Career-focused databases in GALILEO and on government websites provide information on educational and skill requirements, licenses, professional organizations, trends, and expected salary ranges for a variety of occupations.
GALILEO is a virtual library with more than 100 databases offering access to journals, magazines, eBooks, streaming videos, images, primary sources, government documents, and much more.
Coastal students, faculty, and staff can access these resources at home and on campus. You may need to log in using your Coastal credentials.
Public users visiting Coastal libraries can access these resources while on campus using a public computer. If you have a PINES library card, you may have access to some or all of these resources through your local library.
Need help with GALILEO? Ask a librarian. Also, check out the GALILEO YouTube channel for video tutorials.
O*NET OnLine is sponsored by the Employment & Training Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor and is developed by the National Center for O*NET Development. It includes information on skills, abilities, knowledge, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. Students, job seekers, and workforce, business, and human resource professionals can find occupations to explore, search for occupations that use designated skills, browse occupations by high growth industry, identify key in-demand occupations, view occupation summaries and details, and use crosswalks from other classification systems, such as military or apprenticeship.
The Occupational Outlook Handbook provides career information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The profiles featured cover hundreds of occupations and describe What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay, and more. Each profile also includes BLS employment projections for the current decade.
The Vocational & Career Collection provides full-text coverage for almost 350 trade and industry related periodicals including American Machinist, Modern Machine Shop, Pediatric Nursing, Wireless Week, Drug Store News, Video Business, Reeves Journal, Hotel and Motel Management, Restaurant Business, Advertising Age, and many more.