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Office of Career Services

What is Your Career Plan?

Need A Plan?

Are You Connected? What's Your Career Objective?

Take advantage of the many resources the Office of Career Services has available for you, including the following:

[A] ****Available to UD Students & UD Alumni

http://central.nacelink.com/index.php or visit UDs Career Services web site http://www.dbq.edu/careerservices/

UD's Membership with NACElink Network (National Association of Colleges and Employers, DirecEmployers Association, and Symplicity Corporation).This is a national recruiting network and suite of web based recruiting and career services automation tools serving the needs of colleges employers and job candidates.UD is 1 of 13 schools in the state of Iowa to participate in this network.Students can search for over 1 million job and internship listings through this link; look for employer profiles and free career and job-search articles; receive a copy of the Job Choices, the career development and job search guide for the UD campus; and read about rights and responsibilities as a job seeker.Students are required to develop a username and password to utilize this link.

[B]****Available to UD Students & UD Alumni

UD's Career Counseling and Placement Assistance: This service is provided to current UD students and UD Alumni.Whether you are seeking to change majors, undecided, or seeking a career transition, we are here to assist.We provide a four-step formula to help you make an informed decision about what career you wish to pursue and enhance your chances of securing meaningful employment.Part I: Self- Awareness; Part II: Career Exploration; Part III: Field Experience; and Part IV: The Job Search.

To assist in this process the following resources may be provided:

Career Exploration Inventory (CEI):A paper and pencil guide for exploring work, leisure, and learning.The CEI is more than a career interest test.It helps you explore and plan three major areas of your life; your work, leisure activities, and education or learning.It asks you to respond to 128 items and to score your responses in relation to 16 interest clusters.This process will help you identify which career leisure, and educational goals best fit your interests.The CEI will also help you find information on occupations, leisure activities, and educational programs to consider more carefully.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Form Q (MBTI STEP II Form Q):A self-assessment, the MBTI is a short 30 minute questionnaire based on the personality type theories of Carl Jung.It was created so that individuals could recognize and appreciate their preferred ways of interacting with others.Why is this important?The importance the MBTI lies in exploring how different people relate to one another.What impact does the personality of one co-worker have on another in the work setting?How is personality related to leadership and management, teaching and learning?The MBTI instrument determines preferences on four dichotomies:Extraversion/Introversion; Sensing/Intuition; Thinking/Feeling and Judging/Perceiving.Combinations of these preferences result in 16 distinct personality types.Understanding characteristics unique to each personality type, provides insight on how they influence an individuals way of communicating and interacting with others.

[C]****Available to UD Students

http://www.vault.com/cb/careerlib/careerlib_main.jsp?parrefer=7035 or visit UDs Career Services website http://www.dbq.edu/careerservices/careerlibrary.cfm

UD's Online Career Library: this service is available through Vault.com and provides; over 90 guides to students from career, employer and industry; offers occupational profiles for 53 top career paths as well as input from current professionals; over 2,500 company profiles; industry overviews bring you inside 40 top industries, from investment management to manufacturing; profiles diversity internship, co-op and entry level programs; offers an internship database and over 2600 occupational surveys.

[D]***Available to UD Students & UD Alumni

http://www.dbq.edu/careerservices/careerlibrary.cfm

Recommended Top Employment Search Engines/Databases on the Web (recommendation by the Iowa Association of Internships and Cooperative Education & Career Counseling Professionals of Iowa)

Search Engines

To find information you seek, there are many search engines available. However, google commands about 80% of internet searches. The engines reduce your search time for various topics related to your search including industry, company, and career-related information. Some of the popular search engines include:

Blogs

The latest craze seems to be the blogs and discussion boards where you can share information and access expert (and not so expert) information on every topic under the sun. A blog is like a personal journal and is short for web log. They contain content, commentary, links and contacts. To find blogs that mention an organization you may be researching, use one of the search engines and look for the organization's name and the word "blog".

Networking Sites

These sites such as Linked in are useful to advance your networking and access people who work in industries and companies and who may otherwise not be available to you for networking.

