Career Resources
Career Information
Occupational Outlook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations. Revised every two years.
Vault Online Career Library
The Vault Online Career Library contains the following: 77 Vault Guidebooks: The Guidebooks cover a broad range of disciplines and include industry guides, employer rankings, and job seeking skills. Contains up-to date company profiles for more than 3,000 employers. Vault obtains �insider information� by surveying thousands of employees each year. The Vault Research Team takes real quotations from the surveys, giving you the hard-to-get, company culture information. Provides articles that cover a broad range of disciplines, giving you quick, easy-to-read profiles of industries and occupations. Contains message boards with access to the Internet�s most popular company-specific Message Boards, the Vault Electronic WaterCooler. Here you have access to conversations with employees at their targeted companies, and altogether 2 million Message Board postings. It also contains over 1,100 Career Advice Articles covering a broad range of career topics, from resumes to summer internships to employee rights.
Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance (Print)
MGT/ECON/GOV INFO HF 5381.E52 This encyclopedia covers two aspects of career information. Volume 1 covers specific elements of sixty-eight industries and the next three volumes cover specific information on particular jobs and careers. Includes historical information and statistics on current employment and production.
Career Information Center (Print)
HF 5382.5.U5C32 Includes Job summary, profiles, references, web sites, books, employment trends and job outlooks. 13 volumes. The first 12 volumes each focus on a different career area, and contain over 700 job profiles. Each profile includes a job summary chart, a job description, and up-to-date salary information. The 13th volume contains the dictionary of occupational titles, articles with an overview of current employment issues, career opportunities, and outlooks.
Potential Employers
Reference USA
Search for U.S. Company information using many criteria, including geographic location, SIC, size of company, etc. Perfect for searching local companies! Can download up to 25 records at a time in various formats and import into spreadsheets, etc.
Hoovers
Includes company overview, history, products/operations on more than 18,500 public and private U.S. companies and international companies. Covers major industry trends, industry links, and IPO information.
Job Postings
BYU eRecruiting
Job listings and descriptions for companies interviewing on and off campus.
BYU Career Center
Includes links to career placement services, intership searches, personal counseling, and more.
Career City
Includes job bank, resume bank, and related career information on resume preparation, relocation tools, career coaching, and reference checking.
Career Journal from the Wall Street Journal
Includes a job bank, salary surveys, relocation information, and career planning articles.
Monster
Offers searching by city, state, job type, and keyword.
Salary Negotiations
Occupational Employment Statistics Homepage
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Includes national and metropolitan wage estimates)
SalaryExpert.com
Contains compensation data, including salary comparison, serving both individual employees and HR/Compensation professionals.
Salary.com
Includes a “Salary Wizard” that provides a benchmark for salaries by industry and zip code.
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