LibGuides: Applied Ethics: Code of Ethics

Code of Ethics

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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center This link opens in a new window Ferguson's Career Guidance Center is a comprehensive career research database, providing detailed and up-to-date profiles of more than 2,900 of today's most popular jobs in 93 industries. This database now contains more than 1,000 new and updated in-depth job and industry descriptions from the new edition of Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance and from the popular Career Opportunities series—as well as a searchable archive of articles from current and past issues of Career Opportunities News, a 16-page, bi-monthly newsletter that provides timely information about colleges and the job market. Funded by: College (FLVC Group License)
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Codes of Ethics by Profession
Created by The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP). "Established in 1976 to promote research and teaching on practical moral problems in the professions. Illinois Institute of Technology."
Google search for Codes of Ethics
Type in the name of the profession and then "code of ethics" in quotes next to it.

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