Mining the Internet for Career Information: A Model Approach for College Students

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-54

  Robinson, Nicholas K ^a   Meyer, Dinorah ^a   Prince, Jeffrey P ^a   McLean, Christopher ^a   Low, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Career; College students; Educational; Exploration; Information; Internet; Links; Multicultural; Web site design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034383571     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/106907270000800104     Document Type: Article

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