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Career Planning Resources
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This page provides links to Internet sites and lists of print
resources in the Olin Library Reference collection useful for finding
a job, identifying a career, or pursuing graduate
education. Other career planning information at Wesleyan is
available at the Career
Resource Center. The CRC, located in Butterfield A (25
Lawn Avenue), is available to Wesleyan students seeking internships,
summer jobs, fellowships, graduate school information, and full-time
post-graduate employment. Counselors and peer Career Advisors are
available for appointments and drop-in hours. See their web site or
call CRC at 685-2180 for more information on their services.
Resumes, Cover Letters, and
Interviews
Career
Center: Guide to Resume Writing
Provides tips for writing
resumes for both print and electronic formats. Advice for
writing cover letters is also given.
Liberal arts power!; how to sell it on your resume, by Burton
Jay Nadler. 1985.
Ref HF5383.N3 1985
Liberal arts power
gives succinct information on how to: 1. identify your job
objectives, 2. build a personal skills flowchart, 3. match your
liberal arts background to specific job requirements, 4. sell your
liberal arts skills in terms understood by employers, and 5. create a
targeted resume for any job you want. Includes numerous sample
resumes.
- Resume
Magic: Master Resume Writer's Secrets Revealed
Explains how to write
the various components of a resume. Definitions and samples are
given.
200
Letters for Job Hunters
Information about
applying for different types of jobs. Covers all aspects of
employment correspondence.
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Internship and Summer
employment
Internship
and Fieldwork Listings Nationwide
This site at the
University of Virginia Office of Career Planning and Placement
provides links to many other internship Web sites.
Summer
Jobs
Worldwide summer job
possibilities are available here searcheable either by location or by
keyword.
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The Job Search
American jobs abroad, edited by Victoria Harlow and Edward F.
Knappman. Detroit : Gale Research Inc., 1994.
Ref HF5549.5.E45 A446 1994
This work
provides job seekers with detailed data on foreign employment
opportunities with U.S. companies, government agencies, and
non-profit organizations.
America's Job
Bank
Contains information on
approximately 250,000 jobs.
CareerCity
This site includes leads
to technical, management, computer, and medical jobs. It also
provides job fair listings, and other general information on job
seeking.
CareerMosaic
Offers thousands of job
postings, as well as information about companies. Breaks the
postings down by city and even by ZIP Code, so you can find a job in
a particular part of a town, say, on the north side of Chicago.
Careerpath
Allows you to search
employment advertisements of several major newspapers.
- Chase
Professionals, Inc.
- Recruitment service
for applicants seeking employment in all fields. Aims to
match skill and experience of the applicant to the requirements
for a particular position. Confidential personal profiles
are listed for free, and your identity is revealed only when you
decide to do so--after you have reviewed the company and the job
information.
Chicago
Tribune Career Path
Contains links for job
searching, "hot companies, employment news and advice,
placing an add, and job fairs especially for the
Chicago area.
College Grad
Job Hunter
Offers job posting and many helpful
hints for people new on the job market, such as how to write a
resume, interview and negotiate.
E-Span
"The Right Person for the
Right Job"-- Matches job profiles with job vacancies at over 2000
companies.
Federal jobs for college graduates, by Robert Goldenkoff and
Dana Morgan. 1991.
Ref JK716.G63 1991
This guidebook offers
advice on how to find a professional level position with the
Federal Government regardless of your college degree or major.
Some of the features included are: 1. Concise profiles of every
federal agency: executive, legislative, judicial, and independent.
2. valuable data on entry level job titles, salary ranges and
application procedures, and 3. Cross indexing identifying jobs by
agency mission, geographic location, and preferred college
major.
HRS Federal Job
Search
Database of
federal jobs available across the U.S. Fill out a profile
with desired job type, salary and location, and the site will
e-mail applicable postings to you. Lots of other data on
United States government jobs.
How to survive without your parents money: making it from
college to the real world, by Geoff Martz. 1994.
Ref. HF5382.5.U5M43 1994
Published by the
Princeton review, this guidebook is written in a humorous,
slightly tongue in cheek tone. It
is, nevertheless, a practical and clearly written introduction to
this crucial topic.
Job Bank
USA
Specializes in
providing employment and resume information services to job
candidates, employers and recruitment firms.
The Monster
Board
Helps job
seekers to build and store a resume on-line, and has over 50,000
job listings. Its Resume City section finds job listings
that match your profile, and then email them to you once a
week.
NationJob
Network
The site's
Personal Job Scout searches for positions based on user's
preferences, background and qualifications and returns leads via
E-mail.
The new complete job search, by Richard H. Beatty.
1992.
