Houghton College Career Services

Key Resources

The Career Library's key resources include numerous in-office career information books, graduate school references and guides, and internship references (below), and additional helpful links listed below, as well as several testing instruments.  

Career Services has now put all of it's job and career related handouts on-line for your convenience.  Click here to visit Helpful Handouts or pick up a copy from the office or hallway kiosk.
 
Reference books available in Career Services.
Some of the following titles are available for sign-out to students.

• The Dictionary of Occupational Titles
  (descriptions of thousands of job titles)

• The Occupational Outlook Handbook  (NOW ALSO AVAILABLE ON LINE)
  (in depth information about jobs, wages, educational preparation, where the jobs are, future projections, and other helpful topics)

• "Career Opportunities", and "Great Jobs for (     ) Majors" Series 
  (books about "what's out there" for specific majors)

• College Majors and Careers; Liberal Arts Jobs; College Knowledge and Jobs
  (great references for questions like; what you can do with your major? what kind of work can you do with a liberal arts degree? etc.) 

• "How to Get Any Job with Any Major"

• 10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College

• Other directories for many areas, including Quantum Companies to Mission organizations.

What Can I Do With This Major? is an interactive site you can visit for information about various majors. 
 

Internship Resources

For a listing of internship openings that we have received, and a link to one of the premier programs on the Internet for internships, click here for Internship Opportunities.

Other Internship Resources available in the Career Services office include: 

• The Internship Bible (published by The Princeton Review)

• Peterson's Internships (No longer published)

• The National Directory of Internships

• The Complete Guide to Washington Internships

• Directory of International Internships

• National Directory of Art Internships 

• Guide to Volunteer and Internships in Public Broadcasting

• The Student Guide to Mass Media Internships

A four volume set of "Internships for:"
Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations and Sales
Newspaper, Magazine and Book Publishing
Accounting, Banking, Brokerage, Finance and Insurance; and
Travel and Hospitality. 

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