Career Planning

In a few short years, the Internet has revolutionized the difficult, costly, and time consuming job of career planning and job searches. There is probably no other market that is better suited to what the Internet has to offer than the employment market. Since workers and employers are not homogeneous commodities, it takes considerable information to satisfy both parties that they have found a good match. Adding to the problem is the fact that jobs opportunities come and go continuously, making it very difficult for any one organization to maintain current files.

With the Internet, these problems are reduced. The filing space on the Internet is sufficient to hold job descriptions and resumes for virtually every available job and applicant. Equally important, the processes of updating information is decentralized. Each employer and job applicant can keep their files current.

This site provides an overview of how the Internet can be used to reduce the time, cost and frustration of the job search in finance.

Many organizations, from universities and government agencies to employment search firms and consultants, have been busy the last two years creating a host of very valuable career planning and job search Web sites. There is currently more career and job search information on the Web than you will have time to visit. Consequently, this site will attempt to narrow your search by making it more productive. We provide hot links to both the best of the general career and job yellow pages sites,. general job search engines, specialized finance job search engines and corporate finance employment sites. We have also developed a list of job opportunities sites at the major financial firms around the world.