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Industry Information On The Web

The following sites offer background information and current developments regarding careers within specific industries. Some sites provide links to a broad range of industries while others are industry-specific.

The Graduate Opportunities site provides overviews of the most important industry destinations for graduates, is searchable by keywords and also offers individual employer profiles.

www.graduateopportunities.com

Also offering overviews of industries in terms of employment in Australia is the myfuture site’ these can be found in the section labelled “The Facts”.

www.myfuture.edu.au

The following site provides industry information about the Information Technology and Telecommunications field.

www.itskillshub.com.au

This site provides News and Events and Job information for Arts graduates.

www.artshub.com.au

This site provides links to a number of trade unions in Australia and overseas. It also has links to a number of employer organisations.

www.anu.edu.au/polsci/unions/unions.htm

The Australian Council of Trade Unions site provides links to unions and professional associations as well as providing links to other sites on research about work, occupational health and safety, aboriginal issues and human rights issues.

www.actu.asn.au/public/links

Corporate Information is an international website which has links to some other useful information sources (as well as the ability to download paid profiles of particular companies).

www.corporateinformation.com

Professional Associations

The following sites are typical of professional associations. Partnerships are often forged between associations and online job providers. There are advantages for all parties to be gained from these alliances. Members have direct access to vacancies within their profession, and agencies are able to access the relevant target market. These sites usually provide additional careers related information, for example, salary ranges.

Chartered Accountancy: www.icaa.org.au
Computing: www.acs.org.au
Engineering: www.engineersaustralia.org.au

This article was taken from the Internet job-seeking guide Working The Web.

  • Col McCowan, Head Careers and Employment, Queensland University of Technology. Email:[email protected] and
  • Mal McKenzie, Manager Careers Service, University of Technology, Sydney Email: [email protected]
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