Working It Out! Job and Career Guide

Veterans

Career One Stop Military Transition - The Key to Career Success campaign connects veterans and transitioning service members with high quality career planning, training, and job search resources available at local One-Stop Career Centers.

National Resource Directory - A website that connects wounded warriors, Service Members, Veterans, their families, and caregivers to programs and services that support them. It provides access to services and resources at the national, state and local levels to support recovery, rehabilitation and community reintegration.

Recruit Military - RecruitMilitary is a full-service military-to-civilian recruiting firm in the United States. Online and offline products are used to connect employers, franchisors, and educational institutions with men and women who are transitioning from active duty to civilian life, veterans who already have civilian work experience, members of the National Guard and reserve forces, and military spouses. We serve veterans of all ranks, rates, and branches of the armed forces, and our services are free to all men and women who have a military background.

Veterans' Job and Training Programs - Resources suggested for veterans from the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions.

Employment Assistance for Veterans - Employment, education and support services recommended by the New Mexico Department of Veterans' Services.

Google support and resources for Veterans - If you’re one of the 250,000 service members who transition out of the military every year, you know one of the toughest parts of the transition to civilian life is a search for a job that takes advantage of the skills you’ve gained while serving. You can search 'jobs for veterans' on Google and then enter your military occupational speciality code (MOS, AFSC, NEC) to see relevant civilian jobs that require similar skills to those used in your military role. That and other tools and resources designed to help you transition from military to civilian life are available from Google here.

Youth and Job Training

Job Corps - Job Corps is a no-cost education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that helps young people ages 16 through 24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training.

USAJOBS -  Pathways Program for students and recent graduates to federal careers. Under former President Obama’s leadership, the Federal government took steps to help students and recent graduates obtain positions in Federal Service.

Different Abilities

ABILITY Jobs / Job Access - The goal of ABILITYJobs and JobAccess is to enable people with disabilities to enhance their professional lives by providing a dedicated system for finding employment. By posting job opportunities, or searching resumes, employers can find qualified persons with disabilities as well as demonstrate their affirmative action and open door policies.

Seniors

AARP Jobs - Find local job listings for seniors through AARP.

Seasonal and Temporary

Cool Works - Clearinghouse for seasonal jobs, listing opportunities in national parks, resorts, ranches, ski resorts, camps and jobs on the water.

GrooveJob - Focuses only on employment opportunities for part time, hourly, and seasonal job seekers -- especially teen and student jobs, summer & college jobs and internships for students.

Guru - A clearinghouse for freelance work opportunities.

Net-Temps - A job board for for temporary, temp-to-perm and full time employment.  Users can search job postings, create a free Job Search Assistant to help find their next job, and post resumes and cover letters.

Snagajob - A top site for locating and posting hourly jobs.

Sologig - A resource for connecting contract, consulting, contract-to-hire, and part-time project opportunities with "seasoned professionals."

Research Companies

Glassdoor - a growing database of 6 million company reviews, CEO approval ratings, salary reports, interview reviews and questions, benefits reviews, office photos and more. Unlike other jobs sites, all of this information is entirely shared by those who know a company best — the employees. Add to that millions of the latest jobs — no other community allows you to see which employers are hiring, what it's really like to work or interview there according to employees, and how much you could earn.

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