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Articles: ABI/Inform

The Business database ABI/Inform is the best resource for finding articles about Informational Interviews and Job Shadowing.  If you search each term separately enclosing them in quotation marks (e.g. "informational interviewing" / "job shadowing") you will retrieve many articles offering tips, suggestions and some guidelines for each.  

The Web!

Conduct a simple search in your favorite Web Search Engine, such as Google, for guides to both informational interviewing and job shadowing.  You will find TONS of useful (and some not so useful) web sites and documents.  

It can help if you limit your search to .org or .edu domains as a loose quality check.  For example, there are lots of University and College Career Centers that offer detailed guidelines and suggestions for informational interviewing and job shadowing.  Your search would look like this:

"informational interviewing" site:.edu  (or .org).  

.com sites can also be good quality, but judge them carefully.  

Try also YouTube for videos.  You cannot limit to particular domains, but there are many good videos to choose from.  Again, check the quality and reliability of each video before using it in your review.  

Selected Guides from the Web

Job Shadow Experience. University of Wisconsin-Platteville, https://www.uwplatt.edu/cpdo/job-shadow-experience. 

Job Shadowing.  College of Science and Engineering, https://cse.umn.edu/r/job-shadowing/. 

Job Shadowing.  Career and Professional Development | Georgia Southern University. http://students.georgiasouthern.edu/career/students/job-shadowing/. 

Job Shadowing | The Career Center. https://www.career.fsu.edu/students/gain-experience/job-shadowing. 

Job-Shadow-Guidebook.Pdf. https://cloudfront.ualberta.ca/-/media/careercentre/documents/publications/job-shadow-guidebook.pdf. 

Informational Interviewing. Virginia Tech.  https://career.vt.edu/exploring/informational-interviews.html.

Informational Interviewing.  University of Michigan.  https://careercenter.umich.edu/article/informational-interviewing​.

Informational Interviewing. County of San Mateo.  https://hr.smcgov.org/informational-interviewing​.

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