Library Research Guides: SPEA Career Resources (2019): Getting Started

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Welcome! This guide will introduce you to sources that are useful for career research. These resources will help you to explore careers, research potential employers, and prepare for interviews.

Career Exploration

These resources will help you to explore your options and understand more about your chosen career field!

Researching Career Options: Graduate School, Test Preparation, Job Searches
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Generated by the U.S. Department of Labor, the OOH profiles cover hundreds of occupations and describe What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more.
America's Career InfoNet
Extensive library of online career resources, including wage and employment trends, market conditions by state, and employer contacts.

Passport Career
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Passport Career provides resources, guidance, strategies, tools and support to help users explore job opportunities around the world. You must create a personal account to use this resource. Click more for instructions.

Follow these steps to create an account and access the resource.

1. Connect to Passport Career from the IUB Libraries page
2. Click on Have a Registration Key? in the upper right corner of the homepage
3. Enter the following Registration Key (all lowercase): inuniv55
4. Fill in the registration form, using your IU email address
5. Create your login/password for future use

Passport Career is available through a partnership between the IUB Libraries, the IUB Career Centers, and the IU Alumni Association. PC provides resources, guidance, strategies, tools and support to help users explore job opportunities around the world.

Compensation Research Guide
This guide provides a description of research strategies and sources to use when conducting compensation research for position negotiation or other career-related activities.

LearningExpress
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PLEASE NOTE: users must create a free account to fully access the resource. Interactive online database of practice tests, such as TOEIC and the GRE, and tutorial courses with scoring, complete answer explanations, and analysis of results.

Presents Learning Express, an online guide to test preparation in basic skills and career advancement. Includes practice tests for: academic, advanced placement, basic skills success, civil service, college preparation, cosmetology, EMS, ESL (Spanish) skills improvement courses, firefighter, GED, graduate school entrance, law enforcement, military, real estate, skills improvement courses, teacher certification, technical and career college, and US citizenship.

SPEA Career Resources (2019)

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