2005 Updates
Your Career Planner, 9th Edition, 2005
Welcome to the listing of web sites that are shared in 9th edition of Your Career Planner, published by Kendall Hunt, 2005. We hope that this listing makes it easier to use your book and ensures that you have the sites relevant to the topics discussed. You may want to bookmark this site to refer back to it throughout the course, or feel free to print it out.
Below the sites are listed by chapter. If web sites have changed from those listed in the book, these changes are indicated in ORANGE. Additional text or text edits are indicated with RED.
If you still have the 2005 version, we will no longer be updating the links to the chapters. We recommend, however, that you purchase the updated book (10th Edition; 2009) as much of the material covers recent trends.
CHAPTER 1: Making Career Decisions in a Changing World
Web Connect (page 6)
Although you can no longer read a summary from the book, there is a website that summarizes the ideas presented in Rifkin’s book at http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/art/rifkin01.htm.
Web Connect (page 12)
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/Publications/ReportsOnAmerica/2001/TheCareerQuandary.aspx.
Web Connect (page 16)
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.
CHAPTER 2: e-Career Planning
Web Connect (page 27)
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 29)
If you’re not comfortable with e-communication, then we suggest that you read Networking on the Internet at http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds4-4/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 30)
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 34)
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.
CHAPTER 3: Your Skills in Action
Web Connect (page 46)
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.
Self-Management Skills (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 53)
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.
CHAPTER 4: Your Thinking Style in Work and Learning
Web Connect (page 60)
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. Read the Harvard Magazine's article on this topic at http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/0301143.html.
Research on the Brain (page 62)
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.
CHAPTER 5: Understanding Your Personality and Interests
Web Connect (page 94)
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 96)
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 100)
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/students/explore/thecareerinterestsgame.php. This game was designed by the University of Missouri-Columbia and is an adaptation of Holland’s RIASEC model.
CHAPTER 6: Connecting Your Personality to Work
Web Connect (page 118)
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 121)
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 (this web address is updated/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.
CHAPTER 7: Discovering What Motivates You
Needs on the Job (page 135)
Career Perfect’s Work Preference Inventory at 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.
Values (page 138)
The University of Waterloo’s Values Assessment at www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca/Step1_3.asp may also help you uncover some hidden values.
CHAPTER 8: Making a Career Choice
Making Career Decisions (page 149)
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 150)
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 https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm is a great resource to assist you with your career research.
Web Connect (page 154)
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.
CHAPTER 9: Setting Goals and Planning Your Career
The Future in Perspective (page 182)
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.
Clarifying What You Want in a Career (page 184)
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 http://www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca/step3.asp. 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.
CHAPTER 10: Empowering Yourself to Succeed
Three Kinds of Barriers (page 200)
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 211)
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.
CHAPTER 11: The Job Search: Your Plan in Action
Web Connect (page 229)
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 229)
Email-friendly and other forms of e-resumes are written differently than the traditional paper resume. For more information on the difference among these resumes and how to adapt your resume to an appropriate format, check out the information at the following sites: ProvenResumes at www.provenresumes.com/reswkshps/electronic/electrespg1.html offers tips on how to write an e-resume. You can find a list of key words by subject area at http://www.free-resume-example.com/free-resume-builder.html.
Web Connect (page 234)
As mentioned in Chapter 2 Virtual Career Planning, we recommend that you read the 40+ page article titled Networking on the Internet at http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds4-4/network.html by Phil Agre.
Web Connect (page 234)
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 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 234)
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 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 234)
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 234)
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 234)
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 234)
To find the web site for the career office at your university or college, go to JobWeb’s site at 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 234)
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 234)
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 http://www.cabrillo.edu/services/jobs/Intguide.html.
Web Connect (page 234)
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.
CHAPTER 12: Career Considerations for International Students
University of Notre Dame
The new website for career services for international students is on the Yale University website at http://environment.yale.edu/current/Resources-for-International-Students/
Indiana University - Bloomington
This web site offers extensive links to job sites for numerous countries at http://www.indiana.edu/~career/students/library/link_library/internationallinks.php .
