LibGuides: Careers: Databases, Websites, and Videos

Helpful Databases for Industry and Career Success Research

Peterson’s Test and Career Prep This link opens in a new window
An accessible platform with diverse test prep resources, college planning solutions, career exploration tools, and more.
Vocations and Careers This link opens in a new window
Provides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. The database offers hundreds of current and applicable periodicals, from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.
Business Insights: Essentials This link opens in a new window
A user-friendly business tool that delivers authoritative company and industry information, articles, and statistical data. Business owners, entrepreneurs, marketing professionals, investors, students, and general researchers can explore real-world applications and develop analytical skills. Database features rich content, a user-friendly interface, and robust analytical tools.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive database that covers all aspects of starting and operating a business, including accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing, tax, and more. It combines authoritative periodical and reference content to support prospective and current entrepreneurs and business students.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
This database provides full comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Buffalo Business First This link opens in a new window
Buffalo Business First features local business news about Buffalo and tools to help businesses grow, network and hire.

Helpful Websites for Career Exploration

Cue Career
Provides an A-Z list of clickable icons across a wide range of vocations allowing access to articles, webinars, and professional development opportunities to explore the wide world of work.
National Career Development Association (NCDA)
Compiled by the NDCA, this webpage provides a plethora of links to associations across many career paths along with sections including links to career projection reports. The section, Industry and Occupation-Specific Information is helpful in learning about associations and steps to success within multiple clickable career category links.
myFUTURE Career
Created by the Department of Defense with data from the Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education, this site, while providing a link to military career paths, provides clickable icon links to access information about wide a range of career fields. Explore other links to build your career readiness skills.
Road Trip Nation
A project devoted to touring the country and through documentaries and interviews, gaining first hand stories of successful entreprenuers and people successful at any career path. This website provides links to the project's documentaries and to interviews helpful in exploring all types of careers, even off the beaten track ones.

Helpful Videos for more Career Insights

A Student’s Guide to a Meaningful Career
From the Academic Video Online database, this short film helps prepare viewers for a healthy career mindset, showing how to turn personal strengths into potential happy career paths.

Academic Video On Demand Career Page

A search in the Academic Video On Demand (AVOD) database using the term, Career, will bring up a wealth of videos related to different career oriented topics. Following the link above will lead you to the AVOD page of results on career topics. Remember to search the database using other terms related to career development.

Job Centered Learning
From the Films on Demand database, this video offers a glimpse into career technical education opportunities and highlights specific high school programs that foster training in specific technical trades, helping viewers get ideas on avenues to turn a passion into a vocation.

Films on Demand Database - College and Career Exploration

A search in the Films on Demand database using the search terms, College and Career Exploration brings up helpful videos on many different aspects of career success skills and videos on specific careers. Following the link above will lead to the results page of such a search.

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