Professional Career Organizations
Career Starting Points
What Color Is Your Parachute? by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781984861207Publication Date: 2022The groundbreaking, indispensable guide to rewarding work and a fulfilling life-more than ten million copies sold! For more than fifty years, What Color Is Your Parachute? has transformed the way people think about job hunting. More than a job-hunting book, Richard N. Bolles's timeless wisdom and famed self-assessment exercise clarifies seven key dimensions, so you can uncover your greatest passions, most valued traits, and transferable skills to design a life that enables you to flourish.
Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance, 16th Edition. by Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781438141589Publication Date: 2015Each article offers detailed career information, sidebars, and other user-friendly features, including a new Career Ladder, which shows common career paths for each profession, and new sections, such as Unions and Associations and Tips for Entry.
Occupation & Career Sites
- MyPlan.comHelps students and professionals plan more fulfilling lives by making informed decisions about their educations and careers.
- What Do You Like? BLS Career InformationExplore career interests based on Bureau of Labor Statistics career profiles.
- Career OneStop: Pathways to Career SuccessUnited States Department of Labor-sponsored Web site that offers career resources and workforce information to job seekers, students, businesses, and workforce professionals.
- Occupational Outlook HandbookDescribes nature of each occupation's work, number of people employed in the US, training and other qualifications, job outlook, earnings, and sources of additional information. Provided by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- O*NET OnlineA primary source of occupational information. Provides a database that is the basis for Career Exploration Tools, a set of valuable assessment instruments for workers and students looking to find or change careers. Identifies bright outlook occupations and green occupations.
- CityTownInfo.comProvides links and information about careers, cities and towns, and colleges, universities, and trade schools. The career directory presents information on hundreds of employment categories and thousands of schools, to help people find and pursue careers of interest to them.
- MonsterOnline employment opportunities site with job search advice and career management tools.