Career Planning Resources

Here are the materials from Taking Charge of Your Career and Navigating the NU Job Market brown bag session for NU staff sponsored by NUSAC and delivered by University Career Services and Human Resources respectively:

Navigating the NU Job Market
Sample Interviewing Questions
Development Ideas and Resources
Tips for Internal Transferring
Taking Charge of Your Career

Excellent book of jobs and resume web sites:

Career Xroads by Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler - world's leading reference guide to job and resume web sites

Links to On-Line Resources:

The Riley Guide - free on-line career resource
www.rileyguide.com

Career Key
www.careerkey.org/english

Princeton Review Career Quiz
www.princetonreview.com/cte/quiz/default.asp?menuID=0&careers=

Career Development eManual
www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca/index.asp

Wall Street Journal
www.careerjournal.com

America's Job Bank
www.ajb.dni.us/

On-Line Job Search Guide
www.job-hunt.org/

Career Planning Process at Bowling Green University
www.bgsu.edu/offices/sa/career/students/planning_process.html

The Occupational Information Network (O*Net) - developed for the US Department of Labor - detailed and up-to-date information about skills requirements and characteristics of over 950 occupations
http://online.onetcenter.org/

What Color is Your Parachute
www.jobhuntersbible.com/

For more information, please contact Leigha Kinnear at leighakinnear@northwestern.edu, or 847-467-5082.