Career Development Materials
available in the Pollak Library

Cynthia Bruns, Librarian, cbruns@fullerton.edu
Pollak Library http://www.library.fullerton.edu
December 4, 2008

How get books this library owns
Library Catalog
what the library owns: books, journals, newspapers, recordings, atlases, more
   
Subject: Vocational Guidance or Job Hunting or Occupations or Career Education or Vocational interests
   
Keyword: Nurse* and vocational leads to... Nursing -- Vocational guidance
    Title: Occupational Outlook Handbook US Department of Labor http://www.bls.gov/OCO/    
    Titles: Great Jobs for...OR 
Career opportunities in ...     
Assignment:
Does this library own this article?

Mensch, James; Mitchell, Murray,
Choosing a Career in Athletic Training: Exploring the Perceptions of Potential Recruits, Journal of Athletic Training, 2008, 43, issue 1 pp70-79

All databases in the Library:  Library Home Page > Databases A-Z
1st choice databases for articles on vocational guidance from a general database:
Fergusons Career Guidance Center Industry overviews, career descriptions, scholarship information, career prep information.
Academic Search Premier
basic database with broad coverage on a wide range of topics.
         Sample search:
vocational guidance (subject) and journalism or journalists
Gale Virtual Reference Library...
         Online collection of 1,100+  volumes of encyclopedias and Reference books
         Sample search: careers (document title)

Specialized Database that will also have vocational guidance materials
    ABI/Inform: business: such as marketing, sales, taxation, administration, public relations
         Sample search:
Career development planning (subject)
    AGRICOLA: agriculture and outdoor work (like forestry or ranger) vocational guidance (descriptor)
    Art Full Text: graphic artists, studio artists, gallery and museum work  ... as a profession (subject)
    CINAHL: Nursing,
Careers in Nursing or Career Planning and Development (MW word in subject Heading)
    Communication Abstracts:  journalism, media, public relations
    Communication & Mass Media Complete (radio, TV and film)
    Criminal Justice Abstracts police, probation, corrections, prison and jail work, forensics, FBI, CIA
    Engineering Village (all types of engineers)
    ERIC (Teachers: preschool to the university level)
    GeoRef and GeoBase: geology, geography (sample search: vocation or career and hydrogeology)
    Library Lit and Info Science (
Librarians/Careers) subject
    PAIS: Public administration, criminal justice and political science
    PsycINFO psychology and counseling
    RILM professional music database

Newspapers (will not include Want Ads) 
 
   Proquest Newspapers 300 full-text newspapers
    Lexis/Nexis Academic more newspapers, including foreign

Research Guide: Careers and Employment  http://guides.library.fullerton.edu/careers_jobs/

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Last Updated: September 10, 2008.