Career resources

This post is a reference page for various career links I've accumulated. Rather than continue to email them piecemeal to folks I thought I'd put them all in one public place. I hope you find them useful. If you comment with additional links or corrections, I'll update the post. Thanks!

Linked In – social networking for business & careers

If you’re not using Linked-in, yet, go to my Join Now, revisit my profile, (if you know me) click “I know John” and enter my email address and we’ll connect.

Networking groups

Greater Philadelphia Senior Executive Group (GPSEG) - CxO-level execs with 20+ yrs. 50% job seekers 50% employed. Excellent, high quality group with 1000+ members in PA/NJ/DE region.

Philly Chapter of TPNG - Technology Professionals Networking Group. Mailing list has decent volume of opportunities.

Technology Executive Networking Group TENG
(Philly TENG is associated with TPNG)
Business Network International (Delaware Valley)

Job search books

Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty by Harvey Mackay is a must read on the importance of networking. These days it's difficult to imagine finding a job without an active network. Mackay's title makes it clear why not to wait to build one.

The Unwritten Rules of the Highly Effective Job Search: The Proven Program Used by the Worlds Leading Career Services Company – Orville Pierson. Very good advice from someone in the placement business for 30+ years.

Don’t Send a Resume: And Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job – Jeffery Fox. A different perspective on getting a job. Research a company and present them with a proposal for what you’d do for them.

General jobsites

http://indeed.com is probably the best jobsite aggregator. Create an account and configure it to send daily updates for what you're looking for.
http://dice.com
http://monster.com
http://theladders.com ($100k+ jobs, quality postings. Free trial, then $30 / month)

Pharma/biotech jobsites

http://www.biospacejobs.com/
http://www.bio.com/jobs/index.jhtml (Ha! This is no longer BIOlogy-related - it's (celebrity) BIOgraphy-related (somebody got some $ for the bio.com domain:-)
http://www.bizjournals.com/jobs/pharmaceutical.html

Not-for profit job listings

If you are interested in positions in non-profit/charitable organizations, you might try this site:
http://www.execsearches.com/exec/default.asp

Philadelphia company index

http://www.techcouncil.org/member_directory.cfm (Eastern Tech Council - maybe this link still works for members?)

Salary info

http://www.salarynegotiations.com/content.php?id=20
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tr/downloads/home/10_things_job_change.pdf

Very detailed, interesting salary calculator
http://biospace.salary.com/

Contract market/auction sites

http://www.eworkmarkets.com
www.getacoder.com/

My favorite iPhone Apps

I love so much about the iPhone. The only thing I don't love about the interface is the keyboard. I would rather have my old Palm's graffiti or even my Treo's chicklet keyboard.

I am positively addicted to Right of Way, which is an implementation of the Parker Brothers/Hasbro game Mille Bornes. What makes it even cooler is that a friend and former co-worker wrote it! He and his partner also wrote Deep Space Newt (rendition of old Star Trek character graphics game that I played on a timeshare in the mid 70s).

Motion X poker is fun, but is mostly useful to show off the iPhone's capabilities.

GoSkyWatch is simply amazing and is the ultimate use of iPhone technology. You hold it upside down at the night sky and it tells you what stars and constellations are above you. (I paid $29 for it - now it's down to $10)

I need to go back and add links for many of these...

Dynolicious ($13) is spectacular! It's amazing what including an accelerometer and a GPS in a device allows! Although... I'm probably destined for a moving violation. It can calculate 0-60, 1/4 mile and horsepower (based on specifying vehicle weight). It also has a skidpad mode that shows left and right lateral gs through time, which means that it could also be used for autocrossing. $13 + iPhone = $300+ g-analyst!! Way cool.

I really heavily on OmniFocus on my Mac and the iPhone app is great - especially for errands/shopping lists. Jason, who originally recommended OmniFocus to me now uses Things.

Evernote is great for taking, maintaining and syncing notes, pictures, etc. And also can OCR notes to make them searchable. Also voice notes...

iWant brings the "What's near me" feature of Nav systems to the iPhone. It's come in handy a number of times in various places across the country. (it's free!)

Say Who Dialer works as advertised to voice dial your contacts.

iBeam would be great for beaming contact info if everybody used it.

A Free Level came in handy to prove that the pool table we were playing on was to blame for our bad play:-) But Jason pointed out that Clinometer ($1) is better.

I haven't needed Howcast yet, but I expect it to come in handy.

Phone Aid (was free, now $2) may prove to be useful in an emergency. It's good to have, but I hope I never need it.

Enigmo (was $10, now $2) is engaging and a good use of iPhone touch.

The Facebook app is pretty decent, but I find that I am closer to my computer often enough to not use it.

Air Hockey ($1) is a cheap fun two player game.

Crash Kart is impressive for an iPhone and reasonably entertaining.

Monkey Ball is very impressive but exasperating 2/3rds of the way into the first level (for me).

MarbleMash (free or $4) and Labyrinth LE (free or $7) are cute fun.