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Career Research

Resources for studying a career field that interests you.

Searching the Catalog

  1. Create a list of broad and narrow keywords for your topic. If you need keyword ideas, use a thesaurus or an encyclopedia (see Getting Started with Research).
  2. Check your spelling!
  3. Search using just keywords. Don't type sentences. Use only 2 or 3 keywords at a time.
  4.  Use  AND, OR, NOT between keyword
  • AND - all results will have ALL words
  • OR - results will contain EITHER one word OR the other
  • NOT - results will NOT contain a particular word

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Browsing the Stacks

Dewey Decimal call number ranges for subject related browsing:

331.702 Career guidance
370.113 Career development
650 Resumes, interviews
650.14 Job hunting
658.3 Job descriptions

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