LMC Guide: Career Resources
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This guide provides basic resources that can help you identify a career field that is appropriate for your interests, talents, and desires, locate companies, prepare resumes, and improve your interviewing skills.

TESTING AND ASSESSMENT

GCC's Counseling Center (CCS Building) Tel: 623-845-3064 or Web: http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/counseling/ - the Counseling Center provides a number of services to assist you with career exploration.

DISCOVER (on GCC Network) - online service to help you select careers based on your interests, skills, education, etc. This is accessible through your eGCC account. Career Services can provide you with more information about this database.

O*NET a web site (see below) that includes a skills assessment that matches your skills with potential career fields.

BOOKS: REFERENCE SOURCES and CIRCULATING COLLECTION
The Library Media Center's collection includes a number of career-related resources. Below is a selected list of of standard and popular resources. Books with REF as part of the call number are Reference books that cannot be checked out.

Careers and Occupations

  • Occupational Outlook Handbook (REF HF 5382.5 .U5 O24) (Also available online; see below); one of the standard resources for initial job exploration that provides information on the nature of the occupation, training required, employment prospects, salary ranges, etc.
  • VGM Opportunities Series (type "VGM Opportunities Series" in the online catalog for 235 career options) - these circulating books (you can check them out of the library) provide detailed information on a variety of careers.
  • Encyclopedia of Careers  (REF HF 5381.E52 v. 1-4) Similar to the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
  • Encyclopedia of Associations (REF AS 22.E5) - associations often are good sources for current information. This directory provides basic address information, including web sites and includes information on publications of the association, if any.
  • National Trade and Professional Associations (REF HD 2425 .D53) - provides basic information on approximately 7,400 trade associations - addresses, web sites, etc. It is arranged alphabetically with subject, geographic, and acronym indexes.
  • Career Information Center (REF HF 5382.5 .U5 C32 v.1-13)
  • Careers and Occupations: Looking to the Future (REF HF 5382.5 .U5 C332)  Information Plus Series
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  • Vocational Biographies (REF HF 5381 .V622 1999) Provides biographical sketches of people in various careers. Describes the career field, training, daily activities, etc., to give an idea of their experience.

Company Research

  • Business Journal's top 25 lists  -- Phoenix, Arizona Business Enterprises (REF HF5068.P56 B66 [current ed. at Information Desk]) - provides basic information on the top Phoenix companies in a wide range of businesses.
  • Hoover's Handbook of American Business (REF HG4057.A28617) - provides basic information on a company: an overview of its history and business, officers, locations, products, competitors, and historical financial and stock price information.

Resumes, Cover Letters and Interviewing
Resumes and Cover Letters : browse the HF 5383 call number area; Interviewing: browse the HF 5549.5 .I6 area.

  • The Advanced 90 Minute Resume (REF HF 5383 .S326 1992)
  • Resumes That Knock Em Dead (REF HF 5383 .Y38 2001)
  • Cover Letters That Knock Em Dead (REF HF 5383 .Y378 2003)
  • The Five Minute Interview (HF 5549.5 .I6 B39 1998)
  • The Essential Book of Interviewing: Everything You Need to Know from Both Sides of the Table
    (HF 5549.5 I6 K358 1995)

MAGAZINE, JOURNAL, AND NEWSPAPER articles are an excellent source for recent information about a company or an industry. These articles can be located and retrieved using the library's databases. These can be accessed from the Library Home Page/"Articles and Databases". Search for your career as a SUBJECT to locate articles in the databases. Some good databases to use include EBSCOhost Business Source Plus, General OneFile, and EBSCOhost MasterFile Premier.

WEB SITES Some web sites that you may want to consult include the following:

Careers, Occupations, Job Postings, Interviews, etc.

  • Occupational Outlook Handbook - http://www.bls.gov/oco/ - online version of the reference book mentioned above
  • O*NET - http://online.onetcenter.org - the Occupational Information Network, is a database system developed by the U.S. Department of Labor to replace the publication Dictionary of Occupational Titles (REF HF 2595 .U543 1991). You can use this for career exploration - find occupations, skills search/assessment, related occupations.
  • America's Job Bank - http://www.ajb.dni.us/
  • Best Jobs in the USA Today - http://www.Bestjobsusa.com/
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics - http://www.bls.gov/
  • TrueCareers - http://www.careercity.com
  • Career Voyages [http://www.careervoyages.gov/index.cfm] - From the site: "This web site is the result of a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education. It is designed to provide information on high-growth, high-demand occupations along with the skills and education needed to attain those jobs."
  • Careerperfect.com - http://www.careerperfect.com/content/home-index/ - provides expert resume advice and an e-resume tutorial
  • GCC's Career Services - http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/career/aim.htm
  • Collegegrad.com - (resumes) - http://www.collegegrad.com/resumes/index.shtml - sample resumes and templates
  • Collegegrad.com - (interviews) - http://www.collegegrad.com/intv/index.shtml - reviews interviewing skills, including nonverbal communication cues
  • The Educator's Reference Desk - http://www.eduref.org

Company Research

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