Research Guides: Adult Students: Career Information

Vocational Tools

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center This link opens in a new window
This career research database features job profiles, skills, and resources.

Cypress Express Resume
Cypress Resume is an online resume builder that lets you create professional-quality resumes in three quick and simple steps.
Career and Employment Research Guide
Explore this guide for links to great information about careers, jobs, and counseling from UNC Charlotte's Career Center, among other resources.

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Detailed career information including job prospects, salary, and educational requirements.
Occupational Information Network (O*Net Online)
An interactive application for exploring and searching occupations.

Other Sources

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
A virtual reference collection including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, images, audio files, and videos in a wide expanse of subject areas.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A great database to get started with for your research on any topic. Use it to search for articles from scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals, newspapers, and magazines.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals and books covering a wide range of disciplines; it also includes some limited primary source collections.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Contains millions of citations for biomedical and health literature from MEDLINE and other sources. To access full text from Atkins Library's journal collections in addition to full-text content from PubMed Central and open access publications, use the links provided on Atkins Library web pages.

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
This resource provides high quality streaming videos about a range of subjects. The videos include award winning documentaries plus interviews, training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.