What's Coming

This site started as a directory of free job search resources, and it is growing into a place that also teaches the job search itself. Here is the direction it is headed. There are no dates here on purpose. Plans can shift, but the work is ongoing.

Last updated: November 8, 2026

Coming soon

Several of these go deeper on topics the playbook already covers in a step of its own.

• Interview preparation, including how to research a company quickly.
• Choosing your target: finding the job titles that fit your skills, and deciding which roles and markets to pursue.
• Networking: how to build a network if you do not have one yet, where to find job search groups, and how connections turn into referrals.
• Restarting a job search after years at one company.
• A short list of free courses that come with a free certificate.
• Getting into a good headspace for your job search.
• LinkedIn: getting your profile ready before you start reaching out.
• Recruiters are your friend, not the enemy.
• How to conduct a more efficient job search.

Further down the road

• Evaluating an offer and negotiating it.

Change notes

• November 8, 2026: State Workforce Agencies now links the official job banks for 46 states and D.C., so you can search openings where you live, plus the National Labor Exchange. Federal Government Jobs adds 31 national labs, research centers, and the Federal Reserve Banks, which hire outside USAJOBS, plus six research fellowships. A new Know Your Rights page lists where to get free help with job discrimination, pay problems, and background checks. Freelance and Contract Work adds free help to start your own business, and Avoiding Job Scams now points to the FTC's job scams guide in Spanish. Four new niche job boards, with new Faith-Based / Ministry and Learning and Development / Instructional Design sections, and the Public Safety section now covers fire and EMS jobs too. The Submit a Resource page now asks a job board for at least about 100 open jobs instead of a few hundred.
• November 6, 2026: Searching for the job title transcriptionist now finds the transcription work on Freelance and Contract Work, the Career Fairs page now names recruiting events, and a new Free Interview Practice page gathers picks for free mock interviews, interview coaching, and company research. The section menu on a few directories also shows the right counts now. The monthly link check is done: 39 listings now open the right page, including 25 local government job sites, three listings came off, and several descriptions and cost labels are more accurate. Job boards, corporate recruiters, and Free Interview Practice now have a Cost filter.
• November 4, 2026: 365 new listings. The recruiter directory adds 170 employers from more than 30 metro areas and gets a State filter back, with local listings now in 24 states and D.C. The talent communities directory adds 195 employers, nearly tripling its size.
• November 3, 2026: Eight new listings for translation and localization work across five directories, including a new Translation / Localization section on the job boards.
• November 2, 2026: 35 new listings across twelve directories, including five niche job boards with a new Public Safety / Law Enforcement section, new federal hiring programs such as U.S. Tech Force and NASA Force, and more city, county, school district, and transit job sites. Two outdated federal listings came off the site.
• October 27, 2026: The Submit a Resource page now spells out everything a suggestion is checked against, and suggesting a resource takes just its name and a link.
• October 24, 2026: The six-month quality check went through thirteen directories and made 354 updates. Thirty-six listings came off the site, and 318 others now have more accurate descriptions, links, or cost labels. The whole site also has a calmer, cleaner look: headings in regular case, listings as simple rows instead of boxes, and cost labels as plain words. The homepage situation links were reordered so the resume help and interview help links no longer sit side by side.
• October 23, 2026: Clearer advice on the scams, job boards, recruiters, and career fairs pages, playbook steps that now match the directories on executive search, government jobs, and association dues, and more accurate counts and page names in several places.
• October 22, 2026: A Free Resume Help page: where to get your resume reviewed for free by real people, and how to get the most out of a review. The Privacy page now explains the Report Issue relay and what stays on your device, site totals count each resource once, the homepage offers separate federal and state or local government links, and several directory descriptions are more accurate. Remotive came off the site because nearly all of its jobs sit behind a paid plan, a site listed on two pages now carries the same cost label on both, every listing offers Report Issue, and the FAQ, Privacy, About, and Search pages say more precisely what the site does.
• October 21, 2026: More accurate descriptions on several directories, a corrected cost label on the Scrum.org certifications, and the Corporate Recruiters menu entry (it said Recruitment Firms).
• October 20, 2026: Go Fractional joins Freelance and Contract Work for fractional and interim leaders, and the GLG, AlphaSights, and Third Bridge listings now open their pages for experts. Sharing your saved list sends a shorter version, with the name, link, and description of each listing, and emails keep their spacing. A How to Use This Site guide, with screenshots for phone and computer, linked from the homepage and the footer.
• October 13, 2026: Filters now show how many listings each choice leaves, stay in the address so a filtered page can be shared, and open as a sheet on phones. Save listings to a list on your device, then copy, email, share, or print it. Search highlights your words, narrows by directory, remembers your recent searches on your device, and suggests a spelling when nothing matches. A "Start with your situation" row and a full directory index on the homepage, an on-this-page list beside long directories, related directories at the foot of each page, and last-reviewed dates on the guides. Every page prints cleanly, and the playbook can remember your progress on your device if you ask it to.
• October 1, 2026: State wage tools for all 50 states and company directories for most of them, plus new company research tools, professional communities, and niche job boards.
• September 26, 2026: Free AI courses and certifications from Oracle, Cisco, AWS, MIT, Databricks, and more, and a Submit a Resource page.
• September 23, 2026: Healthcare, nursing, and mental health job boards.
• September 20, 2026: 168 new listings and updated cost labels across the directories.
• September 5, 2026: Logos on every listing, the Career Research directory, a rebuilt Quick Start Checklist (now the Job Seeker Playbook), and a page on avoiding job scams.
• September 3, 2026: JobSeekerFoundry launched.

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