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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
  • Format
  • ONLINE DATABASE
  • Authored by: Facts On File, Inc.
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  • ISBN-10: 0816043809
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-8160-4380-4
  • Status: In Stock
  • List Price: Please call for pricing.
  • Imprint: Ferguson
  • Published: 01/01/2000
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  • Reading Level: Grades 9 and up

Summary

The Essential Career Research Database

The critically acclaimed Ferguson's Career Guidance Center features exclusive, wide-ranging content that is accessible and intuitively organized. Known for its unprecedented depth of coverage and variety of user-friendly content formats, this comprehensive 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 authoritative sources and is extensively indexed.


Highlights:

  • Job and Industry Profiles: 94 industry profiles, organized by 16 Career Clusters created by the U.S. Department of Education, and nearly 3,400 job articles
  • Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills: guidance on the essentials of getting a job and keeping it—establishing a career path, honing interview skills, writing résumés, and more
  • Career and Industry Resources: more than 55,000 searchable, browsable resource entries, divided into convenient categories on fellowships, organizations, internships, scholarships, and awards
  • 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; 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
  • Links to Outside Jobs: access to current, live job postings.

Features:

  • Nearly 300 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, giving a firsthand perspective on exciting jobs
  • Career Opportunities News, updated monthly
  • Dictionary
  • "Did You Mean...?" search feature
  • Persistent record links
  • Dynamic citations in MLA and Chicago Manual of Style formats.

Reviews and Awards

"Recommended."


Choice

"...provides quick career guidance for users in public, academic, high school, and special libraries (career counseling offices come to mind). Recommended."


Library Journal

"...the Facts On File databases...have a clear, intuitive, easy-to-use and understand interface...the Facts On File databases, with their reference book resources, their collection of maps and images, and the number of videos included, is a great value for its subscription price. I like the special resources, like posters, tent cards and web page icons...I also appreciate how easy it was to download MARC records for my library's OPAC program."


Paul Zaccagnino, Salesian High School, New Rochell

"...comprehensive...featur[es] a wide range of authoritative content that is easily accessible and well organized...presents information in a very straightforward manner..."


Library Journal

"...provides users with in-depth information..."
American Reference Books Annual

"Comprehensive and up to date...Searching is easy and the information is presented in a clear and organized framework...the most comprehensive and authoritative career database available for today's students...it is a must-purchase for school library media centers."
School Library Journal

"...a cleanly formatted, easy-to-navigate database for career exploration and development...impressive...Highly Recommended."
Library Media Connection

"...recommend the thorough, user-friendly, really peerless Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center to libraries serving job-seekers of all ages. Indispensable for high-school, academic, and public libraries."
Booklist

"...convenient, user-friendly...Public libraries, academic institutions, and career counseling offices should find it especially useful with high school students, mainstream career changers, and other general users who wish to do preliminary career exploration."
Reference Reviews

"...highly current...Industry overviews and career descriptions are extensive and well written...Recommended."
Choice

"There's a wealth of information here...An impressive resource for high school, college, and public libraries."
KLIATT

"Navigation of the uncluttered screens is straightforward, the writing is uniformly clear, and the breadth of coverage is unsurpassed. Depth of coverage for a career or vocational choice...is just about everything one could ask of a comprehensive career source...highly recommended for high-school, academic and public libraries."
Booklist

"...an effective and searchable fact-finding and career decision-making tool...well-organized...Ferguson's Career Guidance Center is a well-designed resource that is useful for career research at any level. Highly recommended for high school, college, and special libraries serving career-counseling centers."
Library Journal

"...essential information and vital statistics..."


Library Media Connection

"...an excellent resource for job seekers who need assistance with résumés, cover letters, and interviews."


Booklist

"Best Reference Databases and Discs, 2003"
- Library Journal

"Editors' Choice Reference Source, 2007"
- Booklist/RBB

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