24/7 Career Center
We have many online resources avaliable for you to use 24 hours a day! Some of these resources are available only to students and alumni of UCD. Most of these sites are password protected. To get the login directions, or the login information, you will have to go to our Just ASK! Job Link.
Career Planning & Exploration
Optimal Skills Assessment provides a tool to help you define your skills and experiences in order to create resumes, covers letters and portfolios.
MyMajors helps you select a major that you may find interesting that you might not have thought about. It may help you on your education and career paths.
DISCOVER can help you learn more about yourself, explore career options, and plan for the future. This web-based assessment tool measures personal abilities, interests, and values. Compatible occupations or majors are sorted and displayed for further research. This is available for free with your student ID.
Career Leader is a comprehensive tool to help you analyze what career might be a good fit for you. It is based on scientific research to help you along.
**This website requires a fee, if you are interested in accessing it please contact us.
MyPlan.com is an online information and assessment tool that contains college, major and career data for independent exploration. Excellent research opportunities for self exploration. This site has free limited access.
Quest: Just not sure how to get to the next level in your career development? Perhaps you know what you want to study, but you don’t know what kinds of careers that subject will prepare you for or maybe you’re completely undecided and need a little guidance. Either way Quest is a great first step. Thanks to our friends at Ball State University for developing and sharing Quest!
O*NET™ serves as the nation’s primary source of occupational information, providing comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations. O*Net includes a set of self-directed career exploration/assessment tools to help you consider and plan career options, preparation, and transitions more effectively.
The Career Development eManual guides you through the necessary steps, whether you are looking for your 1st or your 21st job. In order to help you do this in an efficient and effective way, the Manual has been organized into six steps. Thanks to our friends at Waterloo University for sharing this outstanding resource.
Enneagram Institute: One of the most powerful tools for understanding ourselves and others is the Enneagram, an ancient symbol of unity and diversity, change, and transformation.
Graduate & Undergraduate Programs
The Princeton Review: Best college rankings include real life accounts of 331 colleges. See how different schools rate in academics, administration, quality of life, and even partying!
The Princeton Review also provides information on graduate applications, the GRE, financial aid, and provides some good advice. To go to this section, click here.
The Princeton Review also provides information on graduate applications, the GRE, financial aid, and provides some good advice. To go to this section, click here.
GradSchools.com: Comprehensive online source of graduate school information. Search for schools by major, or for majors by school. Limit search by state, all U.S.A., Canada, U.K., Australia & New Zealand, or other nations outside the U.S. Even includes distance learning & certificate program options.
Accepted.com: Helps you with the writing skills necessary to achieve your academic and professional goals.
Graduate Record Examinations: Download free test prep materials from GRE's library, including POWERPREP software, subject test practice books, interactive practice questions, and writing assessment preparation materials.
Job Search
Our Job Boards page provides a list of general boards as well as specialized boards based on field of study.
OptimalResume.com provides many opportunities to strengthen your resume, portfolio, and cover letter. It also provides a self assessment tool, and products that allow you to create your own online portfolio, as well as video resume. You can also set up mock interviews through this site.
OptimalResume allows you to build your own resume while it gives you tips on how to make it neat and nice for your future employers to view.
OptimalLetter helps you to write a cover letter. It gives you nice options and examples to do so.
OptimalVideoResume shows you how to create a video resume and gives you a step by step approach to creating a well done video resume.
OptimalInterview helps you in the interviewing phase by providing mock interviews and scenarios that can help you to strengthen your skills.
Employment/Career News
Weekly reports focusing on the local economy. Includes industry wrap-ups, small business insights, lists of top local businesses and key contacts. Can also access archives for articles from past issues.
The Denver Post Business section provides employment and business related information.
This website provides news on business and employment.
Fortune is a global business magazine published by Time Inc.'s Fortune|Money Group. The magazine is especially known for its annual features ranking companies by revenue.
Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published bi-weekly. The magazine is well-known for its lists, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400) and its list of billionaires.
BusinessWeek is a business magazine published by McGraw-Hill. It was first published in 1929 (as The Business Week) under the direction of Malcolm Muir, who was serving as president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing company at the time.
Salary Information
Salary Wizard lets you choose an occupational field and location to see salary range charted (minimum, maximum, and median). Also job listings, articles of interest, and personal salary reports.
PayScale is a market leader in global online compensation data. With the world's largest database of individual employee compensation profiles, PayScale provides an immediate and precise snapshot of the job market. Our patent-pending real-time profiling system indexes custom employee attributes (such as industry-specific certifications) and specific job titles for every industry. - from PayScale.com
Videos
CareerSpots is a Pennsylvania-based company that specializes in creating and producing original video content via the internet and other emerging technologies.
Companies - Database
Career Search provides you with access to a powerful networking database of over 2 million companies in 10 states. Their database is compiled from the most respected, industry-specific sources. Additional resources include a database of associations accross nearly 100 industries, salary research, and more.
For access codes please call:
Alumni: 303.556.2549
Students: 303.556.2250
For access codes please call:
Alumni: 303.556.2549
Students: 303.556.2250
Career Information
Vault publishes more than 120 print and digital career guidebooks, including annual guides such as the Vault Guide to the Top 50 Banking Employers, the Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms and the Vault Guide to the Top 40 Accounting Firms; best-selling guides to resumes, cover letters and interviews; and guides to colleges and graduate school programs. -from vault.com
WetFeet provides insightful profiles of companies, careers, and industries to guide job seekers toward finding the right career, the right industry, the right company, and the right job for them. -from wetfeet.com
Information Handout Resources
Career Briefs are overviews of careers related to specific majors at the University. They provide related links and resources to the particular field and show potential jobs related to the major.
The Career Briefs are also available in our office.
The Career Briefs are also available in our office.
Sample Cover Letters & Resumes
This information will be avaliable soon!
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