LibGuides: Career & Education Pathways: Young Adult Job Search Help

Job Search Websites

These Job Search resources are geared towards helping young adults find work or a career that might interest them. For more information on the job search process, or if you are an adult job seeker, please visit [insert guide link when available].

Occupational Outlook Handbook
Information on hundreds of careers; including earnings, job prospects, required training, working conditions, and more. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Summer Job Hunt Program
From the Colorado Department and Labor: Matches young people’s skills and interests with employment opportunities. Employment services are available, at no cost, to both employers and young adults ages 16 - 21.
USA Jobs for Students and Grads
Pathways for Students and Recent Grads offers information on federal jobs. New opportunities will appear on USAJOBS as agencies post them.
My Future
Advice and information about finding a job, living on your own, internships, and joining the military. Provides work interest inventory and resume maker.
Jobs for Teens
The largest FREE website on the internet that helps teens find a job. Whether it's an 11 year old looking for a part-time job to make a few bucks during the summer, or an 18 year old trying to decide on the direction they want to take in their career, this has all of the information they need to succeed. This website covers the specifics around full-time jobs, online jobs, summer jobs, and side jobs.

From the PPLD Catalog

Job Search by Carol Staudacher; Susan M. Freese; Joanne Suter
ISBN: 9781616516581
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Combining practical content with visual appeal, the 21st Century Lifeskills handbooks read more like a magazine than a book. Highly readable with full-color photographs, a smaller trim size and an eye-popping layout, these 120-page handbooks are great for teaching life skills to a twenty-first century population.
Job Search Handbook for People with Disabilities by Ryan Daniel
ISBN: 9781593578138
Publication Date: 2011-02-01
This complete career planning and job search guide for people with physical and mental disabilities has been completely updated to reflect the newest job search technologies and techniques. It will help readers identify their strengths; explore career options; find job openings; explore the hidden job market; write resumes, cover letters, and follow-up letters; and perform well in interviews. The author shows readers how to tell potential employers about their disabilities and ask them for reasonable accommodations, and helps readers understand and navigate employment law as it applies to them.