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PACE Career Guide: Finding Articles & Books

This guide outlines specific search strategies and library resources to assist students in exploring careers to support the Personalized Academic Career Exploration for incoming freshmen.

Reference Books

There are many career books devoted to specific majors. Try a keyword search using your major and career or reference. You may also try searching Alkek Library Research Guides for resources specific to a major or subject area. for You can see the diversity of our resume books in this search.

American Salaries and Wages Survey

200 Best Jobs for College Graduates

The Big Book of Jobs 

The Career Guide: Dun's Employment Opportunities Directory 

Career Information Center 

College Majors Handbook with Real Career Paths and Payoffs 

Ferguson Career Resource Guide to Internships and Summer Jobs

Career Profiles Directory 

Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance 

Great Jobs for Liberal Arts Majors 

How to Get Teaching Job You Want 

Job Hunter's Sourcebook 

Job Opportunities in Business 

Knock 'Em Dead 

National Jobbank 

Occupational Outlook Handbook

O*Net Dictionary of Occupational Titles

FIND A BOOK, VIDEOS AND MORE

Here are some more links to the library catalog to content on the following topics:

WHAT SHOULD I DO?

ONLINE VIDEOS ABOUT DIFFERENT CAREERS AND WORK

VIDEOS WITH CAREER ADVICE

JOB HUNTING

Career Guides Collection

To help support the PACE initiative, we have created a Career Guides Collection. The Collection is a compilation of books which discuss career choices, resume tips, how to hunt for jobs, interview skills, and other options which can help you decide where to go from here. Feel free to come in and use the collection whenever you need to. To find out what titles we have you can view the “Career Guides Collection”.

Career Guides Collection

 

Career eBook Resources

Alkek Library has a collection of eBooks accessible from the Library Catalog and from our new discovery tool.

Use the Library Catalog to search the main collection for ebooks. Here is a link for e-books dealing with careers.

Selected list of eBooks: