Career Links and Resources
The following links are listed as a courtesy to students and owners of the sites. ASC does not take any responsibility for the cancellation of a site, or if fees are charged for the use of these sites.
Self-Assessment Tools
- MyCareerRx: Features a 3 part, 15 minute personality, values, and skills assessment that delivers relevant career matches, as well as a roadmap for your job search and information on different careers.
- University of Waterloo's Career Development eManual: This comprehensive manual walks you through all the steps for clarifying your interests and for managing your Career Development process. Free!
- Kaplan's Career Search Tool: This site has many assessment tests for personal & professional use including the GRE, MCA, MAT and more. There is a cost involved.
- Descriptions of the Personality Types: Find your personality type with the Myers-Briggs.
- Personality & other Inventories: Includes IQ, Relationship, Kingdomality, Power, Personality, Lifestyle, Love, Balance, Assertiveness, Communication and Self-Esteem assessments.
- Typing Test: Free, simple, and it only takes a minute... literally! Just click "Begin Test"
Choosing a Major
- Career Opportunities by Major: Major Resource Kits link academic majors to career alternatives by providing information on career paths, sample job titles, and a short bibliography of Career Resource Center materials available to students in a particular major.
- Common Misperceptions about Choosing a Major: Common misperceptions about choosing a major and examples of how these misperceptions can darken your educational vision.
Internships
- Ultimate Intern: The Ultimate Intern website collects detailed student 'reviews' of their internships, which can then be read/used by other students to get an honest feel for the position. New!
- ColoradoIntern.com: The ColoradoIntern.com website highlights Colorado volunteer, internship, and co-op opportunities specifically for in-state students.
- The Quarterlife Internship Program The Quarterlife site lists over 375 internship opportunities with hard-to-crack companies like NASCAR, Sony, GQ and others.
- Internships with the Federal Government Article: Article about internships with the Federal Government.
- Making a Difference: Making a Difference is the Federal Government's career site including hot job links, internship opportunities, and an internship directory.
- CoolWorks: Find a seasonal job or career in some of the greatest places on earth.
- Environmental Careers Organization: A national, non-profit organization that develops professionals for the environmental field through paid environmental internships that provide highly professional, on-the-job learning experiences.
- Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities National Internship Program: The HACU National Internship Program (HNIP) recruits college students for paid summer- and semester-long internships at federal agencies and private corporations in Washington, D.C., and throughout the country. These ten- and fifteen-week internship programs give college students direct experience in a diversity of careers in the federal and corporate sectors.
- InternshipPrograms: Use InternshipPrograms.com to post your resume to employers who are exclusively looking for interns! You can also search our extensive database of internships, read internship reviews or create your own real-intern profile, or research companies and careers on Wetfeet.com.
- Z University: Companies are beginning to adopt this intern management system from the Intern Institute and its affiliate, Z University. A really comprehensive program.
- The Internship Institute: A non-profit organization working with students and employers to simplify the internship process.
Career Information
- BrainTrack: The BrainTrack website offers in-depth career profiles as well as degree and wage statistics for over 300 occupations that commonly require college or university education. New!
- Career Descriptions: The CityTownInfo.com website has at-a-glance comparative salary information, introductory career videos, and a new Career Stories section in which people report their on-the-job experiences and provide tips and advice for others.
- Career Advice by Readers Digest: An informative site dedicated to providing free resources to students looking to find helpful career advice and tips. The page provides excellent resources for finding a job, advice on how to succeed in the work force, success stories of today’s millionaires, and much more.
- Education Portal: The Education Portal website features free training videos on many topics related to your career search, including interviewing, following up after an interview and others.
- Freshmen and Sophomore Career Planning Guide e-magazine: Start planning your career now with the Freshmen and Sophomore Career Planning Guide by jobpostings Magazine.
- The Career Project: The Career Project is a database of thousands of real people career profiles in hundreds of professions. Job seekers and students have the ability to learn the intimate details of jobs directly from the people who currently work them.
