Web Connect (page 6)
If you'd like to read a summary from Jeremy Rifkin's "The End of Work," you can
do so by going to www.eff.org/Publications/E-journals/CyRev/cyrev3.html and clicking on Creating Jobs in the Third Sector: The Alternative to Welfare. http://www.leadershipadvantage.com/futureOfWork.shtml.
 

Web Connect (page 13)
Reading about the constant changes affecting careers and development enhance your ability to plan your career and maintain your employability. The article briefs provided by New Work News www.newwork.com can help you stay on top of business news that impacts career mobility. Fast Company’s article entitled New Economy 101 is no longer available. Instead, we recommend an even more up-to-date article called New Leaders, New Agenda at www.fastcompany.com/online/58/one.html. This article profiles six business leaders and all discuss how they handle changes and challenges in the New Economy.  

If you’d like to read more about the changes affecting career decision-making, check out the Population Reference Bureau’s Report on America: The Career Quandry at http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=3541.
 

Web Connect (page 17)
Managing transitions is key to self-development. For additional articles on transitions, such as How You Can Handle Change Better, check out William Bridges and Associates at www.wmbridges.com.

Web Connect (page 29)
If you’re interested in reading more about the influence of technology on careers, recruitment and other areas, take a look at the wealth of information available on NUA Internet Surveys at www.nua.com/surveys (click on “Recruitment”).
 

E-Networking and Communities (page 32)
If you’re not comfortable with e-communication, then we suggest that you read Networking on the Internet at http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.html by Phil Agre. This 70+ page article, in my opinion, is the best guidance for online networking. It is geared toward doctoral students, but the guidance, overall, is applicable to all students. 
 

Career Guidance and Coaching (page 32)
On the other hand, there are some online guidance sites that can be helpful, such as The Washington Post’s online career advice at www.washingtonpost.com (click on Jobs on the top right tab on the home page and then click on News and Advice on the career pages). This site—and other similar sites tend to write more generally about career planning topics. They allow you to post questions to career experts, but also allow you to go through the other questions and responses as well.
 

Web Connect (page 36)
To read more about the impact of technology on jobs, careers and business, check out On the Edge of the Digital Age at www.startribune.com/stonline/html/digage/logfx.htm. This article series provides a fascinating look at how the author believes the “Digital Age” is evolving and what it will be like, based on numerous interviews with key experts and more than 50 books on the subject.

Web Connect (page 38)
The list of skills on the following pages is quite extensive. However, if you wish to identify additional skills or think that the list of skills don’t fully represent your abilities, you may add skills to the lists by going to Creative Job Search’s Online Guide  at www.amby.com/worksite/cjs/cjsbook2/skill6d.htm. This site also helps you identify the adaptive skills that characterize you. We suggest that you carefully write in the additional skills selected under the appropriate heading. The skill labels on the web site are slightly different than the ones we’ve listed here, so here is some guidance: The job skills listed at the beginning fall under “I. Functional Skills” heading. The self-management skills in the second section fall under “II. Self Management Skills.” The remaining skills listed under the transferable skills section all fall under “I. Functional Skills” category. For the purpose of this exercise, you only need to be concerned about placing these skills under one of the two headings—you needn’t be concerned as to whether or not you have them in the correct subcategory.  

An extensive list of transferable interpersonal and technical skills for “I. Functional Skills” can be found on the web site Skills Zone at www.pch.gc.ca/Cyberstation/html/szone2_e.htm.

Web Connect (page 49)
You may have previously used library references, such as The Guide to Occupational Exploration (GOE) and The Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) to explore careers. Now, however, these references have been replaced by a dynamic and useful online program called O*NET. The O*NET Online can be found at http://online.onetcenter.org. This site will be helpful in exploring career options with regard to the skills, knowledge and abilities needed in the job, educational requirements, relevant occupations, and tips and links to help you find the right career activities for your interests and skills.

Web Connect (page 51)
For ideas on additional self management skills, go back to Creative Job Search’s Online Guide at www.amby.com/worksite/cjs/cjsbook2/skill6d.htm and scroll down to the second section titled “Self Management Skills.”
 

Web Connect (page 57)
Still stumped? If you’re struggling to come up with a list of special knowledge skills, try going to one of the major online job banks, such as Monster.com www.monster.com, and search for job descriptions that may represent work, leisure, intern, volunteer, or other activities in which you have engaged during your life. Next, review the jobs and see if you can cull skills from the job descriptions. As for identifying knowledge gained through learning, try going onto your school’s web site and searching for descriptions of previous courses you have taken.

Web Connect (page 64)
Emotional intelligence is increasingly a topic of interest in business and industries around the world. More and more research is contributing to this interest, including research that demonstrates how emotional intelligence is related to IQ and career success. To read an interesting article on this, visit the ERIC site a http://ericacve.org/docgen.asp?tbl=tia&ID=132. This ERIC article is no longer available. However, the Harvard Magazine has a similar article at http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/0301143.html. 
 

