The Lydia M. Olson Library offers resources and assistance to job seekers. Help is available at the library reference desk in person, phone (227-2294) or e-mail (info@nmu.edu). Alternatively, you can find more job hunting resources below.

State agency job sites for the region

• MichiganWorks/Michigan Talent Bank
• Wisconsin Jobnet
• IowaJobs
• Illinois Skills Match (requires registration)
• Minnesota's Job Bank
• Indiana (requires registration)

Online Job Advertisements

There are also many classified job ads available online, including links available on the NMU JOBSearch web site. Advertisements are also available through a number of national or state sites. Three major searchable national collections of job ads include:

• Monster.com
• CareerBuilder.com
• America's Job Bank

Newspaper Classified Job Advertisements

Many newspapers have their classified job ads listed online. One of the easiest ways to access them is through http://www.newspaperlinks.com/.

The library subscribes to the following newspapers which contain classified job advertisements. Listed next to the newspaper title is how long the library keeps issues in Current Periodicals. Photocopiers (10 cents per page) are available nearby for your convenience.

Michigan Cities

• Detroit Free Press -- kept until receipt of microfilm
• Detroit News -- 2 weeks
• (Escanaba) Daily Press
• (Houghton) Daily Mining Gazette -- 2 weeks
• Iron County Reporter -- 1 month
• (Iron Mt.-Kingsford) Daily News -- 2 weeks
• Lansing State Journal -- 2 weeks
• (Marquette) The Mining Journal -- kept until receipt of microfilm
• Munising News -- current month

Out-of-State Cities

• Chicago Tribune -- 2 weeks
• Green Bay Press-Gazette -- 2 weeks
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -- 2 weeks
• (Minneapolis) Star Tribune -- 2 weeks
• New York Times -- kept until receipt of microfilm
• Washington Post -- 2 weeks
• Wall Street Journal (primarily business & finance ads) -- 3 weeks
• USA Today -- 2 weeks