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Internet Resources in Career and Job Information
[ Self Assessment Resources ]
[ Career Identification Resources ]
[ Job Announcements ]
[ Personal Presentation ]
[ Career SuperSites ]
The first four sections of this page correspond to the four steps of the
career development process. In Self Assessment, resources
help you assess your strengths, interests, and values, and relate them
to career choice. Career Identification resources give
descriptions, forecasts, and other information about specific careers.
Job Announcements contains links to a wide variety of job ads.
In Personal Presentation, there are sources of information on how
to present youself to a prospective employer, and on researching a company in
preparation for an interview. The final section, Career SuperSites,
has links to several extensive career and job information sites.
Resources to help you assess your strengths, interests, and values, and
relate them to career choice.
- UCSB's Career Services
- C&CS offers a variety of services to help UCSB students assess their
strengths, values, and interests. They will help you find out what you want
through their
Career Planning pages.
-
Keirsey Temperament Sorter
- This test will be most useful if interpreted by a professional
career advisor who can help link the results to careers.
- Career Assessment Tools & Tests
- A list of online tests, some fee-based, for those who are in the process of
discovering career themes and personal patterns. For information on Holland Personality types,
click here.
- Tools and Quizzes
- A list of online tests and quizzes from monster.com.
[ Self Assessment Resources ]
[Career Identification Resources]
[Job Announcements]
[ Personal Presentation ]
[Career SuperSites]
Descriptions, forecasts, and other information about specific careers.
- Occupational Outlook Handbook
- Career guidance, information about prospective changes in the
world of work, and the qualifications that will be needed by
tomorrow's workers. For about 250 occupations, OOH
describes the nature of work, job outlook, training/qualifications
required, and earnings, and lists related occupations and sources of
additional information.
- Occupational Projections and Training Data.
- Statistical and research supplement to the Occupational Outlook Handbook; presents
detailed, comprehensive statistics used in preparing the Handbook.
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Occupational & Career Information from the California Employment
Development Department
- Select
California Occupational Guides for in-depth statewide reports on
approximately 300 occupations.
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Career Guides via JobStar
- General employment outlooks and guides to specific careers
from a variety of sources.
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Salary Information via JobStar.
- Descriptions of and links to over 200 salary surveys or summaries.
- UCSB's Career Services
- Advisors and peers at C&CS assist students in exploring the
nearly infinite job titles in the world of work. The Career
Resources Room contains hundreds of career exploration
resources. Learn how to figure out a major, research careers or find jobs.
- In the library:
- Davidson Library has additional information on careers and salaries; selected resources listed here:
- America's Top 300 Jobs: A Complete Career Handbook.
- a netLibrary e-book
- The American Almanac of Jobs and Salaries.
- Reference HD 8038 U5 A43 2000/2001
- Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance.
- Reference Index Table HF 5381 .E52 2005
- Job Hunter's Sourcebook.
- Reference Index Table HF 5382.75 .U6 J63
- Peterson's Hidden Job Market.
- Reference Index Table HF 5382.75 .U6 H52
- Plunkett's Employers' Internet Sites With Careers Information, 2002-2003: The Only Guide to America's
Hottest Corporate Internet Sites for Job Seekers
- a netLibrary e-book
- Quick Guide to College Majors and Careers
- a netLibrary e-book
- Associations Unlimited.
- Information for approximately 455,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit
membership organizations in all fields; great way to identify professional associations in a particular field.
- Use PEGASUS to find other books, using the Keyword search:
- environmental sciences vocational guidance
- engineering vocational guidance
- counseling vocational guidance
- music vocational guidance
- teaching vocational guidance
- forest service vocational guidance
FINDING ARTICLES
- Use Expanded Academic ASAP
and Business Source Premier to look for articles
relating to industries, career development, job descriptions, etc.
Current UCSB students, faculty and staff: click here:
Off-Campus Access to Research Databases
for information on access to our databases and electronic texts from off-campus.
- Examples on Expanded Academic ASAP:
- statisticians and vocational guidance
- environmental and vocational guidance
- chemists and employment
- job vacancies and forecasts
- or, search by journal(s) occupational outlook quarterly
- for full-text articles in the journal Occupational Outlook Quarterly
- Examples on Business Source Premier:
- SO Publication Name: occupational outlook quarterly
- for full-text articles in the journal Occupational Outlook Quarterly
- Default Fields: wages and legal assistant*
- assistant* retrieves assistant and assistants
- SU Subject Terms: job vacancies or supply and demand and Default Fields: programmers
- SU Subject Terms: job vacancies and Default Fields: trends
- Default Fields: job* and description* and accountants
- Default Fields: job* and satisfaction and teachers
[ Self Assessment Resources ]
[Career Development Resources]
[Job Announcements]
[ Personal Presentation ]
[Career SuperSites]
Links to a wide variety of job listings, organized into the following
categories:
[ Classified Ads]
[ Jobs by Region]
[ Job Banks]
[ Jobs by Company]
[ Seasonal Jobs & Internships]
[ Jobs in Education]
[ Government Jobs]
[ Jobs by Subject]
[ Mailing Lists]
[ Newsgroups]
[ Other]
Most of these allow you to choose between searching today's ads or the
latest Sunday's ads.
