SAM136
INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGIATE STUDIES
ASSIGNMENT GUIDE
CAREERS RESEARCH PAPER
This Guide will provide you with some of the resources you have available to you through the SHSU Library as well as some Internet sites.
Career Research Paper & Class Presentation:
This paper and presentation should focus on a specific career you wish to explore. This project will tie in very closely with a specific major you have chosen or are thinking about choosing. The paper should be 5-7 pages in length, typed and double-spaced. Think about how you might utilize the office of Career Services, the Newton Gresham Library, internet, and any other personal sources you may have. You will be presenting this paper to the class. Some of the major areas you should cover include the following:
There are a number of resources available to you that will help you find the information you need to answer the points listed above.
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Books about multiple careers, including encyclopedia and dictionaries. |
Career Information Center, 7th ed.
HF5382.5 .U5C32 1999, Reference Career Collection
13 volume set organized into career fields such as business, communications, and health. Short descriptions on a multitude of occupations.Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance, 12th ed.
HF5381 .E52 2003. Reference Career Collection
Four-volume set containng everything from choosing a career to the hiring process.Job's Rated Almanac, 6th ed.
HF5382.5 .U5K72 2002. Reference Career Collection
Rates jobs according to categories such as income, work environment, and stress level.O*NET Dictionary of Occupational Titles
HB2595 .A5 2001. Reference Career Collection
Based on information from the Department of Labor, this resource gives brief descriptions of over 1000 jobs.Careers and Jobs: Miscellaneous
The library has many books on specific careers. The following resources provide tips on job hunting and careers from a variety of fields. They have been subdivided into arts and sciences, business, criminal justice and law, education and applied science, government jobs, and international/overseas jobs.
Business Administration
Career Opportunities in Banking, Finance and Insurance
HG173 .F55 2002, Reference Career Collection.Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Finance
HG65 .H37 2001, Reference Career Collection.Harvard Business School Guide to Careers in Management Consulting HD69.C6 H37 2000, Reference Career Collection .
Peterson's Job Opportunities for Business Majors
HF5382.5.U5 B88 1998, Reference Career CollectionCriminal Justice
Great Jobs for Criminal Justice Majors
HV8143 .L335 2001, Reference Career Collection.Guide to Law Enforcement Careers , 2nd ed.
HV8143 .H87 2001, Reference Career Collection.Opportunities in Law Careers , rev. ed.
KF297.Z9 M84 2001, Reference Career Collection.Seeking Employment in Criminal Justice and Related Fields , 3rd ed.
HV8143 .H327 2000, Reference Career Collection.Education
Career Opportunities in Education
LB1775.2 .E33 2001, Reference Career Collection.Career Opportunities in Health Care
R690 .F54 2002, Reference Career Collection.Careers in Counseling and Human Services
BF637 .C6 C325 1996, Reference Career Collection.Careers in Nursing
RT82 .V34 1999, Reference Career Collection.Peterson's Job Opportunities for Health and Science Majors
HF5382.75.U6 .P477 1998, Reference Career Collection.So You Want to Be a Teacher?
LB1775.2 .C54 2002, Main 4th floor.Arts and Sciences
Career Opportunities in Art , 3rd ed.
N6505 .H35 2001, Reference Career Collection.Career Opportunities in the Music Industry , 4th ed.
ML3795 .F497 2000, Reference Career Collection.Great Jobs for Chemistry Majors
QD39.5 .R688 1999, Reference Career Collction.Physical Sciences Career Directory
Q147 .P55 1994, Reference Career Collection.Who Wants to be a Scientist?
Q147 .R68 2002, Reference Career Collection.Peterson's Job Opportunities for Health and Science Majors
HF5382.75.U6 .P477 1998, Reference Career Collection.Humanities and Social Sciences
Great Jobs for Liberal Arts Majors
HF5382.5.U5 C252 1997, Reference Career Collection.Great Jobs for Sociology Majors
HM51 .L24 1997, Reference Career Collection.Opportunities in Journalism Careers , rev. ed.
PN4797 .F48 2001, Reference Career Collection.Majoring in Psych? , 2nd ed.
BF76 .M67 2001, Reference Career Collection.Federal Jobs
Civil Service Handbook , 12th ed.
JK716 .H337 1996, Reference Career Collection.Federal Jobs: The Ultimate Guide , 3rd ed.
JK716 .G63 2002, Reference Career Collection.International and Overseas Jobs
International Jobs: Where They Are, How To Get Them , 5th ed.
HF5382.7 .K62 1999, Reference Career Collection.The Library has also purchased access to a number of electronic books and some are about specific career fields.
To access electronic books:
- Go to the SHSU Webpage (http://library.shsu.edu)
- Click on Newton Gresham Library
- Go to the Library's catalog by clicking "Search Library Catalog" or Samcat
- Click on Browse
- Type in the title of the book and click on the Title button.
