Affirmative Action A listing of professional, managerial, and administrative positions. Employers are listed alphabetically and geographically.

 IMinorities.Com Job Bank provides minority professionals with comprehensive job seeking and career management tools.

Diversity Link  Offers female, minority, and other diversity professionals opportunities to come together with employers who have great career opportunities and are looking for individuals with exceptional qualities that they might otherwise find difficult to market.  Example-Advertisers looking for over 40 individuals.   

 Corporate Diversity Search Inc. Corporate Diversity Search, Inc. is a nationwide executive search firm specializing in the placement of women and minorities. Our expertise is in identifying highly skilled professionals who possess the experience, academic credentials and commitment necessary for middle and upper level positions.

Gay Work.Com: Provides news, a calender of events, legal advice, discussion boards and job search tools.

Gay Yellow Pages: A directory of organizations, businesses, resources, etc. for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Community.

Pink Pages: The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender  yellow pages for New England and beyond.

Black Career Woman: Networking and support organization addressing the contemporary issues and concerns of career-oriented black women.  

Feminist Majority Foundation: The Feminist Majority Foundation, one of the nation's leading research and advocacy organizations for women's rights, develops creative long-term strategies and permanent solutions for the pervasive social, political, and economic obstacles facing women. Provides internship opportunities in feminism and public policy.  

Black Career Women Online: Networking and support organization addressing the contemporary issues and concerns of career-oriented black women.  

National Partnership for Women & Families: The National Partnership for Women & Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.

Feminist.Com: An interactive community by, for and about women. This website facilitates information-sharing among women and encourages mobilization around political issues.  Promotes women's business development, supports women-friendly organizations, expands civic participation and encourages women's self-sufficiency. Feminist.com is a responsive community that offers resources for all women and provides a safe space for diverse dialogues.

Association for Women in Computing: This site is dedicated to the advancement of women in the technology fields.

Native Americans

Native American Resouces: This website offers a wealth of information for native Americans. Some of these offerings include a calendar of events (yes Maine is included), job listings, news, message boards, organizations, relief options. 

American Indian Scholarship Fund: Provides financial assistance to students who are in need of help.

Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science: The mission of SACNAS is to encourage Chicano/Latino and Native American students to pursue graduate education and obtain the advanced degrees necessary for research careers and science teaching professions at all levels.  

African Americans  

The Top 50 Diversity Employers 2002

Black Collegian.com: Provides cutting-edge information on career resources for black collegians.  Job search strategies, graduate school opportunities, career and industry reports.

NAAP.org: Strives to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of the United States.

Black Excel: Helps young people and their parents all across the country to navigate the difficult college admission process. We have tried to make the way easy and accessible. As a result, we are happy to say that we have helped hundreds of African Americans get into college who might otherwise not have done so.

Black Career Woman: Networking and support organization addressing the contemporary issues and concerns of career-oriented black women.

Black Issues.com: The nation's only news magazine dedicated exclusively to minority issues in higher education.

Black Voices.com: Black voices a black web site, a place where you can look for jobs and can post your resume for employers to look at. You can also read news, chat, read about entertainment and go to the mall.  

Hispanics

HispanicSurf.com: The ultimate guide to the best Hispanic Web Sites. Included the Hispanic Jobs & Careers Directory.

Hispanic Today: The career & education resource for Hispanics.

Hispanic Career World: Hispanic Career World Magazine is the recruitment link between students and professionals who are Hispanic and the major corporations that seek to hire them. Each edition includes career-guidance columns, news and trends, and feature articles that profile Hispanics in all fields.

Saludos.com: Hispanic employment - Hispanic jobs - workforce diversity bilingual professionals - employment recruiting. Free resume postings for Hispanic job seekers.

Hispanic Employment Program

U.S. Dept of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy, Job Links -Employers listed on Job Links have indicated interest in recruiting and hiring qualified individuals with disabilities for open positions within their company or organization.

Disabled American Veterans: The Disabled Businesspersons Association (DBA) is a national 501(C)(3) nonprofit, public charity and educational organization founded in 1991 to help disabled entrepreneurs and professionals maximize their potential in the business world, and to encourage the participation and enhance the performance of the disabled in the workforce.

Esmerel's Collection of Disability Resources: On these pages, you will find lists of many disability related resources. There are literally hundreds of well-organized links. These lists will continue to grow. Individual pages are updated on a weekly basis.

National Organization on Disability:  The National Organization on Disability promotes full and equal participation of America's 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life.

International Students and US Employment Resource Page: Provides a variety of tips and resources for international students seeking US employment.

Country Studies:  Presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.

USM's  International Student Services: The office is  located on the first floor of Payson Smith on the Portland campus. If you are an international student who has questions concerning employment eligibility in the United States, please check out their website and contact them with any questions.