Student Resources
Advice, /Career Resume Preparation, Cover Letters, Interviewing Skills,/
Financial Aid, /Graduate and Professional Programs, /Job Listings, Company Information, and Resume Posting Sites, /Relocation
and /Help for Writing Papers.  SCROLL DOWN TO SEE.

 Advice

• SAU Student Handbook -- for the student body of St. Ambrose University.
• Alcohol: How much is too much? -- a free online questionnaire to assess your drinking habits and see whether you might be walking close to the edge of addiction.
• Black Collegian-- Information on Black history, financial aid, job hunting strategies, and more.
• Blogger -- How to start your own
• Campus Climate for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People: A National Perspective
• Carfax  and Vehix.com --  excellent sites for all automobile purchases, new and used. One can get the specifics on individual cars for price, safety, lemon, recalls and crash test results and compares different makes and models. It also locates used cars of your choice of make and model in your local area.
See if that used car had been in a flood or been totaled!
• Contacting your Representative -e-mail members of the United States House of Representatives arranged by state and zip code. Why not?
• Cutting (self-mutilation) -- from the Mayo Clinic - Ask A Health Specialist.
• Complete Facts about STDs. -- from the CDC National Prevention Information Network, includes where to get help and basic information (Scroll down).
• Council on International Educational Exchange-- Opportunities for study abroad.
• Dance Safe -- "is a nonprofit, harm reduction organization promoting health and safety within the rave and nightclub community. Our information and services are directed primarily towards non-addicted, recreational drug users." Nice chart of Risk Assessment for drug + activity.
• Dating Violence--a fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control provides valuable information about a problem for both male and female students that is far more commonplace than you might think.
• Eating Disorders Shared Awareness--definitions, warning signs, symptoms, how to approach someone you think has the problem.
• Etiquette Grrrls
• Finding Blogs -- on lots of topics or just general ones.
• Free Audio Books -- only books that are in the public domain, read by volunteers.
• Hoaxes Online and in E-mails -- find out the truth before you forward it on! Snopes.com is also an excellent place to check the truth.
• How Deja vu works -- what is it really? How Dreams Work -- "Are dreams random brain impulses, or do they offer insight into our waking lives?"
• Guidelines for Getting the Most out of Non-Fiction Reading
• Iowa Register to Vote Form -- it's never too early to start thinking about the election!
• Mayo Clinic: Drugs and Supplements -- this is an excellent site free of bias and based on solid research when you need to find out about that pill.
• Men's Health Issues
• Movie Profiler -- Find a movie based on the emotion you want to feel!!!
• NPR Podcast Directory -- get all sorts of podcasts from America's public radio stations.
• Podcast Directory -- find ALL sorts of podcasts! Podcast Directory2 -- from a different source. look on the left side.
• Political Blogging - from the 13th floor
• Project Vote Smart-- Sort of like a consumer's guide to politicians in your area. Just the facts.
• Quack Watch--the consumers' guide to health fraud and quackery.  
• Reading Groups--advice on how to start and keep going a reading group with fun book suggestions, guides to help you talk about the books and even recipes to make for your group. A great way to hang out together!
• Safer Car -- U.S. government's one-stop shopping center for ratings on tires, airbags, rollover ratings, defects and recalls.
• Sports Injuries -- not a substitute for a doctor, but some basic info on all sorts of conditions you may run into as a college  athlete, varsity OR intramural!
• Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection--with advice on all kinds of problems, like study skills, stress, relationships, eating disorders.
• StudyAbroad.Com --descriptions, contact information and links to a wide range of international programs.
• Study Guides and Strategies--the advice the College of St. Thomas gives its students to improve their test-taking skills, study techniques, time and stress management.
• Textbook Revolution -- full-text textbooks online arranged by discipline.
• Tide Stain Solutions-- getting out stains by specific types..
• U.S. Consumer Gateway--6 government agencies have pooled their consumer information and made it easily accessible in this one handy site.
• Wing of Madness: a depression guide-- includes symptoms and resources especially designed for women and girls. Click here for a depression guide especially designed for men.
• Health Tools -- from Mayo Clinic, it includes Calculators
  • BMI calculator
  • BMI calculator for kids
  • Daily calorie calculator
  • Heart disease risk calculator
  • Pregnancy due date calculator
  • Skin type calculator
  • Target heart rate calculator

