LibGuides: ENG 101: Writing I, Robert Morris: Career Research

Databases

Try these databases to research your chosen career.

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.
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Includes peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals across all subject areas. Coverage is primarily from 1980 to the present, with some older content.

Suggested Websites

Occupational Outlook Handbook
For each career, it describes work activities and environment, earnings, number of jobs and their location, and types of education, training, and personal qualifications needed to have the best prospects. U.S. Bureau of Labor projections of employment to the year 2021 are used to assess what kind of job opportunities future entrants to each occupation should encounter.
O*NET (Occupational Information Network)
An interactive tool for career exploration and job analysis.
Career Onestop
Includes resources for jobseekers, employers, students, and human resouce professionals.
New York State Department of Labor
Career resources, employment data, training referrals, and job postings organized by the NYS Department of Labor.

Books on Specific Careers

To find books on a specific career or a group of careers in a certain subject area, search the library catalog using the title of the career/occupation and "vocational guidance".

Here is an example:

Subject: Medicine AND

Subject: Vocational guidance

Niagara County Community College. Henrietta G. Lewis Library. 3111 Saunders Settlement Rd., Sanborn, NY 14132 | 716-614-6786

ENG 101: Writing I, Robert Morris: Career Research

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Databases

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Books on Specific Careers

Reference Books

Reference sources are a good place to begin research since they can provide a general overview of a topic.