Looking for a job, exploring a new career path, or preparing for your next professional step? The library offers a variety of tools and resources to support you throughout your job search journey.
On this page, you will find links to trusted job search websites, resume and salary resources, company research tools, and career exploration guides. The library also provides access to specialized databases, online learning platforms, and state and local employment services designed to help you build skills, prepare for exams, and connect with employment opportunities.
Toll-Free Career Information Hotline: (800) 222-1309 (from the NJ Center for Occupational Employment.)
The service provides information on careers, schools, and related issues. It does not provide current job listings. The hotline, serving residents of New Jersey only, operates from 8:15 am to 4:15 pm on all days that State offices are open.
Additional resources to get you started:
The library’s job hunting, vocational guidance, college guide, and test preparation collections can be found at these shelf locations: 378/College guides and financial aid, 361-384/Career tests and vocational guidance, 650.14/Job hunting, resumes, cover letters, & interviews.
Unemployment Help
- Unemployment Hot Line: 856-507-2340 – (Staffed from 7 AM-6 PM Mon-Fri and 8 AM-noon on weekends)
- File for Unemployment: www.njuifile.net
- Foreclosure Information
- Reference Solutions by Data Axle (formerly RefUSA) provides a job search feature and contact information for over 13 million businesses nationwide, searchable by company name, location, industry, yellow pages, or SIC category. (From outside the library, please use Reference Solutions through Jerseyclicks.org.
- Learning Express Library will access online test prep materials and interactive practice exams that will help you improve your scores on civil service, military and professional licensing certification exams.
- Peterson’s Test and Career Center
- UniversalClass – Online classes in resume writing, Interview skills, and much more.
Resume & cover letter resources
For printed guides to writing resumes and cover letters, please see our Colleges and Careers section in the library.
Resume builders:
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word, available on the Library’s computer lab computers, includes a built-in “Resume Wizard”. The Resume Wizard asks for your contact information and the headings you’d like to include on your resume, then creates an outline. To access the Resume Wizard:
1. Open Microsoft Word
2. Click on the “File” menu
3. Select “New.”
4. Under Available Templates, look for Resumes and Cover Letters.
Resume banks (Look for the “Post a Resume” link):
Choosing a resume bank
How to choose a safe site for posting your resume (information about you) online.
Websites where you can post your resume online for free: America’s Talent Bank and CareerBuilder
Salary information and negotiation
- Glass Door – An inside guide to jobs and companies.
- Salary.com – The salary wizard tells you what you should be making based on your job category and city. It also shows the U.S. national average. The site also has a salary advice section that’s very complete.
Local Job Postings
- NJ Job Fair Listings
- NJ State Jobs
- Courier Post Online’s Job Search
- NJ.com Jobs Search
- Workforce New Jersey Public Information Network – The state’s online one-stop career center provides access to job postings, information on upcoming job fairs, career advice, resume posting services, day care facilities, and more.
- NJCAN.org – NJ’s Career and Labor Market Information Site
Other local resources:
Nationwide job boards
- America’s Job Bank – This site adds 1,000 new job listings a day, in all kinds of work. The site links to jobs & employment information in each state.
- CareerBuilder – Search postings and get advice on all aspects of the job search process.
- LinkedIn job search
- Monster Job Board
Job search site with job listings, resume posting, career advice, etc. - Recruiters Online Network – Search job postings, post your resume, and locate recruiters & headhunters in your location.
- Snag A Job – For part-time and full-time hourly jobs. Includes postings for many large retail chains.
Federal Government Jobs
OPM’s USAJobs
Find federal job openings in categories such as professional, clerical, student and summer or search by agency.
Meta-Search Engines
Search several job boards at once
Industry-Specific Jobs
NJSchoolJobs – Teaching and support job listings in NJ.
Flexible Jobs
- Snag A Job – For part-time and full-time hourly jobs. Includes postings for many large retail chains.
- Guru – Post your profile and bid on freelance work in business, office work, information technology, and the arts. Basic membership is free.
Company Research
- Reference Solutions by Data Axle (formerly RefUSA) – This database provides company information, including industry, estimated sales, headquarters, and branch locations, credit rating, number of employees, and corporate hierarchy.
- Corfacts
- Edgar – Edgar provides access to quarterly reports (10-Q), annual reports (10-K), and other filings by public companies through the Securities and Exchange Commission. Anyone can access this information for free.
- Glass Door – An inside guide to jobs and companies.
- Simply Hired – Research salaries, add jobs to a job map, and view company profiles.
Career Exploration
- O*Net – Find a job to match your skills and interests. This is a “comprehensive database of worker attributes and job characteristics” that defines and describes occupations, their job requirements and skills needed.
- Occupational Outlook Quarterly Online (OOQ) provides practical information on jobs and careers. Articles are written in straightforward, non-technical language and cover a wide variety of career and work-related topics, including new and emerging occupations, training opportunities, salary trends, and results from new studies by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Career Toolkit – Time for a career move? Find wage and employment trends, occupational requirements, state-by-state labor market conditions, millions of employer contacts nationwide, and the most extensive career resource library online.
- Job Hunter’s Bible – The online supplement to Richard Bolles’ What Color is Your Parachute?
