New Jersey Career Connections
One-on-one job search assistance for job seekers is available at Monmouth County Library Headquarters in Manalapan and at Eastern Branch Library in Shrewsbury.
Let us help you navigate the evolving job market and reach your career goals.
For information and hours, contact:
732-431-7220 Ext. 7222
125 Symmes Drive, Manalapan, NJ 07726
732-683-8980 Ext.8901
1001 Route 35, Shrewsbury, NJ 07702
Career Center Resources
NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development
The main entry point for access to NJ Department of Labor services for job seekers. This includes links to Career Connections NJ, Jersey Job Club, Individuals with Disabilities, Talent Networks, Older Workers, Veterans, One-Stop Career Center locations, Career Exploration, Resume writing, Internet job searching and much more.
Job & Career Accelerator
Comprehensive job search system that provides everything that you need to conduct your job search. A combination site that includes resume writing, career exploration, computer training, and job searching. Sponsored by the New Jersey State Library and LearningExpress LLC.
My Next Move
A combination site that includes career choice information, online job listings, and a business directory. There is also a section for veterans and spanish speaking users. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
mySkills myFuture
A combination site that suggests new careers based on existing career and work skills. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Career One Stop
Helps individuals explore career opportunities to make informed employment and education choices. It features user-friendly occupation and industry information, salary data, career videos, education resources, self-assessment tools, career exploration assistance, and other resources that support talent development in today’s fast-paced global marketplace.
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 48,000 resource entries, and much more!
Job Hunters Bible
Dick Bolles runs this site as a supplement to his well-known book What Color Is Your Parachute? This website offers a variety of tools, including career and personality tests and advice that will help you with your career and job search.
Live Careers
Live Careers is the ultimate career, job, and college site, offering comprehensive free expert career and job-hunting advice as well as serving as a directory of links to all the best job sites.
My Perfect Resume
My Perfect Resume is a great site to build a resume, but there is a charge.
Career One Stop
Located at 17 Christopher Way, Eatontown, NJ 07724 – 732-683-8850. Training is available for those who are unemployed and career counselor can help people who already have a job find a better job. On any given day you will find people using the Learning Link, a room with computers where they can do online training to brush up on their computer skills, reading, math skills, or get other tutoring.
NJ Training Systems
This resource is produced by the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development to help you find occupation education and training. Information includes course descriptions, cost, salary range of graduates, tuition assistance, childcare, languages of instruction, transportation assistance, etc.
HESAA
New Jersey authority that provides students and families with the financial and informational resources for students to pursue their education beyond high school.
College Affordability Guide
Our mission is to bring together disparate bodies of data to produce a more holistic (but also focused) view of which colleges are likely to be the best value for the money. We end up with one number, an Affordability Score, with two main parts, a “Getting In” score and a “Getting Out” score.
College InSight
Compare colleges by factors including cost of attendance, graduate rates, financial aid and student success rates.
State of New Jersey Higher Education
At this site you can search NJ for programs at New Jersey colleges and universities (including community colleges).
Registered Apprenticeship
This is run by the US Department of Labor: Employment and Training Administration.
My Perfect Resume
My Perfect Resume is a great site to build a resume, but there is a charge.
Education Institutions in the Monmouth County Area
Brookdale Community College
Monmouth University
Rutgers University
Georgian Court University
Ocean County College
MAECOM; Monmouth-Ocean Educational Services Commission
Monmouth County Vocational School District
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics website has data on current and projected occupational employment within industries and current and projected industry employment by occupation.
NJCAN
The New Jersey Career Assistance Navigator contains the latest national, New Jersey and local labor market data and projections. NJCAN also includes information on job interview preparation, resume and cover letter creation, how to keep a job, Self-employment, and military occupations.
JobStar
Assist job seekers with finding current, reliable, local information to find job openings, community services, company background, job search advice.
NJ Next Stop
NJ Next Stop is a state site sponsored to help NJ teens, parents, and counselors learn more about career interests, career options, and the world of work. It also provides information about industries, occupations and skills that are in demand in New Jersey.
o-net
Provides detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development and HR professionals, students, researchers, and more! rileyguideself Assists job seekers in determining which occupations and work situations could be a better fit.
National Employment Matrix
Search results display employment for the selected occupation by industry.
mySkills myFuture
Switching careers, finding ads, and potential employers.
MY NEXT MOVE
Career exploration and links to job ads.
Book Resources
The library has a large collection of print and online resources for business research and reference librarians to assist in the use of the resources. Here is a list of the major resources.
Academic Search Premier
Indexing, abstracts, and full text for publications dating to 1975 including peer-reviewed titles in this academic multidisciplinary database.
