Career Advising

• Resource Web links
• Overviews of issues surrounding career advising of students

  • Integrating Career and Academic Advising: Mastering the Challenge

  • Career Advisors: A New Breed

  • What Is Your Career Advising I.Q.? by Virginia Gordon
  • The Changing Workplace: Implications for Academic and Career Advising

Resources *

As featured in the 2009 NACADA member Highlights

Betsy McCalla-Wriggins, a NACADA past-president and an editor of the upcoming NACADA/Jossey-Bass publication Handbook of Career Advising, has suggested the following free resources and low-cost books as being helpful for career advising of displaced workers. Books listed could be purchased for career libraries, by advising centers, or by advisees.   Note: Watch for information regarding how to pre-order the Handbook of Career Advising early this summer. 

 

• The Changing Workplace: Implications for Academic and Career Advising by Judith Hughey and Ken Hughey
• How to write a resume via the Rockport Institute
• Online Interview Skills workshop via the University of Calgary
• Employment trends via the NACEweb
• Suggested Books*
  • What color is your parachute?: A practical manual for job-hunters by Richard Bolles
  • Transitions: Making sense of life's changes by William Bridges
  • Overwhelmed: Coping with life's ups and downs by Nancy Schlossberg

Career and Major Exploration via the Clearinghouse

Career Instruments and Resources via the Clearinghouse

Job Search resources

• Interview resources via the Clearinghouse
• Job Search links to a large variety of helpful web resources
• Resume and Vitae resources via the Clearinghouse
• Salary comparisons via MonsterTRAK's Salary Wizard
• Student Reference Letter information form via the Clearinghouse
• Skills employers value
• Today's Young Adults: Surfing for the Right Job via the Michigan State University Career Services Network

*Listing of commercial sites does not imply NACADA endorsement