Career Resources and Research Tips
Use these databases to search for information about different careers. You can find salary information, job duties and descriptions, education requirements, and more.
Want some more in-depth information about preparing for a job or career? Check out this self-paced Canvas tutorial which includes the following modules:
More resources can be found in the Career Research guide
The Bold Maneuver: The Working Woman's Playbook helps women understand the factors that produce success outside of education, experience, and hard work, and gives them the high achiever's playbook.
Practical guidance to optimize the benefits of your accounting degree--no matter what stage of your career!
This book, which includes interviews with professionals in the field, covers five main areas of this field that have proven to be stable, lucrative, and growing professions. Chefs Pop-up and traditional restaurant owners Caterers Media and art-related careers Bakers
Marketing Professionals: A Practical Career Guide includes interviews with marketing professionals and covers the following job areas in marketing: Digital marketing SEO (search engine optimization) and web analytics, social media marketing, graphic design, brand management, product marketing.
Designed specifically for those who want to work for themselves, this volume dives deep into the many ways that individuals can translate doing what they love into a business. There are many business sectors that are ripe for entrepreneurship, including real estate, the creative arts, manufacturing, personal care services, retail, fashion, finance and so much more.
Find out how to secure and thrive in a work-from-home or remote-access job. Get out of your work clothes and into pajamas for good!
Search the library catalog for print books and the ebook database for ebooks to find more career related information.
For the best results, search using specific keywords or short phrases rather than full sentences, questions, or strings of words. Thinking about your topic and different aspects of your topic can help you to identify relevant keywords. Good keywords are single words (usually nouns) OR specific phrases (two or more words that must go together to make sense). When searching for an exact phrase, use quotations. Here is an example of some keywords and phrases:
"marketing plans" "hospitality law" "human resources" ethics "culinary techniques"
To find books related to careers add the phrase "vocational guidance" or a keyword related to career/job searching. For example:
Browse the Shelves
Books in the library are organized by subject. This makes it very easy to browse the shelves to see what is available in a specific subject area. Books related to Business, Entrepreneurialism & Management begin with the H call number section of the library. Look on the ends of the book shelves to find this section, or just ask a librarian.
You can see where books on other subjects are located in the library by looking at the Library of Congress subject classification.
