Compensation information online. Free salary information, salary and benefits advice, career and job search help. Salary surveys, compensation reports, and useful links. Compensation related discussion forums.

A free comprehensive site offering salary, benefits, and cost-of-living information for 30,000 positions in over 45,000 locations.

• Has company, industry and career information.
• For many of the companies you can also find out what employees are saying about the place.

The American Salaries and Wages Survey

A helpful reference available at your library which offers wage and salary information. Industry associations are another valuable resource here.

• Has postings by function of senior level positions around the country.
• Also has real world, articles and research portals to guide executives in the search process

• Industry portals including some international.
• These portals give you access to industry associations, publications and forums.
• Research tools and papers. Has a tutorial on how to do thorough research.

• All functional areas and their subsets.
• Associations by functional area.
• Some employment opportunities by functional area.
• News and reference materials.

An impressively comprehensive site with portals to most anything imaginable, including newspapers, business magazines, business news feeds, company research, small business resources, legislative, government agencies, and reference sites.

The CIA site is a terrific resource for finding out the details on other countries. It covers the basics like population and the economy but also includes details like current political environment, and climate. There are also maps for each country.

• Sponsor: University of Michigan’s School of Information
• Has excellent links to world wide phone and business directories.
• Has some good non-business links for kids and teens.

• Click on “people tracker.”
• Data base of 100,000 executives and their bios.

• This gives you access to all the bios on both the execs and the board.
• To access bios: Click on “Finance.”; Enter ticker symbol of company interested in; Click on “Profile.”; Click on “View Insiders.” This is on the right hand side just below the list of senior executives.

Employment history of folks at various levels.

A career coaching and outplacement network for professionals, managers, and executives.

This is the Wall Street Journal’s www.careerjournal.com: portal which gives you access to executive, managerial and professional job openings

Articles, advice and links to resources that will help you manage your job campaign.