Business Source Premier
Provides research coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Corfacts Online
New Jersey’s Premier Business to Business Directory with searchable records by company name, size, geographic area, and by SIC or NAIC code.
MasterFILE Premier
Indexing, abstracts, and full text for publications dating to 1975 covering general reference, business, education, health, science and more.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Investment resource specialized in fund investing. Offers news, commentary, fund information, tutorial, tools and forums.
New York Times
Full text coverage of the New York Times Late Edition (East Coast) 1980-current, and the New York Times Book Review and Magazine 1997-current.
News Bank
Electronic editions of local newspapers including the Asbury Park Press 1999-current, the Record 1985-current, and the Star Ledger, 1996-current. Also includes regional and national U.S. newspapers.
Newspaper Source Plus
Selected full text for national and international newspapers; also contains full text television and radio news transcripts, and selected full text for many regional newspapers.
ProQuest US Newsstream
Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Journal, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Post, USA Today, Washington Post.
ReferenceUSA
Directory and profile information on millions of U.S. businesses. Searchable by size, location, type of business, and more.
Value Line
Online access to Value Line’s leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks. Available only in a Monmouth County Library Branch Location or Member Location.
The Wall Street Journal
Full text articles from the Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition from 1984-current.
Selected Internet Sites For Business Research
refdesk.com
A web portal for general reference information.
NYT Business Navigator
A collection of investment information websites.
Rutgers Research Guides
Provides assistance in doing research in a variety of business and management topics in the collections of the Rutgers University Libraries.
US Census Bureau (Business & Industry)
Including the Economic Census, County Business Patterns, and NAICS and SIC code directories.
Yahoo! Finance
An easy to use collection of financial information.
globalEdge
A knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.
The following list is good start for online job hunting in the New Jersey area. No single site covers all jobs; coverage changes over time. Also, look for jobs on the internet webpages of individual employers.
snagajob
Hourly jobs.
Jobs 4 Jersey
Job ads from NJ Department of Labor and resume writing tools.
US.jobs
Provide a job-hunting website that includes resume posting, job-searching, “rapid reemployment initiative”, and listings of job fairs.
indeed
Job search engine that collects job postings from online job boards including Monster, CareerBuilder, Yahoo Hotjobs, and many more.
Simply Hired
Works like Indeed.com but collects ads from other job boards including Careerbuilder and Yahoo Hotjobs.
careerbuilder.com
Nationwide collection of newspaper job classified ads; includes ads from the Asbury Park Press and the Home News Tribune of Middlesex County.
Glassdoor
Company reviews, salaries, and interview information on over 400,000 companies – all submitted by actual employees – and search through over 22 million open job postings.
The Wall Street Journal
Wall St. Journal Careers, News, and Employment Trends.
Monster Jobs
Nationwide includes NY Times, Boston Globe.
USAJOBS
Federal Gov’t Jobs.
State of NJ Civil Service Commision
NJ Civil Service jobs in other departments.
NJLM
NJ State, county, local jobs listed through NJ League of Municipalities.
Monmouth County Civil Service
Monmouth County civil service jobs.
Dice
Technology jobs.
NJhire
K-12 teaching jobs in NJ.
job-applications.com
Online (and printable) job applications for over 1,000 companies. Find help for every step in the hiring process.
Networking in job-hunting is the process of making and using contacts with people to help you find a job. The people can be from many types of groups such as family, teachers, former co-workers, librarians, former competitors, business suppliers, employment counselors or association members. This section describes information about networking and tools useful for the networking process.
The library owns over 60 books about using networking in your job search. You can locate and reserve these books through the LIBRARY CATALOG at www.monmouthcountylib.org.
Network Through Professional Associations and Trade Groups
Networking through professional groups is a traditional way of business networking. Through attending association meetings and trade shows you meet people who can help you and whom you can help. Here is a list of resources for locating professional groups in your occupation and industry.
Encyclopedia of Associations (R060 GAL) 3 volumes (with additional volumes for international, state, and local associations). Associations can be useful sites for occupational and industrial directories, conventions, trade journals, conventions, trade shows, continuing professional education, certifications and news.
National Trade and Professional Associations of the United States (R061.3 NAT)
Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources (R016.33 ENC) lists associations, directories, trade journals and statistical sources.
American Society of Association Executives
New Jersey Business Source Book (R338.74 NEW) has a good section on New Jersey Associations by industry or topic. These are often New Jersey chapters of national associations.
Online Telephone Directories
AnyWho
Are you searching for an old friend? Trying to verify an address? Or maybe you see an unfamiliar phone number in your records? AnyWho provides a free online people search directory where you can find people by their name, address or you can do a reverse lookup by phone number.