If you’re interested in additional information about how the brain works and how it impacts your health, emotions, career, IQ, success, and other areas of your life, you may be interested in looking at the information available through the International Brain Research Organization at www.ibro.org as well as the numerous interesting articles available on Brain.com at www.brain.com.
 

Web Connect (page 96)
A popular assessment with college students is the Career Key at www.ncsu.edu/careerkey. This assessment looks at interests, abilities, and values. It provides a Holland code in the results with job titles that reflect the interests of others who share that code. The job titles are linked to information in the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
 

Web Connect (page 97)
If you don’t have access to the MBTI, Personality Type.com at http://www.personalitytype.com/quiz.asp provides a mini-version of this assessment to help you quickly self-identify your “type.” There is no cost involved, but note that this is not a reliable nor valid personality instrument either. Once you identify your type, the site then provides useful information related to your personality and interests. This quiz is part of the site designed by Barbara Barron-Tieger & Paul Tieger who have written many books about personality type and its relevance to careers. Also, once you do know your MBTI four-letter personality type, you might find Type Logic’s site of interest at www.typelogic.com.

A popular personality assessment with college students is the Kiersey Temperament Sorter II at www.advisorteam.com/user/ktsintro.asp.  This tool aims to assess temperament by asking 70 questions and providing personality information very similar to that of the Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator.
 

Web Connect (page 103)
Take a look at the interests and profiles of others who match your personality type by playing the Career Interests Game at http://career.missouri.edu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=146 This game was designed by the University of Missouri-Columbia and is an adaptation of Holland’s RIASEC model.

Web Connect (page 122)
The Computer Information Systems Interests Game is no longer available and we have not identified another game that offers similar and appropriate information. 
 

Web Connect (page 125)
If you didn’t take the chance to look at this site in the last chapter, you may want to take a look at it now.  The Career Interests Game at http://career.missouri.edu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=146 allows you to explore careers that match the personality style of those similar to you. This game was designed by the University of Missouri-Columbia and is an adaptation of Holland ’s RIASEC model.
 

Web Connect (page 128)
You may already have the sense that you have chosen the right major, but still at a loss as to what type of work within that major would make you the happiest. What Can I do with this Major? found at (the web address is different from the one in the book) http://career.utk.edu/students/majors.asp as developed by the University of Tennessee’s Career Services. It is a great site to explore careers that are related to your major. It covers more than 40 majors and for each major, it provides information on common career areas, typical employers, and strategies designed to maximize career opportunities. In the section “Links” each major contains a listing websites that provide additional career-related information. If you don’t find your major here, try the University of Delaware’s Major Resource Kits (70+ majors covered) at www.udel.edu/CSC/mrk.html.

Web Connect (page 139)
Career Perfect’s Work Preference Inventory at (the following web site is different from the one in the book) www.careerperfect.com/CareerPerfect/cpWorkPrefInv.htm can help you identify your work preferences based on personal work values. This is a simple 24-question tool, which produces results that help understand better how you view different aspects of work, such as work style, management style, learning style and preferences for carrying out work tasks.  If you are interested in additional insight with regard to work preferences, you may be interested in completing  The Princeton Review Career Quiz at www.review.com/career/careerquizhome.cfm?menuID=0&careers=6.
 

Web Connect (page 149)
The University of Waterloo’s Values Assessment at (the following web site is different from the one in the book) www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca/Step1_3.asp may also help you uncover some hidden values.

(NOTE: This site is not in the book, but may be useful to some students)
California State University has developed a user-friendly decision-making model on its web site at www.csulb.edu/~tstevens/c15-carp.htm. Once you get to this site, click on “Step 4: Make a Decision” for a different approach to help you make a career decision. 
 

Web Connect (page 160)
O*NET information can be found at (the following web site is different from the one in the book) http://online.onetcenter.org.  This database provides information such as skills, knowledge, abilities, interests, and work values, as well as links to other sources of data, such as census and labor market information. Through the information you find here, you can assess and compare the data for different occupations to evaluate the similarities of various fields of work. O*NET Online has simple user instructions on almost every page and an on-line Help section accessible from every page.
   

Web Connect (page 160)
The Career Exploration Links provided by UC Berkeley at www.uhs.berkeley.edu/Students/CareerLibrary/links/occup.cfm is a great resource to assist you with your career research.
 

Web Connect (page 166)
The Occupational Outlook Handbook at www.bls.gov/oco can also be helpful with your research. It is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.  Revised every two years, the 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. You may want to broaden your research by visiting the Career Guide to Industries at www.bls.gov/oco/cg/home.htm.
 
This companion piece to the OOH provides information on available careers by industry, including the nature of the industry, working conditions, employment, occupations in the industry, training and advancement, earnings and benefits, employment outlook, and lists of organizations that can provide additional information.

Web Connect (page 169)
California State University has developed a user-friendly decision-making model on its web site at www.csulb.edu/~tstevens/c15-carp.htm. Once you get to this site, click on “Step 4: Make a Decision” for a different approach to help you make a career decision.