  Self-assessments

  • Depression self-assessment
  • Is work stressing you out?
  • Prostate symptoms self-assessment
  • Your healthy weight pyramid: A tool for weight loss

  More Tools

  • Quizzes
  • Slide Shows
  • Video

Career Resume Preparation, Cover Letters, Interviewing Skills

• 200 Letters for Job Hunters--from a book by Ten Speed Press. Extremely useful advice as well as sample letters.
• Career Development Manual  -- takes you through the steps of determining what career is best for you.
• Career Guide to Industries -- from the U.S. Department of Labor.  Includes occupations in the industry, working conditions, earnings and benefits, employment outlook.
• Career Interests  -- suggests a variety of careers suitable to different personality types and interests.
• Career Magazine. Full of helpful advice.
• Career Profiles -- outlines salary ranges and describes a spectrum of positions in many fields. Resume tips, etc included
• Careers in Business & Job Listings
• Illinois Career Resource Center -- education requirements and more for over 500 occupations, listings for potential local employers and resume help.
• Job Searching -- particularly useful in linking you by your specialization--business jobs, science jobs, arts jobs, etc., as well as pages for interviewing skills, resumes and letter-writing.
• National Association of Colleges and Employers-- Excellent starting point for people who are new at job hunting
• Occupational Employment Statistics--national and state data for 760 occupations. Includes wage data by job classification
• Occupational Outlook Handbook -- searchable database providing training & education requirements, outlook for job, salary information.
• O*Net Online -- find occupations that match your skills. Interactive. Excellent! Created for the U.S. Department of Labor,
  Employment & Training Administration.
• Selected Resume Resources on the Web
• What Can I Do With This Major/Degree? -- each major/degree listed has information on the kinds of careers, education required, and strategies for preparing yourself for those careers. Actual info will be in .pdf fromat if you chose "printable".

Financial Aid

• Academic Info: Financial Aid and Student Loans  -- an excellent index.
• Scholarship Links -- . Includes financial aid/scholarship information.
• CollegeSholarships.org -- "provides a free and "open-book" database/directory to many different kinds of scholarships and grants.
• Colleges, College Scholarships and Financial Aid  - access to information on colleges and universities throughout the United States, free college scholarship and financial aid searches, SAT and ACT test preparation tips.
• College Scholarships and Graduate Fellowships--an index to a wide variety of sources.
• Financial Aid Information--Yahoo's index
• Financial Aid Student Guide from the US Dept. of Education
• Financing Law School -- look on the left menu.
• Income-Based Repayment (IBR) -- a new way to make your federal student loan payments more manageable. 
• International Scholarships
• Medical School Financing--advice from Princeton Review
• Scholarship Scams
• Scholarships (FastWeb)--a searchable, FREE database of over 18,000 private scholarships.
• Scholarships for Hispanic and Latino Students
• StudentJobs.gov -- A central source for college students to find government grants, scholarships, fellowships, internships, and other government educational and employment opportunities.

Graduate and Professional Programs

• AAAS Guide to Graduate Education in Science, Engineering and Public Policy

• Accredited Distance Learning Degrees--find every college offering distance education degree programs in seconds. Accredited Bachelor's, Master's, MBA, and PhDs available via distance learning.

• Grad Schools.Com--search thousands of graduate school listings by subject. Useful though incomplete--it depends on universities to submit information.

• H-Grad-- a forum for discussing a wide variety of issues related to graduate school, teaching, and becoming Ph.Ds in humanities-based professions. 

• Law School Admissions Council

• Law School Guide and LSAT Preparation--from Princeton Review, an absolutely free guide to the best law schools, advice on applications, financial aid for law school, and downloadable LSAT to practice on.

