Vault Online Undergraduate Career Library Tutorial

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Table of Contents

We are pleased to have your school as a member of Vault. The following tutorial is designed to familiarize you with the functionality of the Vault Online Career Library. Feel free to use this tutorial in presentations to train fellow staff members and authorized users.

Introduction Page 3

Home Page Page 4 - 17

Download Guides Page Page 18 - 24

Companies Page Page 25 - 27

Internship Database Page Page 28

Industry Research Page Page 29 – 31

Career Advice Page Page 32

Message Boards Page Page 33 - 36

Security Options Page 38

Helpful Contact List Page 39

Additional Products and Services Page 40 - 41

Testimonials Page 42 - 44

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Welcome to Vault!

In addition to the tutorial, we have included helpful contacts, additional products and services and client testimonials. The tutorial will be structured in the following manner:

• Each web page will be thoroughly explained from the Home Page to each area within the site.

• Helpful tips and tricks to access information quickly.

• The orange arrows indicate hyperlinks or important points of information

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Home PageThe Home Page allows you to access everything within the gray navigational bar across the top. Users can navigate to different areas via the home page or via the gray navigational bar. If you will notice, the blue tabs are actually hyperlinks. As you move your arrow over the tab, it becomes active. The following slides will detail each section on the home page .

Gray Navigational Bar

Active Blue Tabs

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Home Page Download Vault Guides Tab (active link), rest cursor over the blue tab

until it becomes active You will be redirected to area under “Download Guides” button on gray

navigation bar There are currently over 90 Vault Guides available for students, faculty

and staff to download

Active Blue Tab

Redirects to

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Home PageNEW on the Online Library yellow box (inactive) – lists free guides added to your library. Relevant guides are added as published, there is no set schedule for adding free guides. Not all new guides available on the public Vault site will be added to the Online Library.

NEW on the Online Library

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Home PageNew to the Library blue box – click in this box for a quick tour of the Online Library. This is great for new users. The following slide details what appears when you click on the blue box.

Active link

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Home PageNew to the Library blue box – a separate window appears for new users.

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Home Page

Active Blue Tab

Career Profiles Tab (active link), rest cursor over the blue tab until it becomes active

You will be redirected to area under “Industry Research” button on gray navigation bar

There are currently 53 Occupational Profiles

Active Blue Tab

Redirects to

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Home Page

Active Blue Tab

Industry Research Tab (active link), rest cursor over the blue tab until it becomes active

You will be redirected to area under “Industry Research” button on gray navigation bar

There are currently 45 Industry Overviews

Active Blue Tab

Redirects to

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Home Page

Active Blue Tab

Career Surveys Tab (active link), rest cursor over the blue tab until it becomes active

You will be redirected to area under “Industry Research” button on gray navigation bar

There are currently 1766 Occupational Surveys

Active Blue Tab

Redirects to

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Home Page

Active Blue Tab

Diversity Profiles Tab (inactive tab) Too large to input in Download Guides section

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Home Page

Active Blue Tab

Career Advice Articles Tab (inactive tabs) You will be redirected to area under “Career Advice” button on gray

navigation bar There are currently 1,100+ Career Advice Articles

Redirects to

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Home Page

Active Blue Tab

More Resources Tab (inactive tab) You will be redirected to area under “Career Advice” button on gray

navigation bar Redirects to

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Home Page

Active Blue Tab

Company Research Tab (active tab) You will be redirected to area under “Companies” button on gray

navigation bar

Active Blue Tab

Redirects to

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Home Page

Active Blue Tab

Internship Database Tab (active tab) Is also located in areas under “Companies” and “Career Advice”

buttons on gray navigation bar

Active Blue Tab

Redirects to Redirects to

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Home Page

Active Blue Tab

Electronic WaterCooler Tab (active tab) You will be redirected to area under “Message Boards” button on gray

navigation bar

Active Blue Tab

Redirects to

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Download Guides PageThe Download Guides Section contains links to PDF versions of our hardcopies. Please note that not all guides found on the public site are on here. In order to keep licensing costs affordable, a selection of guides geared towards intended audiences (undergraduate, law, business, etc.) are located here. The Download FAQ tab is very important, read first before trying to download any guidesIf you do not have Adobe Reader or wish to upgrade, select options on right column

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Download Guides Page Interview/Resume Guides Tab Ranges in 80 – 400 pages

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Download Guides Page Career Topic Guides Tab Ranges in 80 – 400 pages

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Download Guides Page Industry Career Guides Tab Ranges in 80 – 400 pages

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Download Guides Page Employer Guides Tab Ranges in 80 – 400 pages

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Download Guides PageGold Employer information. Gold surveys precisely detail workplace, interview, salaray and business outlook issues for specific positions within a company, as described to Vault by actual employees from 50 prominent companies

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Download Guides PageEmployer Profiles contains about 40-60 pages of exclusive information from employees and industry insiders. Not available in hardcopy bound versions

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Companies PageCompany Research tab – search by name or alphabetically. Browse by Industry tab - Industry overviews on 35 popular career fields provide an excellent foundation for beginning career research. These synopses highlight summaries of jobs, skills needed and career path outlook, as well as hot topics facing the industry.

