Reference Resources

• Career & Technical Education Database (ProQuest) (VALE) This link opens in a new window Covers a wide variety of career, vocational, and technical periodicals.
• Ferguson's Career Guidance Center (Infobase Learning) This link opens in a new window Great source of information about careers and industries, with full-text access to job and industry profile articles published in books like the Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance. Also provides select "job videos."

• America's Job Exchange
• Career One Stop

  "CareerOneStop is sponsored by the U. S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration."
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Jobs
• College Central Network Services for Kean University

  This service is available for Kean students, Kean alumni, and employers. Prospective employers may post available jobs, and students and alumni may post résumés.
• College Grad.com

  College Grad.com is an "Internet job search service for college students and recent grads."
• Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)
• Diversity Employers Job Board
• Glassdoor
• Indeed
• Job Hunter's Bible: Companion Site for What Color Is Your Parachute?

  This site serves as "a supplement both to [Dick Bolles'] annual, What Color Is Your Parachute: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, as well as to [his] new 100 page book, The Job-Hunters’ Survival Guide: How to Find Hope and Rewarding Work, Even When ‘There Are No Jobs.”"
• JobStar Resume Guide
• LinkedIn

  LinkedIn is a "business-oriented social networking site."
• Local One-Stop Career Centers, Dept. of Labor and Workforce Development, State of New Jersey

  Use this directory to "Find your local One-Stop Career Center."
• Mapping Your Future

  This site provides information regarding career exploration, college preparation, college financial aid, and money management.
• Monster.com

  Sign up for an account on Monster to create a resume, apply for jobs, and access career guidance resources.
• MonsterCollege

  Sign up for a free account on MonsterCollege to use this "job network for college students and recent grads....As a member you will enjoy interview tips and tricks, resume templates and skill-building quizzes."
• My Skills, My Future

  "mySkills myFuture is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration."
• New Jersey Job Bank
• New Jersey Local Jobs

  Search through job ads posted on NJ.com.
• NJHire Jobs, Recruitment Network for the NJ Dept. of Education
• NJSchoolJobs.com
• O*NET OnLine

  "The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is being developed under the sponsorship of the US Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration." The O*NET database serves as "an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations."
• Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

  The OOH provides information about specific jobs, including educational requirements, salary range, availability of jobs, job requirements, and working conditions.
• Riley Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet

  "The Riley Guide is a directory of employment and career information sources and services on the Internet. It is primarily intended to provide instruction for job seekers on how to use the Internet to their best advantage, but recruiters and other career service industry professional will find information here to help them also."
• STEM Career

  Features information for students interested in pursuing a career in STEM disciplines (such as, astronomy, chemistry, computer science, engineering, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, and physics.
• Teachers-Teachers.com

  "Teachers-Teachers.com is a free service designed to help educators find new and exciting teaching jobs, administrative jobs and other related service positions. Through Teachers-Teachers.com you can view job postings from 1,823 school systems and private schools nationwide."
• Vault: Career Intelligence

  Sign up for a free basic membership to access information about jobs, companies and industries, schools, and so on.
• Veterans and Government Job Banks
• Wall Street Journal: Careers
• WetFeet

  This site provides "career advice for your internship, job interview, or job search."
• ZipRecruiter: Jobs for College Students
• ZipRecruiter: Salaries