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Library Journal Best Database, “Best Job Resource” category
Library Journal Best Database, “Best for High Schoolers” category
“…covers a lot of ground…straightforward and powerful interface…Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is a gold standard…”
Library Journal
“…recommend the thorough, user-friendly, really peerless Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center to libraries serving job-seekers of all ages. Indispensable for high-school, academic, and public libraries.”
Booklist, starred review
“…provides users with in-depth information…”
American Reference Books Annual
“…comprehensive…featur[es] a wide range of authoritative content that is easily accessible and well organized…presents information in a very straightforward manner…”
Library Journal
“…an excellent resource for job seekers who need assistance with résumés, cover letters, and interviews.”
Booklist
“…convenient, user-friendly…Public libraries, academic institutions, and career counseling offices should find it especially useful with high school students, mainstream career changers, and other general users who wish to do preliminary career exploration.”
Reference Reviews
“Navigation of the uncluttered screens is straightforward, the writing is uniformly clear, and the breadth of coverage is unsurpassed. Depth of coverage for a career or vocational choice…is just about everything one could ask of a comprehensive career source…highly recommended…”
Booklist
“…provides quick career guidance…Recommended.”
Library Journal
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: New Career Q&A and Career Tips Videos
Twenty-five new Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight videos have just been added to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, bringing the total up to more than 200. Read More ›
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: New Career Q&A and Career Tips Videos
Twenty-five new Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight videos have just been added to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, bringing the total up to more than 200. This series of 10- to 20-minute video interviews with working professionals across multiple industries gives viewers a no-nonsense account of what it’s like to work in specific careers, along with candid advice for success.
The new videos cover careers including:
- Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselor
- Anesthesiologist
- Athletic Director
- Audio Recording Engineer
- Carpenter
- Child Care Service Owner
- Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Computer Network Administrator
- Dermatologist
- Fire Safety Director
- Firefighter
- Franchise Owner
- Fund-Raiser
- Geographic Information Systems Specialist
- Health Club Manager
- Historian
- Line Installer
- Meteorologist
- Park Ranger
- Plumber
- Power Plant Worker
- Registered Nurse
- Wealth Management Associate
- Wealth Management Managing Director
- Webmaster
In addition, more than 20 new videos in the Career Tips series have just been added. Career Tips videos offer concise, timely advice on job-search techniques and career skills. Each video discusses several clear points that viewers can put to use while planning their career or searching for a job.
The topics covered in the new videos include:
- Building a Bigger and Better Network
- Tips for Working with a New Boss
- The Art of Salary Negotiation
- How to Prepare for a Skype Interview
- 3 Body Language Tips that Will Help You Succeed in an Interview
- Tips for a Successful Phone Interview
- 4 Strategies for Nailing the Video Interview
- Get Your Interviewer to Like You
- 3 Behaviors That Will Help You Get Promoted
- Strength Vs. Passion: What Makes a Dream Job?
- Answering “Why Do You Want to Leave Your Current Job?”
- Your Job Search Is a Business
- Details You Must Include in Your Interview Thank You Note
- This Cover Letter Trick Will Make Hiring Mangers Read to the End
- How to Reduce Interview Stress
- Selling Yourself in Your Cover Letter
- How to Turn Down an Offer When You’ve Accepted Another
- How to Ask for a Raise
- 3 Tips for Interviewing for a New Job on the Sly
- How to Answer the “Why Do You Want to Work for Us?” Interview Question
- How to Make Small Talk Before Your Interview
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: New Professions Articles and Career Q&A Videos Added
More than 20 new Professions articles have just been added to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, joining the thousands of articles across 140 different industries and career fields users can find there. Read More ›
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: New Professions Articles and Career Q&A Videos Added
More than 20 new Professions articles have just been added to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, joining the thousands of articles across 140 different industries and career fields users can find there. Each thoroughly researched and up-to-date Professions article includes an overview of the profession, a brief history, a description of the job and its work environment, its earnings, advice on how to explore the job, a list of educational and certification requirements, the profession’s outlook, and more.
