Research & Resources

Choosing a Career

America's Career Infonet: Need help in making an informed career decision? Use this site to locate employment and wage trends; check occupational requirements; search for employer contact information and cost of living data; and review state labor market conditions.
Career Guide to Industries: Use to find information on occupations, training and advancement, earnings, job prospects, and more for dozens of industries.
IMDiversity Career Center: IMDiversity.com, a one-stop career and self-development site for job seekers of diverse backgrounds. IMDiversity.com is dedicated to connecting America's most progressive employers with multicultural job seekers. Variety of job search tools.
Licensed Occupations: Will you need a license in your new career? This site helps you research requirements in your state by occupation, and tells you which agency to contact.
My Next Move: Search careers by key word, browse by industry or explore possible careers based on your interests.
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Great starting point for locating information about specific occupations including nature of the work, working conditions, training, earnings, and more.
What Color is Your Parachute?: Resume writing and career counseling from Richard Bolles, author of the popular job hunting guidebook of the same name.

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LearningExpressLibrary — Practice tests for Civil Services, CDL, and other career and professional exams, plus job search and workplace skills courses.
Learning Express Job Search & Workplace Skills— Includes a wide variety of resources that will prepare you for career success, from the job search to interviewing and beyond.
Optimal Résumé — A career management platform to help you determine your career goals, create résumés, manage your documents and credentials, and find job postings in your field of interest.
Skills Tutor — Improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, mathematics, language, algebra, science, information and workforce readiness skills.
Tucson Local News Portal — An up-to-the-minute local news feed with local job postings, from NewsBank.