Career Information

Use WebCollection to locate books on your topic
Books may also be found in the Career Center, which is located in the center of the library

 Use the IMC Career Databases - find information on specific careers _see Career Brochure for Passwords
Career Bridges
COIN
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Vocational Biographies

Web Sites for Careers

Career Assessment

Career Quizzes - there are four career quizzes - abilities, data, people and things, work preferences and work values - these are designed as a starting point where you can begin your career exploration
Life Colors Online - this assessment asks the questions what kind of person are you and what makes you tick.  The quiz takes about five minutes.
Self Assessment via MazeMaster - includes three exercises to help you identify your interests, values and skills. Click on English, then Self Assessment; the user name and password are imc. Scroll to the bottom of the page to take the Interests, Skills or Values tests.
Medical Career Finder - take a short test to help you determine the medical career that is right for you
Entrepreneurship Test - this site provides a test to evaluate your skills as a business owner; it also includes information on everything about starting a company including factors of success and failure, raising capital, business plans, financing a company. This is a one-stop site for information on entrepreneurship
Princeton Review Career Quiz - this is a quiz has 24 questions and will help you determine your interests and work style
Keirsey Temperament Sorter   An online personality test which analyzes responses and provides a personality profile.
The Career Key - This inventory is based on the Holland personality types. After taking this, you will get a sense of what Holland personality types most closely represent you and a list of occupations that match each personality type.

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Career Handbooks  -- Career planning guides which provide information for planning a career, identifying qualifications, education and training, salary and work environment.

Department of Labor's Occupational Handbook - 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 occupation
Princeton Review Career Search - you will have to complete a registration form, but it profiles over 200 careers; it also includes information on resume writing, interviews, and cover letters
Guides for Specific Careers - this is very useful for locating those hard to find careers
Job Profiles - This has information on the hard-to-find careers; workers share their experience including rewards of their job; stressful part of the job; basic skills the job demands, challengers of the future and advice on entering the field
Career Biographies - includes information on careers plus narratives written by a person in that career
Job Star  - information about planning your career including the training and education, salary, the work environment and the demand. 

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Links to Specific Careers

Medical Careers

Health Career Information - from MEDLINEplus; a complete listing of health careers including art therapist, athletic trainers, and genetic counseling.
Medical Career Finder - take a short test to help you determine the medical career that is right for you
MedEd Careers - from the American Medical Association; scroll down for links to pdf files for specific careers; information includes occupation and careers and links to educational institutions
Health professions - complete reference guide of medical professions and the schools across the nation that offer the courses necessary to obtain these careers. You can look up any of the listed medical careers and find out their roles and responsibilities, average salaries, educational requirements, and associated affiliations with your career option.

Mathematics

Profiles of Careers Using Mathematics - these essays highlight how mathematics is used in a variety of careers
Careers in Mathematics - from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Science

Science

Careers in Life Science - brief career profiles with links to professional organizations
Biotechnology Careers - this is part of the Access Excellence site; click on Job Descriptions for an overview of the career in the biotechnology field; be sure to read the interviews with scientists who work in this field

Military Careers

Military Careers Guide Online - this is the leading career information resource for military careers; provides over 150 enlisted and officer occupations and their corresponding civilian occupations; it provides a description and explains the training

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Government Career Opportunities - These sites contain information on government employment and other career opportunities

Cool Works - Site of 23,000 seasonal jobs in National Parks, ski resorts and other resort area
U.S. Department of Labor's America's Job Bank  - Employment opportunities and listings throughout the United States.  Can be searched by specific job title and by states.
New Jersey Employment - Search for work in New Jersey by job title or by browsing
Pennsylvania Job Center - Search for work in Pennsylvania by job title or by browsing. Also contains links to other state employment service web

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Classified Ads
New Jersey Online
Philadelphia Inquirer
Career Path

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Interviews and Resumes

Jobsmart - this is an excellent source of information on resume writing; it even helps you determine which type of resume is the best for you
Career Resource Center
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Relocation Information
Salary
Information on State and Local Government
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Information on Companies
Company Information - search by state of alphabetically
Vault Reports

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Careers Using Spanish

List of Careers for Spanish Majors
Careers - from Dickinson College; be sure to scroll down for other information
Careers using World Languages - from Omniglot

Use the Career Center for more information from books on language careers
Career Center is located on bookshelves in center aisle

Clasificados

Online Newspapers - Click on the link Online Newspapers
24 Hour News Sites - newspapers from Spanish speaking countries
Clasificados - El NNeuvo Herald - classified ads
Classified Ads - Philadelphia Inquirer
Classified Employment Ads - from the New York Times
FedWorld - federal employment - from Department of Commerce
Job Search - Click on the map to locate bilingual jobs in North and South America and Europe from  LatPro
IHispano - search for jobs
Bi-Lingual Jobs - can search by location or language
Bilingual Classifieds

Dictionaries
English Spanish Business Terms - Prentice Hall's audio glossary

Professional Organizations - these organizations provide links to jobs and career information
American Translators Association
http://www.atanet.org/bin/view.pl/181.html

American Association for Applied Linguistics
http://www.aaal.org

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