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Companies Page Diversity Profiles Tab (inactive tab) Too large to input in Download Guides section

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Companies PageGold Employer information. Gold surveys precisely detail workplace, interview, salary and business outlook issues for specific positions within a company, as described to Vault by actual employees from 50 prominent companies

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Internship Database PageInternship Database information contains profiles from our Vault Guide to Top Internships. Search by Industry, Qualifications, State, Pay, International Applicants, Minority Applicants.

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Industry Research PageIndustry Overviews tab - Industry overviews on 35 popular career fields provide an excellent foundation for beginning career research. These synopses highlight summaries of jobs, skills needed and career path outlook, as well as hot topics facing the industry.

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Industry Research PageOccupational Profiles tab - on 53 job titles, gives description of job functions associated with a certain career, uppers and downers, career path and salary, including average hours worked per week, average salary at different career levels, degree and certification typically required, as well as real quotes from current professionals.

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Industry Research PageOccupation Surveys are filled out daily by hundreds of real professionals in 50 industries, detailing job responsibilities, hiring/education requirements, career path, uppers/downers, lifestyle, compensation and advice for newcomers in a particular career path.

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Career Advice PageCareer Advice page contains more than 1,100+ articles – the largest online career advice hub of its kind. They are separated into three main categories – Industry Advice, Work/Life and Job Search

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Message Boards PageThe Electronic WaterCooler™ message boards is the most popular forum for students and job-seekers online to get the real scoop from real people. It contains over 2 million message postings. The message boards are divided into three categories – Career Topic, Graduate Degree and Industry. Students are allowed to ask specific questions about a company or industry, read past questions and their revealing responses in a private, monitored forum. This is great for networking with job-seekers and current employees – the people who know what it takes to get the jobs your students want!

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Message Boards PageIf you were to click on a message board page, the following screen is an example of what would appear

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Message Boards PageIn order to ask a question or post a reply, students must choose a message board identity

Click on hyperlink to create identity

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Message Boards PageScreen that appears when a user creates a message board identity

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End of Tutorial

THANK YOU FOR COMPLETING THE VAULT TUTORIAL!!

THE FOLLOWING PAGES CONTAIN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR VAULT ONLINE CAREER

LIBRARY

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Security OptionsThere are 3 different security options (can not combine options) to choose from depending on how your school’s site

is set up.  We need to protect the Vault page from general access by any user.  It should be restricted to students from your school only.  We plan on doing this by asking you, the school, to place the link to our Vault Online Career Library in a password protected area on your website that students have access to.  Now, some schools might not have a password protected area already on their site.  So, here’s where you decide what option will work for you.

Option 1 (default): Students are sent temporary passwords for the library via email.  We will only send passwords to university domain names in order to verify

and not to personal domain names such as hotmail, yahoo, AOL, etc.  Currently, the domain name on file is “@universitydomain.edu”, if your university has additional domain names please send them to me.

1. Once they receive the password, they can access the content in the Vault Online Library.  2. The e-mailed passwords change every 24hrs; each day a student wishes to use the library, he/she will retrieve a new password.3. Please note that passwords will only be sent to current students, faculty and staff.  We can not send passwords to alumni unless your

contract includes alumni access.4. This option allows for accessibility from remote locations

Option 2: For schools that already HAVE A PASSWORD PROTECTED AREA that students log onto.  If your school already has a password protected area that students can access, we can easily make the library secure by having your webmaster link to your library from that area.

1. On the Vault page we check where the students are coming from. (i.e. - What was the URL of the page they were on before they got to the Vault page?  This is called the referring URL.)

2. The referring URL will either start with http:// or https://3. Once we find out what the referring URL is we then compare it to the URL of the actual page that you put the Vault link on and if they match

up then the student is allowed through. If not, they are sent to a custom error page with the option to email careerlibrary@vault.com for help

4. DO NOT put any javascript in the library link in order to avoid accessibility issues. 5. This option allows for accessibility from remote locations   

Option 3: For schools that use IP addresses as a form of security, our system also works with IP recognition, which monitors whether students are accessing the library from the proper IP ranges supplied by the client. 

1. Send me the IP ranges of computers which students will be accessing the library2. This option does NOT allow accessibility from remote locations unless specified in school issued IP range.

If you have questions or would like to change your security set up, please contact Claire Yaptangco, Client Relations Manager, claire@vault.com, 646.792.6351

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Helpful ContactsQuestions regarding maintenance of online library (security, logo changes, website changes, etc.):

Claire Yaptangco, Client Relations Manager

Email: claire@vault.com

Direct Line: 646.792.6351

Main Fax 646.349.9644

Availability: Monday thru Friday 9:30am – 6:30pm (EST)

Questions regarding Adobe PDF guides or accessibility issues:

Customer Service

Email: careerlibrary@vault.com

Direct Line: 212.366.4212

Availability: Monday thru Friday 9:30am – 6:30pm (EST)

Sales Questions (quotes to add alumni/additional students, GOLD membership, bulk book orders, etc.):Eric WatersEmail: eric@vault.com Direct Line: 212.366.4212 x 246Main Fax 646.349.9644Availability: Monday thru Friday 9:30am – 6:30pm (EST)

Order guides online:Customer ServiceEmail: careerlibrary@vault.comwww.vault.com Main Fax 646.349.9644

Vault’s mailing address:Vault.com150 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNY, NY 10011

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Additional Products and ServicesVault GOLD nationwide first person surveys give highly-detailed, first-hand accounts of the hiring, salary, responsibilities and other facets of actual jobs (for example: “Business Managing Consultant, AT Kearney, in Chicago”).