The professions covered in the new articles include:
- Product Managers
- Prosthodontists
- Recycling and Reclamation Workers
- Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists
- Regulatory Affairs Managers
- Regulatory Affairs Specialists
- Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists
- Remote Sensing Technicians
- Retail Loss Prevention Specialists
- Solar Energy Installation Managers
- Solar Energy Sales Representatives
- Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians
- Spa Managers
- Speech-Language Pathology Assistants
- Strategy Managers
- Transportation Engineers
- Transportation Planners
- Water/Wastewater Engineers
- Wind Energy Engineers
- Wind Energy Operations Managers
- Wind Energy Project Managers
In addition, more than 40 new Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight videos have been added, bringing the total up to more than 170. This series of video interviews with working professionals across multiple industries gives viewers a no-nonsense account of what it’s like to work in specific careers, along with candid advice for success.
The new videos cover careers including:
- Advertising Worker
- Animal Trainer
- Audit & Assurance Accountant
- Children’s Librarian
- Digital Advertising and Marketing Worker
- Director of Volunteers
- Drone Pilot
- Electrician
- Emergency Medical Technician
- Financial Consultant
- Forensic Expert
- Genetic Counselor
- Human Resources Consultant
- Human Resources Manager
- Insurance Fraud Investigator
- Insurance Underwriter
- Internet Store Manager and Entrepreneur
- Loan Processor
- Loan Underwriter
- Management Consultant
- Media Planners and Buyer
- Media Relations Specialist
- Medical Secretary
- Mobile Software Developer
- Musician
- Nuclear Medicine Technologist
- Nurse Anesthetist
- Nurse Practitioner
- Petroleum Engineer
- Pharmacist
- Pharmacy Technician
- Physical Therapist
- Physical Therapy Assistant
- Radio and Television Announcer
- Radiologic Technologist
- Retail Business Owner
- Retail Sales Worker
- Software Designer
- Speech-Language Pathologist
- Urban and Regional Planner
- User Experience Designer
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: 2018 Updates
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is continuously updated and enhanced, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource. Here is a recap of some of the content updates made so far this year. Read More ›
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: 2018 Updates
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is continuously updated and enhanced, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource. Here is a recap of some of the content updates made so far this year.
Recent Updates and Additions:
- Articles: Added 37 new Professions articles, including Fuel Cell Engineers, Hydroelectric Production Managers, Investment Fund Managers, Logistics Engineers, Neuropsychologists, Product Analysts, and Radiologists. Also updated five Industry articles—Energy, Health Care Management, Hedge Funds, Information Technology, and Private Equity.
- Career Skills: Revised and updated the “Career Skills” section of the “Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills” landing page, presenting essential information for understanding and mastering career and workplace readiness skills and serving a direct need in career education to address the “Skills Gap,” a lack of basic workplace knowledge and skills among people entering the workforce for the first time. Nine Career Skills sections and their related Skill Tips and Exercises have been thoroughly expanded and updated:
- Communication Skills
- Ethics and Etiquette
- Finding a Job
- Leadership Skills
- Learning the Ropes
- Organization Skills
- Problem Solving
- Research and Information Management
- Teamwork Skills.
- Career Tips videos: Added more than 20 videos from the new, proprietary Career Tips video series, offering concise, timely advice on job-search techniques and career skills such as writing better résumés and cover letters, networking, interviewing, and advancing your career.
- Career Q&A videos: Added three new and original videos: Bank Branch Managers, Drug Developers, and Market Research Analysts.
- School Search: Updated Graduate School Search data.
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: New Career Tips Videos
A brand-new, proprietary Career Tips video series has been added to Infobase’s Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center database. The first 21 videos in this new series offer concise, timely advice on job-search techniques and career skills such as writing better résumés and cover letters, networking, interviewing, and advancing your career. Read More ›
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: New Career Tips Videos
A brand-new, proprietary Career Tips video series has been added to Infobase’s Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center database. The first 21 videos in this new series offer concise, timely advice on job-search techniques and career skills such as writing better résumés and cover letters, networking, interviewing, and advancing your career.
