Career Assignment - STR 050 - Smart Start Student Success - 2025 - LibGuides at St. Louis Community College

Career Exploration Assignment

You can certainly use the print versions of career reference books to answer questions on the Career Exploration Assignment, however, many students enjoy using the value-added features of the online databases.

If you need a copy of the Career Exploration Assignment, you can find it here:

Career Exploration Assignment (pp. 112-115 in the Smart Start textbook)

Online Career Resources

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Provides industry and job profiles and advice on job hunting and career skills. STLCC Libraries subscribe to this database, so login is required if you are connecting from off campus.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center career research database is broken down into three main sections: Job and Industry Profiles, Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills, and Career and Industry Resources. The material is drawn from a range of sources and is extensively indexed.

The Job and Industry Profiles section includes industry profiles organized by the U.S. Department of Education's Career Clusters and thousands of articles on specific jobs. The Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills section gives guidance on the essentials of getting a job and keeping it -- establishing a career path, honing interview skills, writing resumes, and more. The Career and Industry Resources section includes searchable, browsable resource entries divided into convenient categories on fellowships, organizations, internships, scholarships, and awards.

Other sections of interest include School Searches (four comprehensive, current databases, provided by Peterson's Nelnet, LLC, covering undergraduate, graduate, nursing, and vocational and technical schools in the U.S. and Canada), where users can search for schools by type, region, areas of study, and a variety of other characteristics; Career Interest Assessment (a test that ranks users' work interest areas and suggests related occupations and industries); and Links to Outside Jobs (access to current, live job postings).

Features include videos covering jobs, industries, and career development skills; advice from nationally renowned author and career expert Sue Morem for recent graduates, job seekers, and people advancing in the workplace; "My Life" interviews with professionals; Career Opportunities News; persistent record links, and dynamic citations in MLA and Chicago Manual of Style formats.

Basic Search help

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Career Reference Books (in print format)

Click on a book title to get more information about the book from the Library Catalog, including where to find it in the libraries.

Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance
The Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance—now in its 18th edition—remains the most comprehensive career reference in print.
Occupational Outlook Handbook by Bureau of Labor Statistics (Editor)

Search for Careers in the Library Catalog

If you're looking for career-related books, e-books or DVDs, you can find those items by searching the STLCC Library Catalog (Classic Catalog). You can also use ArcherSearch -- The STLCC Libraries discovery tool. See the Further Research tab on this guide for information on using ArcherSearch.