AnyWho
Are you searching for an old friend? Trying to verify an address? Or maybe you see an unfamiliar phone number in your records? AnyWho provides a free online people search directory where you can find people by their name, address or you can do a reverse lookup by phone number.
ReferenceUSA
Directory and profile information on millions of U.S. businesses. Searchable by size, location, type of business, and more.
Employment and Career Choice Assistance
Monmouth County Department of Human Services Division of Employment & Traning/Workforce Investment Board
17 Christopher Way
Eatontown, NJ 07724
(732) 683-8850
Monmouth County Library Eastern Branch – Career Center
1001 Route 35
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702
(866) 941-8188 or (732) 683-8980
New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development
60 Taylor Ave. Neptune, NJ 07753
(732) 775-1566 or (732) 761-2020
Professional Services Group (a job search support group)
60 Taylor Ave.
Neptune, NJ 07753
(732) 775-7970 or (732) 761-2020
New Jersey Unemployment Office
60 Taylor Avenue
Neptune, NJ 07753
(732) 775-7970 or (732) 761-2020
Brookdale Community College Experiental Learning and Career Services
Newman Springs Road
Lincroft, NJ
(732) 224-2792
Companies often do not advertise openings; it is necessary to contact the companies directly to see if they are hiring. Company directories (telephone Yellow Pages is the most common) help you find companies where your work skill could be utilized. The America’s CareerInfoNet Company Locator is a directory that attempts to help you find companies based on the occupations that the companies hire. All the directories in this section are available at the Monmouth County Library in Shrewsbury. Librarians can help you select and use these and other business directories.
Career One Stop
Click on “Company Locator”. Funded by the US Department of Labor.
ReferenceUSA
Directory and profile information on millions of U.S. businesses. Searchable by size, location, type of business, and more. Use the custom search screen.
Corfacts Online
New Jersey’s Premier Business to Business Directory with searchable records by company name, size, geographic area, and by SIC or NAIC code.
Mergent Intellect
A web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence. Coupling Mergent’s experience in developing products for the reference marketplace with D&B’s private company database, it offers clients the opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more. There is also a job search function that can be utilized to find jobs by industry.
Hoovers
Includes reports about public and private companies, such as descriptive summaries and profiles, lists of top competitors (including comparisons of financial ratios for the selected company relative to its competitors, the market segment and industry), products and operations summary (annual figures for most recent year available), and lists of company officers. Users can also access summary income statements and balance sheets.
Yahoo! Local
Find nearby businesses and services.
ThomasNet
The online version of the Thomas Register; useful for locating companies by the product/services they produce.
North American Industry Classification System
Many directories use NAICS or SIC codes which are explained at this US Census Department site
Foundation Directory
Business Directories at the Eastern Branch Library
Directory of Executive Recruiters
R658.311 KEN Kennedy Information
Brands and Their Companies
R658.827 BRA
Business Rankings Annual
R650.024 BUS
Encyclopedia of Associations
R060 GAL Gale/Cengage Learning
New Jersey Business to Business Directory
R338.642 COR Corfacts, Inc.
Million Dollar Directory
R650.024 DUN Dun & Bradstreet
Harris New Jersey Manufacturers Directory
R338.0025 HAR
Standard & Poor’s Register of Corporations, Directors & Executives
R658.058 STA
LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations
R338.74 LEX
Corporate Yellow Book: Who’s Who at Leading U.S. Companies
R650.025 COR Corporate Yellow Book
New Jersey Business Directory
R338.74 DIR
Consultants Directory
R658.46 DUN
Career Guide: Employment Opportunities Directory
R650.14 DUN Dun & Bradstreet
National Trade & Professional Associations of the United States
R061.3 NAT
New Jersey Book of Lists (NJBiz’s New Jersey Business Rankings)
Reference Desk
If you are brand new to computers…
“Mousercize” – humorous training in house to use the computer mouse for beginner computer users from the Palm Beach Public Library.
To practice typing…
Free online typing lessons and typing exercises for beginning typists and frustrated hunt-and-peckers.
From Goodwill Community Foundation of North Carolina…
Offers over 750 free online classes in topics such as Computers, Career, Resumes, Math and Reading.
Find free Microsoft Office tutorials from Microsoft…
Get a feel for the applications with free training.
To access computer tutorials from Job & Career Accelerator…
Job & Career Accelerator contains free computer tutorials as well as resume writing software, online job searching and career decision making software.
To use Lynda.com…
Online training in computer software and computer applications including web design, video and graphic design.
