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Researching Majors
Researching Industries and
Fields
Specific Resources
- Arts & Communications
- Includes Advertising, Architecture, Broadcasting, Dance,
Entertainment, Film,
Fine Arts, Journalism, Marketing, Museums & Galleries, Music, Public
Relations, Publishing, Radio & TV, Technical Writing, and Theater
- Business & Finance
- Includes Accounting, Athletics & Sports Management, Banking
& Finance, Computers & Technology, Consulting, Entrepreneurship,
Human Resources, Insurance, International & Foreign Language, Real
Estate, Recreation/Outdoor Work, Sales & Marketing
- Also see our Management
Development Programs page
- Careers for the Common Good
- Includes Government & Political Science, Law, Non-Profit,
Public Administration, Social Work
- Diversity
- Education
- Health Professions
- Life/Physical Science
Featured General/Multiple-Listing Resources
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Spotlight on Careers ** -
In-depth information,
including links to internship and job listings, on 35 specialized industry
topics.
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WesVAULT ** - Free access to Vault.com's comprehensive online library.
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WetFeet.com - Browse industry guides
Other General/Multiple-Listing Resources
- CareerOverview.com -
Hundreds of pages of career, job and employment information provided by the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics.
- FabJob.com - Books, e-books, and
CD-ROMs with insider information on over 50 types of jobs.
- GetThatGig.com - Read
industry profiles, view featured employer descriptions, search jobs, and
more.
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The Wesleyan Library provides
online access to hundreds of newspapers and magazines. Reading about your
area/organization of interest can help you write a better cover letter!
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Researching Specific Companies and Organizations
"Top" or "Best" Lists Compiled by national media outlets and institutes
Directories of Professional Associations
General/Multiple-Listing Resources
- Hoovers - The industry standard
for information on all public companies in the United States.
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WesVAULT ** - Free access to Vault.com's comprehensive online library.
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WetFeet.com - Browse company guides either through
MyCRC ** or via the
WetFeet.com Web site.
Researching Positions and Job Titles
- CollegeGrad.com -
Detailed information about duties and requirements of a wide variety of
job positions, sorted by industry.
- Monster.com's Job Profiles
- Learn about what's required if you want one of these types of jobs; the
site has over 120 profiles.
- O*Net -
Searchable database
of job titles with comprehensive information about duties, environment,
and skills required.
Researching Geographic Locations
Researching Salaries
Determining Salary
Negotiating Salary
And more...
- "Young
and In Debt", a feature in USA Today (January 2007) follows five
twentysomething graduates as they struggle with high debt while starting
out on their own
Web Search Engines
Directory Assistance (White/Yellow Pages)
General Web Searching
- AllTheWeb - Indexes more pages,
and updates them more frequently, than any other search engine.
- AskJeeves - Allows you to use
"natural language" (phrase) queries rather than keywords.
- DogPile - A metasearch engine
that searches the Internet's top engines including Google, Yahoo, Ask
Jeeves, About, Teoma, FindWhat, and LookSmart.
- Google - The site so popular it's
now a verb used in everyday conversation.
- HotBot - A metasearch engine that
queries the three major crawlers: Google, Teoma, and Yahoo!.
- Kartoo - A metasearch engine with
an aesthetically pleasing results display.
- Teoma - Breaks queries into results
sorted by theme.
- Yahoo! - The web's oldest directory
of sites organized by category.
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