of pursuing performance excellence.
Workforce Information Council: The Workforce Investment Act establishes a unique structure for Federal-State cooperation in planning and overseeing workforce training and workforce development information system. The Secretary of Labor, through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, acts with other Federal agencies and State employment statistics agency representatives elected by their peers. Collectively known as the Workforce Information Council, this group works together to plan, guide, and oversee the nationwide workforce information system.
Workforce tools of the trade: Workforce development and workforce training site for the workforce development professional.
USWorkforce.org: wia This Web site provides answers to current and emerging questions about the Workforce Investment Act. It represents an unprecedented collaboration between public and private sector groups and individuals to provide access to workforce development information and career resources and to apply that information toward innovative and effective partnerships and programs.
Career Development
Career Guidance
Careers jobs descriptions
Career Resources
Dictionary of Occupational Titles
Free job descriptions
Guidelines for writing job descriptions
National Occupational Titles
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Workforce Development
Workforce Investment Act
Workforce Training