Business Career & Job Guide

Thinking about embarking on an exciting career in business? Have you already decided that business is your life's work and you are looking for a job? Either way, this guide was built just for you!

Monster Career Advice: Management
A complete business career resource featuring information on interviewing, job hunting advice, and more!

Books: Career Options for MBAs - Real world advice from industry veterans on investment banking, consulting, Global 500 Companies, entrepreneurship and choosing the right career; Discovering Your Career in Business - Specific advice on choosing the perfect business career; The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Finance - Details trends in finance, insights on career self-assessment, industry career opportunities, and guidance on recruiting; The Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in the Nonprofit Sector - Career histories of 34 Harvard Business School alums who have carved out successful and personally-rewarding lives in the nonprofit sector; The Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job - Includes detailed strategies for approaching the job market

Career Development: Careers in Business - Includes business career areas such as jobs, salaries, interviews and entry requirements; be sure to check out the list of job banks at the bottom!

Career Guides: Google: Business Careers - Google's career resource directory; Steps to Career/Life Planning Success - Career e-manual from the University of Waterloo; Wall Street Journal Career Page - An excellent collection of articles, job listings, and national and global economies, and also includes an on-line career tool kit

Company Research: BizWeb - A guide to more than 40,000 companies, searchable by over 200 categories; Business Researcher's Interests - Comprehensive library of business, management and technology resources

Job Listings - General: MonsterTrak.com - Jobs for new graduates; Monster.com - Listings of current job openings in a variety of business-related fields; BankJobs.com - Seachable job database, financial resumes, employer profiles and more; JobBankUSA.com - Employment and resume information services for job candidates, employers and recruitment firms; MBA Global Net - Resources for MBA grads looking for employment; MBAJobs.net - International service for MBA students & graduates, employers & recruiters, and business schools

Job Listings - Top Employers: General Electric; Hewlett Packard; Merck & Co., Inc.; Microsoft MBA Careers

Job Outlook: Occupational Outlook Handbook - Excellent resource from the Bureau of Labor Statistics with hundreds of specific jobs, including work descriptions, job outlook, salary expectations and more; US Census Bureau - Includes business and job data from the most recent census

Job Search: Job Seekers Guide to Wall Street Recruiters - Profiles over 1,600 executive search firms that concentrate on the financial services sector; The Harvard Business School Guide to Finding Your Next Job - A program for a reference base, résumés and cover letters, locating openings, handling interviews, and negotiating offers; Salary Negotiation - A dozen salary questions to see what you know (or what you don't know) about negotiating your salary; Salary Negotiation Strategies - Links and books on the topic; The Riley Guide - An excellent collection of links with salary surveys from around the world for specific industries, positions and locations

Resources: Consortium for Graduate Study in Management - A university alliance working to facilitate the entry of minorities into managerial positions in business; Job Search Assistance - Articles and links from About.com