Career and Education Guidance
Career Transitions is a complete, self-paced application that walks job-seekers through the entire process of assessing strengths and interests, exploring different career paths, compiling a resume, and searching job listings. Using Career Transitions can improve your chances of landing a job.
Need help locating the college that's right for you? Search for colleges by name, geographic location, degree program, size, tuition rate, or keyword. Contains college profiles, links to college websites, financial aid websites, career information websites, and thousands of complete college catalogs.
Education Index brings you comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Subjects covered include Adult Education, Comparative Education, Competency-based Education, Computers in Education, Continuing Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Government Funding, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Library Science, Literacy Standards, Multicultural/Ethnic Education, Parent-Teacher Relations, Preschool Education, School Administration, Secondary Education, Special Education, Student Counseling, Teacher Education, Teacher Evaluation, Teaching Methods, and Vocational Education.
Educator's Reference Complete contains more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports from the U.S. Department of Education. This resource is for any educator, from school teachers and administrators to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. It provides full-text results for nearly half of the journal titles found in ERIC. Although the majority of the content in this database is available through the Academic OneFile and/or General OneFile databases, there is some original subject-specific content as well.
Research educational issues in areas such as teaching, teacher education, assessment, counseling, disabilities, gifted education, higher education, information and technology, early childhood education, and more.
Europa World of Learning: The International Guide to the Academic World is a comprehensive directory and guide to organizations and institutions throughout the world of higher education and learning. This resource profiles more than 30,000 academic institutions and over 200,000 staff and officials.
Whether you're changing careers or choosing a career for the first time, get an inside look at today's most exciting jobs. You will find a description, job duties, salary range, employment prospects, education and training requirements, tips for getting the job, and more.
The Information Science and Library Issues Collection includes articles from 1980 to the present. Although the content in this database is also available through the Academic OneFile and/or General OneFile databases, this collection limits your search to publications specific to this topic.
LearningExpress Library provides interactive online practice tests and a tutorial course series designed to help users succeed on academic and licensing tests. It offers immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of results. Registration by the user is required to allow the software to record the progress of the user and to allow the user to stop a particular test or lesson and continue at a later time.
Reflecting the latest trends in a rapidly evolving field, this database indexes English and foreign-language periodicals, selected state journals, conference proceedings, pamphlets, and library school theses, plus over 300 books per year. This resource delivers full text articles from over a hundred select publications. Indexing begins in 1984 and full text articles begin in 1994.
A bibliographic database which provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings. Coverage dates back to the mid-1960s.
Professional Development Collection includes full text for nearly 520 high-quality education journals.
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for articles on topics such as assessment, best practices, continuing education, curriculum development, elementary education, higher education, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, school administration, science and mathematics, and teacher education.
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 your financial needs. Take on-line practice tests and use test prep eBooks to obtain your education goals.
The Adult Career Center's Live Tutor service is open from Noon to Midnight, 7 days a week, and offers one-on-one, online assistance in English and En Espanol. Available topics for assistance are Resume Help, GED Preparation, Citizenship, and Back to School. Users can also upload a document, such as a resume, for review and proofreading by a tutor. In addition, the Skills Center is open 24/7 and offers thousands of sample resumes and cover letters, worksheets, tutorials, study guides, practice tests and more.
The College Center's Live Tutor service is open from Noon to Midnight, 7 days a week, and offers one-on-one, online tutoring in English and En Espanol. Available topics for tutoring are Math, Science, English, and Social Studies, along with Resume Help and GED Preparation. Students can also upload a document for review and proofreading by a tutor. In addition, the Skills Center is open 24/7 and offers thousands of worksheets, tutorials, study guides, practice tests and more.
The Vocations, Careers and Technical Education Collection includes articles from 1980 to the present. Although the content in this database is also available through the Academic OneFile and/or General OneFile databases, this collection limits your search to publications specific to this topic.
