Working It Out! Job and Career Guide
Entrepreneurs and Small Business
Entrepreneurs & Small Business
Check out our Small Business Tools in our eResources and Databases guide. You'll find small business, microlender and general business resources.
Online Resources
Online Resources
BuildingSkills4Work - Offers free online training and skill building using interactive lessons in real work situations.
Career Exploration Pathfinder (ipl2) - From the Internet Public Library. Looking for specific career information, or hoping to discover the occupation that's right for you? The resources in this pathfinder will not only lead users to information about careers, but also help users to develop their career path. Both print and internet resources will get you started along the path to career exploration.
CareerOneStop - Sponsored by the Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor - Employment and Training Administration, this site provides tools and information for job seekers, students, businesses and career professionals.
MySkills MyFuture - Explore new career options and expand your job search through this CareerOneStop website.
Occupational Outlook Handbook - From the Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Labor), and considered to be one of the premier sources for career information. The profiles featured here cover hundreds of occupations and describe "What They Do, Work Environment, How to Become One, Pay" and more. Each profile also includes BLS employment projections for the 2010–20 decade.
O*NET Online - The O*NET program is a primary source of occupational information in the U.S. The O*NET database is available to the public at no cost, and is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is being developed under the sponsorship of the US Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA) through a grant to the North Carolina Employment Security Commission.
Books
Featured Books from the Shelves
A sampling of the many books on resumes and interviewing that you'll find in the libraries throughout our system. To see more titles, search the online catalog.
The Start-Up of You by Publication Date: 2012A blueprint for thriving in your job and building a career by applying the lessons of Silicon Valley’s most innovative entrepreneurs.
Here, LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today’s competitive world. The key is to manage your career as if it were a start-up business.
The Pathfinder by Publication Date: 2012Based on breakthrough techniques developed by Rockport Institute, "The Pathfinder," now fully revised and updated, offers invaluable advice and more than 100 self-tests and diagnostic tools that will help readers choose an entirely new career--or view a current job from a new, more positive perspective.
Becoming a Life Change Artist by ISBN: 1583334041Publication Date: 2010The Artist's Way meets What Color is Your Parachute? in an innovative approach to reinventing yourself at any stage of life. Leonardo da Vinci, Monet, Picasso, and Berthe Morisot are some of the most creative thinkers in history. What do these artists have in common with you? More than you think, if you're looking to tackle a major life transition. The skills these artists used to produce their masterpieces are the same abilities required to make successful shifts-whether it's finding a new career or a new purpose or calling in life. In Becoming a Life Change Artist, Fred Mandell and Kathleen Jordan share the groundbreaking approach made popular in their workshops across the country.
Working Identity by ISBN: 1578517788How Successful Career Changers Turn Fantasy into Reality. Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. In this powerful book, Herminia Ibarra presents a new model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from "career experts." Based on her in-depth research on professionals and managers in transition, Ibarra outlines an active process of career reinvention that leverages three ways of "working identity".
eBooks
eBooks
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What Color Is Your Parachute? by ISBN: 1607740109This book keeps building--in insight, helpfulness, relevance, and urgency--through new invention and information each year. And this year it’s the critical resource to help Americans (and others) get back to work.
What Color Is Your Parachute? has been vastly rewritten, because job-hunting has increasingly become a survival skill. Career expert Richard N. Bolles describes the five strategies most needed to survive, and explains how to incorporate social media tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter into your job-search.
The new ideas are wrapped around the familiar core message of Parachute: WHAT, WHERE, and HOW, with an emphasis on finding your passion and identifying your best transferable skills. With fresh insights into resumes, networking, interviewing, salary negotiation, and how to start your own business, this book will give you the tools, exercises, and motivation you need to find hope, land a job, and fulfill your purpose in life. In the words of Fortune magazine:
“Parachute remains the gold standard of career guides.”
Innovation You by ISBN: 0345530691"Innovation You" reveals the author's unique four-step program to bolster ingenuity and remake one's life. DeGraff, world-renowned "Dean of Innovation," shares with readers his tried-and-true techniques on reinventing oneself--creatively and with maximum impact.
