Career Resources
There are a variety of resources and tools available to you when you are trying to find your niche in the business world. Check the resources below to inventory your skills and interests or get tips for resume writing or preparing cover letters.
Before you interview with a company, consider doing a little research about the industry and the specific company. Your preparation and professionalism will translate to a more successful interview. You'll also be ready to ask relevant questions about the company.
Remember that many jobs are never posted, so another way to jump start your job search is to take some time to meet with people in your area of interest and participate in an “informational interview.” This will give you an idea about trends in your chosen industry along with the opportunity network with people who may be able to assist with your job search.
Career Assessments
Abbreviated test and explanation of different personality factors.
Site provides a variety of personality and career tests.
Search, browse or query through nearly 1,000 different careers. Read career profiles, job descriptions, educational requirements, and career outlook information. Find out what kind of salary to expect, watch short videos, and even learn about the types of people that typically go into each career. Take a skill, interest, values or personality assessment.
Researching Your Career or Company
Find information about the companies you are interviewing with.
Includes information about when to do research, determining what information you want, starting points, and sources.
(US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics)--Government publication where you can find out about a specific career, compare different careers, or see an extensive list of career options.
Welcome to the O*NETTM Resource Center, the nation’s primary source of occupational information. Here you will find news and information about the O*NET program. This site is your source for O*NET products, including O*NET data, career exploration tools, and reports.
Careers in Business
General information and resources. Career guides in libraries and career centers.
Marketing career paths and descriptions, web links, and other web resources.
Why you should major in accounting, and career options.
Resume Writing
Use the no-cost option.
Resume tips, examples, discussion of the different types of resumes, selected resume resources on the web, electronic resume banks, and cover letter samples.
Site includes information about cover letters and other similar types of correspondence, and resume preparation and posting.
A collection of tips including resume and cover letter samples and templates.
Before you mail out your resume, use this form to check for quality!
Interviewing
Tips for job interviews, sample interview questions, what to wear
This site provides sample interview questions, information about phone interviews, lunch interviews, and panel interviews, along with some interviewing tips and tricks.
More geared toward upper management or executive, but questions that provide some good insights and tips.
A collection of the best job interviewing resources - including articles, tutorials, and tools - to help you succeed in any employment interview situation, including traditional, behavioral, and case interview models.
Job Searching Resources
Many jobs are never advertised. Find out here.
Job leads and other information for job seekers.
General resources and more specific occupation and industry resources.
Idealist, a project of Action Without Borders, provides information about over 50,000 nonprofit and community organizations in 165 countries, which you can search or browse by name, location, or mission.
WorkBloom is a career-related website offering extensive and updated career resources.
Since 1995, Nick Corcodilos has been here, online, revealing the fallacies that conspire to keep talented workers and good employers apart - and openly sharing the headhunter's sound, profitable methods for getting them together.
The Energized Hiring for Individuals is the blueprint and the detailed instructions for a person to maximize his/her career potential. Don't settle for just a job, learn the inside secrets of the hiring game to get the best that you deserve. Using standard methods begets standard results; using the Energized Hiring for Individuals leads to unbelievable outcomes. Adhering to the program directives will usually result in more action in two weeks than the standard methods accomplish in six to eight months.
Part-Time Jobs
Sports-Related Jobs and Internships
A cutting-edge portal to a wide variety of sports jobs with teams in the NFL, Major League Baseball, NBA, NHL, and links to may job boards.
Internship / Cooperative Education
Salary
Salary surveys, negotiating salaries, salary tables, and more.
Find salaries by job category or geographic area, or look at jobs by salary range. Discusses employee benefit plans and mandated benefits and provides a benefits calculator as well.
(The Wall Street Journal Executive Career Site)
Variety of articles dealing with many topics about job hunting, including networking.
Networking
Articles cover a wide variety of topics including advice for people hesitant to use networking as a job searching tool.
Professional Organizations
This site provides links to prominent associations and professional organizations.
Accounting
This organization has existed since 1887. CPAs as well as students who are not CPAs are eligible to join. The benefits to student members are access to publications, scholarships, and an assortment of accounting information. Details of the benefits and costs of membership can be found at http://www.aicpa.org/edu/studaff/value.htm
This organization has existed since 1916. The benefits of membership include access to publications, job placement services, and an opportunity to participate in forums to help shape the accounting profession.
To understand the difference between a CPA and CMA, please view this file: http://www.imanet.org/pdf/2878.pdf
The first page of the file includes key points about the skills that a CMA would have. Those skills would be what an employer would expect of a good internal accountant (internal to a business that is, like someone who would be pursuing Cleary's Corporate Accounting BBA degree). The second page of the file includes a comparison between the CMA and the CPA designations.
This is a national, non-profit organization which helps its members to identify and solve problems in automating the corporate tax function. They have a forum on their website and they also publish newsletters and sponsor conferences throughout the year. Benefits to membership include discounts to attend the conferences, various ACT publications and access to a database of computer hardware and software used in different corporate tax departments. Cost of membership is $125 per person annually and $400 for legal entities.
The MACPA is Michigan's premier resource for CPA's in education, government, industry and public accounting as well as educators and students. Members of this organization have access to more than 300 continuing professional education courses annually along with other related association task forces and legislative advocacy programs. They also offer member savings plans to a variety of products and services such as insurance rates, credit cards and popular magazines. Membership fees range from $20 to over $200 annually, depending on different criteria.
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