The Empowering Sites Network of Empowering Sites includes:

Quintessential Careers is the ultimate career, job, and college site, offering comprehensive free expert career and job-hunting advice -- through articles, tools, tips, samples, and tutorials -- as well as links to all the best job sites. Special sections for teens, college students, and all other job-seekers (by industry, geography, and job-seeker type) make this site a comprehensive resource for all. Its mission is to provide the content and motivation to empower people to achieve their educational goals, find their true career passion, and obtain their ideal job. Go to Quintessential Careers.

Quintessential Careers Press is the book-publishing arm of Quintessential Careers. The focus of our publications – all free to our visitors -- is on college, career, and job-search advice, strategies, and resources. The site publishes full-length college, career, and job-search advice e-books, as well as a monthly career e-zine. Go to Quintessential Careers Press.

10CareerStories.com tells the story behind Quintessential Careers and includes current information on the Quintessential Careers and EmpoweringSites.com tours -- including the very successful (and free) Real World Workshops. Also includes stories of real job-seekers in a variety of career stages, from entry-level job-seeker to recareering baby boomer. Go to 10CareerStories.com.

EmpoweringRetreat.com is a comprehensive resource for finding empowering tools for your body, mind, and spirit -- including articles, tools, resources, and advice for happy, healthy living. Sections include resources for wellness (physical health, vitality), fitness (exercise for body and brain), nutrition (healthy eating, recipies), spirituality (inspirational living, religion), balance (in life, with work/career), serenity (stress reduction, mental health), and environment (green living). Go to EmpoweringRetreat.com.

EmpoweringParks.com is a site that celebrates the transformative nature of our state and national parks, forests, lakes, rivers, and all open spaces... embracing the values of ecotourism for all generations, celebrating and protecting the amazing natural bounty that awaits us in all 50 states. Visitors can browse national and state parks, recreation areas, wilderness areas, national forests, wildlife refuges, rivers, and so much more! Find information, insider tips, stories, and pictures, as well as ideas for where to stay when visiting. Go to EmpoweringParks.com.

MyCollegeSuccessStory.com is designed to help college-bound and current college students enhance the academic skills you have to achieve even greater success. The site is full of sage advice, tips, and tools to help student navigate the waters of a college education. Besides expert advice, the site also includes stories from real college students and recent graduates -- who gladly share their stories and tips on how they learned how to excel in college. Go to MyCollegeSuccessStory.com.

EnhanceMyWriting.com is where you'll find everything on and off the Net that you could possibly need in writing or researching a paper, including links to all sorts of reference material, links to writing labs, links to Web search engines, and links to writing-related Web sites. Also includes links to writing-related job sites. Go to EnhanceMyWriting.com.

EnhanceMyVocabulary.com com is a vocabulary-building site dedicated to helping you build your vocabulary -- for personal, professional, career, or educational (test-prep) success. It includes tools for relearning the basics of vocabulary and parts of speech, building your vocabulary, stretching your vocabulary, and vocabulary for test-prep. Go to EnhanceMyVocabulary.com.

The Career Doctor is the coaching site of EmpoweringSites.com CEO Dr. Randall Hansen in which he offers the CAREER Model for Career Development Success, answers to specific questions, provides links to specific tools and resources, directs visitors to his Career Journal course (now a free tutorial on Quintessential Careers), and provides a directory of life and career coaches. Go to CareerDoctor.org.

MyCareerBlast.com is designed to fit the special needs of individual students and job-seekers, with sections specially tailored for the student looking to attend college, the job-seeker looking for the "right" career, the individual looking to make a career change; the student looking for a summer job or internship, the student looking for the first job after graduation, the learner contemplating graduate school, the entrepreneur considering freelancing or starting a home-based business, and the job-seeker looking for his or her next job. Go to MyCareerBlast.com.

AStoriedCareer.com explores intersections and synthesis among various forms and uses of storytelling, including journaling/blogging, organizational storytelling, storytelling for organizational entry (job search), and Writing to Learn theory. A Storied Career's scope is intended to appeal to folks fascinated by all sorts of traditional and postmodern uses of storytelling. Go to AStoriedCareer.

Quintessential Resumes & Cover Letters is the only part of the EmpoweringSites.com network that is fee-based. Because so many job-hunters seeking advancement need professional guidance in the development of key marketing documents -- resumes and cover letters -- this site fits an important need in providing job-seekers with professionally developed resumes. Go to Quintessential Resumes & Cover Letters.

Empowering Job Sites the mission of the site is to provide job-seekers with the best tools -- a job search-engine and set of niche job sites to find the best jobs for your career passion and a collection of the best career resources to empower your job-search -- so that you can have everything you need in one place to find your next job and further your career. Go to Empowering Job Sites.