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Career Zone (http://www.nycareerzone.org/graphic/index.jsp)
CareerZone is a free, career exploration and planning system designed especially for New York State students. The CareerZone website brings together multiple sources of career and labor market information to make career exploration and planning for the future a little easier. The CareerZone system is a product of the New York State Department of Labor and is currently hosted by AT&T.

CIO Magazine (http://www.cio.com/)
CIO is read by more than 140,000 CIOs and senior executives who oversee annual IT budgets in excess of $175 million. CIO.com serves over 12 million pages annually.

NYMentor (http://www.nymentor.edu/)
Designed especially for New York students, NYMentor is your one-stop shop for complete career and college planning information.

Finding Jobs in Rochester

Computer Link Magazine (http://www.techny.com/)
Computer Link Magazine reaches users of computers and other personal technology, as well as the business professional and SOHO markets. Computer Link Magazine's goal is to provide the computer, internet and technology news that local computer users want to read. At Computer Link Magazine's Website, you will find very interesting computer tips and tricks, product reviews and overviews, hot news in the ever-changing tech industry, computer event calendar, user group listing, local web cam directory, local links, computer jobs, classifieds, and a several tech polls throughout the website.

Monroe County Jobs (http://www.monroecounty.gov/employment-index.php)

Rochester Works! (http://www.rochesterworks.org/index.php)
The RochesterWorks! System identifies the future needs of employers and stimulates economic growth by providing outstanding employment, education, support, and training services.

RIT Office Of Cooperative Education And Career Services (http://www.rit.edu/co-op/careers)
The RIT Office of Cooperative Education and Career Services is driven by a simple mission - to provide effective, high-quality services to RIT students and alumni that empower them to succeed in obtaining employment appropriate to their career objectives and personal goals.

University of Rochester Career Services (http://www.rochester.edu/careercenter/students/index.html)
It is the student-focused mission of the Career Center to offer ever improving counseling, resources, services and programs designed to facilitate goal setting, internship search as well as post baccalaureate job search and graduate school admissions.

University of Rochester
William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration
Career Management Center (http://http://www.simon.rochester.edu/cmc/cp_default.aspx)
The Career Management Center's Education and Counseling staff offers targeted, personalized counseling to assist students in identifying, initiating and implementing highly effective career plans. Through individual career counseling and engaging industry focused programs, students develop a career-search strategy to capture a rewarding internship and fulfilling full-time position upon graduation.

Higher Education | Colleges and Universities   top

Monroe Community College (http://www.monroecc.edu/)

Rochester Institute of Technology (http://www.rit.edu/)

St. John Fisher College (http://www.sjfc.edu/)

SUNY Geneseo (http://www.geneseo.edu/)

University of Rochester (http://www.rochester.edu/)

Rochester Area Colleges (http://www.racda.org/)
Established in 1989, RACDA membership consists of career development professionals from 19 colleges and universities in the Rochester, New York area. The purpose of the Association is to support the functions of career development, placement and experiential education in the region.

Community and Living   top

Real Rochester (www.real-rochester.com/)
The college graduate's guide to life in Rochester.

Digital City Rochester (http://home.digitalcity.com/rochester/)

Greater Rochester Visitors Association (http://www.visitrochester.com/)
Learn about Rochester, New York community, a great place to work, live and play.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (http://www.democratandchronicle.com)

Rochester Business Journal (http://www.rbj.net/)

Rochester Downtown (http://www.rochesterdowntown.com/)
Experiencing, doing business and living in Rochester, New York.

Professional Networking Associations   top

The August Group (http://augustgroup.org/)
The August Group is a grassroots organization that provides community focused networking for Rochester area professionals. The primary goals are to assist professionals in the development of networking skills in a changing economy; to facilitate the flow of knowledge; and to encourage connecting of resources and interests to the end of developing economic growth and the creation of new businesses. The August Group is building partnerships with those developing Rochester's evolving regional economy.

Computer Link Magazine's Rochester Computer User Groups (http://www.techny.com/groups.cfm?subpage=26)

Digital Rochester (http://www.digitalrochester.com/)
Networking association for technology professionals in Rochester, New York.

Rochester Young Professionals Network (http://www.rochesteryoungprofessionals.org/)
(RYP) is a community effort connecting great people with our community. We do this through informal professional networking and entrepreneurial development; involving our community through volunteerism; and engaging our community in Rochester's vast cultural, recreational and social activities, while revealing our community's regional assets. We also look to be an informational source to those in our community, highlighting the variety of issues and opportunities in our area. Our overriding goal is to attract and retain talented, educated, ambitious young professionals in our community, working together with great organizations across Rochester. Fundamentally, RYP has been created to engage and cultivate Rochester through educating, connecting and involving our peers.

Rochester Black Business Association (http://www.rochesterbba.com/flash.html)

Women In Technology   top

Association for Women in Computing-Upstate New York Chapter (http://awc-uny.org/)
The Association for Women in Computing is a non-profit professional organization for women and men who have an interest in information and technology. The Association is dedicated to the advancement of women in the technology fields.

