CAREER INFORMATION RESOURCES

INTRODUCTION FINDING OUT ABOUT YOURSELF FINDING OUT ABOUT CAREERS FINDING OUT ABOUT TRAINING/EDUCATION  FOR A CAREER FINDING OUT ABOUT COMPANIES FINDING OUT ABOUT BUSINESS EXECUTIVES FINDING OUT ABOUT CORPORATE FINANCES PREPARING TO GET THE JOB JOB FINDING TOOLS LOCAL JOB FINDING TOOLS OTHER RESOURCES

Searching for career and job information can be a hard task if you don't know where to look.  Career information is found in many different places.  There are many good books on careers.  There are also many resources on the Internet.  This document lists many of the useful career resources in the Henry G. Bennett Library and on the Internet. This document lists items that are in the Southeastern Oklahoma State University library. Those that are in the SE Library will have a library call number after the title.  This document is also found on the Internet at: http://www.se.edu/lib/careerli.htm.  There is a companion document that contains Internet sites that are related to careers, which is at:  http://www.se.edu/lib/subcar.htm

FINDING OUT ABOUT YOURSELF

Before you can decide on a career, you should know what kinds of things interest you.  You need to match up your interests with job skills or job tasks that sound interesting to you.
 
 

Once you know your career, then you have to find out what you need to do to prepare for it.  The following resources can help in finding training or education that is necessary to pursue a career.
 
 

Finding out about companies can help you in your career search. Knowing about a company can help you in the job interview.

Directories

Business Directories provide basic information about a company. They usually have the company, name, address, telephone number, geographic location, and product or industry. They are used primarily as location guides, giving you access to the company.

 
 

Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directories and Executives (R 658.1 P79r)         Contains basic business information on 55,000 corporations and 500,000 corporate executives

 

American Manufacturers Directory  (R 338 Am3)         This annual directory contains a listing of 161,000 manufacturing companies in the United States that have 20 or more employees.

 

American Big Business Directory  R 338.644 Am3         This annual directory contains 184,000 business in the United States that have 100 or more employees. It is arranged by SIC code, by city and by name of the company.

 

Oklahoma Business Directory   R 338.00294766 Ok4a         Contains entries for 155,000 businesses in Oklahoma.

 
 

Peterson's Job Opportunities for Business Majors   R 331.702 P44bu         Contains profiles of 2000 major companies in the United States and worldwide. For each company listed, it contains an overview of what the company does,  hiring history, expertise and/or education sought by the company, contact people, and the company's web address.

 

Peterson's Job Opportunities for Engineering and Computer Science Majors          R 331.702 P44en         Contains profiles of 2000 major companies in the United States and worldwide. For each company listed, it contains an overview of what the company does, hiring history, expertise and/or  education sought by the company, contact people, and the company's web address.

 

Wall Street Journal Index         An index to the Wall Street Journal. The index is divided into two parts. Part 1          (General) contains articles on business topics, while Part 2 (Barron's Index) is an index to company specific information.   The library has the Wall Street Journal from 1975 to the present on microfilm.

EBSCOHost Databases         Infotrac Web is a series of eight databases. Two of them are useful for business:   Business Source Elite        This business database provides full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 450 peer-reviewed business publications. The rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. Predicasts PROMPT       With Health Source - Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source -Consumer Edition features searchable full text for over 190 journals including Consumer Reports on Health and Men's Health, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 205 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Newspaper Source Newspaper Source provides selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost

 

Internet resources that will help you to find out companies URL:  http://www.se.edu/lib/subbus.htm and http://www.se.edu/lib/subcar.htm

 
 
 

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The more you know about the corporation that you have an interview with, the better.  All corporations
produce financial information, but for many corporations, that information is not public. Businesses that
are public businesses, must report on their financial activity to government agencies, such as the Securities
and Exchange Commission. However privately owned companies are not required to disclose any fin-
ancial information, and so financial information is harder to come by.

        Sources of Corporate Finances
 

   Job Openings in specific Cities
        To find job openings in specific cities in Southeastern Oklahoma and Northern Texas, check the
        classified ads in the city newspaper.  Here is a list of some of the cities in this area that the SE
        library subscribes to:
 

Internet resources that will help you to find local/regional job finding tools
URL:  http://www.se.edu/lib/subcar.htm

PREPARING TO GET THE JOB: RESUMES, COVER LETTERS, and the INTERVIEW

You need to know what to do as well as what not to do when preparing resumes and cover letters, and what to say and not to say in the interview.  These sources will help you to get that job.

OTHER RESOURCES

These resources cover more than just careers, or they contain many career resources.
 

Internet resources that will help you to find other career resources
URL:  http://www.se.edu/lib/subcar.htm

QUALITY OF RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

The Internet has a vast amount of resources. More and more people are putting information out on the Internet. Many people have set up their own home page on the WWW. How do know that all the information is good? How do you know if the information is factual. There is no control over what goes on the Internet. People can set up information accessible on the Internet that may be full of false ideas, lies, bad data. How do you determine what is good and what is not?

GUIDELINES THAT YOU MAY USE IN EVALUATING MATERIAL ON THE INTERNET

There have been attempts to come up with criteria to evaluate material on the Internet. Librarians have been involved in this process. The following guidelines were obtained at a meeting of the Oklahoma Bibliographic Instruction Council Meeting in November of 1995.
 
 

Not all of these criteria can be used at each site. Sometimes the information to answer the questions above is not available. But these 4 criteria can be useful to evaluate Internet cites.

CITING RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

The basic idea in citations is the ability to go back to the original source. On the Internet this is not always possible. Documents are frequently deleted or moved to another location. E-mail messages are sometimes not archived, so retrieving the original message would be impossible. Other documents are updated often. If a document was used on a certain date, then going back to the same document at a later date will retrieve an altered document. Also the printed citation had references to page numbers. On the Internet, there frequently are no page numbers in documents.

With all these problems to address, the standard citing reference sources, such as APA, MLA, ad the Chicago Manual of Style have not come up with concrete styles for citing Internet sources. There have been some people who have attempted to produce some style guidelines for the Internet on their own:

A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities
http://h-net.msu.edu/~africa/citation.html

MLA-STYLE CITATIONS of Electronic Sources ( Now Called the Columbia Guide to Online Style)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

APA-STYLE CITATIONS of Electronic Sources
http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walke r/apa.html

Web Extensions to APA Style
http://www.beadsland.com/weapas