Careers and Employment Subject Guide
Jobs & Careers
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Career Insider (formerly Vault Career Library)
An online career library where you can: conduct employer research, find details on top career paths and detailed insider information about potential careers, read about job responsibilities for occupations that interest you, hiring/education requirements, lifestyle, compensation, and advice for newcomers in a particular career path, obtain overviews on 40 top industries, from investment management to manufacturing, and research salary ranges.
Access Career Insider and enter your wmich.edu email address. Vault will send a password that allows you to enter the Vault Career Library and view or download resources. This password is valid for 24 hours. If you wish to return to the career library after that time you may enter your email again to receive a new password.
Provides information on typical wages and employment trends across occupations and industries, allows you to check education, knowledge, skills and abilities against requirements for many occupations, and searches for employer contact information nationwide, cost of living data, and calls up state profiles with labor market conditions.
American Salaries and Wages Survey
HD 4973. A67 2009 (Reference Desk Collection)
A compilation of 2,660 occupations and their corresponding salaries obtained from more than 190 federal and state government sources and various trade associations and journals.
Career Information Center
HF 5382.5 .U5 C32 2007 v. 1-13 (Reference Desk Collection)
This multi-volume set is designed to meet the needs of many people-students, those entering or reentering the job market, those looking for new jobs, and those without jobs, and those not sure of what they want to do for a living. The set is organized by occupational interest area so people who do not know exactly what job they want can read about a number of related jobs. Sections common to each volume are job summary, overview of the field, and a how to guide on strategies for your job.
Collegegrad.com is an Internet job search service for college students and recent grads. This site has videos to record your video resume using our VideoSnapshot tool, then link it from your profile on CollegeGrad.com. In addition, the site has one minute videos for quick information on a variety of topics, from resumes to cover letters to interviewing tips to tough interviewing questions.
O*NET OnLine has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development and HR professionals, students, researchers, and more!
Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance
HF5381 .E52 2008 (Reference Desk Collection)
Volume 1-5 covers sixty-eight industries with general information and historical background. The next three volumes contain specific information on particular jobs and careers.
Jobs Rated Almanac
HF 5382.5 .U5 K72 2002 (Reference)
The best and worst jobs, 250 jobs ranked by more than a dozen vital factors, including salary, stress, benefits, outlook, security and more.
LearningExpress Library (formerly LearnATest)
Includes preparation materials and interactive practice exams for numerous standardized tests such as MEAP, GED, SAT, and GRE. Also includes tests for professions such as law enforcement and real estate. Also includes the Job & Career Accelerator tool, which provides personalized, step-by-step job search assistance. This free service does require that you register a username or email address. Michigan residents can access this database from the Michigan eLibrary by logging on with a Michigan ID or driver's license number.
HF5381 .A1 U62x (Reference Desk Collection)
Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. Annual.
This well designed site offers comprehensive compensation reports in just two clicks.
US Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Includes career guides to industries such as the Occupational Outlook Handbook, topics such as working and looking for work that includes employment, unemployment rate, employment projections, how much people earn, average hourly earnings, wages by area and occupation, employment costs, employee benefits, collective bargaining and many more statistics related to employment and the economy.
What Color Is Your Parachute?
HF 5383. B56 2010 (Reference Desk Collection)
Industry experts have long considered this book the gold standard of career guides and an essential for any job-hunter or career-changer. Filled with solid, simple, and extraordinarily helpful advice. It is for college graduates searching for their first job to mid-career professionals thinking about a switch. It has been rewritten and expanded by the author, Richard Nelson Bolles, to include the Internet and high tech.
Includes many career listings and company profiles, sample resumes, cover letters, and interview questions from WetFeet.com and Vault.com. Posting is free. The big plus with this site is the integration with the rest of Yahoo!, particularly Yahoo! Finance.
Your Career: How to Make It Happen
HF 5382.7 .L47 2000 (Reference)
This book provides the job and career management tools to reach your full career potential. Key features of this book: planning your career, organizing your job search, preparing your resume and cover letter, your interview and after your interview.