University of Southern Maine

Bus 303W- Career Planning and Development (Prof. Johansen)

Introduction | Reference Sources | Indexes & Databases | Internet Resources | Writing the Paper

Zip Kellogg (phone 780-4272; e-mail zkellogg@usm.maine.edu) or any of the other Reference Department staff would be pleased to help you anytime.

We live in the "Information Age" and having the skills to find information rapidly and efficiently will prove very useful to you. Using a library can be key to this and can easily give you an advantage when planning your career, job searching, etc.

Imagine, for example, you're about to go into a job interview and you've been able to find a lot of information about the company or organization prior to your interview. And imagine someone else being interviewed has found nothing...YOU will have the advantage!

This "course guide" will provide you with a lot of handy links to online sources of information, books that relate to careers and career planning, and places to find up to date articles on any topic under the sun.

These are places where you can find a handy summary of a topic. An encyclopedia, for example, gives you a useful overview of a topic when you know little about it. Reference sources can be real time savers.

What Color is Your Parachute?
POR REF HF 5382.7 B64

Job Hunter's Sourcebook
POR REF HF 5382.7 J63

Career Guide to Industries
POR REF HF 5382.5 U5 C315

Small Business Sourcebook
POR REFHD 2346 U5 S66

International Directory of Company Histories
POR REFHD 2721 D36

Resume Books/Cover Letters

Real Resumes for Students
POR REF HF 5383 R3963

101 Best Cover Letters
POR REF HF 5383 B533

Maine Related

Maine Employment Statistical Handbook
POR REF HD 5725 M3 M384

Maine Business Directory
POR REF HF 5065 M2 M322

Maine Manufacturing Directory
POR REF HD 9727 M2 M34

These are places, generally speaking, to find articles. If you are searching these sites from off campus you'll be prompted for your last name and bar code number (from your USM picture ID card...begins with 25022...)

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications of which 3,100 are peer reviewed. Academic areas of study include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

ProQuest Newspapers
Full text of more than 500 U.S. and international news sources. Includes The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.

Maine Newsstand
Index to and full text coverage of several Maine newspapers: Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, Central Maine Morning Sentinel, etc.

Business and Company Resource Center
Comprehensive source of information for conducting company, industry and market research. Provides access to the contents of over 4,000 business and economics periodicals. An excellent starting place for business information.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Useful summaries of many jobs, including education/training needed, salary information, etc. Also available as a paperback in Glickman Library, Portland (Ref HD 8051 A62).

O*NET Online
The O*NET system serves as a primary source of occupational information, providing comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations.

Writing is important and a necessary skill in today's competitive job market. A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker has an online site that may also be helpful.

Created by: Zip Kellogg
Created on: 09.12.2007
Last Updated: 09.12.2007