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News & Notes
Resources
for Job Searches in Washington,
D.C.
Several D.C. alumni compiled the following to help new and local
Washington-based alumni conduct job searches. If you have found other resources
to be helpful, please share them with Tina Barksdale'98 who will add them to
this resource list (tinabarksdale@hotmail.com).
Good luck!
Oberlin's Office of Career Services which
lists services, databases, and grants/fellowships for alumni,
www.oberlin.edu/careerSeveral D.C.
General Resources
Action Without Borders a website for socially conscious non-profit-leaning jobs
@
www.idealist.org
Craig's List @ www.craigslist.com ....a site dedicated to "getting the
word
out about everyday stuff" on jobs, housing and much more.
The FoundationCenter @ www.fdn.com ...for grantseekers.
www.monster.com ...one of many general job searching/resume-posting site
with national scope.
Washington-Specific Resources
The Washington Post has an excellent databank of job postings @
washingtonjobs.com
One of the internet's largest job collection platforms (including a
comprehensive listing of federal government job postings) @ www.usajobs.com
National Science Foundation, www.nsf.gov
Citypaper @ www.washingtoncitypaper.com Washington's
specialty: Think Tanks! These range from liberal to
conservative, broadly scoped to narrowly focused, academically-oriented to
professional/industry-centered. A few are: Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, www.cbpp.org; Urban Institute, www.urban.org; Institute for
International Economics, www.iie.org; Center for Strategic and International
Studies, www.csis.org; Brookings Institution, www.brook.edu; American
Enterprise Institute, www.aei.org; Heritage Foundation, www.heritage.org
Specific Fields of Interest
Many professional organizations are headquartered in Washington. Check
websites for job listings and links to organizations in your field of
interest. For example:
Extensive, nationwide media job listings: www.mediabistro.com
Policy: American Public Health Association: www.apha.org
Accounting: American Association of Finance and Accounting (www.aafa.com)
National Academy of Sciences: www.nationalacademies.org (science,
engineering, medicine, research)
Law: D.C. Bar, www.dcbar.org, government legal jobs at www.usajobs.com;
American Bar Association, www.abanet.org; International Law Institute,
www.ili.org
Congressional: Get information about what's happening on Capitol Hill
through `Roll Call', a twice-weekly publication (www.rollcall.com) or `The
Hill' (www.hillnews.com)
Education: http://chronicle.merit.edu/free/jobs,
International Affairs: Foreign Policy Association, www.fpa.org, World
Affairs Council, www.worldaffairsdc.org; Academy for Educational
Development, www.aed.org; Asia Foundation (DC-office),
www.asiafoundation.org; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
www.ceip.org; US-China Business Council, www.uschina.org; US-Taiwan Business
Council, www.us-taiwan.org; International Monetary Fund, www.imf.org; World
Bank, www.worldbank.org
Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM): www.shrm.org
More on science, engineering, communications: http://www.awic-dc.org/otherorgs.shtml
Environment: Environmental Defense Fund, www.edf.org; Natural Resources
Defense Council, www.nrdc.org
National Geographic Society, www.ngs.org
Questions/Comments
If
you have any questions/comments, please email: Clyde Owan '79
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