4. Find Sources

Once you've explored your careers and thought about your oral instructions, you may need more information. Search the Career resources below for potential sources you can use for your project. If you're having trouble, ask a librarian for help!

Career Resources

The following resources will provide information about careers.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
This website can help you find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of jobs.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
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Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries. Proxy Bypass
Vocational and Career Collection
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Designed to meet a wide variety of vocational and technical research needs, this collection provides full-text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals including Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Reeves Journal, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age and many more. Provided through EBSCO.
Statista
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With access to over million statistics on over 80,000 topics from over 18,000 credible sources, this database specialized in market and consumer data, statistics, infographics, reports, plus company insights to support research and help to find statistics, charts, graphs, and other visuals to integrate into papers and presentations.
Films on Demand
Educational videos available via streaming to anywhere (off-campus must log in).
Topics cover general academic areas, as well as health science, industrial, and
business/technology related topics. Proxy Bypass

Selected Books

Top 100 Health-Care Careers by Saul Wischnitzer; Edith Wischnitzer
Call Number: Central & CCC Stacks R690 .W565 2011
ISBN: 1593578091
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Also Available Online
Exploring Tech Careers by Ferguson Publishing Staff (Created by)
Call Number: CCC Ref. HF5382.E97 2006, 2 volumes
ISBN: 9780816064472
Publication Date: 2006-06-01
Careers in Healthcare by Salem Press Editors (Editor); Michael Shally-Jensen (Editor)
Call Number: CCC Ref. R690.C376 2014
ISBN: 9781619252325
Publication Date: 2014-01-24

Find More Books

Use the search box below to search for books at the SCC Library.

Find More E-Books

For ebooks, use the databases below.

eBook Collection (EBSCO)
A collection of over 260,000 eBooks including a variety of subjects including history, business, social science, political science, literature, science, medical, technical subjects, etc.. Proxy Bypass
EBook Central
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A collection of over 250,000 eBooks including a variety of subjects including social science, history, literature, business/management, religion, science, medicine, fine arts, education, etc.