Resources for Students: Job Search/Salary Information

Resources for Students: Occupations & Careers | Careers by Major | Self-Assessment
The Job Search / Salary Information | Transfer / Career Success | Industry & Company Resources

Professional Resources: Teaching & Learning | Research Resources | History of Cooperative Education at LaGuardia
The Global Workplace

Subscription Resources | Internet Resources | Books | Media

There are estimated to be more than 30,000 job search sites worldwide, yet only about 10% of job seekers (usually technical types) get their jobs from online sources. Some sites list jobs by profession (e.g., Engineerjobs.com, Accounting.com, Hospitalityonline.com) and by types of job seekers (e.g., Collegegrad.com)

Check out the job board's confidentiality and privacy policies. Get a separate E-mail address to use during your job search and avoid posting your resume on newsgroups.

Subscription Resources (databases)

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 publications, including more than 7,300 scholarly journals. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Some content goes back as far as 1887. Highly recommended for all academic subjects.
Associations Unlimited A directory of approximately 460,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.
Business and Company Resource Center Includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
Business Source Complete Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. Provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Some full text back to 1886, and searchable cited references back to 1998.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center Provides information on jobs and industries as well as information on resume writing, interviews, scholarships, schools and internships.
Job & Career Accelerator
LearningExpress Online tests and tutorials for a variety of tests and subjects, including the firefighters exam, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), TOEFL, Basic Writing Success Skills, U.S. citizenship, and GED.
LexisNexis Academic Full-text access to newspapers from around the world. Also contains legal and business information. Here is a video introducing LexisNexis.
Research Guide: Career Research — Experiential Education & Internship Programs

Internet/Web Resources (unlicensed)

Job Search

Resume and Interview Tips

Many sites offer useful suggestions for sharpening your resume and succeeding during interviews. Check them out for tips that you can use, especially if you are doing a plain text or scannable resume.

Salary Information

Salary information comes in many forms: average salary, entry-level salary, and professional-level salary. There is always a broad range of salary offered in any field depending on one's skills, years of experience, and whether there is a high or low demand for workers. JobWeb does annual surveys of salaries offered to four-year college graduates. Note that many positions in the New York City area pay more than the salary listed on the Internet. Using the site's "salary wizard" you can easily calculate and adjust for geographic location.

Books

Job Search

Following is a list of some of the books on this topic available in the library. You can find more books in the library stacks under these general call numbers:HF 5382.7 (job hunting), HF 5383 (resumes), HF 5549.5 (interviewing)

You can also find more books by searching the library catalog, CUNY+, using the keywords below:

job hunting
employment interviewing
resumes

Adams jobs almanac / the editors of Adams Media Corporation. Holbrook, MA: Adams Media Corporation, 2001.
REF HF 5382.75 .U6 A33 2001

Beatty, Richard H. The resume kit / Richard H. Beatty.New York: J. Wiley, c2000.
HF 5383 .B33 2000

Bolles, Richard Nelson.Job-hunting on the Internet/ Richard Nelson Bolles. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, c2001.
HF 5382.75 U6B65

Crispin, Gerry. CareerXroads : career (cross) roads/ Gerry Crispin & Mark Mehler. Kendall Park, N.J.: MMC Group, c2003.
REF HF 5382.7 C368

Eyre, Vivian.Great interview: successful strategies for getting hired / by Vivian Eyre; with Diane Osen, and Jennifer Williams.New York: LearningExpress, c2000.
HF 5549.5 I6 B387 2000

Farr, J. Michael. Getting the job you really want: a step-by-step guide to finding a good job in less time / J. Michael Farr.Indianapolis, IN: JIST Works, c2002.
REF HF 5382.7 .F33 2002

The guide to Internet job searching. Chicago, Ill. : VGM Career Books, 2005.
HF5382.7 .G85 2004/2005

Job hunter's sourcebook. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, c2002.
REF 5382.75 .U6 J63

Kursmark, Louise. Best resumes for college students and new grads / Louise M. Kursmark. Indianapolis, IN: JIST Works, Inc, c2003.
HF 5383 .K87

The Metropolitan New York job bank. Boston, MA: B. Adams, 2000.
REF HF 5382.75 .U62 N615 2000

Whitcomb, Susan Britton.Resume magic: trade secrets of a professional resume writer / Susan Britton Whitcomb. Indianapolis, IN: JIST Works, c2003.
REF HF 5383 .W47 2003

Yate, Martin John.Cover letters that knock 'em dead / by Martin Yate. Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, c2006.
HF 5383 .Y378 2006

Salary Information

American salaries and wages survey. Detroit: Gale Research.
REF HD 4973 .A67

Business rankings annual / compiled by Brooklyn Public Library, Business Library Staff. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, c2004.
REF HG 4057 .A238

Krantz, Les. Jobs rated almanac: the best & worst jobs--250 in all--ranked by more than a dozen vital factors including salary, stress, benefits and more / Les Krantz. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2002.
REF HF 5382.5 .U5 K72 2002

Pinkley, Robin L. Get paid what you're worth : the expert negotiators' guide to salary and compensation / Robin L. Pinkley and Gregory B. Northcraft. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
HD4909 .P54 2000

Porot, Daniel.101 salary secrets : how to negotiate like a pro / Daniel Porot and Frances Bolles Haynes. Berkeley, CA : Ten Speed Press, c2000.
HD 6061 .P67 2000

Media

VHS 1363 THE EMPLOYMENT INTERVIEW: AMERICAN STYLE, color, 1992, 24 min.
Directed at international students, this program addresses appropriate communication styles for job interviews.

VC 119 INTERVIEWING: MAKING IT WORK FOR YOU, color, 1986, 18 min.
This interview tutorial tape can be used for both classroom and individual instruction. A Cooperative Education student at LaGuardia Community College appears in two interviews, one that is ineffective and the other illustrating successful interviewing techniques.