Company Data Bases

The publisher sites for company information are excellent for gathering information on public, as well as, private companies and non-for-profit organizations. Some are free and some fee-based. The best known are:

Dunn & Bradstreet (fee based ratings) www.dnbmdd.com/mddi

Standard & Poors (Stocks & ratings) www.standardandpoors.com

Moody's (Stocks & Bonds) www.moodys.com

Hoovers (Free Basic Company Info) www.hoovers.com

Edgar (SEC & Annual Reports) www.edgaronline.com

Wall Street Research Network www.wsm.com

Forbes (Business & Finance) www.forbes.com/200best/

Inc. (Small Business) www.inc.com

Biz Web www.bizweb.com

Companies Online www.companiesonline.com

Fast Company www.fastcompany.com

Red Herring www.herring.com

SEC Information www.wecinfo.com

Thomas Register www.thomasregister.com

Corp Tech www.corptech.com

Industry Information Sites

Industry information can be found in many association sites. The following are survey and statistical sources along with business rankings:

Industry Surveys www.investools.com

Labor Statistics www.jobstar.org

Business Week www.businessweek.com

Forbes www.forbes.com

Fortune www.fortune.com

Value line www.valueline.com

NAICS - North American Industry Classification System http://ww.census-gov/.epcd/www/naics.html

Web Crawlers

There areinnumerable job sites and web crawlers to help minimize the time you spendsearching through these sites for potential opportunities that match your background and job goals. That is a good thing because you can expend all your waking hours on surfing the net for job leads! The problem with that strategy is you would not have any time to follow-up on them. With web crawlers, you can reduce your time investment and focus on networking and following -up on potential leads. A couple of user-friendly crawlers for job leads include:

www.simplyhired.com

www.indeed.com

Career and Job Sites

There are a vast array of career sites sponsored by independent sources, universities, associations, geographical regions, and publishers. Many also have associated job boards. In addition, there are many separate job boards. The web crawlers can minimize your time on these sites; however, there may be some industry-specific, job/career-specific, or executive and college level sites that are particularly useful to you. These you may wish to routinely check, or they may incorporate a web crawler to send you listings in your area of search. In addition, many of these sites contain salary information useful in negotiations. Following are some popular sites:

Career sites

www.monster.com

www.hotjobs.com

www.nationjob.com

www.careerjournal.com

www.classifieds.yahoo.com

www.careerbuilder.com

www.computerjobs.com

www.computerwork.com

www.dice.com

www.efinancialcareeres.com

www.employmentguide.com

www.helathecareersnetwork.com

www.jobsinthemoney.com

www.latpro.com

www.marketingjobs.com

Executive Level:

www.executivetalent.com

College Level:

www.snagajob.com

www.teens4hire.com

www.collegerecruiter.com

www.campjobs.com

www.summerjobs.com

www.craiglist.com

Geographic-Specific:

www.accessdubuque.com

www.corridorcareers.com

www.iowajobs.org

www.smartcareermove.com

Compensation Research:

www.salary.com

www.salaryexpert.com

www.wsj.com

Search Consultant Sites:

www.kennedyinfo.com

www.tapc.org

www.recruitinglife.org

[E]***Available to UD Students

http://www.careernoodle.com/devsite/

UD's Membership with CareerNoodle: providing a suite of engaging, authoritative, and easy-to-use career exploration and planning tools for middle, high school and college students. Utilizing active and constructivist learning theories, combined with advanced Web technologies, CareerNoodle was created with a user-centered design process that included the participation of hundreds of guidance counselors, educators and students across the nation. UD students may access career noodle while on-campus, after developing a username and password.

[F]***Available to UD Students & UD Alumni

http://www.ypdubuque.org

UD's Membership with Young Professionals of Dubuque: YPD is a dynamic group dedicated to connecting young professionals to numerous social and professional opportunities available in the Dubuque area.YPD encourages young people to build networks, exchange ideas, and impact the future of Dubuque.Being young is more a state of mind than a number.Professionals are people who on a daily basis engage in a livelihood involving skill, expertise, passion and energy.From Seattle to Tampa, and everywhere in between, YPD is local extension of a national movement of young professionals.Across the country, groups of Yps are coming together with the goal of creating better places to live and work.To learn more about this national movement and be inspired by the possibilities visit www.ypcommongs.org

[G] ****Available to UD Students & UD Alumni

www.iowaworkforce.org/region1

www.iowaworks.org/recruitment.htm

or visit UDs Career Services web site http://www.dbq.edu/careerservices/online.cfm

UD's partnership with Northeast Iowa Workforce Development Region 1: Iowa Workforce Development has one of the nations most premier job listing service, Iowa Jobs.Over 7 million visitors to the site every month; job fairs identified through the region and the state; screening and assessment tools for employment training are provided; labor market information; and Veteran employment services.

[H] ****Available to UD Students

http://recruitiowagrads.com/ or visit UDs Career Services website http://www.dbq.edu/careerservices/jobfairs.cfm

UD's Membership with Iowa's College Recruiting Network (ICORN): the consortium is a cooperative recruiting service representing 30 independent colleges and universities across Iowa holding membership with the Iowa Association for Independent Colleges and Universities.It offers a convenient, centralized, and productive recruiting service for employers and students.It hosts pre-selected interview events and career fairs for positions in management, accounting, consulting, marketing, education, human services, information technology, administration, and more.ICORN allows students to

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