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Career Library & Resources

Key Resources

The Career Library's key resources include numerous in-office career information books/graduate school guides/internship references, additional helpful links listed below, and several testing instruments.

Career Services has now put all of it's job and career related handouts on-line for your convenience. Visit Helpful Resources or pick up a copy from our office.

Career Services Reference Books.

• The Dictionary of Occupational Titles
  (descriptions of thousands of job titles)
• The Occupational Outlook Handbook  (Now Also Available On-Line)
  (in depth information about jobs, wages, educational preparation, where the jobs are, future projections, and other helpful topics)
• "Career Opportunities", and "Great Jobs for (     ) Majors" Series - (books about "what's out there" for specific majors)
• College Majors and Careers; Liberal Arts Jobs; College Knowledge and Jobs
  (great references for questions like; what you can do with your major? what kind of work can you do with a liberal arts degree? etc.) 
• "How to Get Any Job with Any Major"
• 10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College
• Information on graduate schools and testing.

Additional Career Planning Links:

• Peterson's Online Educational Resource
• Fastweb (Scholarship Opportunities)
• Salary Information (JobStarCentral)  Info and links for finding salary ranges, how to negotiate, and hundreds of salary surveys.
• Student Conservation Association  the nation's leading provider of conservation service opportunities, outdoor skills and leadership training for young adults.
• Student Center at MonsterTrak provides resume, cover letter, and interviewing guidelines. Also offers geographic and relocation information
• Social Work Careers.  Site for information on the magazine, The New Social Worker, a national publication devoted to career guidance for social work students and those new to the profession.  Links from this site to a social work message board, chat room, career center, and job postings.

Internship Resources

For a listing of internship openings that we have received, and a link to one of the premier programs on the Internet for internships, go to Internship Opportunities.

• The Internship Bible (published by The Princeton Review)
• Peterson's Internships (No longer published)
• The National Directory of Internships
• The Complete Guide to Washington Internships
• Directory of International Internships
• National Directory of Art Internships 
• Guide to Volunteer and Internships in Public Broadcasting
• The Student Guide to Mass Media Internships