Get Students Ready For Life After Graduation

Students have a multitude of opportunities ahead of them post-graduation, but they may not be certain where they want to go or how to get there. Are they considering alternatives to college and exploring apprenticeships? Are higher ed students “career ready”? Are any of them really prepared for the job hunt?

Infobase has resources that will help them think about the places they’ll go after graduation day long before “Pomp and Circumstance” starts playing. Our career database, courseware, and streaming video collections can be used in conjunction with career-connected learning programs to help them land on their professional feet, with content to help them find their best college match, plan their career, apply for a job, prepare for interviews, learn valuable soft skills, and know what to expect once they get a job.

Planning Your Career Starts with Ferguson’s

From high school students choosing what they want to do with their lives to new college graduates about to enter the workforce, Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center is the perfect first stop for young people planning their future careers. This award-winning lifelong career exploration and planning database offers a wealth of resources that allow users to assess their career goals and interests, plan their education, learn workplace skills, find apprenticeships and internships, and much more. Even established professionals thinking of changing careers will find plenty of content to help them make that transition.

Here is some of the content you can find in Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center:

Expertly researched, detailed articles on more than 150 industries and more than 1,200 professions, with current information on earnings, employment trends, job requirements, and essential skills.
NEW: A feed for live, nationwide job postings in partnership with Monster.com. This new job feed is integrated into Ferguson’s Professions articles, allowing users to search seamlessly for openings in their careers of interest and related jobs.
NEW: A section on Alternative Education Opportunities that covers careers without college. From apprenticeships to on-the-job training to technical schools, routes to rewarding, in-demand, high-interest careers are covered in 28 articles new to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center.
Four school searches, including distance learning, graduate, undergraduate, and vo-tech schools; two comprehensive financial aid databases; and advice articles and videos designed to help students find the schools that are the best fit for their goals and needs and the financial support to attend them.
Hundreds of videos and clips covering jobs, industries, and career development skills, including:
- Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight videos that give users a no-nonsense insider’s perspective from working professionals across multiple industries and at different career levels.
- Career Tips videos offering concise, timely advice on job-search techniques and career skills such as writing better résumés and cover letters, networking, interviewing, and advancing your career.
An extensive section on highly sought workplace skills offers in-depth units with tips and exercises for understanding and mastering all-important “soft skills”: communication, leadership, organization, problem-solving, research, teamwork, and more.
Two Career Interest Assessments that allow students to identify their work-interest areas and match them to possible careers.

An exclusive, proprietary Apprenticeship Directory containing thousands of programs with opportunities in every state for 50 career fields.
An exclusive, proprietary Internship Directory covering more than 1,000 programs.

Specialized advice articles for minorities, people with disabilities, and women seeking to launch and advance their careers.
And so much more!

Learn more about Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center

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Get Fundamental Job Skill Training

More and more employers are seeking workers who not only have the basic skills to do the job at hand, but the people and workplace skills they need to thrive on the job and help others succeed as well. However, many employers believe schools and universities are not doing enough to prepare students in this way. Luckily, there’s a solution: the Career and Workplace Skills Collection by Seven Dimensions.

Learn more about the Career and Workplace Skills Collection

Available through Infobase Learning Cloud, the Career and Workplace Skills Collection offers more than 160 courses in career skills, workplace preparation, and training through short live-action videos supported by simple assessments to provide students with the competencies they need to flourish at any career—and to help educators get to the next level as well.

The key subject areas covered include:

Achieving Best Performance
Business Success & Profit
Career & Personal Strategy
Communication & Relationships
Communication, Creativity & Problem Solving
Crises, Crimes & Ensuring Safety
Delivering Service to Clients & Teams
HR Strategy & Recruitment
Influencing & Sales Skills
Leadership Skills & Team Success
Lies, Love & Legal Issues
Managing People Problems
Managing Teams & Projects
Marketing, Brand & Reputation
Personal Development
Positive Psychology & Wellbeing
Powerful Leaders & Positive Culture
Psychological Well Being

Career and Workplace Skills Collection subscribers: Log in to take advantage of this content today!

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Prepare for Your Future with Streaming Video—Including Resources on AI

Infobase has the streaming video resources your graduating students need, whether they’re learning a trade, heading for college, or about to enter the working world—including one that can help your students cultivate useful AI skills.

NEW: Infobase’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Streaming Video Collection provides sought-after resources to upskill educators and students for the rapidly changing tech landscape. This curated collection of videos on AI—what it is and how to use it—offers a structured, engaging way to teach and learn about this evolving technology. This collection is available as a standalone package, or easily integrated with any Films On Demand, Classroom Video On Demand, or Learn360 collections.
The Classroom Video On Demand Career & Technical Education Video Collection is a powerful, multipurpose tool for vocational and technical high schools, ideal for students learning a trade and preparing for the world of employment.
At the academic level, the Films On Demand Master Career & Technical Education Collection is an essential resource for any university’s career center or counseling department, with thousands of titles that can guide students toward a long, successful career and a well-balanced life, regardless of their field of study.
Access Video On Demand for public libraries features hundreds of titles on career planning from renowned producers such as Seven Dimensions, Million Stories, ClickView, Makematic, and more.

Here are some of the titles in these collections to help your students face the future with confidence. We have included searchable item numbers for each title for your convenience. (Not all titles are available on both platforms or in all countries. Some of these titles contain mature themes or content; viewer discretion is advised.)

AI Fluency: Intro to Prompts series (Bigger Brains, 2025, Item #296206)
AI Literacy for Educators and Students series (Nicole Hennig, 2024, Item #296178)
Express Yourself: Nonverbal Communications in a Digital World series (Motion Masters, 2024, Item #295984)
Jobs for the Future series (Edutainment Licensing, 2024, Item #295920)
Who Would You Hire? Series (C.W. Publications, 2024, Item #82559)
The Easy Guide To series (Channel 1 Creative Media, 2023, Item #294485)
College Essays (NewsHour Productions, 2023, Item #292691)
Blue Collar White Collar No Collar series (Million Stories, a project of the Singleton Foundation, 2022, Item #294685)
Skills for Me series (Seven Dimensions, 2022, Item #282209)
My So-Called High School Rank (HBO®, 2022, Item #286418)
Workplace Wellness series (PowerSplash Project, 2021, Item #275983)
Skillsumo: Work Inspiration series (Makematic, 2021, Item #238813)
Skillsumo: Pathways series (Makematic, 2021, Item #238823)
Skillsumo: FutureProof series (Makematic, 2021, Item #238830)
Trauma to Triumph: The Entrepreneurial Educational Experience series (TeleTime, 2021, Item #286964)
Future of Work series (PBS, 2021, Item #274920)
Marcellus Hall: An Artist in New York City (Fourwind, 2021, #287660)
2 Minutes to Success series (Seven Dimensions, 2020, Item #205602 [English] and #281761 [Spanish])
Mental Health: Worker’s Edition series (Channel 1 Creative Media, 2020, #273797)
Mental Health: Manager’s Edition series (Channel 1 Creative Media, 2020, #273788)