REA 091 - West - Reading Improvement II: REA 091 - Careers

Career Resource Meta-Sites

• Arizona Career Information System (AzCIS): If you do NOT already have an AZCIS login/password, please contact a librarian via Ask a Librarian or LiveChat for assistance. (right side of the webpage)
• Career Articles and Advice Index: from the Princeton Review
• Career Browser: College Board
• CareerBuilder (https://www.careerbuilder.com/ )
• Careerjet: A jobsite search engine for U.S. employment
• CareerOneStop : US Government site with career exploration, information on careers (projected employment, income, education needed, certificates, and more. 
• CareerShip: Designed for middle schoolers, this site is still useful for PCC students, especially for English as a Second Language students interested in the career planning process.
• College Grad Job Hunter: "Your link to life after college." Focus is on the entry-level employee looking for a job
• Exploring Psychology Careers: great site to explore the wide variety of careers in psychology; includes insights into highest paying, most demanding fields. Many include interviews with professionals in their fields. Sponsored by: Pshychology.org
• O*Net Online
• Occupational Outlook Handbook: Current edition

Student Success Tool @ Pima (The MyCareerPath at PCC)

• Steps to Planning a Career or Major

Value of  a College Degree

• The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
• The Value of a College Degree

Selecting a College Major

• Find a College:  Majors  & Careers Central
• PCC Advising: Career Counseling and Choosing a program or degree links can be found on this webpage
• PCC Career Services: information on selecting a career/program, including an FAQ.

Career Resources

Arizona

• Arizona's Apprenticeship System: Information on apprentice programs that have registered with the State of Arizona. Includes information on program, participants, application and more.  See a campus Counseling/Advising center if you have any questions about the apprenticeships at Pima Community College.
• Arizona Career Information System: If you do NOT already have an AZCIS login/password, please contact a librarian via Ask a Librarian or LiveChat for assistance. (right side of the webpage)
• Arizona Workforce Connection
• Educational Services and Resources Career & Technical Education - information from the Arizona Department of Education on teacher certification, internships and more.

Wages/Salaries

• JobStar: Profession specific salaries
• National Compensation Survey
• Salary.com
• Salary Potential 2020: from the Economic Research Institute
• PayScale

Electronic Journals and Newsletters

• CareerJournal.com: from the Wall Street Journal
• Occupational Outlook Quarterly Online

Resumes

• My Perfect Resume: Many resume templates and cover letters.  

AzCIS is designed to provide educational, career, and occupational information to help students in making better-informed career and school choices.

Search for the name of your occupation or click "Occupations" to browse for information about the occupation you are interested in.

AzCIS does not automatically generate citations. To cite a page in AzCIS, follow this general format for citing a webpage with no author in MLA 8:

“Title of the Page.” Title of the Web Site, Publisher or Sponsor, Date of publication, url.

For all AzCIS pages, the title of website, publisher, and date of publication should be the same, so you just need to fill in the page's title and it's URL:

"Title of Page."  Arizona Career Information System, University of Oregon, 2018, page URL. 

Here's a completed example for the AzCIS page about chefs:

"Chefs and Dinner Cooks." Arizona Career Information System, University of Oregon, 2018, 

https://azcis.intocareers.org/OccInfo.aspx?SourceState=AZ&OccID=100033&TopicID=0.