2009 Updates
Your Career Planner, 10th Edition, 2009
Welcome to the listing of web sites that are shared in 10th edition of Your Career Planner, published by Kendall Hunt, 2009. 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.
CHAPTER 1: Managing Your Career in Today's World
Note (page 19)
For more information about trends in work of the future, visit "Tomorrow's Jobs" at the U.S. Department of Labor's site for the Occupational Outlook Handbook at www.bls.gov/oco/home.htm.
CHAPTER 2: Developing Your Career Vision
Web Connect (page 34)
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 3: Your Skills in Action
Web Connect (page 59)
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 Now, however, these references have been replaced by a dynamic and useful online program called O*NET.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.
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. Take a look at some of the following articles covering this fascinating topic:
COMING SOON!
Web Connect (page 81)
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 articles available on Brain.com at www.brain.com.
CHAPTER 5: Understanding Your Personality and Interests
Web Connect (page 110)
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 112)
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 117)
For links to other assessments, take a look at some of these sites:
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 138)
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/students/explore/thecareerinterestsgame.php 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 141)
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 www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/career/majors, was developed by the University of North Carolina at Wilmington 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 Web sites 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
Although there are no Web sites listed in this chapter, the following may be of interest to you:
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. 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
Web Connect (page 174)
O*NET information can be found at 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 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.
CHAPTER 9: Setting Goals and Planning Your Career
Although there are no Web sites listed in this chapter, the following may be of interest to you:
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.cdm.uwaterloo.ca. Look in the left column and click on 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
Although not listed in the book, the following Web site may be of interest to you:
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.
Web Connect (page 241)
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 Game: Putting Your Talents to Work
Web Connect (page 263)
To find 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. 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. For a list of key words for some career fields, we recommend the Argus Technical Services site at www.argus-tech.com/resume/other-ke.htm.
Web Connect (page 266)
The Internet has made it incredibly easy to find employers and people to add to your list of ETs. One site called Telephone Directories on the Web at www.infobel.com/en/world will link you to numerous directories for businesses, individuals, and email addresses in the United States as well as other countries.
Web Connect (page 266)
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.
Web Connect (page 272)
You can look up your local Chamber of Commerce, or the one located where you plan to live at http://www.uschamber.com.
Web Connect (page 272)
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 50,000 associations that have web sites and are searchable at the American Society for Association Executives at www.asaecenter.org/Directories/AssociationSearch.cfm?navItemNumber=16581.
Web Connect (page 272)
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 274)
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 281)
Monster.com at (NOTE: THIS SITE IS DIFFERENT FROM THE BOOK) http://career-advice.monster.com/job-interview/careers.aspx http://career-advice.monster.com/interview-tips/marketing/home.aspx will help you practice your interview skills and provide feedback to help you improve. Read through the articles, but also scroll down and select a career field and then go to that page to find a link to virtual interview practice.
Web Connect (page 284)
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.php.
CHAPTER 12: Career Considerations for International Students
Recommended web sites not in book, but COMING SOON!
