Guides: SOBA 200: Professional Communications: Finding Career Resources

Stetson's Career & Professional Development

Career and Professional Development
Visit Stetson's Career & Professional Development.

Library career guides

E-Books for Testing Preparation

Additional Career E-books

Career & Grad School Info

The databases below are a great place to research your career.

Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) This link opens in a new window
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The OOH can help you find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statistics and studies gathered by market researchers, trade organizations, scientific publications, and government sources on over 600 industries.
Peterson’s Test and Career Prep This link opens in a new window
A one-stop experience for test preparation for college and graduate/professional school standardized exams. Provides practice tests and prep materials for: GRE, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT, etc. Click Explore Careers to learn more about careers, to create a resume and cover letter, and to get career advice.
Mergent First Research This link opens in a new window
First Research is the leading provider of industry intelligence. First Research's knowledge tools (Industry Profiles, Call Prep Sheets, State & Province Profiles) are essential for call preparation, enhancing presentations, underwriting credit, and for quickly learning a company's key business issues.
Gale Business: Entrepreneurship This link opens in a new window
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Covers all major areas of starting and operating a business: financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, taxes and more. Startup and established businesses alike can find answers from an easy-to-use interface that includes a "How To" menu that tackles the most frequently asked new business questions -- including "How to start a small business."
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
This database has several books on various careers and will offer great information for your career portfolio.

Florida Electronic Library- Career & Job Resources
This site links to a variety of career related databases, such as Employ Florida Market Place, Florida Job Search Resources, Florida's One-Stop Career Centers, Florida's Plan Your Career, Occupational Outlook Handbook, Vocations and Careers Collection, & others.

Career assignment

Career Portfolio

Create a career portfolio to explore a potential career. You will study the "ins and outs" and provide information on how to pursue that career choice. Your portfolio should include:

Description of the career and why you chose to study it.
An industry and job market analysis of that field.
Describe how one enters that field and possible alternative paths within that career.
List and describe the knowledge, skills, certifications, and abilities needed.
Include some results from any assessment you have taken like Traitify, Strengthsfinders, etc. Describe how your results might contribute to your chosen field and also reveal areas for skills improvement.
Identify three professional goals.
How do you plan to achieve these goals.
Explain how you plan to fulfill Stetson's ELR requirement *
You may use O-net (www.onetonline.org) or any other sources you may find at the library, in publications, or online. Use a minimum of three sources.
Provide reference page and properly formatted (APA style) citations.
Use APA style, 3-5 pages. Single-spaced, double spaced between paragraphs.
12 pt font, 1-inch margins, Calibri or Times New Roman font type.
Include cover page with name, date, course number (SOBA 205) and assignment title.
Include subheadings.

Submit your papers in the assignment area on Blackboard.

*Experiential Learning Requirement.

SOBA 200: Professional Communications