Career Planning and Preparation

Why Communication is Important  A scholarly article on the centrality of the Communication discipline to education, work and life.  A source of ideas for how to convince employers of your value to them as a communication major.

Some Career Possibilities for Communication and Theatre Arts Majors - developed by your CATA faculty!

Skills and Knowledge Often Developed by CATA Majors that are Valued in the Post-Graduate World

Marketable Skills of Communication Majors - A brief listing of skills, strategies for career preparation and possible jobs from the career center at Southwest Missouri

Evergreen State University Career Development Resource Page  A comprehensive list of good resources for conducting a job search, writing a resume, finding a grad school, writing application letters, and interviewing.  Lots of examples.

Florida State University Career Guides.  A number of focused, highly useful guides to the full range of job search issues including strategies, goals, resumes, interview issues (by job type) and so on.

The Virtual Interview Assistant - A complete interviewing course on-line with lots of resources including useful material on preparing for the job interview.

Interview Etiquette / Answering Tough Questions - a slide show of advice developed by CATA students.

McGaan's List of "Key Elements in the Job Search"

O*NET Online has lists of descriptive terms that are useful to add to your scannable resume.  Check it out if you are in need of inspiration for keywords.

Negotiating Job Offers.  An excellent Florida State comprehensive guide to the full range of issues involved with how to negotiate when you receive a job offer.

Quintessential Careers.  Excellent and comprehensive resources for career planning.  Good advice on resumes and portfolios.

Job Search Sites

Communication, Journalism, Media and Public Relations Career, Internship and Job Webliography.  Benita Dilley's exhaustive list of industry specific job posting sites, media corporation web sites, research locations and more.

Academic Employment Network Search for employment in teaching or other academic-related jobs for colleges, primary, and secondary schools across the nation.

CareerJournal.com, from The Wall Street Journal. The site is free and offers everything you need to find a great job, move up in the one you have, or plan your continuing education.  Search 30,000+  jobs from the nation's top companies, plus opportunities in Europe and Asia. If you're just getting started, internships and entry-level positions for college graduates are available. Sign up for alerts that tell you when new jobs are added that match your personal criteria.

CareerBuilder Post your resume, check out online job fairs, and connect with thousands of employers.  Lots of career search and planning resources.  Sponsored by a number of large newspapers and featured in the Chicago Tribune.

Career Center Large Career and Job search site with excellent company links.

Center for Communication - Career links.  this site has a wealth of interesting links to information on media related and some other communication careers.  Check out their main page for useful information on the media business, internships, etc.

CollegeGrad.com  CollegeGrad.com specializes in entry-level jobs.

Hotjobs.com.  HotJobs.com 's job search engine can find jobs by location, industry, or job title.

HR Careers,   a career-center home for Human Resources / Training & Development / and Multi-media professionals

Internship Search Site  Rising Star Internships. Good internet site for beginning to look for internship possibilities and how to make the most of them

Internweb.com  Internships Abound at Internweb.com - FREE Internship Searching and Posting

JobBank USA Search one of the Internet's largest jobs database, use resume builder to create and submit resume to resume database.

JobDirect Connects students with companies seeking entry-level employment and assists job seekers in creating a thorough resume with Resume Workshop.

Jobsinthemoney.com is the leading job site dedicated to finance and accounting professionals. Job seekers can freely apply to thousands of financial jobs and post their resume. Free 2001 Financial Salary Survey and financial career resources.

Jobs.Net  A nice interface and easy access to international job listings.  Also provides an email notification system.

JobWeb Search a database of current job openings and read profiles of companies. Includes Job Seeker Discussion Groups and Career Planning Resources.

Juju Job Search Engine  A relatively new search site.  Juju is a “job search engine” rather than a “job board”, which means that it indexes jobs listed on thousands of sites around the web to provide job seekers a single point of access to as many job listings as possible, instead of only showing them a limited set of jobs that they have been paid to promote like traditional job boards do.  The search engine is fast and easy to use.

Media Careers Page at "VAULT"  Articles and advice along with media, entertainment, Public Relations and marketing job ads.

Net-temps.com   "Net-Temps, A World of Jobs Neatly Packaged"  Net-Temps, the number one Internet recruiting center for the Staffing industry. Net-Temps brings together the world's leading staffing firms with the best candidates for contract assignments and direct placement. Net-Temps boasts a cross posting distribution of over 500 Internet search engines, portals, directories, on-line services and newsgroups as classified employment ads. These include Excite, Yahoo, Alta Vista, and Lycos.

PR, Communication Employment Directory  by O'Dwyer's PR News is a special website for undergrads and recent grads pursuing careers in public relations, public affairs, communication, media, and related fields.

Riley Guide Considered to be one of the best career and job information sites on the Internet, this site breaks down job resources into categories such as arts and humanities, computers and technology, business, health, education, and government jobs, to name a few.

Monster.com Everyone knows it and it's worth a look.

World Wide Web Employment Office A-Z listing of hundreds of job related sites on the World Wide Web.

GradSchools.com  Advertises itself as the "leading resource for information on graduate school information."  Not specific to Communication or Theatre but easy to use.

The Graduate Record Exam is required by many graduate programs.  For those schools your scores must be received before you will be considered for admission and (most importantly) financial support (tuition waivers, assistantships, etc.).  Scores take a number of weeks after you take the test to arrive at the grad school so you will need to take the test during the Fall to insure your scores arrive in time.  The link here will take you to the GRE site where most all the information you need to take the exam can be found.

The National Communication Association This link takes you to our national association home page. CLICK HERE to go directly to the page listing links to communication graduate programs. Find links to all graduate programs in communication in the U.S.A. and some overseas.

Directory of Graduate Schools in Theatre

Accredited Programs in Mass Communication and Journalism  A listing of professional (and technical) programs in mass communication.  Does not include liberal arts, research or PhD. programs (for research/PH.D. programs see the NCA listings above). Includes undergraduate as well as graduate programs.  Provided by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Where Shall I Go to Study Advertising and Public Relations  A publication of Advertising Education publications.  Loaded with stats and links to programs by state.