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Silicon Valley Job and Career Sites

Asia Wired
Networks Asia and Silicon Valley by offering Bay Area and Asian high-tech jobs (including start-ups), resume submissions, and email notification of your preferred jobs.

BA Jobs
Search or list San Francisco Bay Area jobs by category or company. Includes computer, engineering and other technical jobs.

Bay Area Employment Opportunities
Listed by the American Statistical Association, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter.

Bay Area Computer Work
Hundreds of contract and permanent Silicon Valley jobs for computer professionals, plus computer jobs elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. Includes resume posting, tips, resources and articles. One in a network of local computer job banks by ComputerWork.com.

Bay Area Government Jobs
Employment opportunities at the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), plus links to other local government job lists.

Bay Area Techies
One in a collection of local job banks by Techies.com. Search for contract and permanent IT jobs, post your resume, and receive tailored job lists by email. Offers online training packages at reasonable prices.

BayCHI Job Bank
Bay Area and Silicon Valley jobs related to computer-human interaction. You must be a member of BayCHI to access the jobs. Does not accept resumes.

CA Jobs
Search for jobs by category and keywords. Post up to ten versions of your resume and receive job notification by email. This link leads to the site for San Jose, the "capital" of Silicon Valley. You may choose another California metro area. Recruiters and agencies post many of the jobs.

California State Personnel Board
Jobs working for the state government. Includes technical and Silicon Valley jobs, and information about working for the state.

Cal Jobs
Search for Silicon Valley jobs and submit your resume. Requires registration. A public service of California's Employment Development Department (EDD) listed below.

City of San Jose Employee Services Department
Work for the government of the "capital" of Silicon Valley. Includes technical job listings.

CraigsList
Started to better connect you to events in and around San Francisco, this useful resource rapidly grew into an online community. Created by the originator, a programmer named Craig (who bears an uncanny resemblance to Homer Simpson) and a dedicated team of locals, it also connects you to jobs throughout the Bay Area.

Dice Silicon Valley Job Search
Find local, high-tech jobs by keyword, type and area code, or via the company list for Northern California. Also post your resume. Dice is among the top technical job banks.

East Bay Works
Search for work, training, events and assistance in the East Bay Area. Sponsored by the Private Industry Councils of Alameda County, City of Oakland, City of Richmond, and Contra Costa County. Registration required, but free.

ejob
Uses artificial-intelligence technology to match your resume to Silicon Valley jobs. Includes start-up companies. Focuses on difficult to find engineers and architects, who work in emerging technologies. Connected with Berkeley Labs and the University of California.

Employment Development Department, State of California
Information on state-provided unemployment and disability benefits, the labor market, training, job searching and more. Also see Cal Jobs above.

Forty Plus of Northern California
A co-op of highly-skilled and experienced executives, managers and professionals in career transition. Provides career counseling, accepts resumes by email, and more, for a fee and dues. Members are at least 40 years old.

Monster Jobs in California
Search the California jobs section by city and region. Includes Silicon Valley jobs. Also access the multitude of career tools, articles and tips provided by the popular Monster.com. Accepts resumes and sends jobs by email.

PenPro Peninsula Professionals
Formerly the San Mateo Chapter of the Peninsula Professional Network, a group of volunteers who provided career services to professional, managerial, and high-tech job seekers in the Bay Area. It closed in 2004. But members founded this all-volunteer group that meets regularly for the same purpose. This link displays PenPro's section in Yahoo Finance Groups, where you may read and post messages if you join.

San Francisco City Jobs
Employment opportunities with the city and county, through the San Francisco Department of Human Resources. Includes technical job listings.

San Jose City Jobs
Employment opportunities with the "capitol" of Silicon Valley, through the San Jose Employee Services Department. Includes technical job listings.

Services for Job Seekers
Free job search assistance for those seeking employment in Silicon Valley jobs. Also includes programs to help laid-off workers, low-income workers, displaced homemakers, the disabled, seniors, youth, and veterans. A cooperative effort between the Employment Development Department and NOVA, a nonprofit, federally-funded, employment and training agency.

Silicon Valley Computer Jobs
One in a collection of regional, computer job banks, stemming from ComputerJobs.com. All include job searching, resume posting and links to resources.

Society for Technical Communication
Homepage of the Silicon Valley Chapter. View this week's job listings and receive weekly updates by email. Also has other San Francisco Bay Area Chapters.

Start-Up Company Jobs
From your About.com Guide, search for jobs, post your resume and link to profiles and Web sites of start-up companies. Natch, most of the start-ups listed at these sites are in Silicon Valley or nearby in other regions of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Silicon Valley Jobs
Silicon Valley jobs courtesy of Yahoo! HotJobs. This is the "Jobs in San Jose" section. Also has a "Jobs in San Francisco" section. Search for jobs various ways, post and manage your resume, receive job notification by email, and read career advice.

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