Ref HF5382.7.B445 1992
The author of this
work states that the "real purpose of job hunting is to find work
that is professionally and personally satisfying." He further
states this volume is more broad than the usual one on securing
employment in that it provides "a logical, step-by-step process
for conducting an effective job hunting campaign." The advice
given here is based on Beatty's 25 years of experience in human
resources, employment, and the consulting fields. There is heavy
emphasis on resume writing and their different styles.
Occupational
Outlook Handbook U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics. Printed edition: Docs
Ref L2.3/4:
Provides
data and employment trends as well as the future outlook for
several hundred occupations. Gives information on the nature
of the occupation, qualifications, working conditions and
salaries, how to enter, and where to go for more information.
What color is your parachute? A practical manual for job
hunters and career changers, by Richard Nelson Bolles.
1998.
Ref HF5383.B56 1998
What color is
your parachute? serves as a general guide to the process of
job hunting. The first six chapters are essentially a step-by-step
approached packed with hints and strategies on how to proceed
effectively to market personal skills. There is a wealth of
information on resumes, salary negotiation, rejection shock, and
virtually all related topics. The format is easy to follow, and
the style is witty and engaging. The Mississippi Business Journal,
in a review of the 1990 edition, stated that, "No other book can
do so much for job hunters and career changers....So take the
advice of myself and countless others and read this classic,
because they don't get any better."
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Companies, Foundations, and
Other Organizations
- Consultants and consulting organizations directory; a
reference guide to more than 22,000 concerns and individuals
engaged in consultation for business, industry, and government,
edited by Janice McClean. 2 volumes. 1995.
Ref HS69.C6 C647 15th ed. 1995
The Consultants
directory provides access to over 22,000 companies and individuals
in the field by specialty area, location, consulting activities,
personnel, and firm name. The 14 sections of descriptive listings
are divided into four major subject areas: business and industry,
science and technology, environment and agriculture, and social
services/human welfare. This topical arrangement permits the user
to easily survey an entire subject area. Each company entry
includes the following information:
- Addresses, fax and toll free numbers for main and branch
offices.
- notes indicating defunct or consultancies.
- merger information.
- notation of service to the government.
- firm's ability to offer international counsel.
- industries and geographic areas served.
- firm's experience working with non-profit
organizations.
- firm's status as a small business, minority owned, and/or
women owned establishment.
- information on recent publications or videos produced by
the consultancy.
- information on seminars, workshops, and other similar
programs.
- description of special services, with emphasis on unique
and proprietary database, custom designed computer software,
and access to commercial databases.
Volume 2 presents four indexes which classify the descriptive
listings: geographic index, Consulting activities Index (preceded
by a thesaurus to terms used in the index), a personal name index
and a consulting firms index.
Edgar
Database of Corporate Information
- Accesses full text
of 10-K and 10KSB forms that domestic public companies are
required to file with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC). Excellent resource for
doing financial research on you prospective company.
Encyclopedia of associations. 28th edition. 3 volumes.
1994.
Ref AS22.E5 28th ed 1994
"A guide to nearly
23,000 national and international organizations, including: Trade,
Business and Commercial; Environmental and Agricultural; Legal,
Governmental, Public Administration and Military; Engineering,
Technological, and Natural and Social Sciences; Educational;
Cultural; Social Welfare; Health and Medical; Public Affairs,
Fraternal, Foreign Interest, Nationality, and Ethnic; Religious;
Veterans,' Hereditary, and Patriotic; Hobby and Avocational;
Athletic and Sports; Labor Unions, Associations, and Federations;
Chambers of Commerce and Trade and Tourism; Greek Letter and
Related Organizations; and Fan Clubs. "--Title Page.
Volume One parts 1 and 2 list the organizations in a classified
arrangement by subject matter. Volume One part 3 serves as a name
and keyword index for quick location of entries in the first two
volumes. A typical entry provides the following data: address and
telephone number of the organization, type of organization,
director's name, date founded, number of members, budgetary
information, brief description of activities and publications.
An additional two
volume set (Ref AS22.E53 28th ed) entitled International
Organizations provides similar information arranged in the same
manner to "over 13,500 international Non Profit & Membership
Organizations including Multinational and Binational Groups, and
National Organizations based outside the United States, concerned
with all subjects or areas of activity."--Title Page. Volume One
is the descriptive listing in subject classified arrangement, and
Volume Two provides indexes by: abbreviations, international
country access codes, geographic area, executive name, and
organizational name.
The
Fortune 500
Contains information
about the Fortune 500 companies arranged by company names,
industry, and CEO. A large number of the company WWW sites
include employment opportunities.
The Foundation directory, compiled by the Foundation Center.
