The Riley Guide: About the Guide

Margaret F. Dikel, MSLIS

• Internet Consultant for Employment, Career Counseling, and Career Transition Services
• Co-Author with Frances Roehm, The Guide to Internet Job Searching (McGraw-Hill)
• Co-Author with JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey and James P. Sampson, Jr., The Internet: A Tool for Career Planning (NCDA)
• Author of several newspaper and magazine articles.

Comments and questions are always welcome. However, I do get a tremendous amount of mail and may not be able to respond to your specific request.

Who Am I? | My Background and Skills

Who Am I?

I worked with Drake Beam Morin for several years, developing and support their online career information services. I have also worked with the Employment and Training Administration of the US Department of Labor. I created the original resource libraries for America's Career InfoNet and America's Job Bank (shut down June 30, 2007). Most recently, I developed and continue to maintain and develop the Virtual Career Center for the Office of Intramural Training & Education at the National Institutes of Health.

From June 1996 until November 1999, I was the Internet columnist for the National Business Employment Weekly (ceased print publication Nov 6, 1999) which then became CareerJournal.com from the Wall Street Journal (and is now Wall Street Journal Online: Careers). In addition to co-authoring 2 books on the Internet and career / employment, I have authored articles for Library Journal and The Reference Librarian.

My Background and Skills

In addition to my library training, I hold a Bachelors degree in music performance from The Boston Conservatory. My instrument is the Horn, and when I'm not online, you can find me in one of two places:

1. Performing with the Jewish Community Center Symphony in Rockville, MD. I'm also the orchestra's librarian and webmaster.
2. Removing non-native invasive plants from our local parks. I am a volunteer Weed Warrior for the Montgomery County division of the Maryland - National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, so I take clippers and saw in hand and do battle against kudzu, porcelain berry, japanese honeysuckle, garlic mustard, mile-a-minute vine, and other Plant invaders in our area. It's very therapeutic and a great work out!

While working at the Gordon Library at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, I began working to develop Internet training seminars for the campus, utilizing the Internet as an information database and performing needed searches for information for the faculty, staff, and students. It was in this role that I began working to locate information on the Internet which would aid the students and alumni of WPI in their search for employment. When I resigned from WPI, I held the title of Coordinator of Networked Resources (webmaster/information services and resources) for WPI's university webserver. My role was to initiate new information resources and services for the campus, working with the various departments and offices across the campus and interacting with the system administrators to develop the desired services.

I am author of The Riley Guide, the first guide to using the Internet to aid in your job search. Included in this free guide is information on using the Internet, how the Internet can be a tool in the job search and recruiting process, and links to hundreds of job resources, services, and information guides all over the Internet. While I do try to assist many who send me email requests, I do not post jobs nor resumes and I cannot do your job search for you. Here is my contact informationfor other comments, questions, and suggestions.

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