LibGuides: Coventry University London: Careers & Employability

Careers & Employability Overview

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Key Resources

Welcome to the Careers & Employability Subject Guide

This Subject Guide provides you with key academic and professional resources related to Careers and Employability.

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Key Resources

General Resources

Journals, Magazines & Databases - ProQuest ABI/INFORM, ProQuest Central, EBSCO Academic Search Complete, EBSCO Business Search Complete, Emerald, SAGE and Elsevier Science Direct.

Economic, Market & Company Information - FAME (for companies) IBIS World (industries), Mintel (market intelligence) and Statista (reports and statistics).

Newspapers - EBSCO Regional Business News and LexisNexis Lexis Library.

Careers & Employability-Specific Resources

ProQuest Career & Technical Education Database -

EBSCO PsycINFO -

Additional Resources

We also have a range of free resources which are recommended for wider reading around finance and accounting - see the 'Other Useful Resources' tabs.

Careers & Employability Resources

Where can I find Careers & Employability resources?

You can find Careers & Employability resources on Locate by using the following subjects as keywords, or browse the shelves in the library following the classification numbers below.

Subject	Classification Number
Skills for Success	650.1
Leadership	650.1
Business Networking	650.13
Job Applications/Job Hunting	650.14
Employability Skills	650.14
CVs and Cover Letters	650.142
Careers Guide/Handbook	650.14023
Interviews	650.144
Communication Skills	651.7

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Alphabetical List of Resources

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) It features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a broad picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO) It is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included.
Career & Technical Education Database The definitive source for vocational information and career search resources.
Emerald Management Journals The full text of articles from over 80 journals from MCB University Press, with the primary emphasis on management. There are also some engineering and technology titles. Subjects covered include engineering; general management; human resources; information management; library and information sciences; marketing; operations; production and economics; property; training / education and quality, supply chain management.
ProQuest Central ProQuest Central combines all of ProQuest’s main business, marketing, finance and humanities databases, allowing you to search over 24,000 academic publications at once. The collection includes academic and trade journals, magazines, reports and newspapers. ACCESS: Instead of using your username and password, click on "Open Athens" from the right side of the screen.
PsycINFO (EBSCO) Contains journals articles with advice and research on job interview preparation, interviewee coaching, preparation strategies, and response strategies. PsycINFO database, with over 1.7 million records, is the comprehensive international database of psychology. It covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. PsycINFO includes relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior. Search hints: For access to this resource login with your Coventry University username & password. Select EBSCOhost Web icon, scroll down list of EBSCO subscribed database and check box for PsycINFO.
Sage Journals SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE journals span a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, science, and technology.
ScienceDirect ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.

Companies House Companies House is the United Kingdom's registrar of companies and is an executive agency and trading fund of Her Majesty's Government. It falls under the remit of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and is also a member of the Public Data Group.
Euromonitor Passport Contains full text market research reports and statistical data. Information includes consumer lifestyles, country information and company and brand data. ACCESS: Click "Open Athens" from the right side of the screen. Search for "Coventry University" and click "Submit". If you get an error message or they ask you to complete a form with your details, just close the tab and open Euromonitor again.
FAME (Financial Analysis Made Easy) Financial Analysis Made Easy (FAME) is a financial database of public and private British and Irish companies. Each detailed record contains the profit and loss account, the balance sheet, financial and profitability ratios and financial and profitability trends. It is provided with searching and analysis software. This means that it is possible to carry out searches using criteria such as company name or registration number, trade description or SIC codes, number of employees, geographical area (postcode, post town or country) or accounting or financial data such as turnover. Any number of these criteria may be combined and inter-company comparisons made.
IBISWorld IBISWorld contains market research reports and industry ratings from around the world. It also has industry Brexit Impact statements for the UK reports. This database covers a wide variety of industry sectors including, construction, energy, manufacturing, finance, wholesale and retail.
Mintel Intelligence Consists of the full text of Mintel market research reports. Mintel has an emphasis on consumer markets in the United Kingdom. Staff and students of Coventry University access Online Mintel on the understanding that use is solely for academic purposes.
Statista Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22500 sources on over 60000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database.

Lexis Library [LexisNexis] Lexis Library is a newspaper and legal database. British national and many local daily & Sunday newspapers are in full text. Access to full text legal information is also included: UK and international cases and legislation with links to full-text journal articles, where the law journal is included in the Lexis database. It is an excellent resource for locating full-text United States cases and legislation and numerous full-text US legal journals. Full text EU law is also available.
Regional Business News [EBSCO] Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications (including titles from Crain Communications). This database has full text for more than 50 sources. Search hints: For access to this resource login with your Coventry University username & password. Select EBSCOhost Web icon and scroll down list of EBSCO subscribed database and check box for Regional Business News.

National Careers Service This website provides information, advice and guidance to help you make decisions on learning, training and work.
Prospects This website offer careers guidance with quizzes to help you link job prospects with your personality.
ONS - Office for National Statistics ONS is the UK's largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.

Coventry University London: Careers & Employability