Resources for Career Planning and Graduate School Preparation
As someone who may be graduating soon and preparing for a career or graduate school, this guide can serve as a central place to access career and graduate school resources. The guide resources can help you plan resumes and cover letters, gain advice about interviewing, practice for standardized graduate school or professional exams, identify college and internship options, learn a foreign language, and much more. Please note that many of the resources in the categories below -- Career Resources and Graduate School Resources -- can be useful for both career planning and graduate school preparation.
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Language Learning Resource
- Mango Languages This link opens in a new window
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Learn a new language from Mango Languages. Choose from more than 70 languages, including Latin American Spanish and English for speakers of other languages. Access Mango via your computer or download an app to your mobile device.
Career Resources
- Education and Career Center (Gale Presents Peterson's Test Prep) This link opens in a new window-Includes prep for these tests and more: ACCUPLACER, ACT, CLEP, DAT, DSST, GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MAT, MCAT, NCLEX-PN, NCLEX-RN, PAX, PSAT, PSB-RN, SAT, TEAS, TOEFL, TOEIC, U.S. Citizenship
-Use this database to search thousands of colleges and graduate schools; identify scholarships; explore careers; create a resume; or prepare to take numerous tests for certifications, credentialing or licensing. - MyPlan This link opens in a new window“Take free assessments to determine your values, interests, personality and skills. Match your preferences to career possibilities and career outlook information."
Watch the How to Research a Career video to see how to use MyPlan and Occupational Outlook Handbook for career planning.
- Vocations and Careers (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window"Provides access to journals and magazines that aid users in researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career.”
Occupational Outlook HandbookCall Number: U.S. Documents L 2.3/4: (1984/85-1990/91, 1996/97+, current edition at Reference Desk)"Provides information on nature of work; working conditions; employment; training, advancement, and other qualifications; job outlook; earnings; related occupations; and sources of additional information for over 250 different occupations covering 9 out of 10 jobs in the economy."
- LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new windowLynda.com is back thanks to the numerous UCF departments and colleges! Access is now available for students, faculty, and staff. UCF lyndaCampus offers online interactive video-based training on a wide range of topics, including software, design, and business skills. Applications include Adobe, MS Office, open-source applications, multimedia, web development, programming and more! Login with your NID to get started with UCF lyndaCampus.
Graduate School Resources
- Education and Career Center (Gale Presents Peterson's Test Prep) This link opens in a new window"Includes over 300 practice tests and courses, dozens of e-books with valuable study material and practice tests, information on over 4,000 accredited schools, Scholarship search featuring $8 billion in available scholarships, resume builder with over 1,000 brainstorming phrases to get you started, and career modules covering subjects from career change to salary negotiations.”
- Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
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Selected full text of book, journal and reference content relevant to the exploration of research methods and concepts. Intended as a tool to aid student researches design methodologies, understand particular methods, identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Unlimited simultaneous users.