The Job Market
Explore Careers
Food and Restaurant Job Descriptions Inside Jobs: Search over 15,000 career profiles including job descriptions, projected job growth, and salary information. Or check out another database of careers, Job Profiles. Is this the right career for you? Choose from over 100 careers and take a career quiz to find out. Vocational Information Center: Explore vocational and technical careers and find out what skills and qualifications they require. Read this Perfumer Job Description. Then read an interview with a third-generation fragrance expert, FOR HIRE: Perfume Nose. Nursing Education: A UCSD Career Services Center guide on how to prepare and apply to a nursing school. Read how your classmate Julie Phoutavone mentors her nephew Andrew about her job as an electrical assembler. Then use this worksheet to talk about your job responsibilities. The changing job market See what jobs are predicted to grow and disappear within the next decade U.S. Government Employment Projections: 2012-2022, Dec 19, 2013 News Release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor Boston.com Top 30 Fastest Growing Jobs by 2018 | U.S. News 100 Best Jobs of 2014 | 20 Careers Headed for the Dustbin: A 2012 slideshow by the Forbes magazine | America's 10 Disappearing Jobs: An 2012 article from 24/7 Wall St | In Pictures: 10 Disappearing Middle-Class Jobs: A 2011 slideshow by the Forbes magazine | In Pictures: America's Top 20 Growing Jobs: A 2008 slideshow by the Forbes magazine | In Pictures: America's Top 20 Disappearing Jobs: A 2008 slideshow by the Forbes magazine |
Search Effectively
Cultivating good habits is one of the best investments of time and effort you can make. Read 20 Habits of Highly Effective Job Seekers in a Down Market by Ford R. Myers. Then go over the discussed habits and for each, ask yourself these two questions: What is the last thing I did in this area? What is the next thing I can do? |
Job Fairs
How to Prepare for a Job Fair: Watch this YouTube video to see what employers at job fairs are looking for. Thanks to Macarena! Use this worksheet to practice introducing yourself at a job fair. Check out the employers at the 2015 Spring Mesa Job Fair Immigrant Stories Read about immigrant doctors working in fast-food restaurants and this UCLA Program recruit Latin American doctors. |