- Click on "URL" [That will take you to the NetLibrary Website]
Great Jobs for Biology Majors
Electronic book accessible through the netLibrary database.Great Jobs for History Majors
Electronic book accessible through netLibrary database.Great Jobs for Political Science Majors
Electronic book accessible through netLibrary database.Opportunities in Military Careers
Electronic book accessible through the netLibrary database.To search the catalog for additional books, or books about a different field:
- Go to the SHSU Webpage (http://library.shsu.edu)
- Click on "Newton Gresham Library"
- Click on "Search Library Catalog" or "Advanced Search"
- In the Advanced Search, under "Words or Phrase" type in your field, type the discipline "and" career? (ex. chemistry and career?)
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There are a large number of databases to which the Library has subscribed. Several of them may be helpful as you search for information about your career. |
Read the descriptions of the databases and select a few to try. When you do your searches, try different search strategies. For instance, in discipline specific databases you could try "career opporunities" or "careers and opportunities" or "marketing careers" or "marketing and careers" or "medical careers" or "medicine and careers", etc. In the more general databases try the more specific searches, like "marketing and careers".
You can either click on the name of the database titles listed below or:
- Go to the SHSU Webpage (www.shsu.edu)
- Click on "Newton Gresham Library"
- Click on "Databases and Indexes" or "Alphabetical List"
- Select the database you want from the list
- If you are accessing the Webpage from off campus you will be asked for your SHSU Username and Password
- Type in your search
Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 1,260 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,880 journals. Over 700 of the over 1,260 full text journals are peer reviewed. Over 1,670 of the indexed journals are peer reviewed.
Contains information for approximately 440,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations. Includes IRS 501(c) data on U.S. non-profits. Provides full-text association materials (brochures, pamphlets and membership application forms) for about 2,500 U.S. associations. Associations may be particularly useful sources of information about careers.
Business and Management Practices
This index includes articles pertaining to management issues and business practices, including benchmarking planning, best practices, business plans, corporate culture, expansion, long range planning, quality control, reengineering, resources case studies and guidelines, and technology.
The Business Source Premier database is a comprehensive, business periodical database that includes scholarly journals and business periodicals covering topics such as management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more. Business Source Premier contains content from full text sources ranging from general business periodicals such as Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, American Banker, etc. to academic journals such as Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Review , Review of Economics & Statistics, etc. Business Source Premier provides cumulative indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,800 business journals and cumulative full text for 2,260 journals.
Index with abstracts of the major scholarly journals, books, and reports in criminology and related disciplines. This is the best place to search for scholarly article citations.
Emerald Fulltext is a collection of over 40,000 articles from over 100 of the most prestigious management journals, complete with full text archives back to 1994 and abstracts back to 1989. Emerald Fulltext covers all major management disciplines from marketing, human resources management, library and information management and quality to operations management.
This comprehensive index covers all areas of education including scholarly research and practitioner information, from 1966 to the present. Indexes over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular materials. There are several versions of the ERIC database available from the library's website; all provide links to fulltext ERIC documents available on the EDRS website, E*Subscribe. E*Subscribe contains about 80% of the ERIC documents available since 1993. The library also maintains the ERIC Document collection on microfiche (1966 to present).
Provides access to the full-text of hundreds of newspapers, magazines, journals, law reviews, legal cases, and public laws.
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service is the research library of the Department of Justice. This database provides summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Many of the publications from 1995 forward are provided full text.
CSA Physical Education Index abstracts feature a wide variety of content, ranging from physical education curricula, to sports medicine, to dance. Other coverage includes sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database with more than 470 full text titles. This database covers information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
PsycINFO(R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
ScienceDirect is the world's largest scientific, technical and medical database, with over 59 million citation abstracts. ScienceDirect also provides full-text access to over 200 journals in various science disciplines.
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,500 publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations.
CSA Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers from over 1,700 publications. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
Provides indexing, abstracts, and full text from six of Wilson 's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.
Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text.
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There are a number of Websites that might be helpful. Remember that not all Websites contain accurate information. Be selective. The Websites listed below are U.S. government Webpages and are considered accurate. |
Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2004-2005 Edition.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/home.htmThe Occupational Outlook Handbook 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.
Career One Stop
http://www.careeronestop.org/Access over 1 million jobs, get labor market trends and tips, post your
resume for thousands of employers, and MUCH MORE.Career InfoNet
http://www.acinet.org/acinet/default.aspSmart career decisions start here! Find wages and employment trends, occupational requirements, state by state labor market conditions, millions of employer contacts nationwide, and the most extensive career resource library online.
SHSU Catalog
http://www.shsu.edu/catalog/toc.htmlYou will be able to tell the courses you will have to take in order to receive the degree that will make your career choice possible. Take a look at the descriptions as well as the titles and that will give you a good idea about the skills and knowledge you will need to acquire.
Remember, Librarians are available to help you! You're welcome to come into the Library and talk with one of us. Or you can call the Reference Desk at 936-294-1599. Or you can log into our Virtual Reference Service by clicking on this link: Need answers NOW? Chat online with a SHSU Librarian!