Each video discusses several clear points that viewers can put to use while planning their career or searching for a job. Conversational and informative, the videos present crucial concepts and techniques in language accessible to users of all experience levels.
Topics include:
- 3 Tricky Interview Questions and How to Answer Them
- 5 Tips to Excel in Your Summer Internship
- How to Rock a Career Fair
- Résumé Basics
- How to Use Social Media for Professional Networking
- 3 Phrases You Should Stop Saying at Work
- and many more.
Users can access the Career Tips videos using the “Career Tips Videos” link on the “Launch Your Career” dropdown menu, from a right rail link on the “Career Skills” landing page, or via search.
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: Updated and Expanded Career Skills
The award-winning Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is continuously updated with fresh and current career information and insights. Most recently, content has been thoroughly expanded and updated in the Career Skills section of the “Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills” landing page—presenting essential information for understanding and mastering career and workplace readiness skills and serving a direct need in career education and preparation. Read More ›
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: Updated and Expanded Career Skills
The award-winning Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is continuously updated with fresh and current career information and insights. Most recently, content has been thoroughly expanded and updated in the Career Skills section of the “Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills” landing page—presenting essential information for understanding and mastering career and workplace readiness skills and serving a direct need in career education and preparation.
In recent years, many employers, educational institutions, politicians, and government officials have expressed concern over the “Skills Gap,” a lack of basic workplace knowledge and skills among people entering the workforce for the first time. Surveys by the National Association of Colleges and Employers have identified key skills areas ranked most important by employers. The Career Skills content users can find in Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center directly covers each of those key skills—many of which transcend career exploration and can also be applied to academic success strategies and general life skills.
The nine Career Skills, each containing related Skill Tips and Exercises, include:
- Communication Skills
- Ethics and Etiquette
- Finding a Job
- Leadership Skills
- Learning the Ropes
- Organization Skills
- Problem Solving
- Research and Information Management
- Teamwork Skills.
Users can find the Career Skills sections by going to the “Launch Your Career” drop-down menu at the top of any page and clicking on “Career Skills,” or by clicking on the “More Resources” link in the “Launch Your Career” section of the home page.
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: 2017 Year in Review—Updates and More
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center has been updated and enhanced throughout the past year, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource. Read More ›
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: 2017 Year in Review—Updates and More
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center has been updated and enhanced throughout the past year, increasing the educational value of this award-winning resource.
Recent Updates and Additions:
- Career Q&A Videos: Added 61 new and original videos in such high-interest industries as account manager, biomedical engineer, blogger, event planner, music directors, real estate developers, and more.
- Articles: Added 17 new and 134 updated Industry articles and 142 new and 845 updated Professions articles from the Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance, 17th Edition.
- Plan Your Education: Updated graduate, nursing, and undergraduate school searches.
- Industries and Careers: Implemented new parent categories to organize industries.
- Career Interest Assessment: Improved assessment results.
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: Infobase Partners with NC LIVE to Provide North Carolina with an Essential Career Reference
Infobase is pleased to announce that NC LIVE, North Carolina’s statewide public and academic library consortium, has just signed on as a subscriber to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center. Read More ›
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: Infobase Partners with NC LIVE to Provide North Carolina with an Essential Career Reference
Infobase is pleased to announce that NC LIVE, North Carolina’s statewide public and academic library consortium, has just signed on as a subscriber to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center. With this multi-year agreement, all library patrons across North Carolina will now have free access to this award-winning career research database through www.nclive.org or via their local library’s website.
Choosing a career or planning your education can be a daunting decision, but North Carolinians can now turn to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center for a one-stop resource whatever their stage of career exploration or planning. The database’s unprecedented depth of coverage is organized into three main sections—Industries and Careers, Plan Your Education, and Launch Your Career—with up-to-date industry and professions articles, school planning resources, job skills and career advice, career videos, links to internships and outside jobs, and other valuable material.