Companies often do not advertise openings; it is necessary to contact the companies directly to see if they are hiring. Company directories (telephone Yellow Pages is the most common) help you find companies where your work skill could be utilized. The America’s CareerInfoNet Company Locator is a directory that attempts to help you find companies based on the occupations that the companies hire. All the directories in this section are available at the Monmouth County Library in Shrewsbury. Librarians can help you select and use these and other business directories.
Career One Stop
Click on “Company Locator”. Funded by the US Department of Labor.
ReferenceUSA
Directory and profile information on millions of U.S. businesses. Searchable by size, location, type of business, and more. Use the custom search screen.
Corfacts Online
New Jersey’s Premier Business to Business Directory with searchable records by company name, size, geographic area, and by SIC or NAIC code.
Mergent Intellect
A web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence. Coupling Mergent’s experience in developing products for the reference marketplace with D&B’s private company database, it offers clients the opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more. There is also a job search function that can be utilized to find jobs by industry.
Hoovers
Includes reports about public and private companies, such as descriptive summaries and profiles, lists of top competitors (including comparisons of financial ratios for the selected company relative to its competitors, the market segment and industry), products and operations summary (annual figures for most recent year available), and lists of company officers. Users can also access summary income statements and balance sheets.
Yahoo! Local
Find nearby businesses and services.
ThomasNet
The online version of the Thomas Register; useful for locating companies by the product/services they produce.
North American Industry Classification System
Many directories use NAICS or SIC codes which are explained at this US Census Department site
Foundation Directory
Business Directories at the Eastern Branch Library
Directory of Executive Recruiters
R658.311 KEN Kennedy Information
Brands and Their Companies
R658.827 BRA
Business Rankings Annual
R650.024 BUS
Encyclopedia of Associations
R060 GAL Gale/Cengage Learning
New Jersey Business to Business Directory
R338.642 COR Corfacts, Inc.
Million Dollar Directory
R650.024 DUN Dun & Bradstreet
Harris New Jersey Manufacturers Directory
R338.0025 HAR
Standard & Poor’s Register of Corporations, Directors & Executives
R658.058 STA
LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations
R338.74 LEX
Corporate Yellow Book: Who’s Who at Leading U.S. Companies
R650.025 COR Corporate Yellow Book
New Jersey Business Directory
R338.74 DIR
Consultants Directory
R658.46 DUN
Career Guide: Employment Opportunities Directory
R650.14 DUN Dun & Bradstreet
National Trade & Professional Associations of the United States
R061.3 NAT
New Jersey Book of Lists (NJBiz’s New Jersey Business Rankings)
Reference Desk
If you are brand new to computers…
“Mousercize” – humorous training in house to use the computer mouse for beginner computer users from the Palm Beach Public Library.
To practice typing…
Free online typing lessons and typing exercises for beginning typists and frustrated hunt-and-peckers.
From Goodwill Community Foundation of North Carolina…
Offers over 750 free online classes in topics such as Computers, Career, Resumes, Math and Reading.
Find free Microsoft Office tutorials from Microsoft…
Get a feel for the applications with free training.
To access computer tutorials from Job & Career Accelerator…
Job & Career Accelerator contains free computer tutorials as well as resume writing software, online job searching and career decision making software.
To use Lynda.com…
Online training in computer software and computer applications including web design, video and graphic design.
Resumé Writing
If you’re replying to a job ad, networking, or approaching a potential employer, a well-written resume is important. To assist you in resume writing, the following resources are offered.
Books on Resume writing – The Monmouth County Library has hundreds of books about resume writing with how-to advice and samples. You can find and request these books on the library online catalog. Just enter the word “resumes”.
eBooks on Resume Writing – The Monmouth County Library has over 50 eBooks on resume writing. Visit the Library Catalog and select “EBSCOHost eBooks”. Search under the keyword “Resumes”.
The following selected resources are available on the internet
Job & Career Accelerator
Job & Career Accelerator contains free computer tutorials as well as resume writing software, online job searching and career decision making software.
NJ Career Connections
Resume writing software, a resume bank, and access to job listing from the NJ Department of Labor.
Career One Stop
Click on “Resume Tutorial”. This resource is funded by the US Department of Labor. In addition to the tutorial, there are links to the following resume.
My Perfect Resume
My Perfect Resume is a great site to build a resume, but there is a charge.
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center
Provides a wealth of informative articles and videos about cover letters and résumés, along with a gallery of downloadable sample documents that illustrate the different types and formats and how best to use them.
Job Star Central
JobStar also includes a good section on the “Hidden Jobs”.
Career Lab
An essay on resume writing from CareerAdvisor by William S. Frank.
Rockport Institute
Resume advice from the Rockport Institute.
