Where to find Engineering position listings

Some resources that list job opportunities

FLASH United States Patent and Trademark Office is hiring patent examiners http://usptocareers.gov/. Some positions are work-from-home! Many fields of engineering are appropriate for various patent technologies.

UNL Career Services Husker Hire Link - http://www.unl.edu/careers

Geographic sources - looking to specific cities or regions

http://www.unl.edu/careers/jobs/ - click on Geographic or specific region

By Interest area - engineering focused - http://www.unl.edu/careers/jobs/target.shtml

Type of employer - thinking beyond "corporate" - http://www.unl.edu/careers/jobs/types.shtml

General websites - mega sites - http://www.unl.edu/careers/jobs/genjobs.shtml

Other ways to find potential employers

Use Mergent Online (Access instructions and description are in a separate blog post) to find the primary SIC (Standard Industrial Classification) and the NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System) codes of a company you are interested in. Do a search on these codes in Mergent Online to find other companies that compete in the same manufacturing or service industry and check their Web sites for job listings.

Check the Websites for the organization that relates to your field of engineering for job postings. Consider joining the organization. They may have services that automatically send you postings of new job openings. Information about many engineering organizations is available as blog postings at the Engineering Library Blog http://unlenglib.blogspot.com/.

Online Business Directories

BigYellow – online yellow pages http://www.bigyellow.com

Canada Yellow Pages at http://www.yellow.ca/bl/f.jsp Search for business name, business classification, or people.

Hansaprint's links to the Yellow and White Pages of the World at http://www.hansaprint.fi/eypeng.html. Links to phone directories from around the world.

Canadian Trade Index at http://ctidirectory.com/. Search by product description, company name, trademark or brand, or keyword search.