Benefits for those exploring possible career fields:
- Profiles of 140 industries and career fields and thousands of professions, thoroughly researched and up to date
- “Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight” videos
- “My Life” interviews that offer insider perspectives from working professionals
- Career Interest Assessment
Benefits for those planning their education:
- Comprehensive and filterable school search (undergraduate, graduate, nursing, and vocational/technical)
- Financial aid directories
- College planning articles
- Career skills advice and tips that transcend career exploration—and can be applied to academic success strategies and general life skills
Benefits for those actively seeking job opportunities or looking to advance their career:
- Networking advice on topics such as managing your online presence and using social media
- Expert tips on writing résumés and cover letters, interviewing, apprenticeships and internships, workplace skills, and more
- Career advice blog, with an archive of more than 2,000 posts, plus tips for graduates from nationally renowned author and career expert Sue Morem
- Links to current, live job and internship postings.
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: More Than 30 New Professions Articles Added
Infobase is pleased to announce that more than 30 new Professions articles have been added to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, joining the thousands of articles across 140 different industries and career fields users can find there. Each thoroughly researched and up-to-date Professions article includes an overview of the profession, a brief history, a description of the job and its work environment, its earnings, advice on how to explore the job, a list of educational and certification requirements, the profession’s outlook, and more. Read More ›
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: More Than 30 New Professions Articles Added
Infobase is pleased to announce that more than 30 new Professions articles have been added to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, joining the thousands of articles across 140 different industries and career fields users can find there. Each thoroughly researched and up-to-date Professions article includes an overview of the profession, a brief history, a description of the job and its work environment, its earnings, advice on how to explore the job, a list of educational and certification requirements, the profession’s outlook, and more.
The professions covered in the new articles include:
- Adaptive physical education specialists
- Anesthesiologist assistants
- Audit & assurance accountants
- Automotive engineering technicians
- Baristas
- Biochemical engineers
- Biofuels/biodiesel technology and product development managers
- Biomass power plant managers
- Brownfield redevelopment specialists and site managers
- Business intelligence analysts
- Chief sustainability officers
- Clinical data managers
- Clinical research coordinators
- Compliance managers
- Customs brokers
- Cytogenetic technologists
- Distance learning coordinators
- Document management specialists
- Drone engineers
- Electrical engineering technologists
- Environmental economists
- Tax accountants and attorneys
- and more.
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: 30+ New Career Q&A Videos Added
Infobase is pleased to announce that more than 30 new Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight videos have been added to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, bringing the total number up to more than 110. Read More ›
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: 30+ New Career Q&A Videos Added
Infobase is pleased to announce that more than 30 new Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight videos have been added to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, bringing the total number up to more than 110. This series of video interviews with working professionals across multiple industries gives viewers a no-nonsense account of what it’s like to work in specific careers, along with candid advice for success. The new videos include ones on FBI agents, marketing managers, pediatricians, and real estate developers.
To access the videos in the database, users can either click on the “Career Q&A Videos” link on the right-hand side of the home page to access a full list of the available Q&A videos, select from the “Explore Industries & Careers” drop-down menu at the top of each page, or click on the “Watch Career Q&A Video” icon that displays at the top of those Profession Profiles pages that include a Career Q&A video.
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: More Career Q&A Videos Added
Infobase is pleased to announce that 10 new Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight videos have been added to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, including ones on artists, bloggers, chiropractors, composers and arrangers, dancers and choreographers, green builders, patent lawyers, and more. Read More ›
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: More Career Q&A Videos Added
Infobase is pleased to announce that 10 new Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight videos have been added to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, including ones on artists, bloggers, chiropractors, composers and arrangers, dancers and choreographers, green builders, patent lawyers, and more.
