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Helpful Resources

Following is a collection of Career Services handouts designed to help you get started on your resume, job search, interviews, and graduate school plans. These handouts are also available in the Career Services office. Please feel free to stop by in person if you have questions or would like more personal assistance.

Career Services Handouts

• Resume Writing Guidelines (pdf)
• Cover Letter Guidelines (pdf)
• Interviewing Guidelines (pdf)
• NO! I don't have a Major! (pdf) (first & second year students)
• Conducting Your Job Search
• Graduate School Planning (pdf)

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 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