- Wetfeet : Featured career research information and job search powered by careerbuilder.com
- JobWeb: Career development and job-search advice for new college graduates.
- Dictionary of Occupational Titles: Detailed explanations of thousands of Occupations.
- Graduate Management Admission Council: Dedicated to creating access to graduate management education and supporting business schools worldwide.
- The Occupational Outlook Handbook: For hundreds of different types of jobs the OOH tells you training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, working conditions, and more.
- What Color is Your Parachute: The Job Hunters Bible.com - a website supplement to this great book which is available in the ASC CCC Resource Library.
- The Startup Journal: This site is a must for anyone thiking about starting their own business. Volumes of information regarding entrepreneurship in a single place.
- The Economic Research Institute's Career and Cost of Living Comparison: This site provides basic information on salary projections for careers as well as basic cost of living information for cities around the world.
- CollegeGrad.com: A comprehensive career information site for new college graduates which includes information on resumes and cover letters, information for conducting a job search, and a job search function.
- The Top 500 Entry Level Employers of 2007: This page, posted by CollegeGrad.com, identifies the top employers hiring entry level college graduates for 2007.
- The Future of Work blog: A straightforward blog on work. The realistic and critically-thinking author (Jim Ware) offers food for thought as our work world rapidly evolves.
- Job Interviewing Videos: Education Portal, featuring training videos on a number of different career topics.
- Job Networking Videos: Education Portal, featuring training vidoes on a number of different career topics.
- Resume Videos: Education Portal, featuring training vidoes on a number of different career topics.
- Researching Careers Videos: Education Portal, featuring training vidoes on a number of different career topics.
Job Search Sites
- OneWire.com: OneWire.com is a career management tool for finance professionals that offers job search and networking capabilities plus much more. New!
- The Corporate Playbook: The Corporate Playbook is the premiere job search engine for collegiate athletes and alumni. There are thousands of mid- and entry-level jobs posted and over 400 colleges and universities across the nation use the site. New!
- CareerRookie.com: CareerRookie.com is free to students and is dedicated to internships, part-time jobs and after graduation careers. New!
- Green Careers Guide: Green Careers Guide covers high-quality in-demand jobs like solar, wind and geothermal. Additionally the training section gives details on how and where to get trained. And, for the entrepreneurial types, there is the business opportunity section that points out how to start your own green business. New!
- GrouperEye.com: GrouperEye.com offers job and internship postings, case studies, and a real way for students to connect and get noticed by employers. New!
- juju.com: An employment search engine that searches millions of jobs from thousands of job boards and corporate career pages to make job searches easier and more effective for everyone.
- Legal Jobs from LexisNexis: LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell is a leading resource for information on the legal profession worldwide. This site includes job opportunities from law firms, and corporations. You can also manage your resume, save your searches, and set up job alerts, all for free.
- The Health-Medical-Jobs website lists job opportunities from a variety of different healthcare professions, including Nursing.
- GettingHired.com: GettingHired.com is the largest national employment and networking portal connecting job seekers with disabilities, employers committed to hiring job seekers with disabilities, agencies providing services to the disabled community, colleges and universities, and disability advocacy groups.
- Tob-Sales-Jobs.com: Tob-Sales-Jobs.com has thousands of sales job listings for those considering a career in sales.
- The Job Search Page: Job Search Page offers instant and free access to millions of available jobs from across the web. With a quick search you can find jobs from career websites, employers directly, staffing agencies, newspapers and more.
- ChemicalRegister.com: The Chemical Industry Supplier Registry is a compilation of chemical suppliers enabling buyers to easily source manufacturers for price and capacity of commodity and specialty chemicals by name or CAS registry number. The site includes new projects, free magazines, jobs, news and events.
- Retail Careers Now: This job search engine for retail professionals features a broad array of jobs and allows you to customize your career search by specialty or location, and gives you the ability to track all associated activity concerning your search.
- ProcessRegister.com: The Process Industry Supplier Registry is a compilation of process suppliers enabling buyers to easily source manufacturers of process, energy and greater manufacturing products such as valves, pumps and strainers. Site includes new projects, free magazines, jobs, news and events.