In each Career Q&A video, the interviewee answers 10 questions, covering the main duties of the job, how he or she got started in that career, keys to success, required education or training, the workplace atmosphere, a typical day on the job, the industry’s main goals and challenges, advice to young people entering the profession, and a look to the future. The interviewees hail from a range of locations all over the country and include a mix of seasoned pros and younger workers.
To access the videos in the database, users can either click on the “Career Q&A Videos” link on the right-hand side of the home page to access a full list of the available Q&A videos, select from the “Explore Industries & Careers” drop-down menu at the top of each page, or click on the “Watch Career Q&A Video” icon that displays at the top of those Profession Profiles pages that include a Career Q&A video.
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: New Career Q&A Videos
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center‘s Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight videos are a valuable feature of our award-winning career research database. Read More ›
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: New Career Q&A Videos
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center‘s Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight videos are a valuable feature of our award-winning career research database. In this series of video interviews with working professionals across multiple industries, viewers get a no-nonsense account of what it’s like to work in specific careers, along with candid advice for success.
The latest update to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center adds 38 new Career Q&A videos—bringing the total number to more than 70—including corporate community relations directors, family lawyers, library directors, sports photographers, occupational therapists, political reporters, pilots, animators, and many more.
In each Career Q&A video, the interviewee answers 10 questions, covering the main duties of the job, how he or she got started in that career, keys to success, required education or training, the workplace atmosphere, a typical day on the job, the industry’s main goals and challenges, advice to young people entering the profession, and a look to the future. The interviewees hail from a range of locations all over the country and include a mix of seasoned pros and younger workers.
There are several easy ways to access the Career Q&A videos. Users can either click on the “Career Q&A Videos” link on the right-hand side of the home page to access a full list of the available Q&A videos, select from the “Explore Industries & Careers” drop-down menu at the top of each page, or click on the “Watch Career Q&A Video” icon that displays at the top of those Profession Profiles pages that include a Career Q&A video. The segments in each video are conveniently listed to the right of the video player, making it easy to go directly to a specific part of the video.
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Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: Spotlight on Networking and Other Content Updates
Do you think introverts can’t network? That your Facebook profile isn’t important in your job search? Or that the best way to start off a networking conversation is by letting the person know you are looking for a job? Networking plays an important role in job searching yet many myths abound that keep people from making the effective connections that can significantly increase their chances of getting a job. Read More ›
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center: Spotlight on Networking and Other Content Updates
Do you think introverts can’t network? That your Facebook profile isn’t important in your job search? Or that the best way to start off a networking conversation is by letting the person know you are looking for a job? Networking plays an important role in job searching yet many myths abound that keep people from making the effective connections that can significantly increase their chances of getting a job.
Recent studies have shown that job seekers who are referred are three to four times more likely to be hired (some studies even found referrals to be 14 times more likely to get the job!), so networking is time well spent.
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center‘s Networking section offers solid advice for students and patrons who are conducting a job search (even people who already have a job will benefit, as this section shows). The 12 articles, written by Miriam Salpeter, an expert in networking and social media job-search practices, are straightforward and substantial, authoritative and accessible, and full of valuable tips that can readily be put into action. Learn what networking is (and what it isn’t), how to identify and understand exactly who is in your network, how to manage your online presence and use social media in a job search, how to make cold calls and handle follow-up, how to maintain and manage your network even after you have a job, and more.
To get started, users can simply click on “Launch Your Career” at the top of any page, select “Resumes, Cover Letters & Interviewing” from the drop-down menu, and then click on “Networking.”
Other recent updates to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center include:
- New section of sample Referral Letters in the Cover Letters section
- More industry-specific résumé samples
- New Industry Overviews and Profession Profiles
The award-winning Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive resource for career exploration and planning. This database includes 94 industry profiles; more than 3,000 profession profiles; a graduate, undergraduate, nursing, and vocational school finder and database; an internship and apprenticeship database; a financial aid database; step-by-step education and career-planning timelines; an extensive, 180-question career assessment; exclusive career profile video interviews; a sample résumé and cover letter database; and an industry associations and resources directory.
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