Exploring Different Fields

The Amherst College Career Center has a comprehensive resource center with thousands of books and resources in all fields and topics. Below are links to other pages in our site with broad, area-specific content:

Environment
Government
Health Professions
Law
Public Health
Public Interest Careers general resources
Social Services
Social Activism
Teaching, both Public &
    Independent schools
Work Abroad

And listed below are several applications that can offer assistance in researching specific career and job-related fields and topics:



The Liberal Arts Career Network (LACN), a consortium of twenty-five private liberal arts colleges, seeks to make available the best information from a wide range of career fields.

Each college is responsible for a single career field--Amherst's is Geology--and identifies quality informational sites pertinent to that field.


In-depth job descriptions with job-specific resource listings, detailed industry descriptions, career resources, career preparation information and web resources.
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Company profiles, industry overviews; career guides, interview advice and more.