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. You can also view my profile on LinkedIn.

Experience || Education
Other Pursuits

Experience

Clients and projects include

• The Riley Guide. Starting out as a 2-page handout in December 1993 before going online in January 1994, The Riley Guide is one of the oldest guides to using the Internet as a tool in the Job Search.
• National Career Development Association. In conjunction with the book The Internet: A Tool for Career Planning, I created and maintain the free list of Internet Sites for Career Planning available on the association's website.
• Office of Intramural Training & Education at the National Institutes of Health. I created their Virtual Career Center in 2003, continuing to development and maintain the site through December 2007.
• Drake Beam Morin, 1996 - 2003. I created the DBM Compass, a private resource guide used by participant in their transition program to aid in their search for new opportunities. I also worked with several departments of the company to create training modules for the consultants, and assisted individual clients in their transition work.
• Employment and Training Administration, US Department of Labor, 1996 - 1998. I created the original resource libraries for America's Career InfoNet and America's Job Bank (shut down June 30, 2007).

Writing Experience

• Internet Columnist, National Business Employment Weekly, June 1996 until November 1999. NBEW ceased print publication Nov 6, 1999.
• Occasional Writer, CareerJournal.com (now Wall Street Journal: Careers), 2000 through 2003.
• Additional articles have been published in Library Journal and The Reference Librarian.

Library Experience

While at the Gordon Library at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, I began to develop Internet training seminars for the campus while also 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 these users in their search for employment. When I resigned from WPI, I was Coordinator of Networked Resources, responsible for the information appearing on and being developed for the Institute's webserver. I was also responsible for initiating 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.

• Gordon Library, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA (1991 - 1996).
  • Coordinator of Networked Resources, 1995 - 1996
  • Circulation and Computer Resources Librarian, 1994 - 1995
  • Circulation Librarian, 1991 - 1994
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (1989 - 1991).
  • Interlibrary Services Associate/Humanities Reference Assistant
• Boston Conservatory, Boston MA (1983 - 1989).
  • Acquisitions Associate, 1987 - 1989
  • Circulation Association, 1983 - 1987