Career Advising

• Resource Web links
• Overviews of issues surrounding career advising of students

  • Integrating Career and Academic Advising: Mastering the Challenge

  • Career Advisors: A New Breed

  • The Changing Workplace: Implications for Academic and Career Advising
  • Freshmen looking for career advice now via boston.com
  • Planned Happenstance: Preparing Liberal Arts and Social Science Students to Follow Their Hearts to Career Success via Academic Advising Today
  • What Is Your Career Advising I.Q.? by Virginia Gordon
• Read More About It! Bibliography dealing with this issue

Resources *

Career Advising for Students

• Career Instruments and Resources (Self Assessment/Exploration)

• Career and Major Exploration (Discovering Your Options)

• Job Search resources (Marketing Yourself)
  • Interview resources via the Clearinghouse
  • Job Search links to a variety of helpful web resources
  • Resume and Vitae resources via the Clearinghouse
  • Salary comparisons via Monster.com
  • Student Reference Letter information form via the Clearinghouse
  • Skills employers value
  • Today's Young Adults: Surfing for the Right Job via the Michigan State University Career Services Network
  • 2011 college grads finding a better job market via USA Today
  • Academic360.com
  • Career Seekers Inside Higher Ed
  • Higher Education Recruitment Consortium
  • Studentaffairs.com
  • universityjobs.com

Resources for advisors seeking to integrate career advising into academic advising

• Academic advising: A Comprehensive handbook (2nd ed.)
• Career Advisors: A New Breed
• Centers that integrate career and academic advising
• The Handbook of Career Advising 
• Integrating Career and Academic Advising: Mastering the Challenge via the Clearinghouse
• Making Career Advising Integral to Academic Advising - NACADA Webcast on CD - DW15

As featured in the 2009 NACADA member Highlights

Betsy McCalla-Wriggins, a NACADA past-president and an editor of the NACADA/Jossey-Bass publication Handbook of Career Advising, has suggested the following free resources and low-cost books as being helpful for career advising of displaced workers. Books listed could be purchased for career libraries, by advising centers, or by advisees.  

 

• The Changing Workplace: Implications for Academic and Career Advising by Judith Hughey and Ken Hughey
• How to write a resume via the Rockport Institute
• Online Interview Skills workshop via the University of Calgary
• Employment trends via the NACEweb
• Suggested Books*
  • What color is your parachute?: A practical manual for job-hunters via jobhuntersbible.com
  • Transitions: Making sense of life's changes by William Bridges
  • Overwhelmed: Coping with life's ups and downs by Nancy Schlossberg

*All site links are member suggested; listing of commercial sites does not imply NACADA endorsement