Gathering Information About Professions
Gathering Information about Professions (how to prepare)
Gathering information about careers and professions can be a difficult task. We have provided you with an easy way to organize information about the professions you may be interested in pursuing.
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You can use printed resources in our Career Library as well as on-line resources available through our webpage: Vault, Career InfoNet, Career Zone, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Salary.com
Library: Our reference library containts materials such as books, magazines, and videos about the career planning process, occupations, job outlooks, salary levels, job hunting, resume writing, employment interviewing, and many other topics.
Online
Internships.com's mission is to democratize the opportunity and access for all students preparing to stand out and be hired as interns by organizations, worldwide, with a vested interest in the workforce of tomorrow. Students must select the school location (state) and then school name from the drop-down menu when registering or from within the Account Settings. Check back soon for full details of Internships.com
Vault Career Insider
Vault Career Insider is one of the most popular online career libraries available to college students. Occupational profiles, industry overviews, in-depth employer profiles, the "electronic water cooler" message boards, employee surveys, salary trends and more. Use your SBU email address and obtain your unique password online.
Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), 2008-09 Edition
For hundreds of different types of jobs such as teacher, lawyer, and nurse, the Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you:
- The training and education needed
- Earnings
- Expected job prospects
- What workers do on the job
- Working conditions
Career Zone
A product of the NY State Department of Labor, CareerZone is a free, career exploration and planning system designed especially for New York State students.
NACE
NACE collects job offer salary information to compile a list of salaries
by degree level and other factors.
Salary.com
Salary.com builds on-demand software around a deep domain knowledge in the area of compensation to help customers win the war for talent by simplifying the connections between people, pay and performance. Salary.com's cutting edge technology is integrated with actionable data and content, empowering customers to make the best decisions about pay and performance and help them to attract, motivate, reward and retain top performers.
Career InfoNet
America's Career InfoNet is a resource for making informed career decisions to support a demand-driven workforce investment system.
Talk To Other People In Your Field Of Interest
Take the time to talk with people in the career you are potentially interested in. The information you get from talking with someone doing the job you are interested in is priceless as you cannot find this information in a book. This will help you better understand if a field or career is the right fit for you.
ZebraCAN is a database of alumni and friends of Stony Brook representing a variety of career fields who are willing and able to help you learn about careers through informational interviewing. Some of these contacts have even volunteered to provide assistance with obtaining internships and employment with their organizations!
You will need to attend a ZebraCAN info session and have a ZebraNet account to access ZebraCAN. Please see our event calendar for schedule of sessions.
Informational Interviewing
Here's a startling statistic: One out of every 200 resumes (some studies put the number as high as 1,500 resumes) results in a job offer. One out of every 12 informational interviews, however, results in a job offer. (read more:DOC file)
Networking
Please see more information regarding networking by clicking here.
Observe
Try it out
Engage in an internship, part time job or volunteer. Please see more information in the Get an Experience Section on our website.
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