LibGuides: FYE 105: Career Success

Featured Database: Peterson's Test & Career Prep

Career Assessment in Peterson's
Instructions for accessing the Career Assessment tool in Peterson's Test & Career Prep in Gales Resources.

Peterson's Test & Career Prep
Taking a college entrance or licensing exam? Looking for a college or graduate school? Need help finding scholarships? Use this database to search thousands of college and graduate school entries. Identify scholarships that meet their financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.

Career Resources on the Web

Occupational Outlook Handbook
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a resource for occupational and career information, providing profiles on a majority of jobs in the United States. Profiles describe the work environment, education and training needed, ten year outlook, and median pay for workers.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision-making. As an independent statistical agency, BLS serves its diverse user communities by providing products and services that are objective, timely, accurate, and relevant.
Kentucky Labor Market Information
Kentucky Career Center's Labor Market Information website is a powerful online labor market information system, accessed as a web site on the Internet or an Intranet at a OneStop Center. It was specifically designed for job seekers, students, employers, training providers, workforce professionals, and others seeking to explore local labor markets. This system provides fast access to a complete set of employment tools in one web site.
Occupational Information Network (O*NET Online)
The O*NET program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database, which is available to the public at no cost, is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. Information from this database forms the heart of O*NET OnLine, an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations. The database also provides the basis for our Career Exploration Tools, a set of valuable assessment instruments for workers and students looking to find or change careers.
Salary.com
Seventeen years ago, Kent Plunkett launched Salary.com with the vision to reinvent how employers and employees access compensation data via the web. And a new technology model was born. Fast forward to now. The return to Salary.com’s roots means great data and software products that get you the compensation answers you need quickly.

Learning Activity:

Career Interest Exploration Activity
Use this Word document to find three careers in the Occupational Outlook Handbook you are interested in and fill in the corresponding information.

Kentucky Employment Rights and Resources
Kentucky.gov is the official government web portal of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, providing 24/7 access to state and local government information and services for citizens and businesses since 2003. Kentucky.gov provides access to more than 1,000,000 pages of information and hundreds of interactive, online services through an easy to search website.
U.S. Department of Labor
The Department of Labor (DOL) fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment, prices, and other national economic measurements. In carrying out this mission, the Department administers a variety of Federal labor laws including those that guarantee workers’ rights to safe and healthful working conditions; a minimum hourly wage and overtime pay; freedom from employment discrimination; unemployment insurance; and other income support.
Workplace Fairness
Workplace Fairness is a nonprofit organization working to preserve and promote employee rights. We believe that fair treatment of workers is sound public policy and good business practice, adn that free access to comprehensive, unbiased information about workers' rights-without legal jargon-is an essential ingredient in any fair workplace. That's why Workplace Fairness creates and maintains the most comprehensive, online one-stop-shop for free information about workers' rights.

Job & Career Accelerator: Tools to Get Hired
Stand out to employers; craft polished resumes and cover letters, prepare for winning interviews, and more!
Kentucky Career Center
The Kentucky Career Center assists with creating a resume by walking the user through the process step-by-step. This website also provides a job board for users to submit their resume and applications for open positions within the state.

O*Net Interest Profiler
The O*NET Interest Profiler can help you find out what your interests are and how they relate to the world of work. You can find out what you like to do. The O*NET Interest Profiler helps you decide what kinds of careers you might want to explore.
Career OneStop Self Assessments
Whether you are just starting out, or wondering if another career would suit you better, self-assessments can help you consider different options and confirm types of careers that might be right for you.
Job & Career Accelerator: Find a Career Match
Learn about the different occupations that suit your skills, interests, and abilities.

Books & eBooks

Search HCTC Career Databases

Vocations and Careers Collection provides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career. The database offers current and applicable content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals.

HCTC Career Services

HCTC Career Services

Hazard Community and Technical College provides the following career services for students:

Career Counseling

Career Assessments
Career Exploration

Job Skill and Placement

Workplace Basics
Job Hunting Techniques
Resume Writing
Interviewing Skills

In Addition...

HCTC hosts a Career Fair each Spring and local employers are invited to attend to meet students and accept applications, resumes, perform interviews, etc.
HCTC distributes emails detailing employment opportunities.
Students may be provided with job shadowing opportunities. Contact the career and transfer counselor for more information and to set up an appointment.

Handshake is HCTC's official job/internship portal. Handshake is the #1way college students find jobs. Join today to explore career options, find jobs and internships for students, and connect with employers. Upon activation, you can complete your career interest survey to receive personalized recommendations for jobs/events and direct outreach from employers that align to your career interests. Right now, 80% of students with a complete Handshake profile get messaged by employers!

Activate your Handshake Account today with your KCTCS email and password.
Download the Handshake App from Apple or Google Play so you get notifications on the latest jobs, events, and employers.
Learn more about the Handshake Career Tool.

FYE 105: Career Success

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