Vault Online Undergraduate Career Library Tutorial for Longwood University

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Vault Online Undergraduate Career Library
Tutorial for Longwood University
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Table of Contents
We are pleased to have Longwood University as a
member of Vault. The following tutorial is
designed to familiarize you with the
functionality of the Longwood University Vault
Online Career Library. Feel free to use this
tutorial in presentations to train fellow staff
members and authorized users.
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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 Page
The 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 87 Vault Guides available for
  students, faculty and staff to download

Redirects to
Active Blue Tab
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Home Page
NEW 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 Page
New 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 Page
New to the Library blue box a separate window
appears for new users.
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Home Page

• 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
Active Blue Tab
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Home Page

• 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
Active Blue Tab
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Home Page

• 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
Active Blue Tab
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Home Page

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

Active Blue Tab
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Home Page

• 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
Active Blue Tab
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Home Page

• More Resources Tab (inactive tab)
• You will be redirected to area under Career
  Advice button on gray navigation bar

Redirects to
Active Blue Tab
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Home Page

• Company Research Tab (active tab)
• You will be redirected to area under Companies
  button on gray navigation bar

Redirects to
Active Blue Tab
Active Blue Tab
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Home Page

• Electronic WaterCooler Tab (active tab)
• You will be redirected to area under Message
  Boards button on gray navigation bar

Redirects to
Active Blue Tab
Active Blue Tab
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Download Guides Page
The 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 guides If 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 Page
Gold 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 Page
Employer 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 Page
Company 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 Page
Gold 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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Industry Research Page
Industry 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 Page
Occupational 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 Page
Occupation 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 Page
Career 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 Page
The 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 Page
If 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 Page
In 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 Page
Screen 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 Options

• There are 3 different security options (can not
  combine options) to choose from depending on how
  your schools 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, heres
  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 _at_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_at_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 library
• This option does NOT allow accessibility from
  remote locations unless specified in school
  issued IP range.

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Helpful Contacts
Questions regarding maintenance of online library
(security, logo changes, website changes,
etc.) Claire Yaptangco, Client Services
Assistant Email claire_at_vault.com Direct Line
646.792.6351 Main Fax [phone] Availability
Monday thru Friday 930am 630pm
(EST) Questions regarding Adobe PDF guides or
accessibility issues Customer Service Email
careerlibrary_at_vault.com Direct Line
212.366.4212 Availability Monday thru Friday
930am 630pm (EST) Sales Questions (quotes to
add alumni/additional students, GOLD membership,
bulk book orders, etc.) Melissa Merida Email
melissa_at_vault.com Direct Line 212.366.4212 x
245 Main Fax [phone] Availability Monday
thru Friday 930am 630pm (EST) Order guides
online Customer Service Email
careerlibrary_at_vault.com www.vault.com Main Fax
646.349.9644 Vaults mailing address Vault.com 1
50 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor NY, NY 10011
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Additional Products and Services

• Vault 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 Services
For more information about adding Vault GOLD to
your Online Career Library, please contact your
account representative Melissa
Merida 212.366.4212 x 245 melissa_at_vault.com
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Additional Products and Services
If you would like a Vault Bookshelf order form
faxed or emailed, please contact your account
representative Melissa Merida 212.366.4212
x245 melissa_at_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 "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 I
think your guide to Americas Top 50 Law Firms is
terrific. I dont know how I made up my mind 50
years ago without some comparable help. --
Warren Christopher, Partner, OMelveny Myers,
Former U.S. Secretary of State

Vault has winner on its hands.
Recommended for libraries and institutions
providing career research supporta 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
"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,
Georgetowns McDonough School of Business
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Testimonials (cont.)
Vault isa 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 apartis its extensive company
information, including insider reports and
discussion forums by and for people you really
work at the companiesits 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 seekers
paradise. -- The Complete Idiots Guide to
Finding Your Dream Job Online