- Classified Ads on
newspress.com, from the Santa Barbara News-Press
- Contains all single-column ads listed in the News-Press.
- Santa Barbara CraigsList
- CraigsList is available for other cities as well.
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San Francisco Bay Area Newspaper Classified Ads from JobStar
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Southern California Newspaper Classified Ads from JobStar
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Sacramento Newspaper Classified Ads from JobStar
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San Diego Area Newspaper Classified Ads from JobStar
- JobHunt's Links to
Classified Job Ads
- In the library:
- Recent newspapers are shelved alphabetically by title in the Serial & Newspaper Reading Room.
Many newspapers provide free access to their classified ads on the web. To find out if UCSB owns a particular newspaper,
search the title on Pegasus
Many professional journals or news bulletins have job announcements: search
Pegasus by title for library location.
Associations Unlimited provides a list of an association's publications.
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- From the Riley Guide:
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Local U.S. Job Opportunities includes jobs by state
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International Job Opportunities
- From Purdue University's Placement Service:
- Job Listings
for Specific Geographic Areas
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International Careers
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International Employment Opportunities
- OverseasJobs.com
- Jobs in the Santa Barbara area:
- Santa Barbara CraigsList
- Classified Ads on
newspress.com, from the Santa Barbara News-Press
- GauchoLink
- UCSB's official site for students in search of jobs, internships, and campus interviews.
- Jobs at UCSB
- Local Area Internships
from UCSB's Career Services
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Santa Barbara City Human Resources - Employment Listings
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Santa Barbara County Human Resources Department - Current Open Employment Opportunities
- Santa Barbara Jobs
- In the library:
- Financial Aid for Research and Creative Activities Abroad.
- Reference Index Table LB2337.2 F574
- Financial Aid for Study and Training Abroad.
- Reference Index Table LB2337.2 F54
- International Jobs: Where They Are, How to Get Them.
- Reference HF5549.5 E45 K63 1999
- Use PEGASUS to find other books, using the Keyword search:
- americans foreign employment
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- MonsterTRAK's Jobs
- This site features targeted job postings to students and alums of specific colleges and universities,
including UCSB.
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America's Job Bank
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CareerBuilder
- Provides access to jobs on more than 75+ leading career sites.
- The Monster Board's Job Search
- JobStar's San
Francisco Bay Area Job Banks
- JobStar's
Sacramento Job Banks
- JobStar's Southern
California Job Banks
- JobStar's San Diego
Area Job Banks
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- Finding Individual
Employers on the WWW
- Resources from JobStar "Use these resources to identify companies who are
looking for employees on their company webpage."
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College Grad Job Hunter: Employer Search
- Links to company websites with the focus on entry level employment for
college graduates.
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- A+ Summer Jobs
- Google's Seasonal job search
- InternJobs.com
- JobStar's California and National Summer Jobs and Internships on the Web:
- San Francisco Area
- Los Angeles Area
- Sacramento Area
- San Diego Area
- Internships
from UCSB's Career Services
- Part Time Jobs
from UCSB's Career Services
- ResortJobs.com
- SummerJobs.com
- Summer Work,
Internships, & Fieldwork
- Yahoo's links to:
- Internships
Seasonal and Summer Employment
- In the library:
- Peterson's Internships.
- Reference Index Table L901 I66
- Summer jobs in the USA.
- Reference Index Table HF5381 S78
- Use PEGASUS to find other books, using the Keyword search:
- interns
- summer employment
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Chronicle of Higher Education Job listings from the previous week's
issue of The Chronicle available here free.
- Academic Position Network
Faculty, administrative, personnel and professional staff postions at institutions
of higher education.
- Ed Jobs U Seek
from The College of Education & Human Development, University of Minnesota.
- Human Resources at UCSB
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Job Seekers: Careers with the University of California
- California State
University Career Opportunites
- California Community
Colleges Job Opportunities
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- FedWorld Federal Jobs Search
- America's Job Bank
- Private sector and government job postings from the US Department
of Labor and state Employment Service agencies.
- Guide to America's Federal Jobs: A Complete Directory of Federal Career Opportunities
- a netLibrary e-book
- Opportunities in Government Careers
- a netLibrary e-book
- State and Local Government on
the Net via Piper Resources
- Links to state, regional, county and municipal sites. Check here to see
if the government(s) you are interested in working for has
its employment list on the web.
