Career Planning and Job Searching in the Information Age answers key questions for today's providers of career-planning and job-searching information. Librarians and career development professionals' concerns such as cost-effective use of the Internet, the reliability and integrity of electronic resources, and successful search strategies are addressed in this comprehensive collection. In this follow-up to Library Services for Career Planning, Job Searching and Employment Opportunities (1992), real-life methods used by information providers to reduce costs and improve quality of service through a better understanding of today's technology and audience needs and expectations are shown. Readers learn about issues and ethics in the electronic environment, job searches conducted on the World Wide Web, a university placement office is a gopher site for 24-hour access to job information, a university library and career service department collaborate on job search seminars, how a public library fits electronic job searching into its mission, and an alumnae network is evolving into a national career development organization.