Like the birds and the stars, newsgroups, LISTSERVES and WWW sites are infinite and ceaselessly changing and proliferating. The sites listed below may well be ghost sites by the time you read this. But they may leave behind some routing instructions or other traces. Remember, the best bet is always to experiment with search engines, such as Alta Vista.

• http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/. Krumme's Educational Resource Page. Prof. Gunter Krumme, Univresity of Washington, Department of Geography, has constructed an extremely unseful set of WWW resources directly relevant to geogrpahers, including information on careers, data sources, discussion/newsgroups, course syllabi, and much more. Special emphases on economic and business geography and many local, state, national, and international information and data sources.



• http://geowww.uibk.ac.at.geolinks/. Links to over 400 Geography Departments worldwide.



• http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/mail.html. University of Texas, Department of Geography. An outstanding site that contains lots of material on jobs, curricula, data sources, courses offered around the world, educational resources, map libraries, images and photos, public domain GIS software, on-line courses and tutorials, professional organizations for geographers, etc. see especially the site called "Internet Resources for Geographers" (http://www.utexas.edu/depts/grg/virtdept/resources/jobs/jobs.htm)



• http://www.cla.sc.edu/GEOG/misc/job.html. The University of South Carolina Department of Geography http://www.cla.sc.edu/GEOG/index.html has a very useful job-related web site for geographers.



• http://thoth.sbs.ohio-state.edu/. The Ohio State Department of Geography site includes an excellent list of conferences, a good search engine for finding scholarly papers, and information on the results of an experimental AAG-GIS Specialty Group collaborative research forum on current trends and research in GIS.



• http://depts.washington.edu/geogjobs/inthndbk.html#Web Resources . University of Washington, Department of Geography. Links to web resources and information on internships.
  
  
• Other University and Department of Geography Internet Web Sites may be found in the Guide to Programs in Geography in the United States and Canada 1998-99 published by the Association of American Geographers and http://www.frw.ruu.nl/nicegeo.html.



• For GIS students. The University of Washington Department of Geography site http://depts.washington.edu/geogjobs/gisweb.html provides a good list of general GIS Job Information Sites and Vendor-based Postings. Another interesting site is http://www.frw.ruu.nl/nicegeo.html which contains a list of general geography servers, GIS and remote sensing servers and GIS related groups.

General Job Listings:

For an excellent list of lists and student placement guide, visit the student placement site at the University of Washington: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~careers and at Stanford: http://www.job-hunt.org

• About Work http://www.aboutwork.com/ Reframe the whole work dialogue going on in your head. Discussion groups, career change screens, real-life stories of career shifts, etc.
• America's Job Bank http://www.ajb.dni.us/html/seekers.html. Lots of menus, keyword search engines, employer sites.
• Career Magazine http://www.careermag.com. Job openings, salary guidelines, professional organizations plus you can post your own resume for up to six months!!
• Career Mosaic http://www.careermosaic.com/. Lots of job listings, career resources, and on-line job fairs. Also helps you do a personal inventory of your dependable strengths. Will make you feel better about what you have to offer! Great advice on resumes.
• Career Path http://www.careerpath.com/. Searchable index of classifieds from six major newspapers.
• Earthworks http://www.earthworks-jobs.com is the world-leading, on-line database of career opportunities for geoscientists, geographers, environmental scientists, forestry/agricultural scientists, ecologists, space/planetary scientists, remote sensing/GIS staff, climate/atmospheric scientists, archaeologists, soil scientists, geotechnical engineers, petroleum scientists/engineers and hydrologists/hydrogeologists in the academic, water, upstream oil and gas, civil and mining sectors with particular focus on North America, Europe, the UK, the Pacific Rim and Africa.
• Federal Jobs http://www.fedworld.gov/jobs/jobsearch.html. All you want to know about working for U.S. federal government. Searchable data base includes summer job information.
• HeadHunter.Net http://www.headhunter.net/index.htm. Detailed and acessible free source. Jobs are never more than 45 days old and resumes are never more than 90 days old.
• JobTrak http://www.jobtrak.com/. Specially targeted to college students and alumni.
• The Monster Board http://www.monster.com/. Lists over 50,000 jobs worldwide.
• Online Career Center http://www.occ.com/. The first and most widely-used Internet job source.
• Resumania! On-Line! http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/ecep/resume/. An interactive personal resume-building engine from the University of Minnesota's Office for Human Resources.
• Yahoo! Classifieds http://classifieds.yahoo.com/employment.html. A useful and multidimensional source with lots of career-development material, relevant job context articles, and many current listings.

• Career Resources for the Environmental Professional http://www.bu.edu/cees/Careers.html. A basic place to start, with an introduction to help identify your goals and begin exploring the job market.
• The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) http://www.eco.org. Offers a varied site rich with jobs, job-hunting tips, internship opportunities, and career paths.
• Environment and Society http://depts.washington.edu/geogjobs/soc-envi.html. The University of Washington Department of Geography site provides an excellent list of links to jobs in geography including sources of information and jobs in resource geography, cultural and political ecology, health and environment, and GIS and resource analysis.

GIS

• GIS Jobs Clearinghouse http://www.gjc.org/ Subscription service providing resources for both employers and those seeking jobs. Non-subscribers may browse the positions listed at no cost.
• GeoSearch http://www.geosearch.com/. Extensive listings of GIS jobs, salary surveys, etc.
• Geojobsource http://www.geojobsource.com/ One of the most extensive listings of career opportunities in the spatial data professions.
• Geoweb http://www.ggrweb.com/job.html. Current job postings and resume postings; good directory of web sites and forums, home pages, chat areas, etc.; company index; product and business news; freeware, etc.
• University of South Carolina, Department of Geography, http://www.cla.sc.edu/geog/misc/job.htm. Extensive list of links to geography employment resources with an emphasis on GIS.
• University of Washington, Department of Geography, http://depts.washington.edu/geogjobs/gisweb.html . General GIS job information sites, vendor-based postings, and general job sources - searchable.