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Business Source Complete

Business, company, and industry content, including company and industry profiles.

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Going Global Career Guides

Country-specific career information with advice and insider tips for finding employment opportunities at home and abroad.

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There are guides for 23 countries.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Best career and education websites [electronic resource]

Full Title: Best career and education websites: a quick guide to online job search

2004
by Rachel Singer Gordon and Anne Wilfinger

[electronic resource]

”The web sites in this electronic book were chosen to provide the tools needed to take control of your educational career path.”

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Career survival guide [electronic resource]

2003
by Brian O'Connell

[electronic resource]

This electronic books talks about the characteristics companies look for in their employees, including hiring and retaining new employees.

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Cover letter magic [electronic resource]

Full Title: Cover letter magic: trade secrets of professional resume writers

2004
by Wendy S. Enelow and Louis M. Kursmark

[electronic resource]

An electronic book that walks the user through the steps required to write an effective cover letter. It also provides several examples of cover letters for young professionals/new graduates.

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How to get your first job and keep it [electronic resource]

2002
by Deborah P. Bloch

[electronic resource]

This electronic book provides information about what it takes to get hired in your first job. It also includes information on what employers really want when hiring a new employee.

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Your first interview [electronic resource]

Full Title: Your first interview: for students and anyone preparing to enter today's tough job market

2002
by Ron Fry

[electronic resource]

This electronic book provides information on what do do before, during and after an interview. It encourages you to prepare before the interview by researching the company you are interviewing with and also talks about how to follow-up after the interview.

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Encyclopedia of Small Business

Kevin Hillstrom and Laurie Collier Hillstrom, Eds. 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 1212 pp. 2 vols.

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Includes overviews of all the key information needs of small business owners, including financing, financial planning, business plan creation, market analysis, sales strategy, tax planning, and human resource issues.

ECO guide to careers that make a difference 2004.

ref GE60.E34 2004

“To bring you definitive information from the real world of environmental problem-solving, The ECO Guide has engaged some of the nation's most respected experts to explain the issues and describe what's being done about them today. ECO also describes forty specific jobs that are representative of environmental career opportunities in the twenty-first century. It provides dozens of the best Internet resources.”

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Occupational Outlook Handbook

Occupational data for hundreds of jobs, such as teacher, lawyer, doctor, librarian. Data includes training and education needed for a particular occupation, earnings, expected job prospects, job descriptions and working conditions.

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2006-2007 edition

Professional careers sourcebook.

Full Title:Professional careers sourcebook: where to find help planning careers that require college or technical degrees


ref HF5382.5.U5.P76

“Professional Careers Sourcebook identifies a broad spectrum of resources used to explore professional career opportunities. It profiles 126 professional and technical occupations. Each profile includes up to 11 categories of career information including: job descriptions, career guides, professional associations, awards, scholarships, grants, fellowships, and basic reference guides and handbooks.”

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Vault guide to top internships.

ref LG 1072.I58.V38

“For millions of high school students, college students and recent grads, a summer or school-time internship is a coveted entry point into the working world. Employers increasingly use their internship programs as feeder programs from which to evaluate students for potential full-time positions.”

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Employment Projections ( Bureau of Labor Statistics)

“The Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections develops information about the labor market for the Nation as a whole for 10 years in the future.”

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Academic360

It provides links to faculty, staff and administrative job information across the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. Also lists positions by function and discipline.

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Career Browser

This website provides information on the different major categories a student may be interested in pursuing and also careers they may be interested in. It provides a brief introduction to the career and then provides information on what the outlook and compensation for the positions may be.

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CareerBuilder

You can search for positions across the country, upload your resume and apply for positions right from the website.

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CareerOneStop

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, includes three core products:

• America's Career InfoNet provides national, state and local career information and labor market data.
• America's Job Bank is the nation's largest online labor exchange.
• America's Service Locator maps customers to a range of local services including workforce centers, unemployment benefits, job training, education opportunities, and other workforce services.

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Cultivating Your Leadership Skills: Online Resources to Develop and Strengthen Your Leadership Role

A featured article from C&RL News, November 2006, that suggests some of the best internet resources for recognizing and strengthening leadership skills.

International Internship Directory

”The Directory is a reference guide for students, faculty, staff, and administrators to help match students with international internship opportunities offered by two- and four-year colleges and universities, governmental agencies, non-profit groups, private organizations, and corporations. ”

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Monster.com

”Post your resume and reach the right employers. Get inside info on over 3 million hiring companies.”

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NYS Department of Labor

”The New York State Department of Labor promotes job creation and economic growth by striving to create and maintain a world-class workforce system. We help people find jobs, and are committed to providing both employers and workers with tools for success by administering a variety of workforce development services. We provide unemployment insurance benefits when employment is interrupted.”

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SUNY Geneseo Career Services

Mission Statement
Career Services, an office of the Division of Student and Campus Life, is committed to assisting students and alumni with learning how to formulate career plans, implement post- graduation objectives, and develop appropriate lifelong career decision-making strategies.

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U.S. Department of Labor

This website provide a portal to information from the US Department of Labor on wages, jobs, and the latest Occupational Outlook Handbook (which provides information on the training and education needed for a particular occupation, earnings, expected job prospects, job descriptions and working conditions).

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What can I do with a major in...?

This site from the University of North Carolina Wilmington provides information on what types of jobs students can get with a particular degree they are pursuing. For each major, it provides information about job and internship search links, professional association links, and career planning links.

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Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles