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Now that you have some careers in mind, you should research some fundamental
things about the prospective career.
- Company/Institution profile - Make sure that not just the job, but
the employer is a good fit for you. Also see the Company Recruitment
Pages on the Job listing sites page.
- Salary - Know what to expect.
- Cost-of-living - It is important to know if your relocation for
a higher salary involves a change in cost-of-living that will turn
your salary hike into an effective pay cut.
Please send me any info you
have to add.
| CollegeSource
Online - "This is a website that allows you to search for
academic institutions and obtain profiles, catalogs, degree plans,
and links to the institution's web site. Quite useful and very easy
to use." - Michael J. Casavant (Applied Physics), MAR2001 |
| Columbia
University Career Services - "This site contains a page
on evaluating job offers, called The Offer." - Michael
J. Casavant (Applied Physics), MAR2001 |
| Cornell
University Career Services - "Cornell's concise site has
a page on Researching
Jobs & Employers and assessing Job
Offers" - Michael J. Casavant (Applied Physics), MAR2001 |
| Findyourspot.com
- "This is pretty cool. You take a quiz on a variety of topics
such as climate, culture, location, and more. The site spits out
good choices for you. Are all cities in the choices? That I do not
know." - Michael J. Casavant (APplied Physics), DEC2001 |
| Homefair.com
- "They have a lot of useful information, to include cost-of-living
comparisons, crime reports, city reports, community calculators,
and a whole host of research tools for exploring your relocation
options in the USA and Canada." - Michael J. Casavant (Applied
Physics), MAR2001 |
| Monstermoving.com's Cityprofile
and Compare2Cities
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| Salary
Calculator (tm) (USA) and "The
International Salary Calculator (tm)" (Actually cost-of-living
calculators from Homefair.com)
- "This little bit of script tells you how much more or less
you need to make if moving from one city in the United States of
America to another. For example, if you're moving from Houston to
Manhattan so that you can take a job with double your current salary,
then you are effectively taking a tiny cut in pay. Make sure your
more is not in fact less." - Michael J. Casavant (Applied Physics),
MAR2001 |
| ThomasRegional.com
- "[This site] allows you to search on companies located in
a specific region with info on $ productivity, company size and
address/website." - Jane Bertone (Chemistry), MAR2001 |
| What
Faculty Members Earn - "The AAUP (American Association
of University Professors) and Chronicle of Higher Education publish
the results of this annual survey of faculty salaries. This data
is useful in evaluating offers that you receive. Incidentally, it
is free from the Chronicle but you have to pay at the AAUP site.
You know which one I have a link to." - William Christian (Applied
Mathematics), MAR2001 |
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