Career and Job Research

This guide provides resources to help you research careers, search for jobs, write résumés, gain interview skills, and more.

Education & Training Pathways for Careers

Career Planner

Career Planner provides current information on 350 colleges and universities in Washington and over 500 nationwide.

Sign in to Career Planner and select Find Schools in the menu. 

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career planner education portal

Explore College Programs with The College Blue Book

How to Use the College Blue Book

Focus your search in the College Blue Book by:

  • Narrative Descriptions of College Programs
  • Tabular Data
  • Degrees Offered by College and Subject
  • Occupational Education
  • Schoarlships, Fellowships, Grants, and Loans
  • Disance Learning Programs

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The College Blue Book TOC

blue book degrees by subject and college

College Source

If you know the school you want to research, look it up in College Source. Covers domestic and international colleges.

Using Google to Search a Single Website

You can use Google’s Advanced Search to search within a specific website. In this case, a college’s website. Just copy and paste the website address into the "site or domain" limiter box on the Advanced Google search page (linked below)

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Google Advanced Search

 
Example: searching "site:lsj.washington.edu" will find only pages from the department of Law, Societies, and Justice at UW.