LibGuides: Careers and Jobs: Websites

About Websites

Remember that anyone can post anything at all on the Web, from outright lies to informed opinion to accurate, thoroughly researched information. Always evaluate a website before you rely on it for your research or personal use.

Evaluate Your Sources
Guide to evaluating sources of information. STLCC Libraries

Websites about Careers & Career Planning

My Next Move
Part of O*NET, My Next Move is designed to you started on exploring career interests.
A-Z List of Careers (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Also from the BLS, this provides more brief descriptions of careers.
Career Planning Tutorial, GCFLearnFree.org
Looking to advance in your career? Embarking on an entirely new one? These lessons will show you how to research careers, assess your needs, research salary information, and gain new skills.
Starting a New Career (MoneyGeek)
MoneyGeek produces financial and relevant consumer guide. This guide to starting a new career also links to guides with tips for college students, job skills, getting hired, and more.
Become
Information on careers, salaries, education and training as well as advice on getting hired.
The 100 Best Jobs
No single job suits all of us, but many of the best ones have a few attributes in common: They pay well, challenge us year after year, match our talents and skills, aren't too stressful, offer room to advance throughout our careers and provide a satisfying work-life balance. Whether the position is in demand is also a consideration, especially among job seekers. U.S. News uses these qualities to rank the 100 Best Jobs annually.
CareerOneStop
"Tools to help job seekers, students, businesses, and career professionals. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor."
Occupational Outlook Handbook
O*NET Online
O*NET gathers comprehensive data about occupations, careers, and employment. This data is used by career seekers as well as professionals in the career development field.
O*NET Resource Center
Provides several search tools that allow one to search for jobs which have a "Bright Outlook" or which use a specific tool/software/skill or careers which are related.
NACE Salary Calculator Center
"Since 1956, the National Association of Colleges and Employers has been a leading resource for employment information. The NACE Salary Calculator Center is a salary survey data resource designed to save you time and money, and provide you with reliable and proven results. "

Job Listing & Networking Websites

St. Louis Jobs from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A web page on the Stltoday.com web site, which includes the Suburban Journals.
CareerBuilder.com
An online recruitment service for job seekers, employers and recruiters, listing over 1 million jobs.
Careerjet.com
Careerjet is an employment search engine.
indeed: one search. all jobs
"Indeed is the #1 job site worldwide, with over 50 million unique visitors and 1 billion job searches per month."
Job Seekers, MO.gov
The official Workforce Resource site for the State of Missouri.
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Jobs.mo.gov is the Missouri Division of Workforce Development (DWD) webpage. DWD provides various workforce development and employment related programs, products, and services for businesses and job seekers. In Missouri, DWD serves as the state agency that administers the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and Wagner-Peyser funding for job search and other employment related activities.
Linkedin
"World's Largest Professional Network"
Monster
"We've been doing this for over ten years, and have expanded from our roots as a "job board" to a global provider of a full array of job seeking, career management, recruitment and talent management products and services."
NationJob
An on-line job search service with thousands of current job listings and company profiles. Job listings are from around the U.S. with a Midwest focus.
USAJOBS
"USAJOBS is the official job site of the US Federal Government. It's your one-stop source for Federal jobs and employment information.

Employment Listings

Associations and Organizations

Career fields often have one or more professional associations associated with them. In addition to holding meetings and creating norms for the profession, the web sites and publications of these associations may list openings in the field or even provide career-related advice and resources. Use the following resources to search for or to identify associations and organizations.

Gale Directory Library This link opens in a new window
Full text of Encyclopedia of Associations, International and U.S. versions.
Gale Directory Library provides full-text, searchable access to Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations and Encyclopedia of Associations: National Organizations of the US. Users can also sort and export data from the directories.

Help videos

The Professional Association Finder on CareerOnestop
Search by Industry, Occupation, or Association Name

Companies or organizations often list career opportunities available within the organization. Look for links titled employment, job, or careers in the header or footer of such websites. Example: St. Louis Community College uses a link titled Careers at STLCC in the footer of all their webpages. This link appears below:

Careers at STLCC

Phi Theta Kappa (PTK)

PTK Connect
Phi Theta Kappa’s FREE online search tool for transfer scholarships, colleges and career pathways. You do not have to be a member of PTK to use this. Non-members can create a free guest account.

Connect with Colleges: Organize your transfer search by choosing your favorite colleges. Evaluate transfer-friendliness ratings, compare college profiles, and discover scholarship opportunities to inform your decisions.
Connect with Scholarships: Research and compare scholarships to find the perfect scholarship just for you. Find a college willing to invest in you and increase the affordability of your transfer journey.
Connect with Career Pathways: Plan for your career in reverse. Investigate which academic majors align with your career interests while exploring salary averages and job availability in your chosen field.

6 Tips for Choosing a Career Path, Phil Theta Kappa Employment Edge
In this Employment Edge Live session, Dr. Johannah Williams, PTK’s Associate Vice President of STEM and Workforce Programs, gives you six tips to help choose a career path:
1. Know your work style
2. Identify your skills
3. Determine your goals
4. Talk to people who work in the field
5. Consider an internship
6. Use your resources

Next, Heather Yush, PTK’s Associate Director of Transfer and College Relations, walks you through how PTK Connect can take your chosen career path and show you relevant majors, salary averages in general and by state, and the job outlook in that industry by state.