Speech Resources

This research guide will help you find credible sources for career research speech and for your personal career decisions. You may have an assignment that asks you to prepare a speech on a career of your choice.

Step 1: Your first step will be to choose a career you would like to research.  Need help coming up with a career choice?  Check out the Occupational Outlook Handbook to learn about many career options.  **Please check your professor's directions for this speech assignment**

Step 2: Once you have chosen a career to research, a good place to find articles would be in a library databases such as Ferguson's Career Guidance Center.

Step 3: When you access Ferguson's Career Guidance Center you will see a section for "Explore Careers."  Under Browse Professions in that section, you look through hundreds of careers.  You can click on the titles of the careers to open the information.  Inside you will find many things to include in your speech such as earnings, history of the career, work environment, education needed, and more.

Step 4: If your assignment also asks you to include articles about your career, you may want to do a search in the SPC Online Catalog.  You can try typing in the name of your career with the word "career" after it.  For example, "librarians and career."

This presentation provides tips and an overview of databases for career research. (4 min.)