National Association of Women Business Owner (http://www.nawborochester.org/)
The National Association for Women Business Association is a national non-profit professional organization for women business owners with over 90 chapters and 7,000 members. Membership is open to sole proprietors, partners and corporate managers with day-to-day management responsibilities for the success of their businesses.

Rochester Woman Magazine (http://www.rochesterwomanmag.com/)

Rochester Woman Magazine Business and Resource Directory (http://www.rochesterwomanmag.com/BusDir/DIRECTORYINTRO.htm)

Rochester Women's Network (http://www.rwn.org/)
The Rochester Women's Network was founded in 1978 and is the largest network of its kind in the country. Its mission is a multifaceted forum where women create connections, build relationships and make their mark. Membership offers over 600 members as well as the community-at-large challenging, stimulating programs, a wealth of valuable benefits, and continuing support, both personally and professionally. Rochester, N.Y. members represent 450 local employers and more than 150 women-owned businesses. RWN is a not-for-profit, non partisan association governed by a member-elected board of directors.

Women's Council (http://www.grwc.com/)
Committed to supporting and promoting the growth and development of professional business women, the Women's Council is an active and vital member of the Rochester Business Alliance, Inc. As a member of The Chamber, the Women's Council is organized to address issues and/or matters specific to business and professional interests.

Economic Development   top

Greater Rochester Enterprise (GRE) (http://www.rochesterbiz.com/GRE/)
Greater Rochester Enterprise (GRE) is a regional economic development organization supported by a team of private and public sector leaders dedicated to improving economic performance in the Rochester/Finger Lakes region. Our primary goals are to retain and expand existing business and to professionally market this region as a competitive, vibrant and high-profile place for business location and growth. To support business attraction, expansion, entrepreneurship and innovation, GRE collaborates with local businesses, universities, not-for-profit organizations and government leaders to deliver a unified response to regional economic development opportunities.

The High Tech Business Council (http://www.htbc.org/index.htm)
The High Tech Business Council is a mechanism to advance the Greater Rochester Area as one of the top regions for technology development and commercialization in the nation. The HTBC provides an ongoing forum for linking technology innovation to commercial implementation and accelerating the growth of technology based companies in the Rochester area.

Monroe County Development Corporation: Connect Rochester (http://www.connectrochester.com/)
The Monroe County Development Corporation (MCDC) is a single, coordinated entity that pulls together all the resources and incentives companies need to make Rochester, New York the best choice for their company.

Rochester Business Alliance (RBA) (http://www.rochesterbusinessalliance.com/)
Rochester Business Alliance is the regional chamber of commerce. RBA provides information, advocacy, human resource services and networking to help employers grow.

Trends and Research in Upstate New York   top

What the Tech: WXXI (http://www.whatthetech.org/)
Technology junkies, fans of the scientific, gadget heads, and all-around inquisitive minds won't want to miss What the Tech! a weekly radio program devoted to high technology, science, computers, gadgets and cutting edge developments. "Imagine Sound Money for high tech hosted by Car Talk's Click and Clack and written by the Firesign Theater and you've got What the Tech!," explains senior editor Stephen Jacobs. Produced by WXXI, What the Tech! airs Saturdays at 1 p.m. and Mondays at 11 p.m on WXXI-AM 1370. Geared toward a general audience with an interest in all forms of technology, What the Tech! encourages curiosity and the thirst for "techknowledge." It recognizes Rochester and the Western New York region as a high-tech community where many ground breaking advancements happen in the industry.

Rochester Institute of Technology IT Collaboratory (http://www.rit.edu/research/itc/)
The IT Collaboratory is a Rochester Institute of Technology led research collaboration with the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and the NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University in nanomaterial science, microsystems, photonics, remote sensing systems, and other information technologies. The IT Collaboratory was established by the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR) as a Strategically Targeted Academic Research Center (STAR).

Center for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CASCI) (http://www.lac.rit.edu/)
The Center for Advancing the Study of Cyberinfrastructure (CASCI) at RIT is a new, fundamentally "virtual", research center within the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. The Center is motivated by the opportunities of computing disciplines to advance modern science and engineering research, the so-called cyberinfrastructure initiative. The new center serves as an umbrella organization encompassing several independent specialty laboratories and recruits faculty across the Institute to participate in multidisciplinary efforts.

The center's primary mission is to enhance education and research afforded by emerging cyberinfrastructure through research, education and service. The research activities of the new center focus on the framework supporting science and engineering research and directly support domain-specific informatics. This research serves a fundamental role for the faculty and students in the proposed Ph.D. program in the Golisano College. The result is a center that addresses a most critical singular goal: "To join the [computing] community with scientific and engineering disciplines to build a high-performance, networked system of distributed computing, storage, visualization capabilities, and sensors on an unprecedented scale with national, and ultimately global, presence."

Highlights of trends and current research:

For example: pdf from http://www.rochesterbiz.com/Data/FileManager/GRE_opticsBro_WebVer.pdf