GOLD Membership includes:

• 30,000+ separate reports of 3,000+ companies worldwide (and hundreds more added each week) covering:

• Workplace culture, advancement opportunities and diversity

• Hiring and interview process

• Salary and other compensation (benefits, bonuses, etc.)

• Business Outlook

• 1,000+ extended employer snapshots for companies in all industries

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Additional Products and ServicesFor more information about adding Vault GOLD to your Online Career Library, please contact your account representative:Eric Waters212.366.4212 x 246eric@vault.com

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Additional Products and ServicesIf you would like a Vault Bookshelf order form faxed or emailed, please contact your account representative:Eric Waters212.366.4212 x 246eric@vault.com

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Testimonials“What a relief. No more checking in and out of materials, or chasing down stolen copies of reports. Students can now access

Vault reports anytime, anywhere via the web. And we are the heroes, because we now provide such a valuable resource to our students on a well organized, easy to access site and it costs them nothing. The information provided is a must read for anyone preparing for an interview.” -- Tom Kozicki, USC Marshall School of Business

" "I want to reiterate that the Vault Online Library truly is an incredible career resource for our current students.“ -- Kathi To, NYU Stern School of Business

“Our students have found the Vault Career Centre an excellent addition to their researching tools. At a time when the independent job search will be the key to finding a position, this additional resource, is timely and has been well received here at London Business School.” -- Chris Bristow, London Business School

“We are getting lots of good feedback from our students on having access to Vault - they love it!” -- Toni Della-Ratta, Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business

“This is our first year using the Vault Online Career Library and we truly believe it is such a valuable resource for our students.  Students are able to research specific careers, employers, and industries, as well as view career advice articles, sample cover letter and resumes, and interview information...all in one place!  As a career center professional, the Industry Career Guides that can be downloaded are my favorite resource.  I am also impressed by the list of universities that use the Vault Online Library.”

-- Jeremy Fisher, Creighton University

“It's critical for a successful job applicant to be well informed about the job market, practice areas and employers. Vault.com offers a super tool to help job seekers get up to speed quickly on a range of topics.”

-- Sari Zimmerman, University of California, Hastings College of Law

“Vault is the one of the first resources we point students to for career and industry advice- both students and counselors are always pleased with the content. The Vault team has been great to work with- always responsive when questions come up.  Thank you and keep up the good work!”

-- Michelle DeRosa, Babson Undergraduate Center for Career Development

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Testimonials (cont.)“Vault.com is incredible. We have been introduced to immense opportunities for recruiting on the internet as a result of their

dedication to our business. Their service is first rate and I could not have asked for a better partner.“ -- Tricia M. Pagano, Recruiting Coordinator, Strategy & Business Development Group, American Express Company

“After using Vault I was able to exude a lot more confidence during interviews because I felt like I knew what I was talking about rather than memorizing useless information. To illustrate how helpful both the guides and snapshots are, take my offer from Deustche Bank for example. I, an Economics major (with no accounting background) have accepted to join Deutsche Bank for the summer with their Controlling Division which is primarily an accounting job. I was able to ace the interview by reading the guides pertaining to both the firm and the nature of the job.”

-- Rutgers’ student

Vault is…a “killer app” (New York Times), “vastly popular” (NPR), and full of “fun, edgy reads” (Forbes). Most importantly, Vault is “the best place on the Web to prepare for a job search” (Fortune).

 "Firsthand accounts by successful professionals in the field are an important part of the guides... These guides make for

excellent starting points for job hunters and should be purchased by academic libraries for their career sections. University career centers should have them on their shelves."

-- Library Journal (2003) “Across the board, Vault.com delivers in all areas of ‘what makes a job site good.’ What sets Vault.com apart…is its extensive

company information, including insider reports and discussion forums by and for people you really work at the companies…it’s an excellent way to find out whether you fit with the corporate climate and to establish networking contacts. Overall, I give this site a ‘two thumbs way up!’ [Vault is] a fast and smart job seeker’s paradise.”

-- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Finding Your Dream Job Online

“I think your guide to America’s Top 50 Law Firms is terrific. I don’t know how I made up my mind 50 years ago without some comparable help.” -- Warren Christopher, Partner, O’Melveny & Myers, Former U.S. Secretary of State

“Vault has winner on its hands. Recommended for libraries and institutions providing career research support…a comprehensive source for all career-related informational needs.”

-- Library Journal (2002)

“Internet ignoring employers beware: [Vault.com] is so useful, if you're not paying attention, you are idiotic.” -- Scott Williams, Partner, McKinsey & Company, Quoted in U.S. News & World Report