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Business Career Research Guide: Career Information Research
This guide includes resoources to help students through their career research process.
Requires free registration. Provides in-depth intelligence on what it's really like to work within an industry, company or profession. Best known for its influential rankings, ratings, and reviews on thousands of employers and internships. For more information, see the tutorial.
The Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF)"The Religious Freedom & Business Foundation (RFBF) is the preeminent organization dedicated to educating the global business community, policymakers, non-government organizations and consumers about the positive power that faith — and religious freedom for all (including those with no religious faith) — has on business and the economy."
Databases
Firsthand (formerly Vault Online Career Library)This link opens in a new windowRequires free registration. Provides in-depth intelligence on what it's really like to work within an industry, company or profession. Best known for its influential rankings, ratings, and reviews on thousands of employers and internships. For more information, see the tutorial.
For educational and research purposes only.
Vocational and Career Collection (EBSCO)This link opens in a new windowVocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and public libraries. The collection provides full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry related periodicals including American Machinist, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, Reeves Journal, Hotel and Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for over 600 journals. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.
BNA Human Resources LibraryThis link opens in a new windowBloomberg BNA's Human Resources Library provides practical, comprehensive, and timely coverage of workplace issues of interest to HR professionals, consultants, and attorneys. The service provides news, analysis, tools, and research aids to help employers comply with federal and state employment laws and regulations. If it asks for a login after clicking the link, come back to this page and click this link again.
Wall Street OasisThis link opens in a new windowWSO is one of the largest and most entertaining finance communities online. BYU provides access to WSO career and interview guides.
Articles
ProQuest Business CollectionThis link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive business offering, comprising all content from ABI/INFORM Complete, Accounting and Tax, Asian Business and Reference, Banking Information Source, Entrepreneurship, and J.P. Morgan Research. Featuring thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, conference proceedings, and working papers as well as trade publications, analyst reports, industry reports, and key periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Economist.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Premier is a collection of popular business magazines, scholarly journals, and trade publications, including the Harvard Business Review. Business Source Premier covers accounting, banking, finance, international business, management, marketing, real estate, regional studies, sales, trade and technology.
Vocational and Career Collection (EBSCO)This link opens in a new windowVocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and public libraries. The collection provides full text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry related periodicals including American Machinist, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, Reeves Journal, Hotel and Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for over 600 journals. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985.
Government & Other Reliable Sources
Occupational Outlook HandbookThe Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) provides information on what workers do; the work environment; education, training, and other qualifications; pay; the job outlook; information on state and area data; similar occupations; and sources of additional information, for 325 occupational profiles, covering about 4 out of 5 jobs in the economy
CareerOneStopThis link opens in a new windowIncludes America's Job Bank, America's Career InfoNet, and America's Service Locator. The tools were developed and are maintained through the leadership of the U.S. Department of Labor and in partnership with state workforce agencies, local workforce service delivery providers and education and training institutions and private sector organizations. AnnualReportService.comFree directory of online annual reports.
America's Career InfoNetThis link opens in a new windowAmerica's Career InfoNet (ACINet) is ideal for job seekers, employers, human resource specialists and workforce development specialists to: learn more about typical wages and employment trends across occupations and industries; check education, knowledge, skills and abilities against requirements for most occupations; search for employer contact information nationwide; obtain cost of living data; call up state profiles with labor market conditions
