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Use these online resources to help discover your career path.

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  • Career Guide: Comprehensive guide to assist in every phase of your career development. 
  • Careershift: Access in-depth information about contacts and companies posting jobs.
  • Nittany Lion Careers: Online listing of thousands of jobs and internships for students and alumni.
  • psu.jobs: Find campus employment 
  • internships.com: Search for internships across the US and internationally.
  • JobBox: Find internship and employment opportunities with employers specifically for Abington students. Or stop by Lares 206.
  • GoinGlobal: Find an international job or internship. View visa restrictions, HIB Plus database of US visa-sponsoring employers.
  • InterviewStream: Practice your interviewing skills online anytime or anywhere.
  • Coursera: Take an online course to learn a new skill or gain a certificate.
  • LinkedIn Learning: Sharpen or gain new skills.
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Employment Campus
  • psu.jobs: Find campus employment 

  • JobBox: Find internship and employment opportunities with employers specifically for Abington students. Or stop by Lares 206.
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Assessments

Career & Professional Development offers multiple career, skill, and personality assessments.  Meet with a counselor to determine which assessment would benefit you.

  • Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI)
  • MyPlan 
  • Gallup CliftonStrengths
Diverse populations

Diverse Population by Ethnolinguistic People Groups

African American & Black

  • Jopwell: Leading career advancement platform.
  • National Black MBA Association, Inc.:  Offers funding for tools and resources that lead to the creation of educational and wealth building opportunities for our members, which enhances their professional and personal development and growth.
  • National Association of Black Accountants, Inc.: Dedicated to bridging the opportunity gap for black accounting and finance professionals by providing leadership and technical training, as well as networking and career opportunities.

Asian

  • National Association of Asian American Professionals: A non-profit organization that cultivates and empowers Asian & Pacific Islander leaders through leadership development, professional networking, and community service.
  • Asian Career Network
  • Velvetjobs: Specialized resources for Asian Americans where you can find information about work, internships, qualifications, networking, mentoring and business development opportunities.

Hispanic or Latino / Latinx

  • Jopwell: Leading career advancement platform.
  • iHispano: Leading technology, tools, and resources help you connect with employers that recognize the value of an inclusive and diverse work environment.
  • National Alliance For the Advancement of Haitian Professionals: Focused on connecting a global community of peers with career advancement resources as well as fostering transformative relationships between NAAHP members and committed stakeholders to strengthen Haiti through philanthropy and social entrepreneurship.
  • Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement: Dynamic and intensive Action Learning Experience that will transform high-potential Latino professionals into high-performing leaders, by developing the skills necessary to promote immediate and sustainable results for themselves and organizations they serve.

Indigenous / Native American 

  • Nativehire: The Tribal Employment Database works with companies who are specifically looking to hire Native Americans.

Middle Eastern & North African 

  • Mena Opportunities: Job Center is powered by Bayt.com. Bayt.com is the #1 job site in the Middle East, offering a complete range of end-to-end employment solutions and career planning tools.

Diverse Population by Status

Elderly

  • Pennsylvania Department of Aging: In addition to providing a nutritious meal, centers offer social activities, a range of informative programs, creative arts, exercise, volunteer opportunities, community services, and other special events which are unique to individual centers.

First Generation

Handicapped or Disabled

  • City of Philadelphia - Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities
  • Department of Labor & Industry: The Bureau of Disability Determination (BDD) is the state agency that assists the Social Security Administration (SSA) in determining whether disabled Pennsylvania citizens are eligible for federal disability benefits.The Bureau employs case examiners, physicians and psychologists to process case reviews for the following two programs:
    • The Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
    • The Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI)
  • U.S. Department of Labor: Assist people with disabilities in seeking meaningful work and succeeding once on the job.

Indigent or Impoverished

  • Broke in Philly: Collaborative initiative among 19 local news organizations to provide in-depth, nuanced and solutions-oriented reporting on the issues of poverty and the push for economic justice in Philadelphia.
  • Community Legal Services: Our mission is to fight poverty, challenge systems that perpetuate injustice, and change lives through cutting-edge advocacy and exceptional legal representation.
  • CareerLink: Premiere job-matching system has been created to help bridge the gap that currently exists between job-seekers and employers.
  • Philabundance: Works to elevate the voices of its clients, volunteers and partners to help raise awareness of hunger to bring in food, funds and advocates.

Veteran

  • U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: Build your career and find the opportunities that are right for you.
  • Veteran Community Initiative, Inc. (VCI)
  • Military.com: Connects service members, military families and veterans to all the benefits of service — government benefits, scholarships, discounts, lifelong friends, mentors, great stories of military life or missions, and much more.
  • Recruit Military: We provide the spark that ignites organizations to excel, by helping them hire and retain America’s best talent - its veterans.
  • Department of Military and Veterans Affairs: Pennsylvania's Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) has a dual mission: to provide quality service to the commonwealth’s veterans and their families, and to oversee and support the members of the Pennsylvania National Guard (PNG).
  • Hire Heroes USA: Help U.S military members, veterans and military spouses find new careers
  • Fastport: Our people and technology interact with the most productive veteran hiring initiatives in the United States.
  • Military Hire.com: Connects veterans with employers who value their character, skills, and service.
  • Rallypoint: Private, gated-access network for US military members. We empower military personnel and veterans to take greater control over their careers by making it easier to connect with the right people at the right time to pursue fulfilling career opportunities.

Disabled Veterans

  • Cohen Veteran Network:  Focuses on post-9/11 veterans and families, in order to get ahead of transition challenges before they become chronic or acute. Each Cohen Clinic will assess all veterans based on their specific needs, and we will make every effort to see pre-9/11 veterans based on clinician availability.
  • Paralyzed Veterans of America: Works tirelessly to improve the quality of life for veterans and all people living with spinal cord injury and disease.
  • Woods and Woods , LLC: Fight for disabled national veterans nationwide

Diverse Population by Gender & Sexual Orientation

L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+

  • City of Philadelphia: Office of LGBT Affairs: Works to foster equal working and living conditions for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and to advocate for LGBTQ issues in all areas of City government.
  • GLAAD: Tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change.
  • Mazzoni Center: LGBTQ Health & Well-Being: Provides quality comprehensive health and wellness services in an LGBTQ-focused environment, while preserving the dignity and improving the quality of life of the individuals we serve.

Women

  • American Association of University Women: Nation’s leading voice promoting equity and education for women and girls.
  • Career Contessa - Helps women cultivate successful careers through expert advice, interviews, and videos, one-on-one mentoring, online skills-based courses and resources, and a curated job board that speaks to our audience.
  • Career Girls: Has access to diverse and accomplished women role models to learn from their experiences and discover their own path to empowerment.
  • Society of Women Engineers: World’s largest advocate and catalyst for change for women in engineering and technology.