• Links to Business Schools WorldWide

• Masters in Education Guide -- "content was developed by Kim Wood an educational consultant and classroom teacher with 30+ years of experience."

• MBA Association -- to facilitate networking and create an online community for the benefit of MBAs from around the world. Free with registration.

• MBA Explorer-- from the makers of the GMAT. Register online for the GMAT, explore the database of graduate business programs.

• MCAT Prep Info

• Online Colleges -- "is a nonprofit resource for students considering an accredited online college for their associates, bachelors, masters or doctorate level degree." Over 250 colleges listed.

• Peterson's Education Center-- Files on graduate and professional schools and programs.

• Princeton Review-- for detailed info on the qualifying exams, how to choose a grad school, finding financial aid

• SAU Graduate Studies

• University Links-- Links to university pages by alpha order or by category

• University Study in Australia -- includes university descriptions and courses.

• USNews Graduate School Rankings -- by subject.

Help for Writing Papers

Job Listings, Company Information, and Resume Posting Sites

• llinois Job Bank
• Iowa's Job Bank
• Annual reports for Free -- more than 3200 companies. Find your company alphabetically or by subject, and call PRAR's 800 number to request the annual report.
• Antarctica -- Unusual job opportunities at the South Pole, October through February.
• CareerJet -- you are directed to the originally job posting, leaving out the middle man. Nice interface too.
• Company Information -- a number of files that will guide you to information about the companies you are interviewing with.
• Definitive Chicago Area Job Guide
• Educational Placement --  Jobs for teachers.
• For International Careers and Jobs -- over 150 countries.
• Government Jobs Official Posting Site  --  jobs in federal agencies. Also links to other job hunting resources like state and city joblines, statewide newspapers, etc.
• HMonster-- Look here for jobs in health-related fields.
• Hoover's -- offers all kinds of data, including thumbnail sketches of thousands of companies, links to corporate homepages, stock information, and more.
• InternJobs.com --a national database of internships for students and recent graduates.
• Iowa Corporation Search -- retrieve information on Iowa corporations, such as officers, date incorporated, etc.
• Iowa Workforce Development -- job listings for the state of Iowa.
• Job Resource -- operated by students, for students. Posts job listings and resumes, searchable by keyword and location.
• Police Careers -- This site offers employment, testing and interviewing guides for federal and state police careers.
• NonProfit Career Network -- a place to look for jobs and volunteer opportunities in the nonprofit sector, post your resume, and find out about the service organizations listed.
• Opportunity Knocks -- Non-Profit Organization job search.
• Overseas Jobs--international job opportunities, also arranged by individual country.
• RehabWorld -- job postings for occupational and physical therapy.
• Salary.com -- allows users to compare salaries in different parts of the country.
• Science Professional Network -- job listings, science career fairs, career workshops, and career links for scientists. From the AAAS.
• StudentJobs.gov  -- A central source for college students to find government grants, scholarships, fellowships, internships, and other government educational and employment opportunities
• TechWeb --  the place to go to look for technical job postings, list your resume.
• Vault Reports -- Profiles of major employers based on interviews with people who've worked there tell about the kind of organization it is, the benefits and drawbacks of working there.

• Chicago Crime Data -- an excellent source for data on crime occurrence in the City of Chicago. Interactive maps included. Great way also to see which neighborhoods are safer than others.
• CityData.com -- "data from numerous sources to create as complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities -- graphs of latest real estate prices and sales trends, recent home sales, home value estimator, hundreds of thousands of maps, satellite photos, stats about residents (race, income, ancestries, education, employment...), geographical data, state profiles, crime data, registered sex offenders, cost of living, housing, religions, businesses, and MUCH more"
• Moving.com -- from 'moving costs calculator' to roommate help.
• Relocation Central--another helpful tool for anyone who's moving.  There is info on housing, banking, schools, recreation, and such for the towns that are there; there is also a moving time line calculator, and a moving expense calculator, and other handy tips.
• Relocation Salary Calculator 
• Rentnet -- Search for rental housing all over the country, by price range, type of housing, number of bedrooms.