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Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance

This unparalleled resource is essential for exploring and planning a career at all levels of experience. Fully revised and updated to provide detailed facts and current statistics about 120 key career fields and industries as well as more than 820 occupations, this resource presents a wealth of information about employment statistics, growing and declining industries, earnings, employment prospects, educational requirements, tips for getting a job, and much more. (Five volumes)

Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance by Ferguson Publishing Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: CAREER HF 5381 .E53 C43 2018
ISBN: 9780816085149
Publication Date: 2017-11-01

International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance

International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance by Springer
Call Number: Online Journal
Publication Date: 2001 to 2010
Publishes articles in relation to work and leisure, career development, career counseling and guidance and career education

Where to start?

The Ultimate Job Search Guide by Martin Yate
Call Number: CAREER HF 5382.7 .Y38 K56 2018
ISBN: 9781507205358
Publication Date: 2017-12-05
Whether you're looking for a first job, re-entering the market, or planning a career change, the author's unique Target Job Deconstruction method provides you with a roadmap to professional success utilizing the latest job search strategies for the digital age.
Graduate to a Great Career by Catherine Kaputa
Call Number: CAREER HD 6277 .K37 G73 2016
ISBN: 1857886402
Publication Date: 2016
Anne Kreamer makes the compelling case that embracing risk is one of the best career choices a person can make.
Take the Leap by Sara Bliss
Call Number: CAREER HF 5384 .B55 T35 2018
ISBN: 9781501183188
Publication Date: 2018-12-04
Presents advice for teenagers, twentysomethings, or anyone who is uneasy about choosing a career path, and discusses goals, planning, problem solving, and more.
You Can Do Anything by George Anders
Call Number: CAREER HF 5382.5 .U5 A53 2017
ISBN: 9780316548809
Publication Date: 2017-08-08
This guide teaches students how to acquire marketable job skills and real-world know-how before they graduate.
Working with Millennials by Marc Robertson
Call Number: CAREER HF 5386.5 .R63 W67 2016
ISBN: 9781440844126
Publication Date: 2016
"Millennial-generation managers and employees--those ages 18–35--have transformed business in America.
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2019 by Richard N. Bolles
Call Number: CAREER HF 5382.7 .B56 W43 2019
ISBN: 9780399581694
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Bolles demystifies the entire job-search process, from writing resumes to interviewing to networking, expertly guiding job-hunters toward their dream job.

Social Networks

LinkedIn
LinkedIn operates the world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 467 million members in over 200 countries and territories. There are more than 40 million students and recent college graduates on LinkedIn. They are LinkedIn's fastest-growing demographic.

Career Assessment

10 awesome free career self-assessment tools on the Internet from MONSTER
While many of these assessments work best when administered in full by a professional who can interpret the results, these 10 free versions can give you a sense of where you should be headed and how you should be marketing yourself without your having to spend a single cent.

Journal of career assessment. by Sage Publications
Call Number: Online Journal
Publication Date: 1999 to present
The journal covers the various techniques, tests, inventories, rating scales, interview schedules, surveys, and direct observational methods used in scientifically based practice to provide an improved understanding of career decision-making.

Career testing
This free career test can give you insight into your career personality.