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Santa Barbara City Human Resources - Employment Listings
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Santa Barbara County Human Resources Department - Current Open Employment Opportunities
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Careers by Major from UCSB's Career Services
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Purdue's List of Jobs by Field
- Job Databases by Professional Societies
and other Institutions
- netLibrary e-books
- There are several good e-books on careers in specific subject areas such as Engineering, Electronics, Art,
Writing, High Tech, Outdoor interests, Biotechnology, etc.
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Job announcements are often posted on mailing lists. Use
these sites to identify mailing lists in your subject area.
- AtoZintheMail.com
- CataList
- EmailUniverse.com
- dolist.net
- listTool.com
- Tile Net/Lists
- Topica
- WebScout Lists
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In order to read newsgroup postings, your web browser must be
set up to access a news server. All Library Webstations can access
newsgroups.
- Job-Related Newsgroup
Searches via JobHunt
- Sites that search multiple job-related newsgroups simultaneously.
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- Not all job openings are advertised on the Internet:
- Read The Hidden Job Market
from JobStar for options to uncover the "hidden job market."
JobStar's
Bay Area,
Los Angeles Area,
San Diego Area, and
Sacramento Area Job Hotlines
[ Self Assessment Resources ]
[Career Identification Resources]
[Job Announcements]
[ Personal Presentation ]
[Career SuperSites]
Sources of information on how to present youself to a prospective
employer, and on researching a company in preparation for an
interview.
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Career Advice from monster.com
- Resume Center
with tips, Samples and
Cover Letters
Interview Center
with virtual interviews and Interview Dos and Don'ts
and, Salary Center
with Negotiation Features.
- Networking, Interviewing, & Negotiating
from the Riley Guide
- Resumes and Interviews
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Salary Negotiation Strategies via JobStar.
- Writing and Formatting a Scannable Resume.
- UCSB's Career Services
- Career Services offers assistance on writing resumes & cover letters, and on the
professional communication skills required to get your message across.
Check out their advice on
Resume and Cover Letters and on
Interview Tips.
- In the library:
- Davidson Library has resources on resume writing, interviewing,
and on companies:
- America's Top Resumes: for America's Top Jobs.
- a netLibrary e-book
- Best Resumes for College Students and New Grads.
- Reference Index Table HF5383 .K867 2006
- Cover Letters That Knock 'em Dead.
- Reference Index Table HF5383 .Y378 2001
- Dynamic Cover Letters: How to Sell Yourself to an Employer by
Writing a Letter That Will Get Your Resume Read, Get You an
Interview, and Get You the Job!
- Reference HF5383 .H28 1995
- Electronic Resumes & Online Networking.
- a netLibrary e-book
- Interviews.
- a netLibrary e-book
- 101 Best Resumes for Grads.
- Reference Index Table HF5383 .B5342 2003
- 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions.
- HF5549.5.I6 F75 1996
- 175 High-Impact Resumes.
- Reference Index Table HF5383 .B324 1999
- Passing That Interview: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Coming Out On Top. 5th ed.
- a netLibrary e-book
- Resume Power: Selling Yourself on Paper.
- Reference Index Table HF5383 .W316 2003
- 201 Best Questions to Ask on Your Interview.
- a netLibrary e-book
- Your First Interview: For Students and Anyone Preparing to Enter Today's Tough Job Market.
- a netLibrary e-book
- Your First Resume: For Students and Anyone Preparing to Enter Today's Job Market.
- a netLibrary e-book
- Use PEGASUS to find other books, using the Keyword search:
- applications positions
- cover letters
- resumes employment
- employment interviewing
- civil service examinations
- FINDING ARTICLES
Use Expanded Academic ASAP
and Business Source Premier to find articles on
resume writing.
- Keyword: resume writing
Information on Companies
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Yahoo's Links to Companies
- The sites in Jobs by Company have links to company webpages.
- Companies and Industries Research Guide
- Includes a wealth of resources to company and industry information, both on the Internet as well as in the library.
- FINDING ARTICLES
Search the following indexes to find articles:
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- Business Source Premier to find articles on a company:
- Example: Company/Entity: wal-mart
- LexisNexis Academic.
For full-text resources including domestic and foreign newspapers.
- Expanded Academic ASAP
[ Self Assessment Resources ]
[Career Identification Resources]
[Job Announcements]
[ Personal Presentation ]
[Career SuperSites]
Links to several extensive career and job information sites.
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The Riley Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job
Resources on the Internet
- Monster.com: a global online network for careers.
- Simply Hired:
a vertical search engine company building the largest online database of jobs on the planet
- CraigsList: localized job listings
- JobHunt: a job hunt super list
- JobStar: California Job Search Guide
- A great site for all sorts of career information, with links to
California and national job resources
- College Grad Job Hunter: an entry level job site.
[ Self Assessment Resources ]
[Career Identification Resources]
[Job Announcements]
[ Personal Presentation ]
[Career SuperSites]
Author: Carol Doyle and Janet Martorana.
Last modified: September 2006
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