Employment

Job Search Resources

Job Center of Wisconsin: The most comprehensive job search resource in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Internships: Seek internships to gain valuable job skills and launch your career. Create a professional profile, upload your resume, and search for internships with Wisconsin employers.

Skill Explorer: Skill Explorer looks beyond job titles to match you with new opportunities related to the skills and training you already have. Jobs you may not have considered. It's a smart way to widen your career options and find a great job. Sponsored by the WI Department of Workforce Development.

CareerBuilder: CareerBuilder is a job search community that allows a job seeker to store a resume online without posting it in the database. It offers the option to sign up for job alerts and provides online job search tips. Registered users can create up to five personal search profiles to track new jobs added to the database, and an e-mail message can be generated to a user when a match is discovered. 

CareerOneStop: CareerOneStop is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor and a partner of the American Job Center network. This site offers a variety of resources for career exploration, training, and jobs. Specifically, the site links job seekers to state job banks, employment agencies, military options, and job fairs. 

Careers.org: CAREERS.org wants to be your go-to resource for job search and career advice. Offers insight on jobs, careers, entrepreneurial opportunities and online degrees and training. Find in-depth profiles on hundreds of occupations, industries and academic programs.

Chegg's CareerMatch: Includes job hunting tips for recent grads, networking ideas, resume and cover letter guides, interview strategies, and more. 

CoolWorks: Many employers listed on CoolWorks are hospitality and guest service industry oriented – and what is considered to be “Jobs in Great Places.” There are also heaps of great outdoor adventure outfits, educational jobs, as well as conservation and environmental jobs and some internships. 

Dice: Dice is the leading job site specifically for tech careers. The site allows users to search extremely specialized tech positions, opening the door to finding more niche tech jobs. Dice offers a unique feature to search for positions that are remote or require telecommuting, along with part-time, full-time, contract, and third-party postings. 

Glassdoor: Glassdoor acclaims itself as one of the fastest growing job listing and recruiting websites in the Internet. The site allows users to search millions of job postings, research salaries, research interview questions, and connect to company reviews all in one place. 

Idealist: Idealist is a website committed to connecting individuals who “want to do good” with opportunities that allow them to collaborate and take action. Users will find jobs, volunteer, internship, and other service opportunities/events to attend by using the search function on this site. 

Indeed: Indeed is a well-known job search engine that aggregates listings from online job boards, newspapers, associations, and company career pages for job and internship listings. Users can search job listings by state, industry field, salary, experience level, job type, and location. Indeed accepts paid job listings directly from employers in addition to collecting online postings in one location. Create a free account for daily and weekly alerts with notifications going to your inbox. 

LinkedIn: LinkedIn is an online social networking site and also offers access to job postings by location, company, industry, experience level, and more. LinkedIn allows users to discover potential job opportunities based on profile preferences for free. If users want to stand out or access direct messaging to recruiters, they may pay an additional fee. LinkedIn's job postings are high quality and the social platform allows users to connect and network with contacts from organizations they find desirable. 

Monster: Monster.com is one of the most recognized names in the online job search community. It offers a variety of job and career resources for everyone from college students to contractors to chief executives. It also offers several industry/job field communities, including healthcare, human resources, and finance and plenty of job search extras: networking boards, job search alerts, and online resume posting. 

One Day One Job: This website features thousands of companies and tens of thousands of entry level and intern positions. The user can browse by location or field of endeavor. 

PublicServiceCareers.Org: This site includes resources for public service careers including salary trends and information on graduate degrees. Also includes a job board and a database featuring profiles of public service leaders with details about their career paths.

SimplyHired: This is a job search engine that searches major job boards, company pages, online classifieds, and other data sources for job and internship listings. Job seekers can search by keyword, job title, geographic region, distance, and date the listing is added. The site suggests companies users might like based on previous searches and lists the most popular industries, companies, and job types by city. 

USAJobs: USAJobs is the federal government’s official job site with opportunities posted in mathematics, engineering, human resources, business, finance, social science, technology, science, and public health. An interesting feature of USAJobs is the ability to search worldwide within any country that is advertising a current vacancy.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics: The BLS measures labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the U.S. economy to support public and private decision making. If you want information about wages, benefits, or employment projections, this is the resource to check out. 

WorkforGood: The mission of Work for Good is to help purpose-driven organizations and talented professionals connect. Users can search jobs and internships by focus areas such as social responsibility or youth development, experience level, job function, and more. 

ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter's job search engine of over 8 million jobs allows users to apply with one-click and receive updated alerts during the entire application process. ZipRecruiter is partnered with nearly a thousand specific job boards resulting in a catalog of job listings for any job seeker.