- CareerJet: An employment search engine for the USA. In one simple search, Careerjet gives the job seeker access to a massive selection of jobs that are compiled from various internet sources, saving the trouble of having to visit each site individually.
- CareerJet-Australia: An employment search engine for Australia. In one simple search, Careerjet gives the job seeker access to a massive selection of jobs that are compiled from various internet sources, saving the trouble of having to visit each site individually. New!
- JobVue: Jobvue.com is a careers search engine with an added feature - the ability for students to interview for job openings around the world via webcams. This free service allows you to find job openings through any means possible (other job boards, networking...etc), and invite the employer to join Jobvue so an interview can be conducted. An employer would sign up for a free account and search for the student via their e-mail address, choose an interview time, and conduct the interview.
- Indeed.com: Gives you free access - instantly, in a single search - to millions of jobs and internships from hundreds of job boards, newspaper classifieds and company websites.
- CampStaff.com: An online service that helps young people find jobs at summer camps, CampStaff is completely free of charge for job seekers, and serves as a one-stop destination for information about thousands of job openings at approximately 300 of America's best summer camps.
- Jobaroo: Provides Australian jobs, visa information and other helpful advice as students plan and prepare for their careers.
- Work Gateways: A comprehensive graduate employment site listing jobs across the United Kingdom, including living costs and other useful traveller information.
- OPTCircle: OPTCircle.com is a new job portal for international students. The site features a large database of employers who are looking to sponsor International Graduates and offer internships to interested students. The employers on this site particularly look for students with Business Management, Computers and Information Systems backgrounds.
- Job Search Shortcut: Job Search Shortcut is a new free job postings search engine featuring positions in over 30 US metropolitan areas.
- TownieJobs.com: TownieJobs.com is a website which can help job seekers find positions in the Alamosa area.
- EducationAmerica.net: Free job search site for Bachelor, Masters, & PhD professionals looking for career opportunities in the education sector. The site is free and gives you the ability to upload your resume.
- Online Career Center from the National Association of Independent Schools: More than 1300 NAIS independent elementary and secondary schools across the country post teaching and administrative jobs on the NAIS Online Career Center. This is a free service for job seekers.
- Career Planet: Employment Resource for many possible web sites.
- JobPostings e-magazine: New entry-level jobs and career information for students and recent graduates.
- Careers in Tax: Careers In Tax - the preeminent tax job site. Specializing in federal, state, local, and international tax jobs for tax professionals. Extensive selection of tax positions, career information/counseling, tax job alerts, confidential resume postings, staffing and consulting firm searches.
- MyWorkster.com: My Workster provides the means for college students to develop a professional presence online free of charge. Through this, My Workster helps to match the right person with the right job and to encourage business opportunities through business professional networking.
- International Job Links: International employment directory selecting and reviewing world-wide top job sites.
- K-12 Jobs: Serving over a million educators per year - search for your perfect teaching or administrator position.
- Science Careers: Specializing in finding a great science career for you.
- Avue Central: Avue Central is a federal employment service provided free to the public. It is a fast and easy way to find and apply for federal employment. Avue Central offers private, safe, and secure access to thousands of federal jobs worldwide.
- True Careers: Find currently available jobs by any city or state.
- USA Jobs: The official job site of the United State Federal Government.
- StudentJobs.gov: StudentJobs.gov, a part of the larger USAJobs website, is focused on providing entry-level opportunities within the federal government for students and e-scholars. As a Hispanic-serving institution, Adams State is partnered with HACU to help all of our students, including our Hispanic students, become aware of career opportunties within the Federal government.
- FitnessJobs.com: A free job board for the health, fitness and recreation industries.
- DisabilityWork.com: A free job board for individuals with disabilities.
- CollegeGrad.com: CollegeGrad.com is a comprehensive career site for new college graduates which includes the ability to search for jobs on the site.
- The Online Recruiters Directory: Provides a comprehensive recruiters and recruiting services directory as well as a comprehensive Job Board Directory that is searchable by location or by specialty.
