Career Services - Student Links:

Get Information About Specific Careers and Relate Majors to Occupations

For each major that attracts your interest you will find an outline of common career areas, typical employers, and strategies designed to maximize career opportunities.

Take advantage of this site's many free resources. The Career Project provides a unique, behind-the-scenes look at various occupations by allowing you to view the career profiles of hundreds of working professionals. Participants describe their career history and current position, educational background and qualifications, and an average day on the job.

The OOH is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

O*NET OnLine was developed for the US Department of Labor and allows you to find occupations by using keywords, skill sets and a variety of other methods.

A valuable resource for exploring career paths in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computing.

View your pick of over 350 career videos. Each is a few minutes long, requires no software or special skills to be viewed, and provides the viewer with a snapshot of what it is like to work in any of the featured professions.

New York Career Zone is a creative website, newly designed to provide in-depth information on a wide variety of exciting careers. This site has a fun self-assessment exercise that is a good place to start.

Jobstar Central This site is packed with information about planning your career. What kind of training or education is required? What can you earn? What kind of environment will you work in?

The Brent D. Arcangel Career Resource Library in Capen 259, contains a multitude of information. Books, directories, magazines and newspapers provide a variety of sources for you to research careers related to your major. Computer terminals are also available for the Internet research. Library hours are Monday-Friday from 8:30-5 pm.

There are a lot of resources online which provide you with information needed to make an informed career decision. Factors to consider are items such as: salary, employment outlook, educational requirements, job location etc.

Explore careers on this page developed by UB Libraries.