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Careers / College Guides

Databases for Careers and College Guides

Best Places to Start a Search

Career Planner

Explore careers and make plans to achieve your educational and career goals. Create an account using your Green River email address before logging into Career Planner. Help creating your account.

Oct 2024: Create account in MS Edge browser. After activating account from email sent to your GRC Outlook 365, use Google Chrome to log into Career Planner.>
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Basic career information for hundreds of jobs in the United States. Earnings, prospects, and information about the job markets in each state. From the U. S. Department of Labor. (No student ID needed.)

Databases for Careers and College Guides

Other Places to Search

CollegeSource
Up to date information including 42,100,000 course descriptions from 50,218 college catalogs. Covers 2-year, 4-year, graduate, and international schools.
O*Net
For workers and students looking to find or change careers. Information from surveys of workers, frequently updated, from the U.S. Department of Labor. (No student ID needed.)
Peterson's Test Prep (Gale)
Practice exams for the SAT, GED®, TOEFL, ACT, NCLEX, ASVAB and others. Research colleges in the College Planning Center, find tuition assistance, and explore careers. Formerly Test and Education Reference Center
Vocational and Career Collection (EBSCO)
Provides trade, industry and health sciences periodicals focused on vocational and technical research needs.

Useful Subject Guides

Career and Job Research
by Jody Segal Last Updated Nov 29, 2025 1174 views this year

Databases for Careers and College Guides

Supplemental Databases From KCLS

King County Library System (KCLS): College Student Accounts
Click on the "all the online resources" link to see all the resource available to students through the KCLS Online Library

KCLS/GRC Log In Instructions

For Students:

Green River College students have access to the KCLS databases:

To Log in: use GRC + your student username. (The part before the @ in your GRC email address.)
Example OLD email: GRCjsmith23
Example NEW email: GRCsmith.jane.23
PIN number: your pin is the last four characters of your log in. Example: e.23

For Faculty/Staff:

Faculty & Staff may sign up for access to KCLS Online Databases. To opt-in, complete the online sign-up form linked below.

KCLS/GRC Faculty & Staff Accounts Information (on GatorNet)
Find more information on how to sign up (and log in) to your KCLS / GRC digital resources as a faculty or staff member.

Useful General Collections

Background Information

Gale eBooks
Search for authoritative information in subject encyclopedias selected for courses and programs at Green River College

Information on Current Issues

CQ Researcher
Covers a broad range of controversial and contemporary issues.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale)
Use this tool to find "viewpoint" articles on controversial issues.

Newspaper, Magazine, and Journal Articles

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
A multi-disciplinary database for searching articles within thousands of academic journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Gale Power Search
Search all Gale databases with a single search
ProQuest Combined Databases
Search articles from newspapers, academic journals, trade journals, and popular magazines.

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