- The Job Finder Advisory: An interactive system offering customized and free career and job-hunting advice. The system offers tips and advice based on your background such as: current job, search status, education and many other parameters.
- ColoradoJobs.net: Search great local jobs and post your resume for free. Get jobs emailed to you once you have created an account.
- Colorado Pharmacists Association Career Center: The Career Center for the Colorado Pharmacists Association provides job seekers a source for finding the best pharmacy jobs in the state. Post a resume or register for automatic email alerts on jobs.
- Carousel Expositions: The Carousel Expositions website includes a website with comprehensive lists of Job Fairs (on & off-campus) in all 50 states, including Colorado. There is no cost to the job seeker.
- Photography Jobs Central: Do you have an interest in the Photography industry? If so this is the right place for you to look for internships and jobs. Every week this site adds over 1000 internships and entry level Photography jobs.
- oDesk: oDesk is a marketplace for small and medium-sized technology companies to find talented freelance programmers, designers, developersr, writers, and more. Over 100 free online certification tests are available for all students. Any student can join oDesk for free, complete free online certification tests in over 100 categories, apply for any of the 1000 new jobs per week and take benefit of the guaranteed payment offered by oDesk.
- JobScribble.com: JobScribble.com is a free website for job seekers and college students. Search for jobs, do college planning, and other valuable tools.
- BarefootStudent.com: BarefootStudent.com is a site where students can post their availability for jobs as well as search for jobs that employers have posted.
Writing Resumes and Cover Letters
- IntaJob.com: IntaJob.com is a free online resume builder. You can also host your resume online at your own private web address to impress employers. Free! New!
- Resume Tips: The JobHuntingAdvice.com website offers free career help on a variety of topics, including practical tips for writing a good resume. New!
- Examples of: Cover Letters: The Examples Of websites provide an array of tools that can help you in your job search. In addition to Cover Letters, get examples of: Resumes, Interview Questions, Curriculum Vitaes, and Business Letters. New!
- Resume Dictionary: Resume Dictionary is a resume-writing resource. It is based on KSA (Knowledge-Skills-Abilities) and is written by HR Directors, Teachers, and Employers.
- cvTips.com: What is a curriculum vitae? Want to see an example of a resume for your specific career or job? cvTips.com is a comprehensive website including resume and CV examples, resignation letter examples, and other helpful career resources.
- Cover Letters: Samples of others' cover letters and tips to make yours great.
Volunteer Opportunities
- AmeriCorps: A network of local, state, and national service programs that connects more than 70,000 Americans each year with intensive service to meet our county's critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment.
- Cross Cultural Solutions: Volunteer Abroad - work side-by-side with local people and experience another culture like never before.
- Habitat for Humanity: Nonprofit/Ecumenical Christian housing organization which seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessnes from the world and make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
- Peace Corps: More than 182,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have been invited by 138 host countries to work on issues ranging from information technology, environmental preservation, and business development. Peace Corps Volunteers continue to help countless individuals who want to build a better life for themselves, their children, and their communities.
- Teach For America: A national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity.
- Global Volunteer Network: The Global Volunteer Network places volunteers in community projects throughout the world, giving volunteers the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational, environmental, and community aid programs.
Graduate School
- EducationDegree.com: A directory of over 18,000 teacher education programs (both undergrad and graduate) from over 1,200 schools across the US, including over 570 Alternative Certification programs. New!
- WorldWideLearn.com: World Wide Learn is a web directory of educational programs for career development. New!
- SAT Prep Website: This SAT prepration site features SAT sample questions and study tips for many of the test sections.
- My GRE Tutor: A website that offers free GRE practice tests, tutorials, hundreds of practice questions, and a vocabulary tutor complete with thousands of words, all at no cost.
- GradSchools.com: A massive online directory of listings and links to grad programs in every subject and from every geographic area.
- Test Prep Center: Online Prep Courses for LSAT, GRE, GMAT, SAT, and more.