15th edition. 1993.
Ref AS911.A2F65 15th ed 1993
An exhaustive
directory of foundations arranged alphabetically by state. The
indexes include: donor index, officers and trustees; geographic,
types of support, subject, foundations new to the 15th edition,
and foundation name index. Detailed information about each
foundation is provided.
International foundation directory. 6th edition.
1994.
Ref AS911.A2I57 1994
This directory
serves as a guide to about 1000 international and national
foundations. The introductions give an interesting history of
foundations from medieval times to the present.
Lexis-Nexis
Lexis-Nexis provides
full-text access to newspaper and magazine articles,
federal and state legal data, law review articles, business, tax
and accounting data and medical information. Lexis-Nexis is an
extremely powerful and versatile research tool. Please
consult a Reference Librarian if you want assistance in using it,
or if you would like a general introduction to its effective use.
The following categories will be of special interest to those
involved in career planning:
Company
Financial Information
Company
News
Industry
and Market News
NonProfit
Center
Information on
more non-profit organizations than any other site on the
Internet.
Standard & Poor's register of corporations, directors,
and executives. 3 volumes.
Ref +HG4057.A4 1998
Volume 1 is an alphabetical listing of corporations
with addresses and telephone numbers, also providing the names of
executive officers, number of employees, company products with SIC
codes, sales and employee data.
Volume 2 gives brief biographical data on corporate
offices.
Volume 3 Indexes (by SIC code, geographic location,
corporate family, etc.)
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Graduate Schools and
Grants
- Annual register of grant support; a directory of funding
sources. 31st edition. 1998
Ref AS911.A2A67 1998
The Annual
register is the most authoritative reference source on
on-repayable financial support. Used extensively by researchers
and scholars, it is also valuable for the fields of business,
civic improvement, and social welfare. The new edition provides
information on the grant support programs of government agencies,
foundations, both public and private, corporations, community
trusts, unions, educational and professional associations, and
special interest organizations. The preface provides information
on program planning and proposal writing. The main body of the
text is divided into subject areas under which detailed
information about the granting organization is arranged
alphabetically by organizational name. Indexes are by subject,
organization, program, geographical area and personnel.
College
and University Rankings
Index of
online rankings of colleges and graduate schools from a variety of
sources, such as US News & World Report, Princeton Review,
Kiplinger, Mother Jones, and the National Research Council. The
site also includes cautions and advice about interpreting and
using rankings of schools.
Foundation grants index, compiled by the Foundation Center.
22nd edition. 1994.
Ref +AS911.A2F66 22nd ed 1994
Includes 65,000
grants of $10,000 or more awarded by 960 funders in 1992. "The
foundation grants index has been one of the most valuable
resources for determining the current funding priorities of the
nation's largest foundations..." It is most useful for grant-
seekers in developing an initial list of potential funding sources
based on a foundation's giving program, its application
procedures, and other relevant information. Grant seekers should
read the section "How to Use."
Peterson's
Graduate & Professional Study
Peterson's is a
thorough guide to most all aspects of graduate education.
The WWW edition has a powerul search engine through which you may
search either by institutional name or subject area for
information on graduate and professional degree programs. It
also provides capability to search for education abroad, the
financing of your degree program, and distance learning.
A paper edition of
Peterson's Annual Guides/Graduate studies. 6 volumes.
1998
Ref L901.P46 is available in the reference collection in
Olin Library.
Research Centers directory, edited by Karen Hill. 16th
edition. 2 volumes. 1995.
Ref AS25.D5 16th ed 1995
"A guide to over
12,000 University-related and other nonprofit research
organizations established on a permanent basis and carrying on
continuing research programs in agriculture, astronomy and space
sciences, behavioral and social sciences, biological sciences and
ecology, business and economics, computers and mathematics,
education, engineering and technology, government and public
affairs, humanities and religion, labor and industrial relations,
law, medical sciences, physical and earth sciences, and regional
and area studies."--Title Page.
Virtual
Center for Research on Graduate Education (VCR)
VCR is "an electronic
clearinghouse for research relating to graduate education and is
produced by the Council of Graduate Schools. It
provides information on the labor market for new PhD
recipients, an analysis of recently released statistics on
graduate school enrollment, aswell as links to other sources of
data on graduate education.
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Relocation and Salary
issues
CityNet
Through the use of
clickable maps, this interesting site provides information about the
arts, entertainment, education, demographics, and business in cities
and countries of the world.
JobSmart
Home: Salary Information
Citations to salary
surveys, links to salary tables, and articles about salary
negotiation issues.
The
Salary Calculator
Calculates comparable
salary differences between U.S. and international cities.
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Last updated: June 25, 1999
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