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To Use CareerBeam, please visit the Online Resources page.

CareerBeam is an exceptional resource for coordinating your job search steps. One particular strength of the site is that it provides resources to assist Job Hunters that are new, have not been through the search process for a while, or who are working through significant career transitions changing career paths or industries.

It provides tools to help you to:

Research on millions of Companies
1. Including over 37M organizations containing company overviews, key information and business intelligence. You’ll have access to 42M Company contacts, many with biographies and contact information, which is great for connecting with alumni.
2. Access to information such as recent developments, business challenges, trends and opportunities on over 700 industry segments – get current financial information and executive insights as well.
Self-evaluation
1. Take a look at who you are today. CareerBeam’s unique career assessment tools factor in your values, temperament, interests and personality to help you develop — and achieve — professional goals.
Help creating professional resumes and cover letters
1. Whether you are writing a first-time resume or updating a previous one, use CareerBeam for building an accomplishment-based resume and cover letter.

To Use CareerBeam, please visit the Online Resources page.

When you are logged in, please start with the BE CLEAR section. Take a broad range of online career assessments that provide immediate results with information regarding career selection, leadership style, work environment and strengths. Offers links for you to explore your results in greater detail. Specific assessments/exercises include:

Vision
Values
Temperament
Personality
Interests
Skills
Fascinations
Likes/Dislikes

These assessments will provide you with a Career Profile, giving you insight into career choices and additional resources.

Next, head to the BE COMPELLING section. Upon clarifying your career goals, make sure you are communicating how your experiences speak directly to your career plans. Use the web-enabled tools throughout this section to build a powerful resume and cover letter and prepare for interviews. Specific services include:

Professional Resume Seminar w/ Builder
Cover Letter Development w/ Builder
Interview Preparation
Follow Up

Finally, move to the BE STRATEGIC section. Now that you know what you want and have developed materials that communicate your value, it is time to implement your search. This section takes you through numerous web-enabled exercises to guide you in creating effective networks and conducting a strategic search. Specific resources include:

Network Development
Search Analysis
Goal Setting
Action Plans
Productivity Charts
Negotiations

In addition to the interactive workshop series, you can participate in networking activities, conduct extensive research, and request information and guidance from a broad range of career counselors and executive coaches across the country. Special features include:

Company Research
Access to proprietary research database to investigate over 15 million companies and 20 million industry contacts, connect with alumni, set job triggers, assign search agents and track your search activities.

Industry Research
Access to proprietary research database covering over 200 industries updated every 90 days. This tool does the "heavy lifting" for you - saving you valuable research time, enhancing communications and giving you the competitive edge to interviews and networking.

International Research
Access to proprietary research database to identify over 2 million international companies in over 70 countries.

E-Library
Access to over 350 career sites that are catalogued, hot-link and annotated for easy access to valuable resources.