Employment & Career Information

Resources include relevant Pioneer databases, Utah Internet resources, and national Internet resources.

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Pioneer Databases

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Explore careers and colleges, find planning tools, build a resume, and search for articles in the Career Library.

Vocational & Career Collection Subscription Database
Vocational & Career Collection is designed for vocational and technical libraries servicing high schools, community colleges, trade institutions and the general public. This collection provides full text coverage for more than 350 trade and industry-related periodicals.

Other Databases

Academic Search Premier Subscription Database
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Business Source Premier Subscription Database
Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

Computer Source Subscription Database
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.

Dow Jones Factiva Subscription Database
News and business information from newspapers, magazines, newswires, media programs, websites, industry publications, and financial information on private and public companies.

MasterFile Premier Subscription Database
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, full text from 86,017 biographies, 105,786 full text primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 341,655 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

Regional Business News Subscription Database
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

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Utah Resources

Careers.utah.gov
Helps you investigate careers, explore education and training, or look for a job.

City Jobs
Find and apply for a job working for your city:

County Jobs
Find and apply for a job working for your county:

CTE Pathways: Connecting High School to College and Career
CTE Pathways show students a direct connection between doing well in high school and being able to transition smoothly to post-secondary opportunities or getting a good job when they graduate.

Department of Workforce Services
Utah State agency that provides employment and support services for Utahns to improve their economic opportunities. Find a job, job search, job fairs, job fairs, information, publications, and much more to finding a job and exploring careers.

Utah Department of Human Resource Management - State Jobs
Find and apply for jobs with the State of Utah.

UtahJobMatch.com
Search for Utah jobs by city, county, industry and position.

Utah Job Tweets
A unique job platform that utilizes social media, Twitter, as a vehicle to distribute localized jobs in utah.

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National Resources

Business.gov
Business.gov, the official business link to the U.S. Government, is managed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in a partnership with 21 other federal agencies. Tools include small business guides; state and local guides; the Small Business Search Engine to find information from federal, state and local government web sites; Permit Me to get state, federal and local permits; government agency contacts, and government forms and answers to frequently asked questions.

Career Voyages
This site, a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education, is designed to provide information on in-demand occupations along with the skills and education needed to attain those jobs.

O*NET OnLine
O*NET provides occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. Information from this freely available database forms the heart of O*NET OnLine, the interactive application for exploring and searching occupations.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Information about discrimination in the workplace. Facts about discrimination by age, disability, equal compensation, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, retaliation, sex, and sexual harassment.

Youth@Work
The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) website for youth in the workforce. The EEOC's goal is to eliminate illegal discrimination from the workplace for all workers.

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