Bay Area Career Connections  

EASTBAY Works is a network of 14 One-Stop Business and Career Centers located throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties in Northern California. These One-Stop Career Centers are available to the entire community — businesses, job seekers, youth, and the general public — at no charge. The One-Stop Centers offer universal access to core employment services, and referrals directly to jobs, training, education or other employment services. Businesses are able to access a variety of services specifically designed to increase their competitiveness and to grow their bottom line.
www.eastbayworks.com

JobStar Central is a job search guide for the west coast sponsored by the Public Library System and Career Journal (Wall Street Journal). Previously called Jobsmart.
www.jobstar.org

SFBayCareerMap provides valuable information about how to achieve your career goals, including where can get training that will help you successfully enter the occupational field of your choice. Primarily educational resources
www.sfbaycareermap.org

The California Career Development Association (CCDA) is a professional organization whose membership is inclusive of ALL career development service providers, including counselors, educators, technicians, paraprofessionals, business professionals, and graduate students. The CCDA community represents a wide array of settings, including education, private practice, business, public agencies, and private institutions.
http://www.ccda-careerdev.org/

Bay Area Video Coalition dedicated to creative technology, arts and education. Great site for creative job hunters.
www.bavc.org

Queendom is an internet magazine with a difference: providing an interactive avenue for self-exploration with a healthy dose of fun...and thus the motto serious entertainment. They have developed their own professional quality interactive tests, giving readers the opportunity to look into their own personality, relationships, intelligence and health. They offer advice, community, surveys and trivia quizzes on every subject imaginable - all ways to learn and explore what it means to be human.
http://www.queendom.com/

Careergames features several workshops and games that facilitate the PIE (Pleasure, Information, Employment) career development method practiced by Daniel Porot, a leading European pioneer in career design and job hunting. . A great tool for anyone beginning a career or changing careers.
http://careergames.com/

CRM Masters Cary Sholer’s website has any extensive list (over 200 sites) of Bay Area Associations, Networking groups, Internet Career Portals, executive recruiters and more.
http://www.sholer.net/index_hotlinks.html

The Regional Occupational Program's Technology Center offers tuition free, full and part-time Computer Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, etc.), and Web Page Design classes for adults and high school students in the San Francisco Bay Area. Classes are designed for beginning to advanced adult learners who want to learn how to use the computer or update their existing software skills. No previous computer experience is required to enroll.
http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us/

Marty Nemko’s Site. Marty is a well know career counselor and author in the Bay Area. His columns appear weekly in the San Francisco Chronicle. Marty is author of Cool Careers for Dummies
http://www.martynemko.com