Key Resources

Confused about your choice of career?  Don't know how to write a resume or a cover letter?  Need information about education and training?  Puzzled about addressing selection criteria?  The Library has a wide range of books to assist you as well as pamphlets from Centrelink's Career Information Centre.

Major References
Here is a selection from the Library's many books that can assist with career choices and job hunting.

• Steer Your Own Career
• Should I Stay or Should I Go?
• ASCO Australian Standard Classification of Occupations
• Job Guide for Western Australia
• Job Hunting for Dummies
• 101 Best Cover Letters
• The Resume Guide
• How to Address Selection Criteria
• Ready for Work
• Tap the Hidden Job Market
• What Jobs Pay 2003-2004
• The Beginners Guide to Small Business in Australia
• Work Around Australia

Other Information Resources

Government

Myfuture
Career information provided as a joint initiative of the Federal, State and Territory governments.

Jobjuice
Career guidance, job hunting and further training information for school leavers, from the federal Department of Employment and Workplace Relations.

Jobguide
The Job Guide provides an in-depth look at a range of occupations, and their education and training pathways. It also gives useful information about how to work out what occupations suit you best, based on your interests and abilities.

Employment section of the Australian Workplace Portal
Access to online information about employment initiatives and services.

Online WA Employment and Workplace Gateway
Industrial relations, workplace agreements, careers and jobs, superannuation and employment opportunities in the Western Australian government.

Getaccess
Western Australian government site to help you develop your skills to gain employment, provide career guidance and help you understand how the world of work is changing.

Australian Jobsearch
National vacancy database.

Career Information Centre
Centrelink's comprehensive free career services (pamphlets from the local service are available at the Business Reference Desk).

Australian Government Education Portal
Points the way to education and training information from authoritative Australian Government, State and Territory sources.

Net Links

Future Finder
Free, customised and personalised career information and advice service developed with input from students and careers teachers. It provides individual websites for each registered student, drawing on tailored information from databases on careers and courses (from the publishers of the Good Universities Guide).

Mycareer.com.au
From FairfaxDigital, offers information about employers of choice and provides a forum for job seekers and recruiters to interact.

Gradlink
The Gradlink website is a user-friendly, central source of information about graduate careers and employment, which has been created for students and graduates of Australian universities, as well as employers, researchers and careers professionals.

Careers Online
Written by professional careers advisers (since 1979) Australia's Careers OnLine has been helping internet Job Seekers with their Job Search and Career Development since 1995!

Best Companies to Work For
Lists of best companies to work for in specific countries and regions, published by Great Place To Work Institute.