Web Connect (page 196)
Office Team at www.officeteam.com/OT/FactSheet conducted an Office of the Future study, which resulted in some interesting thoughts on where careers and organizations are headed as early as 2005.  You may be interested in checking out this fact sheet to spark some additional ideas on what trends may impact your career goals and objectives. 
 

Web Connect (page 209)
If you’d like to go through the decision making, goal setting and career action planning process online, the University of Waterloo in Canada has an outstanding site for career-decision making at www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infocecs/CRC/manual-home.html or the new site at www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca. Scroll down the left column until you see the “Decision-Making” section and then work your way through the various pieces of it to result in a completed career action plan.

Web Connect (page 223)
The Barriers to Employment site is no longer available. Instead, we suggest the following: Barriers/Challenges to Career-Decision Making at www.langara.bc.ca/counselling/career/barriers.html. This site offers a brief introduction to some of the barriers that college students face when making career decisions. Also, Identifying Barriers at www.islandnet.com/careerpathadventures/planning/barriers2.html is a helpful list of both external and internal barriers. After reading through both lists and identifying your own barriers, click on Overcome the Barriers to gather some ideas on how to tackle them.
 

Web Connect (page 224)
If you’re interested in reading about how others have created self-empowering lives, visit ThriveNet’s site at www.thrivenet.com and go through some of the articles.

Web Connect (page 242)
To find helpful examples of resumes for more than 20 different career fields, check out College Grad’s collection at www.collegegrad.com/resumes/index.shtml. This site also has an interesting section called Best College Resumes. This site should help you get a great start with your resume. 
 

Web Connect (page 245)
Computer-friendly and electronic resumes are written differently than the traditional paper resume. For an e-course on how to write electronic resumes, we recommend two different sites: ProvenResumes at www.provenresumes.com/reswkshps/electronic/electrespg1.html offers tips on how to write an e-resume. Note that the eResume site still exists at www.eResume.com, but no longer offers the list of key words referred to in the book. Instead, we recommend that you use a combination of the following lists: University of California, Riverside's Keywords by Subject at www.careers.ucr.edu/Students/JobSearch/nouns.html and the Argus Technical Services site at www.argus-tech.com/resume/other-ke.htm.
 

Web Connect (page 251)
As mentioned in Chapter 2 Virtual Career Planning, we recommend that you read the 40+ page article titled Networking on the Internet at http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.html by Phil Agre. 
 

Web Connect (page 251)
The Internet has made it incredibly easy to find people for whom you don’t have contact information. One site called Telephone Directories on the Web at (the following web site is different from the one in the book) www.infobel.com/teldir/default.asp will link you to over 350 directories for businesses, individuals, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses in the United States as well as more than 180 countries.
 

Web Connect (page 251)
Classified ads are traditionally found in periodicals, but as you know, the Internet is exploding with job listings. To find jobs that are relevant to your career, check out the career-specific pages with links to these job banks on the Riley Guide at www.rileyguide.com/jobs.html. If you don’t find anything that matches your career interests at this site, then check out the job boards Airs Directory (My Job Search is no longer available) at www.airsdirectory.com/directories/job_boards. You will need to register, which is free. This is one of the few registration-required sites that we recommend. Also, more than 1,000 schools participate in Monster Trak at www2.monstertrak.com/trak2000/schools/index.html, which is an online jobs database mostly for entry level positions. Check out this site to see if your school participates.
 

Web Connect (page 252)
You can look up your local Chamber of Commerce, or the one located where you plan to live at http://www.uschamber.com/chambers/directory/default.htm.  
 

Web Connect (page 252)
Many trade journals are now available online through an association’s web site. To find an association that represents your professional interests, search the more than 6,500 associations that have web sites and are searchable at the American Society for Association Executives at http://www.asaenet.org/cda/asae/associations_search/1,3200,MEN3,00.html?AlliedSocietyCode=ALL&submit=Go%21.
 

Web Connect (page 252)
Many of the business directories are now available in an online format. The best site to learn about researching companies online is, in fact, called Researching Companies Online and can be found at http://www.learnwebskills.com/company.   This site will also help you find the most appropriate online business directory for your job search needs. 
 

Web Connect (page 252)
To find the web site for the career office at your university or college, go to JobWeb’s site at (the following web site is different from the one in the book) http://www.jobweb.com/Career_Development/collegeres.htm and use their database of links to explore what information is available to you both at the physical location of the career office as well as through the web site.
 

Web Connect (page 254)
To find samples of letters that address a variety of job and career-related situations, check out Career Lab’s collection at www.careerlab.com/letters. 
 

Web Connect (page 261)
Monster.com at http://tools.monster.com/archives/virtualinterviews will help you practice your interview skills and provide feedback to help you improve. Cabrillo College in California also put together excellent guidance for different aspects of the interview on their web site at (the following web site is different from the one in the book) http://www.cabrillo.edu/services/jobs/Intguide.html.
 

Web Connect (page 264)
You can get a head start on salary negotiations by researching salaries through one of the 300+ salary guides on JobStar at http://jobstar.org/tools/salary/index.htm.