About This Database

The Essential Career Research Database

The critically acclaimed Ferguson's Career Guidance Center features authoritative, wide-ranging content that is accessible and intuitively organized. This comprehensive career research database is broken down into three main sections: Job and Industry Profiles, Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills, and Career and Industry Resources. The Job and Industry Profiles section, organized into 16 Career Clusters created by the Department of Education, contains information on nearly 3,400 jobs and 94 industries. The Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills section provides invaluable advice on applying for a job, acing an interview, behaving professionally in the work environment, and more—with more than 90 sample résumés and cover letters included. The Career and Industry Resources section includes more than 55,000 entries on scholarships, internships, and more, divided into easily browsable categories with searchable records.

Nearly 300 videos present essential career information on both specific jobs and industries and on skills. Persistent record links allow users to share entries, and "How to Cite" guidance includes MLA, Chicago, and APA style. Examples of full citations are available throughout, and users can print, copy, and save content to a folder. A "Did You Mean...?" search enhancement suggests another search term when a user's search does not yield results.

Features:

• Job and Industry Profiles: Information on nearly 3,400 jobs and 94 industries, broken down into 16 Career Clusters created by the Department of Education, is presented through overview articles and videos.
• Job-Hunting and Workplace Skills: Through informative articles and videos, this broad section helps users learn the essentials of getting a job and keeping it—with guidance on establishing a career path, honing interview skills, writing résumés and cover letters, and more. Sample résumés and cover letters created by professional career consultants are provided.
• Career and Industry Resources: Users can search or browse more than 55,000 resource entries, divided into convenient categories. Included are fully searchable directories of hundreds of fellowships, organizations, internships, scholarships, and awards, as well as a School Search and career assessment features.
• Videos: Nearly 300 videos introduce users to a wide variety of jobs, industries, and career development skills.
• Special Features: Advice from nationally renowned author and career expert Sue Morem will help recent graduates, job seekers, and people advancing in the workplace; monthly "My Life" interviews with professionals give a firsthand perspective on exciting jobs such as golf course architect, and a new index provides access to past interviews.
• Dictionary: More than 34,000 entries provide concise, informative definitions, many with pronunciation, etymology, and syllable breaks of the word.

Reviews

"...provides users with in-depth information..." - American Reference Books Annual

"...a cleanly formatted, easy-to-navigate database for career exploration and development...impressive...Highly Recommended." - Library Media Connection

"...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

"...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

"...highly current...Industry overviews and career descriptions are extensive and well written...Recommended." - Choice

"There's a wealth of information here...An impressive resource for high school, college, and public libraries." - KLIATT

"...provides quick career guidance for users in public, academic, high school, and special libraries (career counseling offices come to mind). Recommended." - Library Journal

"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 for high-school, academic and public libraries." - Booklist

"...an effective and searchable fact-finding and career decision-making tool...well-organized...Ferguson's Career Guidance Center is a well-designed resource that is useful for career research at any level. Highly recommended for high school, college, and special libraries serving career-counseling centers." - Library Journal

"Comprehensive and up to date...Searching is easy and the information is presented in a clear and organized framework...the most comprehensive and authoritative career database available for today's students...it is a must-purchase for school library media centers." - School Library Journal

"...the Facts On File databases...have a clear, intuitive, easy-to-use and understand interface...the Facts On File databases, with their reference book resources, their collection of maps and images, and the number of videos included, is a great value for its subscription price. I like the special resources, like posters, tent cards and web page icons...I also appreciate how easy it was to download MARC records for my library's OPAC program."

Awards

"Best Reference Databases and Discs, 2003" - Library Journal

"Editors' Choice Reference Source, 2007" - Booklist/RBB