Business

Make an appointment with UK's Stuckert Career Center advisors or visit the website to find resources on resumes, cover letters, interviewing, and etiquette. 

All UK students automatically have accounts in the Handshake career management platform. Access your Handshake account with your link blue log-in credentials. 

When searching for information about professions or occupations in the databases, first, think of all possible synonyms -- for example try searching for both doctor and physician or lawyer and attorney.  If you are getting too many hits, you might try searching for a specialization within a particular profession -- such as an anesthesiologist rather than a doctor or a child psychiatrist rather than a psychiatrist.  Do the opposite if you are not getting enough hits.

Search the name of the profession in conjunction with a term or phrase which identifies the aspect of the job you are interested in.  For general information, use terms like: 
Trends
Outlook

Other possible search terms: 
Ethics
Workload
Quality of Work Life
Salary
Job Satisfaction
Working Environment
Safety

• CareerOneStop is the flagship career, training, and job search website from the U.S. Department of Labor. It offers a variety of free online tools, information and resources. Features state-specific salary information.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) offers information on the hundreds of occupations that provide the overwhelming majority of jobs in the United States. Each occupational profile describes the duties required by the occupation, the work environment of that occupation, the typical education and training needed to enter the occupation, the median pay for workers in the occupation, and the job outlook into the next 10 years for that occupation.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics - Wages by Area and Occupation: Information about wages for numerous occupations at the national, regional, state, and metropolitan area level.

In addition to the resources listed below, when researching a company, be sure to visit the company's website. It will often provide links to financial filings, annual reports, and other information for investors. Look for links for investor relations or public relations - they may be at the bottom of the page and in small print. Also run searches in news databases to see what is being reported on companies. Local papers are more likely to cover smaller, private, regional businesses.